I’ve got two candidates for strange Christmas songs but there are fudozens more. The novelty christmas song is a tradition in Britain with such war-criminals as Mr. Blobby and Avid Merrion having soiled the airwaves over the years. Anyway…
The Go Gos - I’m gonna to spend my christmas with a dalek, a must for all Dr. Who fans. The dalek’s lines in it are comedy gold.
On a completely different note we have the poignant, A Silent Night (Christmas 1915) as sung by Jerry Lynch. This is the seasonal companion to And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, using elements from Silent Night in a similar way to that song’s use of Waltzing Matilda. It’s a song about the Christmas truce on the Western Front but I’m fairly sure that would have been on Christmas, 1914 :smack: Still, it’s a beautiful but peculiar sounding song.
This is my favorite Christmas song ever. Thanks for posting the link!
It’s usually not my cuppa, but Jill Sobule’s cover of "Merry Christmas from the Family" is pretty awesome.
The first two verses:
Mom got drunk and Dad got drunk at our Christmas party
We were drinking champagne punch and homemade eggnog
Little sister brought her new boyfriend
He was a Mexican
We didn’t know what to think of him until he sang
Feliz Navidad, Feliz Navidad
Brother Ken brought his kids with him
The three from his first wife Lynn
And the two identical twins from his second wife Mary Neil
Of course he brought his new wife Kay
Who talks all about AA
Chain smoking while the stereo plays Noel, Noel
The First Noel
That is…definitely peculiar. O_o
I have, in my ‘Non-Sucky Christmas Music’ playlist, surprisingly few songs that could be called ‘peculiar’…probably the most peculiar is Kevin Bloody Wilson’s Hey Santa Claus. I actually prefer the slightly less obscene version by the Canadian comedians Bowser and Blue. (The censoring was less obnoxious in the TV airing… The audio just dropped, from what I remember.) But not by much… Some of the changed wording is for the worse, but I think swapping the c-word for the audience shouting ‘hey, Santa!’ back was an improvement, I think.
Oh, jeez, I can’t believe I forgot Chiron Beta Prime, by Jonathan Coulton.