Author: douglove1225

X-Games: Football

Twentieth and Five, football actually plays during the holidays.

Bleacher Report whirls rap into “Santa Gives the Gift of Football” ensorcelling players and coaches one and all. Careful, this’s about ten years old.

KC Chiefs promote their own music video “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” rapped by Tech N9ne. Sporty.

Nick Dolezal bewails the family time sucking away his “Christmas Football” time with grumbled rap and nihilistic spirit. Warning: self harm requested.

The solution? “Let’s get drunk and watch football (Christmas Song)” by Ghost Star (AI really). Never fear, this robotic rap is preceded by a PSA.

I Deserve Money’s “All I Want for Christmas is FOOTBALL” may be an expected parody, but this slurred monotone may not be.

Not as expected, but well done, is “The First Bowl Game (The First Noel parody)” from Dave Rudolf. Angelic choir.

When couples express affection during the holidays it likely won’t sound like “I Love You More Than Football“, a cheery number from a Midwestern musical revue.

The Fallen Angel Choir presents a cappella hectic chores for the suburban housewife, which means the men have vanished to watch the game. “The Nutcracker in a Nutshell” is sarcastic, but goes the full nine yards.

American Authors respond to the empty household: But now I can’t watch Christmas football when YOU ARE NOT HERE. “Come Home to Me” is plaintive folk that would rather have you tell him not to, than to not care about anything any more.

X-Games: Basketball

Nets are not stockings, yet BBX is one of those indoor sports you can play Xmas Day.

Daveed Diggs’ “Carol of the Basketballs” is ADHD well spent. This is a promotion from the Hamilton star speed-rapping about the Christmas Day matchup between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors 2018.

West LA Children’s Choir rattle off a more inclusive “Carol of the Balls“. Now that’s something.

Busting rhymes as old as Christmas decorations are back up/Or basketball with the layups mar the rap “santa” by KHAJAVI. Oh well.

Hot Dad’s “Christmas Slam Dunk” is some kind of easy listening electronica that doesn’t quite land. Ego’s up.

Krillz brings Something Awful to “NBA On Christmas Day“, a slow speed rap that challenges me mentally. Hey hey.

X-Games: Baseball

The Boys of October don’t worry about Xmas, except the stores are already full of decorated trees by the end of the World Series.

This is explained in the country drawler “Baseball Stops for Christmas“, a slow snort fest from Alvarado Road Show. See what you give up so Jesus can be born?

“Santa Claus Plays Baseball” is more AI from something called Happy birthday kids – babies. Sprightly kidsong.

Again Ai from Tan Man Baseball Fan with a “May Your Christmas be a One of One“. Sort of country asking Santa for another pack of save ’em or trade ’em cards.

Chat Farnsworth gets garage amateurish with his “Baseball Christmas“. Worse than AI? Please stand for the national carol.

Almost unlistenable, Taco Bum screeches “Baseball on Christmas Day” for your listening pleasure, or at least that pleasure you get when you trick someone else into listening to it.

Rocking “Hours Outside in the Snow” Modern Baseball plays ball with the coldest holiday of them all.

X-Games: Brit Sport

The UK don’t play proper games, but have Queensbury rules and fans kill each other more than sportsmen do.

In Len Maxwell’s album Merry Monster Christmas, the Mummy and Igor tell jokes until “Christmas Games” are suggested. Darts are thrown at and by these Old Worlders. Brit adjacent comedy.

Santa seems more gentile when playing darts, as THEY do (at a bar) in “Where the Santas Meet“, the New Age smelling indie from Fetching Pails.

“Opening Day (The Christmas Song remake)” by way of GiftTime Rugby might teach you a thing or two. But more scrimbo than Crimbo.

Clondalkin RFC 2006’s “The Night Before Clondalkin Rugby Christmas” might not do that, but retains its dignity better.

Football/soccer/whatever is hard to track down, so i’ll settle for The Dimmer Twins’s “Three Aussie Kings“. Expurgated parody for the whole family.

Backyard cricket in just another “Queensland Christmas” from Those Folk describes the fun and games from Down Under. Swinging pop.

Likewise “Christmas In The Summer” by Echidna Candy Store in which The cricket’s on in the background every day and in the backyard every night for the holidays.

Then there’s true admiration when “Oh Christmas Time Is Cricket Time” is sung as if a national anthem by The Dimmer Twins (Mick & Keef). Parody of ‘Tannenbaum’.

X-Games: Bowling

Paul Kelly’s “Behind the Bowler’s Arm” waiting for the day after Xmas to hit the lanes. Gentle and thoughtful folk rock, surprisingly.

For Laura Dern and the Dinosaurs, bowling is just something else to do with their “Christmas Friend“. Cautious garage.

Joel Kopischke enlarges the parody universe with “Bowling Wonderland“. It strikes.

Dr. BLT (feat. Roxie FT) hollers about Santa in his country pop “Candy Cane Lanes“. Ol’ Nick’s a baller.

X-Games: BINGO

Community halls for the hopeless call of a carol or two! B-Joyful!

Snook merely sets “Bingo Balls” to ‘Jingle Bells’ so don’t get too merry.

Liam McKenna and friends amp the reverb beyond discernibility for “The Turkey Bingo Has Been Postponed (Until Further Notice)“. It’s a holiday bummer of a slow pop song.

With all the hedonism of a Saturnalia, ArtAcoustic’s “Christmas Time in Adelaide Tonight” carries on wantonly with sloppy club rock. Someone’s gonna yell out BINGO….

X-Games: Contests [BLUE ALERT]

Sometimes the holidays is just about being the best. How is this judged? Who cares, shut up, you lose.

Contests on the deck is part of “Christmas In Florida” by Guitar George Pjevach. Not sure what games are played, though Limbo is mentioned. Losers get Triple Sec, so–let’s go!

The BLUE ALERT “Christmas Contest (Judged by Me)” is a personal test to find who’s the best lady. The Power of Truth rocks pop while giving oral exams.

“The Contest of the Holly and the Ivy” from Cassie and Maggie is more gentile and folk Celtic to balance out that other thing. I can’t tell who won… anybody?

Clear a path to the bathroom! Monica Mathern’s “Yuletide Eggnog Chugging Contest” brings out the worst in all takers. Emerging rock.

Dr. BLT borrows Pachelbel to help tell of the “Christmas Rap Contest“. Yeah, it’s rap. Mostly.

AI to the rescue! Rodney Munch’s “The Company’s Ugly Sweater Contest” gets BLUE ALERT competitive in the worst way. Who’s first and who’s worst? Pop music with some metal edges goes after Susan. Look out!

X-Games: Dreidel Winning

“Crank That Kosha Boy” by Eric Schwartz aka Smooth-E has strategies and dance mooves for the serious playa. Klezmer rap.

Rockabilly (why not?) propels “Oh Dreidel” from The Yule Logs into the winner’s circle.

Jackie Beat plays to win in “Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel“, a drag queen’s mushy pop wish.

The minimalist “Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel!” by Schoolyard Heroes hurls out the scores and name of the game in rising metal excitement. Take cover.

Dr. Dreidel gets down and dirty with “It’s Dr. Dreidel“. He lives it. He raps it. He is it.

In “DREIDEL” Gary Da Gawd is winning, winning, winning. But he’s cool with it. BLUE ALERT rap.

I’m going to say the best way to win is to cheat. “Dreidel Bird” by The Macaroons is not made of clay, but is a bird. Game over! Pop with a hint o’ blues.

X-Games: Dreidel Playing

Variations on the Dreidel song include “Funky Dreidl (I Had a Little Dreidl)“, a retooling by Chicago a cappella that invokes mysticism. Groovy.

Brave Combo’s “Hey, Little Dreidel” rocks the klezmer to positive effect. EDM, my little Semites.

You’ll get out what you put in, advises The LeeVees in “Nun Gimmel Heh Shin“, a folk observation more than a tutorial. Nearly zen.

“Spin The Dreidel” by Dave Feldstein is all about the entirety of Hannukah, but the rocking treatment draws those of us who need to into converting.

Spiritual treatment from Ruth Weber spins “The Dreydl Sing Along” into a confusing rafter raiser. Hallejewyah.

AI strikes again when “Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel” by Drenai Empire celebrates the joy of the game with synthed pop.

Using an old Celtic tune and a random gaff track Izzy Schneerson blows some bluegrass into “Chanukah Spin My Dreidel Fill My Seidel“. Beats me all to gimmel.

It’s a high stakes game when you recall “Your Savior Spun a Dreidel“.  Hugo Hesse jams this folk blues session with lotsa chord exercises and comparative religious hypotheses.

Christmas parody? “A Dreidel Wonderland” by Doug & Lisa is an unplugged journey through table top play. Fun!

Spinning is possibly not a fair game when “High on Hanukkah” by· Micah E. Wood (feat. Seth Kibel). Modulated blues rock with a smeary funk that leaves you with the munchies. And an ending straight outta ‘Inception’.

X-Games: Dreidel Making

Time for the big game. Nun (נ) is highest, then Gimmel (ג), Hey (ה), and Shin is last (ש). Got it? Not until you get a little clay….

More advanced rules are given by Richard Squires in his brief folk “Dreidel Game Song“. But how do i get a Yahtzee?

In “The Dreydl Song” by The Klezmer Conservatory Band, the commandment is given to make this gateway to gambling. Very very klezmer.

The Oxford commas interrupt the actual “Dreidel Song” to interpret what we’re getting into here. By way of introduction.

Official scorekeeping from Steve Goodie & Brad Tassell give a “Twist of the Dreidel” with funky pop. The dark side is acknowledged.

Kosher Slaughterhouse spins the metal for their “Heavy Dreidel.” Admissions of manufacture are made.

Brigid Kaelin’s “Blue Dreidel No. 9” is yodeling masterpiece of finding that dreidel… and that’s how it came to be. Blues grass.

The Itche Kadoozy Show featured a confused intro, “The Hanukkah Dreidel Song“, as a selling point or two. It’s the best game in the world. Bouncy kidsong folk.