Year-round Yuletide oddities
EDNA share etymology with Eden (the place), so it means rejuvenation.
Aunt Edna should not expect a thank you letter from the younger, as they’ll be “Skipping Christmas“. Caley Rose drives some hard pop to register her ennui.
Christmas is not kind to the elderly, so in “The Ballad of Edna and Ida” the retired folks home unleashes this pair to waste the ungrateful kids’ inheritance in Vegas. Delightful country polka-style by means of Arrogant Worms. Blue hair is let down.
EDITH is prosperous in warfare. There’s a story there.
“Edith the Elf” is Katherine Currey’s melancholic oddball. She claims to be wonderful, but nobody likes her. Goth kidsong.
A Carrib beat enhances “Santa and Edie“, Charlie Dore’s tragic boss nova indie tale of two misfit outliers who recall each other, but not hope.
Ana Kennedy pounds home “merry christmas, edith” with desperate despair. Overlapping, insistent indie concern might raise your blood pressure.
In a “Ghost Village 1943 ” the clocks all stopped on Christmas. Edith and Lucas seem to labor there, but Nicholas Martin Capaldi is tightlipped as to the other details. Heavy drums on the militant pop; then hard rock.
This old high school alum is noticed on a Christmas trip back home. But “She Thinks She’s Edith Head” so swing They Might Be Giants. Progressive alt rock.
“Edith” concerns Sean at the Hotel. With portentous indie syncopation, he calls out his need to know what befell her a Xmas. Or something.
Old English for wealthy spear, EDGAR should be updated to gold-plated .45.
Fun Jingles 4 Kids tries an EDM version, “Edgar the Elf’s Christmas Present Delivery“. AI strikes again.
Another elf “Edgar Saves Christmas” (this time from Santa with Covid). Bryce and Austin Wood toy with our feelings when this savior freezes to death (JK). Symphonic pop.
Chieftain EARL in Anglo Saxon becomes British count. Lah dee dah.
EARL GREEN & Mathew Stegner address Earl and Mr. Green in the pornographic “My Christmas Stocking“. Guess what a guy like Earl keeps in there! Novelty through and through.
The odd home-grown Xmas musical ‘Welcome to Virginia’ takes time to mourn “My Precious Earl“, the father-to-be of the pregnant chick. Folk showtune.
The Moffat’s crash some Riders in the Sky TV show to sing “Earl the Christmas Squirrel“. What a nut.
As sequel (and ad) Ronald Yahr squeezes AI into the shape of “Earl the Squirrel’s Universal Christmas Adventure“. Pop, a little country. (Obsessing, he also has an AI pop love song “Christmas with Earl the Squirrel“.) [Seems the Orlando theme park was beset with a rooting rodent years ago and adopted his likeness because that’s what theme parks do.]
Ed Gowens chases down more livestock with “Earl the Red-Beaked Rooster“. For the most part, a comedy routine (more stereotype/less funny).
Earl and Cletus through the power of AI country find when “Santa’s Down in Tennessee“. David Toth josh us through bullying, kidnapping, and alcoholism.
Slidawg & the Redneck Ramblers follow Earl “Up on the Trailertop” hunting reindeer. Doesn’t end well for the bubba. Great fiddling, middling redneckery.
Cousin Earl is composing the nog in the hard-driven AI country “Christmas Eve Breakdown” attributed to Misfit Prophets. Chaos ensues.
Earl’s is good for a jamming session in the AI country banger “Christmas in a Chevy“. John T Ellis leads us to the conclusion, robots for hillbillies.
AI down home country from Rocketkat wishes you a “Merry Redneck Christmas“. Among Sue, Joe, and Earl only the latter seems responsible.
“Earl’s Christmas” ticks off all the hillbilly criteria: unemployed protagonist, overpopulated family (lotsa names), overly sentimental self reflection, trivial triumph. Brandon Fulson takes country seriously.
DYLAN means great tide. Not a big whoop, except for the Welsh.
BLUE ALERT ! Whomst Gang introduces us with rap to “Santa’s Traphouse” full of guns, a nympho Mrs. Claus, and some dude named Dylan.
Dylan’s Playground is a front for half-baked AI kidsong, like “Dylan’s Jolly Christmas Song“–a song so tired it’s algorithm.
Thor’s stone in Old Norse is DUSTIN. Respect.
Some YouTuber going by unpicked1 shared “Dusty the Thirsty Reindeer“. This parody does not end well.
My Canadian Girlfriend beefs up the rock with “Dusty Snowman Saves Christmas“. Taking it seriously.
Another nickname, for a male person. Etymologically from Yankee Doodle Dandy. But it’s a reference to a human being… so let’s find some novelty.
Beached Whale grumbles, “Dude It’s Christmas” under some alt-funk. Be cool.
“Hey Dude (Get Off of My Roof)” is parody fun from ’60s Invasion. worth a spin.
Chris Plansker mashes up many pops for “Dude, I Think She Santa“. Dubious.
Megan Lim is called out (as Dude) for her lite pop “Mandatory Christmas Song“.
The Mops screech out parody in “Nippy the Ice Dude” like they don’t care.
Jet Baker one-up the idea with “Dude the Stoner Snowman“. New indie tune.
In “A Maddeningly Merry Tune” Venomous Sin metal out how you are Dude.
2 Dudes and a NES knight everyone as Dude in “Dude Song“–for Christmas.
From Scottish Gaelic DOUGLAS has to do with dark water running past. Paints a picture.
Raffi’s “Douglas Mountain” is a place, not a person. Yet it’s covered in snow and bears and… awww. Kidsong.
Also not a person, “Douglas Fir” gets props for holding your balls for Xmas. Two Fingers of Firewater give us the deets with sax heavy indie.
For Joe Frye “Old Fashioned Christmas” requires one of those majestic conifers, freshly killed. Country lite.
“Christmas Night on Commonwealth” by The Night Hobs seconds that motion, with folk twisting into metal.
Last one for the fir. “We Got a Christmas Tree” set to ‘Family’ allows Santa’s Elves to name names. Fun.
“We’re Bringing Back Christmas” is Ryan Reynolds from that Netflix musical no one liked. While pitching live trees, he takes the time to diss neighbor Doug. Deplorable guy uses fake.
Back to “Doug 2020“. Lumpp stuffs bad edit comedy down our stocking in honor of something to do with the holidays.
Sequel Rights went to the trouble to AI a musical number based on that Paul Rudd/Jack Black odd ‘Anaconda’ remake. But it’s Xmas.. i mean “It’s Snakemas!” Characters Doug and Griff and Claire and Kenny are all named.
Worse country AI: “Heartfelt Hands” supposedly by Maeggieos–just a guy in an untended junky yard with dogs. Then Santa falls off the roof. Why?!
Aunt Molly,. Uncle Ted, and Cousin Doug are the reasons “Friends Are Welcome but Relatives by Appointment Only“, a Reed Simonsen AI country show tune that reaches for the roof.
Disgustingly prurient, The Dicamillo Sisters describe what they are going to do to your butthole, as well as fielding the question “But Why’s It So Cold?“, and admitting to Douglas I’m the Christmas Bandit!
Santa is Real isn’t kind as nasty with “Aryn and Doug (A Sexual Christmas Miracle)“, a power-indie about penetration.
“Doug’s Bells” by Look at Doug is a poor excuse to repeat this name. The outro, however, is outré.
Doug and the Angry Elves brings big band swing (via AI) to begin “The Christmas Rumble“. They supply evidence they participated (Santa still flinches when he sees Doug). Fun adjacent.
Snook’s frequent coconspirator, Dougie, gets into a drunken fit of pique over the holidays for a “Violent Night“. He sleeps it off in the jug. Then… consequences.
“Too Much Eggnog” is a problem for Chris Commisso (feat. Rey BB) code switching betwixt R+B and rap. Classy stuff, until she admits she’s cheating on you with your best friend Doug. Oh, and all the puking on the lawn.
“Doug’s Greatest Christmas Ever” by Seattle’s harmonious indies Uncle Bonsai reveals the hero who will save the office over Christmas. The reason why it’s Doug might surprise you.
DOROTHY, Dorothea, Theodora, Dottie, and Dot are all gifts of God. Pretty generous.
Dear regale “Dorothy” with carnival wooing. Or hating. Xmas is in there, too. Somewhere.
The Wiggles work Dorothy the dinosaur into many of their kidsongs, introduced with “Dorothy’s Christmas Roses“, a swing pop giggle fest. Also there’s “Christmas Ballet“, stuttered to classical musicality. And “Dorothy’s Special Christmas Cake“, pop rock about fruitcake. [This opens them to parody, so watch out for The Dorothys with such BLUE ALERT numbers as “Dorothy, the Red-Nosed Dorothy” and “Unto Us, This Dorothy Night“.]
Artificially Infectious reggaes a tribute to “Dot” who arrived during the holidays. Real name is Shelby, but oh well.
The Venn diagram of names and words can baffle a blogger, but i call cool with the disco “I Can’t Even (All Dot the Dot Time)” by The New Carpenters.
DORIS was an ocean nymph, the wife of Nereus, and the mother of the fifty sea-goddesses known as the Nereids. So ‘gift‘.
tedy02 is working out some workplace issues. His AI rocker “Merry Midnight Madness” wrestles with the absurdity of the mercantile holiday show space and Doris and Stan’s aisle wars.