ALL my ideas can't be golden, okay? But this one is still pretty good. It's a moderate collection of songs with the word "advantage" in their titles or ones where the word figures prominently in the lyrics. Just check it out. You won't be disappointed! Enjoy? ~ JH
1) Nirvana ~ "About A Girl"
2) DGraham ~ "Advantage"
3) Swans ~ "Take Advantage"
4) Bad Rabbits ~ "Advantage Me"
5) Xentrix ~ "For Whose Advantage"
6) Swing Session ft. Karolina Otevřelová ~ "You Took Advantage Of Me"
7) Al Di Meola ~ "Advantage"
8) Pacific Overtures Cast ~ "Advantages Of Floating In The Middle Of The Sea"
9) Israel Strong ~ "The Advantage"
10) Guided By Voices ~ "Flight Advantage"
11) Lou Barlow ~ "Take Advantage"
12) LCD Soundsystem ~ "Pow Pow"
13) Flight Facilities ft. Emma Louise ~ "Two Bodies"
14) Glenn Frey ~ "He Took Advantage (Blues For Ronald Reagan)"
Three Christmases ago, I posted a collection of Weird Christmas Songs. Last year around this time, I followed that up with More Weird Christmas Songs. And the hits just don't stop coming! Here's another set of oddities you're sure to enjoy, or cringe at, or both! ~ JH
1) Straight No Chaser ft. Kristen Bell ~ “Text Me Merry Christmas”
2) LCD Soundsystem ~ “Christmas Will Break Your Heart”
3) Grumpy Cat, Colonel Meow, Oskar the Blind Cat, Nala Cat, & Hamilton the Hipster Cat ~ “Hard To Be A Cat At Christmas”
4) National Lampoon ~ “Kung Fu Christmas”
5) Captain Dan & The Scurvy Crew ~ “A Pirate Christmas”
6) Cyndi Lauper ~ “Christmas Conga”
7) Eels ~ “Christmas Is Going To The Dogs”
8) Listener & Dust ~ “It’s Christmas Time Again, So Come On Home To The FIRE”
9) The Original Five ~ “Please, Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)”
10) The Magnetic Fields ~ “Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree”
11) The Futureheads ~ “Christmas Was Better In The ‘80s”
12) LilDeuceDeuce ~ “Christmas Is Cancelled”
13) The Flaming Lips ~ “Christmas At The Zoo”
14) SpongeBob SquarePants ~ “Don’t Be A Jerk (It’s Christmas)”
15) The Goons ~ “I’m Walking Backwards For Christmas”
16) Okkervil River ~ “Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas”
17) Morning Parade ~ “Did I Make You Cry On Christmas Day? (Well, You Deserved It!)”
18) Sufjan Stevens ~ “That Was The Worst Christmas Ever”
19) Dora Bryan ~ “All I Want For Christmas Is A Beatle”
20) Set It Off ~ “This Christmas (I’ll Burn It To The Ground)”
21) Slow Club ~ “It’s Christmas, And You’re Boring Me”
22) Loretta Lynn ~ “I Won’t Decorate Your Christmas Tree”
23) Kenny Chesney ~ “All I Want For Christmas Is A Real Good Tan”
24) Elton John ~ “Ho! Ho! Ho! (Who’d Be A Turkey At Christmas?)”
25) Cheetah Girls ~ “Cheetah-licious Christmas”
BONUS TRACK: Sufjan Stevens ~ “Barcarola (You Must Be A Christmas Tree)” (It felt wrong somehow to include two Sufjan Stevens songs in the post proper [especially considering that song # 17 was also written by him], but here’s another weird one from The Weird One. Great song, though, actually.)
