X-Games: Dungeons & Dragons

Yeah, i played. Back in the ’70s. THAC0 and all that.

Which means these tend to be weak sauce parodies with some clever lyrics.

The lame title “A Dungeons and Dragons Jingle Bells Parody” becomes a drinking song from Cami-Cat (feat. Friends!). Pub brawl!

Hissy Fits rolls out the expected “12 Days of Christmas (D&D Edition)“. Huh.

Away in a Dungeon – A D&D Christmas Carol” also shows competence and little else. Beloch Shrike tries.

Bard College of Citrus improves on this conceit with “A Wish!“, teaching me about some 5e spell that probably shouldn’t exist.

The decent ‘Grinch’ spoof “Mr. Lich” by Law from Slap Dash not only works arcana into the song, but puts an end to my pronunciation problems with that monster.

Agranak Studios dredges metal out for “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Crit-Mas“. Math ensues for those attack rolls of 19 or 20. BLUE ALERT

Trying an original ditty (rehearsal) ChaosInfinity makes a quest of “A Dungeons and Dragons Christmas“. Slight pop.

AI rears its unshaven head with “Christmas in Nine Hells“, purportedly a D&D song from Trina, a daughter of Fierna, or whatever. Almost metal.

AI works extra hard for a metal chant-rap in “The Dungeon Before Christmas“. Holiday Rebellion: Seasonal Music for Lefties confuses me.

AI nearly ruins “DND Christmas” with their pick-terms-out-of-a-hat and setting it to big band swing. If it weren’t so weird, i’d not like it. DNDrip is to blame.

Perpetual elf Ginny Di makes with the scary aspect in “Carol of the Spells“. There’s THAT many? “TPK Carol” is ‘Jingle Bells’ with a new acronym for you. But where she rolls a natural 20 is “All I Want for Christmas” despite that tedious melody playing yet again. Her list is nigh endless and includes dice, snacks, and a workable schedule for players… ha. (Bard Life Music shows what a mediocre parody would look like for this carol. BLUE ALERT)

X-Games: Sleddin’

Sledding in the winter snow needn’t be competitive, but boys measure worth in losing. So up to the top: ready, set, gravity!

Magic Tuna overuses android voice in the AI kidsong “Squirrel Sled Race Madness!” Losers are stew!

Less exciting, “Riding Our Sleds Through The Snow” has Johanna Lewis lah-dee-dahing about childish endeavors through mediocre kidsong. Just play.

I’m not sure “Go Freeze” is actually about sledding, despite Bobs & Lolo singing about it. This is a hard rocking kidsong about the Squid Games event. So, WTF?

The Blues help “Slide In The Snow” from John Vosel & the Nutcrackers. No competitions, just an integral part of dealing with all that white stuff. Cool.

Unplugged chaos, “Sledding Is so Fun” features Yulenog making fun more than sense. Still, like it.

Sled Riding” is mostly braggadocio from Three Days Wait, but their American rock makes me root for ’em.

Snook flips the script for a fearfully bumpy course in his parodic “Little Bummer Boy“. Call 911!

Big Screen: Die Already

Clark & Clark argue “Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie?‘ but settle on contradictory byplay. The ragtime pop adds to the frivolity.

Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie?” is supposedly by Colin Andrews, but smells like AI. Cowboy pop doesn’t help the case.

Die Hard is a Christmas Movie” sinks deep into Rickman sampling, but then jazz-raps the message with winsome wiles. Snazzy.

Swamp Ass and The Meat Sweats flip the table with the garage punk screamer “Die Hard is Not a Christmas Movie“. This time without feeling, please.

I Just Wanna Watch Die Hard Tonight” rocks Classic Pat. Vim and vigor detected.

Not as many ask whether ‘2’ was a Christmas movie. Axis of Awesome reviews the plot in “Lee’s Christmas Story” for your consideration. Spoken in anger.

Borrowing from ‘Drummer Boy’–but the Bing/Bowie verzh–Insane Ian & Bonecage really deliver on “Die Hard Christmas“, which consists mostly of borrowed lines. Still works. [Beware Patreon plea at end.]

Big Screen: Die Anyway

AI returns with cowboy metal, that is Hillbilly Hellfire presents “Die Hard is a Christmas Movie” with gusto, if not panache.

An AI duo-some from Rise of Aquarius, “A Die Hard Christmas: Songs for the Holidays” begins with flute-laden EZ listening falsetto, then pivots into ADHD elctropop. Working hard for you.

Josh Reyes submits his piano recital “Die Hard is a Christmas Movie” without apology. Yep, even honest amateurs outclass AI.

The DVD Guy has little business jazz-rapping “Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie“, but he did. So here we are. Beware: scat included.

John B unrolls retro ’80s industrial metal with “A Die Hard Christmas (Yippee Ki Yay it’s Christmas Day)“. Okay, that’s fun.

Toby Danger brings the parody (‘All I Want’) with the off key “Die Hard is a Christmas Movie Too“. Snobby Christmas movie geeks get their due.

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Kaleb Hikele takes his folk pop seriously in “Carolers & Church Bells.” It’s not whining as much as cautioning. Pretty, though.

Scott Dilley’s “Carolers Prayer” is a message to God with laid back folk pop. It’s a bit Easter, a bit helpless.

Dan Adamini tries for a one-note parody with “Caroling Caroling (Liberals are Screaming).” All are welcome here, haters and baiters alike.

Xmas Instrumenting: Slapping

Open handed strikes are loud, not simply violent. That’s so blind people can appreciate the Three Stooges.

Feliz Navidad (Now Please Slap My Ass)” is BLUE ALERT sexcapades by Kamakazi. They bottom out here with their parody even with Walken in their winter wonderland.

Fred Frees is gonna “Slap You for Christmas.” Verbal abuse you, too. It’s his love language. But, call the cops. Power ballad.

More pointedly, Jeff Carter’s “Slap the Heretic” brings guitar folk into the intolerable holiday mood.

Chubs and Fatty from Tell Me Something Funny redden their cheeks with their “Christmas Slap Battle – Deck the Jaws.” This ‘Halls’ tribute is quite amusing, to them. But they put their backs into it.

Xmas Instruments: Kazoo

The membranophone might only buzz your humming, but it makes fools of mobs. Hand out a bag of ’em at any meeting and see for yourself.

Rob Douglas from Down Under broadcasts from his back room “Me, You & a Xmas Kazoo.” You may discern some fun in this poorly recorded pop folk.

Concave wants to beat you over the head with “A Kazoo for Christmas,” so his cacophonic tantrum is the soundtrack of breaking your lease.

More merrily melodic “Merry Christmas to You” is some funky country from Sidewalk Prophets in which the reason for the season is I got a kazoo. Joyous.

Benny Grunch and the Bunch’s “I Got a Used Kazoo for Christmas” features bongos as well as the titular piece. It’s a fully developed masterpiece of mocking ‘Deck the Halls.’ You may want to run get yours to join in.

Xmas Instruments: Horn

Blake Dan swings parang to get a “Horn for Christmas.” It might be a sexual euphemism, but the riddim rulz.

Inspired by Psalms, Sufjan Stevens’s “All the Kings Horns” lays low the pomp of the others for the all new-and-improved KoK. That’s all we know shofar. Mighty folk.

Santa’s Horn” from The Wizard of Loneliness is an EDM message of urgency. I think something bad happens. Accidentally.

Christmas Katie” has a horn to blow, for anyone passing by, any time of the year. They call her Christmas ‘cuz that’s her mood. Roll with it. Dank jazzy blues from Widespread Panic. And so should you.

Sure as the horn blows Tom Lindh sings “Merry, Merry Merry Fucking Christmas.” So, you know, BLUE ALERT on this dawdly indie. Goodness!

Rockapella encourages Mr Taxi Driver to honk his horn on the holiday. So with muddied doo wop they sing of the “Hope We Hold” for Christmas Day. Inspirational, we hope, for some.

These same car noises are the subject of everdraed’s “Carol of the Horns.” Cacophonous, man. Yet all are welcome here.

Xmas Instruments: Bongos

Beatnik skins might simplify musicality, well at least as Hoops & Yoyo present it in “Bongo Christmas.” Carib beatings.

Bryce Bowyn is hunting for bear in “Santa Daddy.” You can hit it like a bongo drum, he advises, in the queerest of ways. Rhythmic pop.

Funnin’ on ‘Nuttin” Snook’s “Nan’s Drownin’ Kittens” is a tragedy… until he gets bongos for Christmas. Huzzah.

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Keep Me Up All Night” by Flickering (feat. G Curtis) hits all the marks, but the overproduction dampens the seductive mood this R+B song aspires to. Christmas seems a distraction here.

More entertaining tunes that barely comply BLUE ALERT: “Fuck It Let’s Go Bowling” from Schubert Doobert deals with drugs, responsibility, insomnia, and only to dream/Of a holiday meltdown.

Amateur parody is ALWAYS welcome here, so Quintessential Grace scores with me doing “Baby is Up All Night.” (It’s ‘Baby It’s Cold’ for the newly ‘renting.) Tee–psychologically traumatizing–hee.