Still More Weird Christmas Songs, Vol. 1

For the past several years, I've been accumulating playlists full of the most wonderfully weird Christmas-themed songs that have somehow made their way into recordings. While I've certainly found dozens of gems prior to now, I've never searched as high and low as I did this year seeking oddball holiday songs previously unknown to me. The result is a three-part series that begins right now. Enjoy!  ~  JH

BLOGGER'S NOTE:  If you happened to miss the previous "Weird Christmas Songs" posts, you can find them here, here, and here. In addition, you can check out some highly unusual songs about Santa Claus here and here.

1)  Rhett & Link ft. Hannah Hart, Grace Helbig, Benny Fine, & DeStorm  ~  “Christmas Sweatz”  (This is the first in a 3-video series of Christmas-themed songs by these folks. All of which will appear in these posts, and all of 'em weird, too.)

2)  Pond  ~  “All I Want For Xmas (Is A Tascam 388)”  (I looked it up. This is some kind of home studio recording device thingamajig.)

3)  Yogi Yorgesson  ~  “Yingle Bells”  (What's next, "Yingle Bell Rock"?)

4)  Anto Sharp  ~  “Let’s Put Christmas In Your Basket”  (Sure, why not?)

5)  Darlene Love  ~  “Christmastime For The Jews”  (No one gets left out this year.)

6)  Gene Autry & The Pinafores  ~  “He’s A Chubby Little Fellow”  (Way to fat-shame the gift-bringer, cowboy! Now you’ve ruined everything for all of us!)

7)  Christafari ft. Makamae Auwae  ~  “Angels We Have Heard On High”  (This is how to cover ALL the bases in one short video.)

8)  RuPaul  ~  “Nothing For Christmas”  (Aww, poor guy...well, sort of.)

9)  Augie Rios  ~  “Donde Está Santa Claus?"  (Yeah, where IS that jolly old elf?)

10)  Frank Sidebottom  ~  “Christmas Is Really Fantastic”  (Isn't it, though?)

11)  Half Man Half Biscuit  ~  “All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla-Prague Away Kit”  (I didn't look this one up. But whatever it is, this guy wants one.)

12)  Billy Idol  ~  “Yellin’ At The Xmas Tree”  (I'm sure we've all done this at some point.)

13)  Bob Rivers Comedy Corp.  ~  “The Twelve Pains Of Christmas”  (Only 12???)

14)  Sia  ~  “Santa’s Coming For Us”  (That sounds vaguely menacing...)

15)  Fall Out Boy  ~  “Yule Shoot Your Eye Out”  (Don't say you weren't warned.)

16)  Destenee  ~  “Hello Kitty Christmas”  (I know people who celebrate in this manner.)

17)  The Maine  ~  “Ho Ho Hopefully”  (Clever title. Good song. Weird video.)

18)  Crystal Antlers  ~  “10,000 Watts”  (That's a lot of light bulbs!)

19)  Bob Dylan  ~  “Must Be Santa”  (Accordions were never put to such good use in a Christmas song before this.)

20)  Ivana Raymonda ~  “Christmas And Love”  (Two things I'm particularly fond of.)

21)  blink-182  ~  “I Won’t Be Home For Christmas”  (It's alright. You guys weren't invited anyway.)

22)  Allo, Darlin’  ~  “Space Christmas”  (Far out, man!)

23)  NewSong  ~  “The Christmas Shoes”  (Some of you are probably frowning at your screen right now because I included this song here. But when you think about it, it truly is weird! I mean, it’s not like Mama can take the shoes with her where she’s going. Treacle, folks…pure treacle!)

24)  B-SHOC  ~  “Happy Hip-Hop Christmas”  (Ho-ho-homeboy!)

25)  Clarence Carter  ~  “Back Door Santa”  (I can't even...)

Songs About Squirrels

And now for the blog post you've all been waiting for. Well, maybe not ALL of you. But some of you have, you're just too ashamed to admit it. Ladies and gentlemen, a bunch of Songs About Squirrels. Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Ray Stevens  ~  “The Mississippi Squirrel Revival”  (This is the quintessential song about squirrels. In case you were wondering.)

2)  Muddy Waters  ~  “Fox Squirrel”

3)  Marcy Playground  ~  “Secret Squirrel”

4)  Metallica  ~  “Black Squirrel”

5)  Chris Thile  ~  “The Squirrel Of Possibility”  (You may not know this guy by name, but he’s a band member of both Nickel Creek and The Punch Brothers. Assuming you’re familiar with either of them, of course.)

6)  Texas Gypsies  ~  “Coco And The Squirrel”

7)  Sesame Street  ~  “The Silly Squirrel Dance”

8)  Dick Dale and His Del-Tones  ~  “The Squirrel”

9)  Rhett & Link  ~  “Squirrel Rights”

10)  Eric Burdon & War  ~  “Bird & The Squirrel”

11)  Idgy Dean  ~  “The Indian Squirrel Dance”

12)  River Raisin Ragtime Revue  ~  “The Squirrel Rag Slow Drag”

13)  Zanilonia  ~  “Squirrel World”  (Well, this was…different. And not at all what I expected after its rather benign beginning.)

14)  Shorty Rogers and His Orchestra  ~  “Pink Squirrel”

15)  Phineas and Ferb  ~  “S.I.M.P. (Squirrels In My Pants)”

16)  Cream  ~  “Cat’s Squirrel”

17)  Stackridge  ~  “Red Squirrel”

18)  Jeff Watson  ~  “Squirrels & Kerosene”  (This guy is best-known as the lead guitarist for the hard-rock band, Night Ranger.)

19)  Pink Martini  ~  “The Flying Squirrel”

20)  Charlie Parker & Chet Baker  ~  “The Squirrel”

21)  Outerview  ~  “A Pigeon And A Squirrel”  (Well, that was…also quite unique. Oddly enough, it was exactly what I expected from the title.)

22)  Corn Potato String Band  ~  “Squirrel Heads And Gravy”  (Fear not, squirrel lovers! No actual squirrels were decapitated in the making of this song.)

23)  Ott & The All-Seeing I  ~  “Squirrel And Biscuits”

24)  Billy Corgan  ~  “Squirrels With Tails”  (Avid fans may recognize Corgan as the frontman for The Smashing Pumpkins.)

25)  The Travelin’ McCourys  ~  “The Squirrel Hunters”

“Epic” Songs

Solely judging by their titles, these songs are "Epic." Judging by their content and artistic merit, they're at least really good, if not also "Epic." And so it begins... Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Faith No More  ~  “Epic”

2)  Rhett & Link  ~  “Epic Rap Battle Of Manliness”

3)  Calexico  ~  “Epic”

4)  Fugazi  ~  “Epic Problem”

5)  Grace Slick  ~  “Epic 38”

6)  Angels & Airwaves  ~  “Epic Holiday”

7)  Does It Offend You, Yeah?  ~  “Epic Last Song”

8)  Toadies  ~  “Epic Castles”

9)  Gramatik  ~  “Epic Destiny” 

10)  Veruca Salt  ~  “Salt Flat Epic”

11)  Blues Traveler  ~  “The Poignant And Epic Saga Of Featherhead And Lucky Lack”

12)  The Dead Milkmen  ~  “Epic Tales Of Adventure”

13)  4Count  ~  “Epic”

14)  Other Lives  ~  “Epic”

15)  Sam Tsui, Alex G, Kurt Schneider, & Madilyn Bailey  ~  “Epic Patty Cake Song (I’ll Think Of You)”

16)  Blood On The Dance Floor  ~  “An Epic Of Epicness”

17)  Pranke  ~  “Epic”

18)  Manic Drive  ~  “Epic”

19)  Bigbang  ~  “Epic Scrap Metal”

20)  Anaïs Mitchell ft. Justin Vernon  ~  “Epic (Part 1)”

21)  Red Hot Chili Peppers  ~  “Mini Epic (Kill For Your Country)”

22)  The Presets  ~  “Fail Epic”

23)  Pilotdrift  ~  “The Undiscovered Epic Of Walter Champion”

24)  AFI  ~  “Modern Epic”

25)  Battlelore  ~  “Epic Dreams”

Songs About Cheese

Here's a particularly unusual collection pairing a few profoundly odd songs and several surprisingly good ones. Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Ween  ~  “Pork Roll Egg And Cheese”

2)  Primus  ~  “Seas Of Cheese”

3)  Bayside  ~  “Big Cheese”

4)  Nirvana  ~  “Big Cheese”

5)  The Rutles  ~  “Cheese And Onions”

6)  Modest Mouse  ~  “Mice Eat Cheese”

7)  Echolyn  ~  “The Cheese Stands Alone”

8)  Billy Cobham  ~  “The Moon Ain’t Made Of Green Cheese”

9)  La Fine Equipe ft. Fakear  ~  “Cheese Naan”

10)  The Adicts  ~  “Cheese Tomato Man”

11)  Rhett & Link  ~  “The Cheese Rap”

12)  Safety Scissors  ~  “I Am The Cheese”

13)  deadmau5 vs. Jelo  ~  “The Reward Is Cheese”

14)  Atomic Mosquitos  ~  “Cheese Quake”

15)  Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra  ~  “Cheese And Crackers Polka”

16)  Biscuithead & The Biscuit Badgers  ~  “Cheese”

17)  The Singing Milkmaids  ~  “Cheese And Curds And Whey”

18)  The Billie Davies Trio  ~  “Green Cheese”

19)  The Floozies  ~  “Cheese”

20)  Lady Banana  ~  “Wall Of Cheese”

21)  Tomás Ramirez  ~  “Fromundah Cheese”

22)  Rogue Oliphant  ~  “Hard Cheese And Sour Grapes”

23)  Boogie  ~  “Sweet Cheese Luna”

24)  Modereko  ~  “Soul Cheese”