X-Games: Snowball Fight (for kids!)

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!

X-Games: The Hokey Pokey

OMG, how many versions of this game/dance for the holidays can there be?!

Debbie Doo Kids’s “The Christmas Hokey Pokey” is direct and hard rocking, for kidsong that is.

Shanti Children’s Music is more traditional with “Santa’s Hokey Pokey” naming each aspect of that old elf (‘ceptin’ his big belly) to poke in a shake all about.

Yoyo’s “Reindeer Pokey” subs in animal parts to listen for and respond with.

Little Baby Bum’s “Christmas Hokey Pokey” features elves, reindeer, and Santa. ‘Sgettin’ crowded on the dance floor/excercise mat.

Not to be left out, Dr. Sean allows “The Snowman Pokey” to poke the carrot.

A weird rebrand, “Christmas Hokey Cokey (Nativity Song With Lyrics)” via Daniel England Ministries offers young uns the chance to know His love, rather than shake it all about.

The Lemay Odyssey returns us to novelty adulthood with “The Christmas Hokey Pokey“, a RnR bitchfest of holiday headaches. THAT’s what it’s all about. Ouch.

X-Games: Kid Stuff

Children’s capacity for play is seemingly endless. So it would be for you, if you could only spectate everyone else getting to Do stuff. These poor, powerless preschoolers need something to make time go by, especially during Xmas.

In “Let The Children Play (Christmas song)” by Tony Brown (sapptube52) pretense is the game. For God. For Santa. For space travel. It’s some weird kidsong.

Prog rock skeeved into pop makes “The Children Play” from Flip Damon a mystical journey from school to home for the holiday break. What’s going on here?

Kids just running around outside inspires Carole Kuck into “Dreaming of Christmas”. This piano recital pop is nostalgic and sweet. No actual games get dropped, however.

Youth on Track likes to play a game with his stocking and another with the chimney in the thrasher “Christmas Time is My Favorite Time“. Imaginative.

Chad Ackerman startles the lineup with a BLUE ALERT comment on the actual Christmas game for kids: good = gifts. “Fuckin’ Christmas Time” says it all with a jazz beaten pop melody (and falsetto!).

“Seesaw (For Christmas)” starts out as a wonderful tale from Thrice a Chuckle. Then it gets tall. Spoken word.

The String Beans play “Santa Says“–and so can you! Follow along with this authoritarian announcer and keep score. Or… squid games.

X-Games: more Reindeer

More AI when “Reindeer Games Gone Wild” by Amanduhhhhhh flexes its pop. Rough trade.

AI chokehold on “Reindeer Games” honestly results in a listenable song from Deta Family. It’s pop kidsong, but with a minor key horror tone underlying. Just races, really.

Better racing from Wizards of Boat in their rocker “Death Race of the Reindeer“. It’s like that.

Super Star Radio Network AI Music renders more racing and laughing in their pop-rap “Reindeer Games“. Silly more than aggravating.

“Reindeer Games” from Rhythmatic is kidsong with annoying AI pop forcing the rhymes. Play by play for each other original eight.

Keeping it kid-friendly KinderFun Nursery Rhymes belts out the kidrockingsong “We Are Going To The Reindeer Games Song“. The hollering surprises me.

In “Reindeer Games” by Hillbilly Rick, horseshoes and basketball get mentioned. AI country slop… but FINALLY!

Froggy Fresh tells a real story in the rap out “Reindeer Games” wherein James gets janky and grinches all the presents. See RGs are simply dastardly pranks. Commendable young music making.

X-Games: Reindeer

I swear i’ll play Cattan with you in just a minute, right now i’m just so eggnog busy…! Surely That Time of the Year is not conducive to Canasta, or even Hide and Seek. But can’t we be more Semitic and sit and spend family time with a Gee-Ay-Em-Ee? For the next month i’ll pick over the few and far between Xmas songs about pastimes whether they be childish, or dreidel, or even the bowl games. Roll the dice and take a turn!

The games you already know about certainly include Reindeer Games, like in that song. So let’s start with prep in the form of “To the Reindeer Games“, kidsong by Lloyd, Debby Lytton Rudolph from some animated movie.

Next some AI from BitSonix, a country drawling “The Other Reindeer Games“. It’s a bit of a redneck introduction for Rudolph. Cousins KISSING! Run!!

Rudolph gets into the swing of the country come on with his own “Reindeer Games” when Austin Bohannon sings it. What a playa.

The “Reindeer Games” by Mindforge Music is more singles’ mixings with AI country playfulness. PG naughtiness.

2Bad DadZ’s “Reindeer Games” may be merely Rudolph’s story rapped out, but it plays well with others.

Freddy Prince Krueger over modulates the pop idea that “Reindeer Games” are just so much nonsense. Reverb reverb reverb reverb.

The String Beans recall that “Reindeer Rodeo” thing we covered a couple years ago. Soft rock kidsong with great commentary.

Big Screen: Elfin, Etc.

Will Ferrell Aspergers the season with childish glee. Let’s honor that. (Not the musical treatments, that’s been done.)

The Wonder of Milton briefly reviews line in “Buddy the Elf What’s Your Favorite Color“. Rock.

Chance Alan turns up the AI to cover the sugary bases in the country rocker “12 Drops of Christmas.” I don’t get it.

The Classic Brown’s “Son of a Nutcracker” also recycles lines. Nice indie pop beat.

Some miscellanea while i gots you here…

Youth on Track treasures watching “The Nightmare Before Christmas Eve” but worries about the emotional trauma on the next day. Electronic pop.

“Chris Farren’s Disney’s Frozen” Carrib raps the sad tale of Olaf. Chris Warren  (feat. Anika Pyle & Sean Bonnette) play hard to work hard. Bookended by dad joke.

TV’s Kyle invokes “Shrek 2” as a Christmas time celebration. Bombastic showtune march.

Big Screen: Story Telling & more

‘A Christmas Story’ leaves me tired. But it inspires gifts, nostalgia, and larfs.

The whole Red Ryder yada yada thing has been done here before.

 Rod Kim has a personal reaction to the heartfelt scheming of the kid who needs something his parents won’t approve of in “Merry Christmas Ralphie“, a folk pop tale of woe.

John McCutcheon, hoever, overdoes the sentiment with the funny jug band behest: “Tommy Don’t Lick That Pipe“.

Running out of days, but TV shows need a glancing at, too.

Chris Isaak is watching “Christmas on TV” while missing his loved ones. It’s our theme summed up in honky tonk.

Was hepped to DJ John’s “The Christmas Massacre of Charlie Brown” years ago by Pete da Elf. This slipping and sampling is classic comedy car crashing.

Mirror Eyes belts out blues with “Out Of All The Charlie Browns In The World, I’m The Charlie Browniest“. No actual peanuts were harmed during the writing of this tribute.

“The Christmas Team” may not refer to TV shows any more than borrowing a theme song, but Chinese Tony Danza gives it all. Gasp.

“Remember When Gilbert Gottfried Was Santa Claus In An Episode of Billy and Mandy” asks Birthing Stirrups in a garage rock rattle.

The Not Fur Longs rerun HeMan cartoons with the odd “Christmas in Eternia” song that appeared one time in the ’70s. They fleshed out that ditty to indie epicness, stuttering all the while.

Big Screen: Vacationing

To recap that National Lampoon sequel, Positively Pat Sims uses AI to power up “A Griswold Christmas (Vacation)“. Easy listening pop sashays all over the place.

Bacio wonders “If These Walls Could Talk (A Behest of the Griswold Christmas House)” with twinkly country. Sympathetic.

Letters to Ash puts the punk to “Clark Griswold Saved Christmas“. It seems to look for the happy ending, but it is what it is. Not sure if that’s a BLUE ALERT or not.

Heath Not Keith also punks out to “A Griswold Christmas“. Snide, yet a bit antic.

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.