I had hoped from the cool title that “Wake Me Up When Christmas Ends” would flip our concept on it’s stocking toe, but Luke McMaster plies lounge easy listening pop to a lovelorn letter all about missing you.
Ketchy Shuby funks up “Santa Better Not Wake My Girl Up” with all the ooohs and unhs you could ever want. I dig it, but wazza matter with a woken girlfriend?
“Don’t Wake Me Up (On Christmas)” from Don Fish tortures the vocals into, well not chipmunks, but some other varmint–only intoxicated. Warped folk.
Mars makes “Don’t Wake Me Up (For Christmas)” much more lively with their ’70s exotic instrument popology. Hand jive, Moog, cuckoo clocks… go cat go.