Taking a step back, bipolarism (manic depression) may be a seasonal disorder in one form or another. Well, i can relate.
Grinch by day, Santa Claus by night, ProJudah plays bluesy pop “Bipolar Christmas” with a laff track. Seems willing to embrace it all.
Blaming schizophrenia, Katie R Dale stares you down with “The (Bipolar) Christmas Song“, a parody of that chestnuts number. Resignation here.
Atombuzz celebrates “Bipolar Christmas” with grunge and a reluctance to fully enjoy it. Bleak? Just use it for a career in the arts!
Roger John sails through his “Bipolar Christmas” with kickin’ parang. I keep waiting for the down parts. But dancing while i’m waiting.
Liquid Fluid Water comes to the rescue with the depressing “Bipolar Xmas“, a showtime of the bluesy jazz variety.
4 Aspirin Morning is floundering through their brass heavy blues “Bipolar Christmas“. It’s a hard climb back up.
Delta-9 dissolves into syhthed madness for “The Part Time Bi-Polar Elf…“. It’s carrib and EDM and rock and indecipherable. (Ask me tomorrow what i think of it. It’ll change.)
“It`s Not Christmas Everyday” is usually a lesson reminding you to be as good as you can be all the time. But in the chords of Bright Paper Werewolves, this trope takes on a sinister and random slant. Reminders to behave come with a raised hand warning. Rock into metal.
The Colors Turned Red rock “Back By Christmas” about returning to the city, provided it’s not too shitty. Provisions don’t suit the celebrations, but you do you.
“Lying in the Snow” with nowhere to go, Isaac Stancill also takes exception to your cliches. Rocking country oddness.
Johnny Setlist’s “Christmas Time is Here Again” does not bode well for any of us. It’s all crap, garbage, and stuff we hate. Lounge pop with an axe to grind.
The Original Cast of Naughty… but Nice! is sick of Xmas songs, so in “Naughty and Nice” they sing about their discontent. Wait– what? Showtune, sho’ nuff.
Arne Hansen & The Guitarspellers toast “Seasons Greetings to You All” out of both sides of their mouths. It’s hard to say (they say), but it is rocked.
A deranged family is enough to make Matthew McLaughlin feel disconnected from the “Holiday“. Plenty more beef in this peppy alt-pop, but it’s all unbalanced.
Radar & Satellite singa bout hope and joy in “Christmastime“, but their creepy vocals and thrashing metal backup make me uneasy. The parts about Santa knowing all your lies, or losing your spouse are not traditions in my domicile.
The loss of faith and friends is also not on my list of Xmas affirmations, but Lori McKenna makes a seven course out of her “Grateful“–an idea she aspires to rather than embraces. Folk.
Make Like Monkeys is my goto for fun holiday retro pop, but they have a dark side. “Christmas Doesn’t Last” is about drunken failing; “Isn’t It Christmas?” is existential angst; and “Hollow Holiday” is just mopey. Bummed now.
Valerie Warntz wants to “Shake Up Christmas” and she spins a tremulous tale of a boy and girl on opposites ends of the world wishing for love… but the folk pop song ends with no resolution. Well, crap.
The loss of Father Christmas sets off a “Cynical Christmas” for Wild Earp & The Free For Alls. Honky tonk blues that also gives up on Jesus. Look out.
“A Not so Merry Christmas” occurs when love is lost, so say The Boxmasters. Sashaying indie pop, bordering on 1956 RnR.
Apparently spoofing their own hit, Jones Earthquake Band punk rocks out “Another Boring Christmas“. With a smattering of BLUE ALERT they say what they mean.
If I could have a friend like you in my life/Then I guess I’d be doing just fine may sound just a bit standoffishness, but with the young it’s cool. “Everything’s Gonna be Cool This Christmas” is an Eels bid to chill with some indie rock. Gaspard Royant jazzes it his cover with an almost boogie-woogie affability.
Perhaps rising above uncaring “Hopeful for the Holidays (Remastered)” by Full Service rocks the folk with meandering monotone. But the refrain goes: The best part of life is… nothing. Uh, what-?
Obsessing over the seasonal sadness, Automatic Timers croon indie onto those “Midwinter Cracks“. Hope springs in three months or so.
Tinkling the ivories Ian Coss goes minimalist with the holidays in his half jazz- half whatever “The Realist“. Not the person to invite to your mixer.
Classic Pat rocks out on Xmas possibilities–like that don’t wanna fight song from The Ramones, “On Second Thought” he does wanna fight tonight. So much for goodwill to all.
Taking cues from ‘Wonderful Life’ HkFiftyOne celebrates “Christmas Day” by getting out of the boring little hometown, and touring the world. Rap electric.
Jouncy bouncy come Twelve 2 Five with “The Last Christmas Day“, electronica that robotizes the merriment. Que danceable.
AI dismisses joy with an “Untuned Lullaby” in which Winter Sage is frozen out by those who matter and slow pops malaise in response.
Belinda and Stefan begin “Things that Christmas” with exhortation and cheer, but rapidly descend, with children’s style repetitive pop, into the mundane and icky. Not good traditions at all.
Brock Armstrong (feat. Heavy Flows) also begin their symphonic randomness upbeat, but then “Christmas Spirit” faces the reality of now (subprime mortgages, fleeing to Arkansas, the Jesus story leaving us cold…). Eww.
Please, “Don’t Let It be Christmas” bemoans Crankshaft Alligator to over-filtered slow blues rock in the ballpark of just giving ups and hating the whole magilla.
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.
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….
Free for alls in the winter wonderland begin with teens, but get even nastier with maturation. Bring a helmet!
You know when it’s gone beyond kid play when the FIGHT is emphasized in the “Snowball Fight Gone Wild“. Sandra Tingalay helms AI garage rocking in which family members deal with their simmering grudges.
Johnny & The Raindrops rock hard while dreaming of a “Kung Fu Christmas“. Snowballs are listed among the many disciplines.
“Snowball Fight” from Ensemble de violoncelles de Montréal resorts to shovelfuls of ice. Not nice. Caterwauling pop.
The Burstein Boys show no remorse with their jangling garage light “Snowball Fight“. Better run for your life!
“Snowball Fight” by Los Banditos de Christmas comes in as the blues (from being hit in the head).
No Defense! from the AI pop “Snowball Fight Fiesta“. Wait, is Children’s tunes implying you’re EATing what’s thrown? With hot sauce?
Jeff Postlewaite takes on ‘Fight Song’ with his “Snowball Fight Song“. You will scream in agony, he professes. Parody’s not that bad, dude. Chill.
The Bradfords rock pop with their “Snowball Fight“. No quarter may be given by these merciless kids. I’m out.
It sounds (to me) like Santa’s blooded in Kyla Gabon’s ethereal indie “The Snowball Fight“. Haunting, despite the gore.
Nyco Nemesis uses nostalgia to indie folk the tearjerking “Snowball Fight“. How is this youthful tussle romantic??
“Let’s Have a Snowball Fight!” where the famous last psychedelic pop words of Chad Thomas Johnston as a child before he lost the love of his little sister forever. Lesson not learned.
Perhaps from the same incident, Keziah Katarina Vinci regrets her childhood “Snowball Fight” with all over the place indie keyboard threats. Yikes.
Mr. Ben brings a childish wonder to his “Snowball Fight!” but i rather suspect first-time drug use. Pushy indie.
The PH Project has to choose between dodging angels and… a “Snowball Fight“. They dodge into a dive bar instead. The next morning: build a snowman or…. Two step RnR.
A few years back i did post about the exchange of compacted frozen crystals hurled adversarially from teams like an outdoor dodgeball. This something practiced for more than half a millennium, perhaps longer but only historically recorded that long before. No actual fatalities have been recorded (not from the balls themselves anyway–we’re much to damaged an intelligence not to kill one another in EVERY setting imaginable), and the Japanese have created a professional sport based on this (Yukigassen)… so, let’s play!
One, two, three strike–yer out! for “The First Snowball of the Season” Golden Orchestra & Singers put their lyrics to ‘Take Me Out’. Okay.
Kids Storybook Songs is an AI front for entertaining wee ones. Their “Snowball Fight” has all the lilt of a real children’s pop song, yet none of the inherent violence of an actual snowball fight.
The Lyrical Lanterns laugh and dodge in their AI-leaning country “Snowball Fight.” All the pop charm of collegiate cheerleading.
Zippy Kids teaches us friend-building with their “Snowball Fight“. It’s everything you can’t stomach in a kidsong.
Johanna Lewis musters enthusiasm to sell the off kilter “Throwing Snowballs“. It impresses me as good soundtrack music for a zombie flick.
With slightly better kidmusic, Eli Kids reveals Real Friends MISS when they play “Snowball Fight“.
The Christmas Times races the beat with their better kidsong “Snowball Fight“. Decaf cocoa for you, kidsong!
Happy Melody Town unleashes orchestration for their “Snowball Pop“. In the ear results in giggling in this kidsong AI-relative.
Catchy Kids Club recruits fantasy for “Snowy Owl’s Snowball Fight“, more AI with upbeat mischief (NOT violence). There’s worse things snowy owls could do to bunnies and squirrels after all.
Then these guys utilizes Disney’s Frozen characters for their AI “The Snowball Fight Song II“. Copyright fun!
Back to Animalia! “The Penguin Snowball Fight” from Magic Tuna twists AI up to country rock levels without apology. Much sneakier, these critters.
“Snowball Fight” for Joanie Calem involves a nifty insider trick. Listen carefully to the kidsong to tell what it is.
The Backyardigans strategize better for their “Snowball Fight“. Showtune.
Bart4Kids AIs the pop for “The Snowball Fight“. Missing, but a blast. For you.
Kids Joi make it inadvertently sad when it’s a “Snowball Fight with Mom“. Sad lonely kids (in an arthritis medicine commercial), i’d wager. AI whistling pop.
Tiny Tunes UK allow for Australian Xmas fun with the odd AI rocker “The Tomato Snowball Fight“. No snow, no problem!
