X-Games: Cards

Do card games up the ante for Xmas?

Certainly the pasteboards figure into the “Christmas Casino Dream“, but Nicola Maurantonio slops the AI into soft lounge jazz. so who cares?

Hans, Angelo drunkenly raps “Christmas Poker” with his strategizing all over the rooftop. Even my notes don’t help.

Pokemon is also a card game. Sadly the supporting music doesn’t rise much above the BLUE ALERT “A Relatively Poke Christmas“, in which the Poke Gangster raps nonsense from his poke of view.

Bob Rivers barely saves that day with his parody “Pokemon” about how obnoxious the over-hyped hobby is to parents.

Or maybe the odd pop of ChikënFist’s “Christmas of Want [Adolescent Lament]” will help. Pokemon joins the list of must haves, along with Stretch Armstrong and a Gameboy.

Remy molds a more learned parody “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Grixis” for all the MTG players out there. In-joke fun. (His “Tarmo the Green-Nosed Lhurgoyf” is also amusing.)

Stephanie Waldvogel’s “Carol of the Spells” succeeds not quite as well for the same card game. Quit caring about good music!

Brian Falduto’s “Christmas Solo” celebrates all things lonely, including playing solitaire. Peppy country pop undercuts this table for one, but that irony sells it.

The coolest Christmas card-player song must be “Dingo” by A Harris and Hart Holiday. This cowboy tale told in spoken-rap is traditional novelty. I mean that in the best possible way. The game goes wrong, spills into the street, and then….

Big Screen: That Time of the Year Flicker

Marlete Volz’s movies are homemade, but a big sore point. “All Christmas Does” is remind her you’re gone. Barely hanging in there vocals over slow symphonic pop.

Keyla is more convincing with her sultry snarling R+B “My Christmas Blues“. Even with enough movies and cookies, joy not gonna happen. He gotta come home. Damn.

Niquio claims there’s “More To Christmas” than presents and movies. His soaring pop diva delivery makes me believe. Hand me the remote.

Josefine Luna traps a childhood memory in amber with her breathy country/pop “Christmas Day“. Movies on repeat may have more to do with her upbringing than the season, sadly.

Big Screen: Natale Cinema

Jake Hadrick dutifully synthesizes out the list of wintry attributes (movies!) in a sort of rap for “A Christmas to Remember“. What was i talking about again?

More confidently Teauxbba childchants “Ho-Ho-Host a Christmas Party“. I wouldn’t say no; sounds fun. And the movies are for inspiration, not a party activity.

Haylee Joe would prefer to ditch the overplayed movies for a better Xmas treat: a big man. Overplayed–albeit calm–flirty pop delivers “Santa, Did You Get My Letter?”

AI to the rescue! Eh I By brings us “Christmas Movie Nights“, where we’re back to title-dropping with morals attached. Country rock of the boot scooting sort.

Big Show: Xmas Roundup

AI squirrels around the idea of a “Christmas Rodeo” until we get a mischievous exploration of elf downtime. Electronic country pop supposedly by Trinity Jones.

In “Santa’s Rodeo Dream” AI hoots and hollers the country rock so know what bronc busting must feel like. Epic Powers Potion goes for it.

Sandra Tingalay gets quieter (with harmonica) for a better AI “Rodeo Christmas.” Recognizably country western.

Big Show: Nativity on the Road

Lilac Roadkill is none too kind when describing the “Nativity Scene” they came across. Indie dissent.

Joshua Jesty gets reflective from the annual “Nativity Scene” with his spoken word folk rant. There’s name calling.

Garage odd, “Why Did I Put Mayonaise On The Nativity Scene?” by SLUGGISHA TAPES is less public show and more embarrassing table spread.

Bryan Mangieri celebrates a nasal country “Trailer Park Nativity.” It’s a state of mind. Like Alabama.

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New age indie spaciness from Amanda Rogers challenges you to be ready “When the Carolers Come.” Have snacks and your soul ready.

“Caroling on the Prairie Line” is AI from Rachid Boutaicha about partying down in a swinging hometown. That’s country swinging, sir.

“Caroling on the Range” by Rachid Boutaicha is a mess of cowboy country, kidsong pop, and homey traditions. Love it.

Xmas Music Delivery System: Jukebox (AI edition)

Well, if it’s a “Christmas in the Honky Tonk” there’s gotta be a jukebox. Even AI knows that. Follow along with Dakimo’s honky tonk tune and see yer own self. Even there “Silent Night in the Bar” says the same thing, this time with torchy country.

An old truck, whispering pines, a jukebox… must be “A Country Christmas” in AI land, so S.O.M. Mobile Disco sez. That smeary tinny vocals and that hint of western music, you’re all set.

More AI from Jingle Bots really hollering the CW about the jukebox playin’ all night long. No real trouble though for the “Rockin’est Christmas.”

Apparently the AI of Taylor Mackenzie Love’s “Rockin’ Christmas Night” figures the jukebox is a home edition. No sticky bar at all. Only watered down CW.

GranDilusionist adds a cowboy quality to the AI CW for “Last Call on Christmas Eve.” Here the juke plays only for the lonely.

“The Christmas Jukebox” ostensibly by Bobby Baxton stinks of CW AI, but it delivers the message: colors, lights, action.

Xmas Instrumenting: Sneezing

Do you need any semi-autonomous expulsions of air to clear a dusty trachea? ‘Tis the season. Mind the snot.

3SMJ swings up some AI for “Flavor of Christmas,” a rambling family portrait of losing, loving, and some boyfriend sneezing on the cat.

Also swinging In Crowd complains about freezing and sneezing while you make all “This Christmas Noise.” No contest.

Recalling the Pandemic of 2020, Echobaby soothes those “Under the Weather Together (On Christmas)” with jazzy folk and gesundheits.

Stephen Cuthbert will be your “Hot Water Bottle” when it’s winter and Christmas and cold. But, then he offers to be your tissue whenever you’re sneezing. No! Not right! Too far! Syncopated country.

Tom Brusky is worried about sick days when he countrifies “Santa, Don’t Sneeze!” Let’s keep it silent, with a finger up the nose.

Xmas Instruments: Violin

Gitch’er fiddle and screech out a carol or two!

Niboyeang, Atsadakorn Kapookkham bring the mood way down with their bummer of a “Christmas Violin Elegy.” This AI crankyfest isn’t just somber and reverent, it’s a pop crying jag.

Nancy Williams is sick for “Home,” especially when her alt pop wends her past a street busker on violin for the holidays. Better music. More seasonal depression.

More AI from Harmonix Synthesis applies a klezmer-like aura over the folk pop of “Shine This Christmas.” Nearly a waltz, who can resist?

Melanie Anne Padernal & Sheena Santamaria play with rap at their “Filipino Christmas Party.” One of the standout traditions is… Talent Show for the whole ding dong group (someone’s gonna play a violin! you just know it!)! That was fun.

“Processional: ‘A Christmas Roundelay’” is a hoe down in chorale coating. Alternating verses honor the angels and tune the violin–for dancin’! Baptist College of Ministry Concert Chorale makes a mountain out of this morsel.

Rock returns with “Winter of Our Discontent,” Sanford’s poison penned plaintive to the pain and pestilence of Papa Noel’s perturbations. (…carols are screeched out on that old violin.)

“I Want A Violin For Christmas” is Steven John Tillotson (feat. Isabelle Glenn) mashing country and pop into disharmony and headache inducing high notes. Enjoy!

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Silly little ones! Andre Nickatina · Equipto rap “Eye’s Of A Child” about all those dumb things they deduce from visual experience. Including catching you-know-who. Sounds like someone’s got a hard-knock life.

Lil Fashoti may have caught Santa in Vegas like Tupac, but he keeps shooting deer in his swaying and synth-drunk “Chrimuh Time.” Wake up!

Jamie O’Neal thinks she caught Santa swimming in a red Speedo down in the “Gulf of Mexico.” Jazzy country about Xmas down South.