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X-Mental: Dissociative Disorders

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Jesus & The Robot BLUE ALERT plonk out the gospel-ish carol “The Gift That Keeps Giving (PTSD)” about meltdowns triggered by the tree.

“PTSD Christmas” by Michael Colburn dips into some country easy listening rut to lighten the mood. I’m not easy of mind yet.

Davey Dips recounts some weird grind house movie in “Post-Traumatic Santa Claus Disorder“, stuttering rap of some wit.

In ‘The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical’ someone gets cooked on the head, giving us the rocker “The 12 Days of Amnesia”. It’s all very Telemundo.

Identity disorders plague a soul who wants to celebrate with friends (one facet), family (another), co-workers (who am I?), or even church fellows (what?!). The Heebee-jeebees make this case in “It’s So Hard to be an Elf“. Excellent kidsong.

Josie Long is plaintive and hopeful while singing “I Wish That I Was Someone Else This Christmas“. Disappearing into nonexistence, this is quiet folk.

K Bibbles utters the mantra I be me, you be you in the hypnotic “Be Cool“. It’s rap like you’d find in an after school special.

Bill Botting wonders how to behave in “Acting Without Acting“. An indie search for meaning.

The Rockabilly Reckless Christmas E.P serves up a “Confusing Christmas Time“. The more i listen the less i get it. Yeah.

“This Christmas” BW Johnson runs the gamut of seasons until he has an out of body experience. New age folk kinda Sufjan Stevens stuff.

Breakdowns are not just for bluegrass. Thought you lost it on Christmas Eve, begins “Naughty Pine” by The Classic Brown. Then proceeds to split infinity with indie folk frivolity.

The polar bear in the ads becomes hopped up, strung out (and diabetic) in “Cherry Red Coca Cola” by Glial Cell. It’s party indie pop, and it’s a groove. But, i feel bad for the bear losing it.

X-Mental: OCD

The source of much television mirth, this crippling inability to function imprisons personality. Let’s have fun with that.

“OCD Christmas Elves” by Backbite is frothy pop AI that revels in delusion and insanity. Just some DSM catchphrasing.

“The OCD Of Christmas” by Malcolm Tent is ’12 Days’ about having to redo a gift endlessly, so inappropriate and annoying.

Pandemic blues elicited a “Socially Distanced Christmas” a condition when sung about by Matthew Jordan includes OCD. (‘Cuz bored…..) Showtune pop.

Just plain obsession evokes more perfumery than red flags, vis. “Obsessed with Christmas” AI folk pop by Bill Barlow.

More concerning:”A Christmas Obsession“, sinister AI orchestration from The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra (ft. Gloom Darkheart) follows a creeper.

“(OCD) Obsessive Christmas Disorder” grew out of this. Brandon ‘B. Liggy’ Ligon raps about it for us. Well, thanks.

Joe Roggi identifies as “The Christmas Lunatic” due to his obsessive behavior at the end of the year. Call it method celebration. Bluesy easy listening with rocking guitar riffs.

Bah & The Humbugs included a lovely solo number for Santa in that pirate musical I’ve mentioned before. “I’m Not Obsessed” is a real symphonic soul searcher for the elf.

AI with personality, “Obsessive Compulsive Christmas” by Shagrats Ltd plays hob with the condition AND light rock. Suffering for our entertainment.

X-Mental: Bipolar Disorder

Taking a step back, bipolarism (manic depression) may be a seasonal disorder in one form or another. Well, i can relate.

Grinch by day, Santa Claus by night, ProJudah plays bluesy pop “Bipolar Christmas” with a laff track. Seems willing to embrace it all.

Blaming schizophrenia, Katie R Dale stares you down with “The (Bipolar) Christmas Song“, a parody of that chestnuts number. Resignation here.

Atombuzz celebrates “Bipolar Christmas” with grunge and a reluctance to fully enjoy it. Bleak? Just use it for a career in the arts!

Roger John sails through his “Bipolar Christmas” with kickin’ parang. I keep waiting for the down parts. But dancing while i’m waiting.

Liquid Fluid Water comes to the rescue with the depressing “Bipolar Xmas“, a showtime of the bluesy jazz variety.

4 Aspirin Morning is floundering through their brass heavy blues “Bipolar Christmas“. It’s a hard climb back up.

Delta-9 dissolves into syhthed madness for “The Part Time Bi-Polar Elf…“. It’s carrib and EDM and rock and indecipherable. (Ask me tomorrow what i think of it. It’ll change.)

X-Mental: Hysteria

The misogynistic application of overwhelming emotionalism to females leaves us with a broken psychologic science. But, here we are.

“Christmas Rush” from Dead Moon seems to compare the holidays to a drug fueled overwhelming sensation. Cool rock, so who cares?

“So Many Christmas Feelings” does not seem a good thing when Fountain Dew break down the whole Jesus jams thing. Too much, man.

American Princes can’t take it anymore with “This Business of Christmas”. Raucous rock.

“Christmas Hysteria” is a free-for-all at the shopping mall. I suppose this violence leads to a further diagnosis, but TrashShows is AI pop. AI is still struggling with affect.

“Midnight Mass Hysteria (I Don’t Owe You Nothin’ But An Earful Of Christmas)” is playful garage bluegrass from Ages. It’s critical. Norick Eve covers this with more appropriate metal thrashing.

Janorak’s psychedlic “Midnight Mass Hysteria” comes in critically from another pew. Quite the party.

X-Mental: Psychosis (For the Rest of Us)

“Goodbye Psychotic Christmas” is some find pop ballideering from My Son the Bum about, uhm, er, losing touch (i think).

DanDann trifles with “Rudolph the Psycho Reindeer“. Some slight word swappage balances out some killer guitar riffage. [A more boisterous group delivers another version of this i noticed on Youtube years ago:

Larry Podsobinski’s “The 12 Days of Psychosis” is a gleeful mess of paranoid schizophrenia. Try NOT to follow along.

Their “The Turkey Has Gone Berserk” is loosey goosey garage with frightening consequences.

“The Mad Krismas King” by The Christmasboyz is fun Gregorian chanting synthed through tissue paper and military might.

Chef and Kitz introduce us to “The Little Elf” who threatens us with gleefully sadistic bodily harm all set to a charmingly harmonized hymnal. Yowie.

X-Mental: Psychosis (Santa)

‘Weird’ Al Yankovich didn’t invent the Claus murder spree (see “The Night Santa Went Crazy“), so we’ll compare and contrast what’s gone ’round ’bout ol’ Fatso.

F’rexample, Vinny the Comb uses the imagery of “Green and Red” to rockabilly the massacre of elves. Locked and loaded fun. (Again.)

Warlock Pinchers’ “Psycho Santa” is more heartfelt and garage. Not so much fun.

Made Human weaves county with AI to complain how “Santa Went Nuts on Me“. Violence is perpetrated. Yet, you WERE naughty….

Cockneys having a larf present “Psycho Santa“. Aubrey Eels and The Baron Brit punkpop their diagnosis on Father C, but i figger it’s a case of mistaken identity.

Claire Donnelly thankfully sends up Talking Heads (though not well) in “Psycho Santa“. Run run Rudolph, run away. (TheClavhens do it better. Slightly.)

Winlar ‘splains “Santa Insane” with a touch of standup before launching into so-so parodic singing.

Timlane’s “Psycho Santa” is wearing a leather jacket. Not a straitjacket. BLUE ALERT metalbilly.

D’Modes caution us about “Psycho Santa“, a creepy old man. Sniping metal with cute electronica.

A remake of ‘Psycho’, “Psycho Ho Ho” has El Camino strutting rockabilly up and down the boulevard in awe of the Big Guy.

When “Santa Went Psycho” he merely went to war against terrorism, according to Ben Roebuck. BLUE ALERT folk indie that gets adorably violent.

“I Was a Slave For Psycho Santa” by Chuck Picklesimer seems to reveal a break from reality for the narrator. Certainly crazy, for electric country. (Worth repeating.)

Dan Hart jollies the folk with “Santa is a Psycho“. There’s over drinking. Medication is forgotten. Body parts are presents. (His manifesto: Silence of the Reindeer–ha!)

X-Mental: Insane BLUE ALERT

Again, this is a misused and misunderstood label. Not exactly a diagnosis from the DSM.

Clearly, Kittenfish Mountain’s “One of the Most Insane Christmas Eves I Ever Spent” is not all that nutso, just a dream. Despite what my missus tells me, every dream is so weird–even asking for your shoes.

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society delights in the horrors of early XXth Century lit to carol out disturbance, despair, and psychic destruction. “I’m Dreaming of a Dead City” sees Cthulhu when he’s sleeping. “Little Rare Book Room” checks out The Necronomicon only to the elite. “Mountains of Madness” sic Shoggoth on us campers. Then Dagon Tabernacle Choir has to one-up them with the Hannukah special “Tentacles“. What an Arkham spectacle.

Not caring a whit about sanity, The Hot Buttered Elves’ “Tiny Happy Plastic Gumball Machine Santa Luck Charm” charms with diva lounge blues and rando lyrics.

It doesn’t take many years of training to figure “Santa Was Eating The Christmas Tree” is not stable behavior. Dysfunctional Family Band runs cute with kidsong feels. Don’t listen too carefully to the big guy’s rationalization. (IF it was dream, then the dreamer’s kookoo.)

Santa can’t bring you “Mental Health“, softly pops NmMindstorm without hope. Gifts aren’t appreciated fully without it. Oh, and BLUE ALERT

X-Mental: Crazy.3

Twisted and uncorked, the truly crazy gather like geese hissing and spitting at all things Xmas. Stand back.

“Crazy Christmas Song” by Marra Christmas/Marcello Maramotti may suggest praying to snow, but i was too caught up in its wackadoody to fact check. Pop with special effects.

The Mariners rejoice in their “Chaotic Crazy Christmas” if the catchy pop melody is any indication. Side effects include anticipation and insomnia.

The Restoration (feat Marshall Brown) big bands the heartbreak when going “Crazy at Christmas“. It’s not the cute kind. Could use an intervention here.

“Crazy Little Christmas” by Stephen M. Weeks also sublimates breaking up, this time with hallucinations. Synthed easy listening.

You’re not here, so Sabertooth Unicorn is gonna be “Crazy on Christmas” and it going to BLUE ALERT cross a line. Pub pop.

Mike Fish reprises “Crazy 4 Christmas” because his heavily beaten pop says it all. Diggedy dog.

Perhaps not so cracked is Mother Mary, but Carolyn Arends gospels about “The Irrational Season (Prelude)” she lived in nonetheless.

“Candy Cane Madness” is the prog nee psychedelia from Lowell George & The Factory that truly envisions a melted mind. Wonderfully insane.

X-Mental: Crazy.2

Slightly more disturbed songs include Happy Tom’s “Crazy Christmas“. As an aging American, i have to cop to not understanding what the hell this garage rocker is about. It’s crazy, though. (Please post lyrics or i’ll have to enjoy only its rhythmifications!)

In the extra funky “Dysfunktional” Holidelic debates nature vs. nurture, concluding it’s everybody everywhere this time of year. Yeah!

Also nearly indecipherable, “Another Crazy Christmas” by Air Mack metals the hell out of reason while enumerating all the irrational aspects of that special time of the year.

“Christmas Madness” clocks in at frustrated rock’n’roll times three, according to The Rocket Summer. They’re a band on a mission. Of love. That’s mad.

The Strawberry Traffic Jam recounts that time everyone got the wrong gifts in an awesome ragtime “Crazy Mixed-Up Christmas“. Everyone blames Santa, but it think the gift takes were made out by some off-the-clock barista.

The “Crazy Christmas Tango” by Don Eves is out of control. Excellent boogie woogie about residing on one’s last nerve. He’s gonna blow–!

Skinny stringster Lindsey Stirling (feat. Bonnie McKee) goes Advent-wild in the pop “Crazy for Christmas“. Over the top, and i like that.

In “Crazy for Christmas” Tom Mason’s baby just overdoes it in attire, decoration, and consumption. She’s off her rocker in this zippy zydeco.

X-Mental: Crazy.1

An overused, multipurpose word ranging from derogatory to celebratory judgment, crazy begins here with manic connotations.

“Crazy Christmas!” from a musical by Sally K. Albrecht is child friendly, in fact it’s a school assembly showtune for 10 year olds. It may push you over the edge.

Nathan Carter also opts for perfect as a substitute meaning for “Crazy Christmas“. He’s got the girl and the world by a ribbon. Country jazz bombast.

Unbelievable is perhaps what Mitchell Scott meant for his hard country [AI] pop “A Crazy Christmas Night“. He helped Santa with bad deer and evil elves.

Sound of the Suburb indicates the speciality of this unbelievable holiday in the rockabilly “Crazy Christmas“. Crazy as in hep, cats. [Like the cover of “Dig That Crazy Santa Claus” by Ralph Marterie & his Orchestra, vocal by Lola Dee and chorus… or The Debonairs’ “Crazy Santa Claus“. It’s a whole thing.]

The Bellamy Brothers also dilute the diagnostic with “We All Get Crazy at Christmas“. Twangy country with no fruitcakes to give.

The “Crazy for Christmas Lady” as country popped by Genevieve Goings is about an obsessive decorator. OCD is not exactly crazy, but people will label.