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Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck: Merry Mixmas
So it's started. Everywhere you go, everywhere you turn...Christmas music.
Now, personally I don't mind it. I like Christmas. The holidays and the feeling and the lights...it all makes me very, very happy. But I know that sometimes the music can be a bit...well, to put it lightly, crappy.
So that's why you need Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck. Because otherwise you end up having to listen to Leon Redbone on repeat the entire holiday season. Because your father LIKES listening to him croon off-key for some unknown reason. And now the simple mention of his name makes your fingers twitch because THAT CHRISTMAS ALBUM IS CRAP, BUZZNET.
Ahem.
This week's suggestion is something I picked up on a whim while working at Best Buy. Keep in mind, we put our Christmas music out on Halloween (which led to me pricing Christmas CD's while dressed in full pirate regalia...all hail his noodley appendage!) The idea intrigued me, so I spent a few bucks with my employee discount and picked it up.
Merry Mixmas: Christmas Classics Remixed is a CD featuring classic versions of Christmas songs remixed by modern DJ's.
Imagine what happens when The Awayteam gets a hold of Nancy Sinatra singing "The Christmas Waltz." It's awesome. Songs you've heard a thousand times retooled in such a way to make them awesome again. There's even a remix of "Christmas Time is Here" by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, you know, the song from "A Charlie Brown Christmas?"
Personally, I'm going to recommend "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo (Malibu Remix)," and "Baby, It's Cold Outside (Arp Remix)" (they remixed DEAN FUCKING MARTIN!). But the whole CD is the sort of thing you can put on in the background of a party and wait to see who picks up on the fact that these are not the songs you remember.
Next time around: either a charity album that has nostalgic value for me, or something involving fedoras. Haven't quite decided yet!
Now, personally I don't mind it. I like Christmas. The holidays and the feeling and the lights...it all makes me very, very happy. But I know that sometimes the music can be a bit...well, to put it lightly, crappy.
So that's why you need Christmas Music that Doesn't Suck. Because otherwise you end up having to listen to Leon Redbone on repeat the entire holiday season. Because your father LIKES listening to him croon off-key for some unknown reason. And now the simple mention of his name makes your fingers twitch because THAT CHRISTMAS ALBUM IS CRAP, BUZZNET.
Ahem.
This week's suggestion is something I picked up on a whim while working at Best Buy. Keep in mind, we put our Christmas music out on Halloween (which led to me pricing Christmas CD's while dressed in full pirate regalia...all hail his noodley appendage!) The idea intrigued me, so I spent a few bucks with my employee discount and picked it up.
Merry Mixmas: Christmas Classics Remixed is a CD featuring classic versions of Christmas songs remixed by modern DJ's.
Imagine what happens when The Awayteam gets a hold of Nancy Sinatra singing "The Christmas Waltz." It's awesome. Songs you've heard a thousand times retooled in such a way to make them awesome again. There's even a remix of "Christmas Time is Here" by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, you know, the song from "A Charlie Brown Christmas?"
Personally, I'm going to recommend "Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo (Malibu Remix)," and "Baby, It's Cold Outside (Arp Remix)" (they remixed DEAN FUCKING MARTIN!). But the whole CD is the sort of thing you can put on in the background of a party and wait to see who picks up on the fact that these are not the songs you remember.
Next time around: either a charity album that has nostalgic value for me, or something involving fedoras. Haven't quite decided yet!
| Posted by Buzznet's Official New Age Amazon on 11/28/2007 5:52 AM | Visits: 115 |
did some one mention brendon urie finally gropping your breasts?
why else would someone become buzzmaker?
Capital Records owes you $$$. You are promotionatrix extrodinaire.
That sounds like a spell or name from HP. I'm sorry. "He proofread my novel. He liked it. He was the only one."
Hey, if someone wants to pay me to promote albums? They are MORE THAN WELCOME.
"Gulp" said Harry.
Yeah, gulp that one down!