Category: rock

Jill Johnson roams the vocal range with the slightly country/slightly jazz easy listening “I Want You for Christmas“.

Miss Rose & Her Rhythm Percolators sounds familiar when she sings “I Want You at Christmas“. But it’s a gender flip, and more ’20s than the last guys what done it. Big band with loads of strings.

Onionmaster (ft. A Starwar Betamax)’s “I Want You for Christmas” is remixed, filtered, sped up, and generally ruined for your listening displeasure. I dare you to listen (all the way through).

Jesse Belvin takes us back to when doo wop was no longer just blues, but on the way to rock and roll with “I Want You with Me Christmas“. Iconic.

No wonder then that six years later Big Dee Irvin and Little Eva’s “I Wish You a Merry Christmas” is much more pop rock and roll. Whoa oh baby. (Who you calling FAT?!)

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Doug Stone whines about lousy presents with a rockabilly twanging country rant. It’s a whole ‘nother thang.

“All I Want For Christmas is You” is Foghat complaining about Cadillacs and Stratocasters with acid burning ‘billy. He’s talkin’ ’bout you, you ,you.

Rocknroll Ranch dad rocks their “All I Want For Christmas is You”. Keep those toys with all that noise. (I suspect ulterior motives here.)

“All I Want for Christmas Is You” from Vince Vance & The Valiants is more diva ballideering, this time with symphonic rock. Appropriate for elevators everywhere.

“All I Want for Christmas Is You“, according to The 88, is an after school pop rock special with heavy messaging.

Kristian Noel Pedersen’s “A Lonely Black Friday in Downtown Toronto” is a trip down bad memory mall, but with an interesting guitar line. I had fun.

MrMeowsickles (ft Flora Lin) belt out the pop “Lonely Christmas” with anger and violence. I had tinnitus.

The Olympics are missing their baby. So they only want a “Lonely Christmas Hide Away“. Motown obdurateness. I had a problem.

Good to return to The Rosebuds with their jazzy indie “Lonely Light“. Seems to be a flirtation. I had a moment.

Ken Rowell & The Baghdaddies bebop “Christmas Ain’t for the Lonely People” with 3/4 rocking pizzazz. I had a party.

Moonglows slow the doo woo to lament “Just a Lonely Christmas” 1953 was just that cool.

Mud’s “Lonely This Christmas” has been covered by many (‘cuz it sounds Elvis). Sean Jean & The LTF Carolers pick up the beat a little. More rockabilly thrashing. I dig Frank Hamilton‘s slow-mo approach. It’s like spoken word despair. But, then there’s the comedy Brit take: Pete Jones’s “Lonely This Christmas (Now I’m Getting Old)“. And the DJ mashup from Retrospec. Ouch.

More on this and “Lonely Christmas Call” happened on the blog before. Check it out.

Sylver returns us to moody, yet cheesy, pop with “Lonely X-Mas“. The causes: You’re not here with me. The cure: I can only wish that you were here. Case closed.

The Yule Logs retro rock “Christmas is Lonely (When You’re a Jew)” for obvious reasons. I mean, there’s nothing else to do.

BoroTone Music tries metal via AI with “Christmas in a Broken Home“. The loneliness here is palpable, if not physical.

AI jazz pop from Leon Mondschein, “Silent Rooms” attempts a pity ballad. Am i crazy, or is this persona?

The Cardoors twiddle twaddle with their low key indie “Christmas by Myself was Not in His Eyes“, a long story about waiting for Mr. Right. (Santa?)

Tony Driscoll and His Yuletide Warblers fool around with what ifs in the hard folk of “It’s Christmas (and I’m Lonely)“. Now i’m wondering, too.

Gary Strickland club rocks “CrackerJack” about losing that special someone. Not to worry, he’s hunky dory.

Leroy Sanchez rolls all over octaves with his R+B lovelorn letter “It Ain’t Christmas Without You“. It’s a mating call of prodigious proportions.

Dr. BLT demonstrates how country can make “It Ain’t Christmas Without You” a real downer. More of a bar howl.

Desi and Cody apply cowboy blues to “It Just Ain’t Christmas Without You“. Now it’s a mopey singalong.

It’s “One Long, Silent Night” without you yowls Mike Bryant with rarefied honky tonk backgrounds. That’s a sad one.

Doug Stone croons country weakly bc he’s missing you so much. Like all the time. But especially “When December Comes Around“. Symphonic.

Retro rock transforms “It Just Can’t Be Christmas Without You” by Kung Fu Monkeys into a dance party game of maybes.

Jordan leads The Ready Set song “I Don’t Wanna Spend Another Christmas Without You” with a cooking lesson. It’s a messy, spoofy pop take on heartbreak.

That’s a sharp contrast to Nsync’s “I Don’t Wanna Spend One More Chistmas Without You“, an over earnest boyband cheesefest of pop bologna.

At least “I’ll Be Missing You Come Christmas (A Letter To Santa)” by New Kids On The Block is more R+B sad in order to make the tweens sob.

Powerful distress from Tamela Mann asks in nearly fluent English “What is Christmas Without You?” Lots of answers to that question here.

Cute Aesthetics disco R+Bs “Snow Globe“–oddly enough about being without Mr. Melody. Then it starts skipping. And doesn’t stop. Now it’s weird.

One of my fave-o BLUE ALERT dumped songs is Landon Tewers’s “I Hope You Have A Shitty Christmas“. He hopes you’re eaten by a shark. And yes, there’s a last laugh. Rock.

Last resort, lock up!

Big Top Heartbreak overproduces “Christmas In The Asylum” so that simple punk explodes into unbalanced easy listening. Colorful characters. Heartbreaking story.

Liam Carlin & The Kegs get proper punk with “Christmas in the Madhouse“. Adult supervision recommended.

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, naturally, has “Away in a Madhouse” as a standard carol.

Santa in the sanitarium? The Therapy Sisters jump blues “Santa’s Got the Blues” with moxie. It’s not your fault, Nick.

Matt Roach applies social commentary to the shelter skelter of the holidays in “Christmas in the Nuthouse“. No jackets were straited in this rocker.

“Christmas in the Loony Bin” sounds as if it were recorded there. Daniel Johnston’s folk rager offers no solutions, only walls. Osaka Popstar‘s rocking cover makes more sense. Not that that’s a good thing. Faniel makes a funeral march out of it. Ye gods.

The Illiterates garage the dickens out of “Xmas Carols in the Psych Ward“. It’s cah-RAY-zee.

Arlen Rundvall opts for detailed storytelling with his “Christmas in the Psych Ward“. It’s indie punk grisly reality, wards and all.

Sophie Gault maintains she’s doing all right spending “Christmas In The Psych Ward“. Is it what’s true or is it what she wants? Country rocking the psyche.

Xmas promotes selfishness and greed, on a merit system purportedly, but still grabby and materialistic. So, look at me, everyone! I’ll tell you all about it!

“Dating a Narcissist at Christmas” is a parody on ‘Beginning to Look’ with some personal details given by Amber Kacherian. Bombastic rationalizations.

The Batman 2287 enters “It’s a Narcissistic Christmas” as a parody on ‘Holly Jolly’. Apparently this guy encounters no end of these selfish a-holes with big elbows.

“Christmas For A Narcissist” is punk pushiness from The Crackhouse Critters seeming to side with the self-obsessed. Privilege rules.

Since Me First is antithetical to the Christmas Spirit, ’tis The Satanic Temple who lampoons ‘Joy to the World’ with “Joy to Ourselves!” It’s all in selfish fun.

Why do you always gotta be the “Christmas Ham“? Make Like Monkeys want to know. Who ordered this center of attention? Retro rock (the good kind).