Lately, I find I have many strong opinions on a variety of topics and I need to eon express them. Since I am currently either choosing to listen to or being bombarded by Christmas music, I feel the need to create my own hit/sh*t list for music I like and music that I want to have banned.
Mama Gusta's 2009 Hit List:
1. Deck the Halls - I'm always happy to hear this one, no matter who sings it, no matter how they decide to sing it. It just makes me feel festive.
2. The Twelve Days of Christmas - I used to sing this with my mother in the car and now I sing it to Comet until he tells me "don't sing that anymore, please."
3. All Christmas songs sung by Lou Rawls. He just seems to be having so much fun. I want to his Christmas party.
Mama Gusta's Holiday Sh*t List:
1. The (frickin') Carol of the (frickin') Bells. Oh.My.God. There's nothing like a rousing rendition of this carol when you are in a crowd and feeling the holiday tension. If anyone runs amok at a mall this year, this will be the song that will be playing when it happens.
2. A Charlie Brown Christmas. The whole album. Downer. Charlie Brown, himself, is a big downer. Even I wouldn't be able to be nice to him.
3. All songs sung by children or the childish, including:
-I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. (Just shut up)
-All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth. (Merry Crith-muth, indeed.)
-Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (Try explaining the lyrics of this winner to
a five year-old while trying to drive in traffic.)
And if that's not enough, I have two more categories:
Funniest holiday song title: For Christ's Sake It's Christmas (This tune is on "Merry Christmas Strait to You," by a great country performer, George Strait. Does he know this is funny? Does he know my mother said this every year, and she was wasn't singing?
Best cd to laugh to: Bob Dylan's Christmas in the Heart. It's so awful that it's hilarious. Imagine if the demon from the Exorcist crashed a Christmas album recording session. My friend Globetrotter read a review that said Dylan's "I'll be Home for Christmas' sounds like a threat." It really, really does! Also hilarious is that the deluxe version of the CD comes with Christmas cards. What the???
And if I haven't done enough for you already, I have two brief CD reviews (opinions):
Sting - Winter: Three lively tunes and many draggy songs with weird-y vocals. I also never got over the liner notes that began, "Sting's favorite season is Winter..." Thank God I know for sure, now. What about his favorite color? Of all the! Just thank me for buying the CD and liven it up a little, Gordon (Sting's real name is Gordon).
Straight No Chaser - Christmas Cheers: Lively and fun acapella. That's all I want from Christmas songs. "Make me happier, and don't antagonize me," I say to them. Don't bring me down, Sting.
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