Year-round Yuletide oddities
While on the subject, I’m reminded of something Sam Kinison once said about Jesus being the only guy to come back from the dead and not want to eat your brains.
The seminal punk zombie/Christmas song comes from MxPx. Their classic “Christmas Night of the Living Dead” (not the title you’d expect when you hear it, but trademark blah blah blah) paints a picture of the undead end of the world… but it’s Christmas! Green (skin) and Red (blood)!
Most dead Santa stuff in musical form is captured gaming. It was probably funny there. Not here. Eight Bay Bus gives us a slightly elevated macabre noel (muddied up with Evil Dave’s animation style video).
This is where the humor becomes a bit more fifteen-year-old. Evil Dave’s “Santa Claus is Dead.” Yeah, it’s that time of the theme.
So death extends beyond the human realm (and holy ghost territory). Now please consider the animals. And the punk music about them.
Punk music may turn the pathos of poverty into danceable jingles. And the drama of ordinary life magnified to federal cases.
I don’t know this Krishna Naloka 108, but when a bloke sings about turkeys for Christmas you can bet he’s Brit (a prerequisite for punk). And his music, it’s so catchy! “Let’s All Murder Turkeys (for Jesus)!”
These Southhampton boys have made a kiddie version of punk that makes you want to sing along (or throw things at the same time). This temper tantrum, illustrated with a slide show of coloring book fun cartoons, swings with festive profanity,
“Christmas is Shit” by Pocketful o’ Nowt.
Self released EPs mark the inauspicious beginnings of pop punk band, Patent Pending some ten years ago. They are three albums in now with a couple of labels.
After a pretty a cappella opening, watch (or not: black screen) these guys rock out with their own “Yellow Snow.”
Never fade away… live fast, die young… angry looks foolish on the old.
I mean, when should the punk icons of back in the day just knock it off?
The MTV star of the ’80s (‘Rebel Yell,’ ‘White Wedding,’ James Marsters’s character in Buffy) helped mainstream screaming with piercings rather than hair. But, apart from a “comeback” album in ’05, Mr. Broad hasn’t been much of anything for twenty years. Here is his “Christmas Love” frumpy country growling from ’07. It’s easier to love him without an up-to-date jpeg, by the by.