Charlie Brown Christmas - Christmas Time is Here

Alvin and the Chipmunks - Christmas Song

Amazing melodies!

agreed

anyone who says Trans Siberian Orchestra can do a rail slide on razorblades.

you've got to be joking, you like the shrill pitched chipmunks?

i love Bing Crosby's stuff.

also ICP - Santa's A Fat Bitch, Red Christmas, and Santa Claus Killas are awesome songs.

Anything Frank Sinatra or The Beach Boys. YES HOMO

i'm embarrassed to say i know this.

"Santa claus is a fat bitch...
nother year and i ain't get shit."

Feliz Navidad or GTFO

Only http://www.myspace.com/richhorrorxmas is real.

I love all this music.
eat dicks haters

Hell yeah dude. It's not the voices that sing it, it's the melody that comes out. Shit's fantastic.

Porky Pig's Blue Christmas

All I need is a collection of tunes barked by dogs.

bennyhillifier

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http://www.myspace.com/richhorrorxmas

My son is headbanging to the King right now. I love this kid.

I KNOW BUT WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE SONGS

I don't know, I thought they just weren't loading.. RICH!!

CALL THE LANDLORD

Trans Siberian orchestra. It's metal and Xmas music...in one !! Best thing invented since white out.

Twisted Sister - A Twisted Christmas nuff said!

Why? Savatage does christmas music, what's NOT to like?

You're just a hater.

AWESOME album!

What the hell is a hater?

I hate that band because I think the music is awful.

the bass playing on twisted sister's version of silver bells is so awesome.

nothing tops "no presents" when it comes to xmas music. one of my holiday traditions is to listen to that every xmas morning.

Santa Baby- I don't know who sings it but it is wikkid sexxy khed

What have you heard, and why don't you like it? I'm gonna take a wild guess that you've only heard the one tune on the radio that isn't even TSO, it's Savatage. Of course, it's the internet and you'd never admit that.

I hated TSO for a long time for leaving Jon Oliva in the dust like they did, but after actually listening to all the albums there is no denying the insane music on here. If you don't like Savatage, I can understand you wouldn't like TSO, but to HATE them so much as to make your previous comment? Something fishy and gay about that.

bennyhillifier

No, I have Beethoven's Last Night. Of course, this is the internet, so you're going to assume that I'm just saying that to seem like I've heard more than one song.

Useless posturing aside, it's probably not actual hate more than frustration. I do think the arrangements are bland and predictable. That coupled with my lack of desire to need to hear any metal christmas songs is enough to not like them. Then around christmas I inevitably have the "You're into metal? You must LOVE TSO!" conversation a few times.

I'm not into Savatage, too much, either, just to confirm that suspicion. I only have Streets and couldn't get passed the cheese even when I was seriously into power metal.

Paul Oneil has always used predictable arrangements, even in the Gutter Ballet days. I can see what you're saying there. Bland, however, I disagree. He has always focused on a good lyric and strong melodic hooks. Everything going on underneath that is secondary, which is why I like TSO: It's not Dream Theater, the music stays very simple and easy to follow while still bringing in heavy sounds.


That, and seeing Skonick, Al Pitrelli, Chris Cafferty, J.L. Middleton, Jeff Plate, and on and on... playing together - that's just a big old christmas wishlist for me.

Streets was the WORST album with Jon still singing. It was 100% written by Paul O'Neil, the same guy running TSO. I now see why you might hate TSO.

Streets was the original "Gutter Ballet" musical that they took the title and song from on the preceding album. The album was just terrible.

Everything before that, to me, is genius.

It's not flashy complexity that I would prefer, just to have that in the open. When it comes to arrangements, I always like bouncing melodies, counter-melodies and the like around instrumentation and just a little less blunt use of certain themes. I get why TSO does what they do and how they do it, though. The formula is successful and still interesting to the majority of people willing to listen to it.

Honestly, it's difficult to express what I would prefer, because I can't put myself in a situation where I could imagine what I would do to create metal inspired christmas music. It's just not in the ballpark for me.

Seeing it live could possibly warm me up to it, I've never really even seen videos let alone actually go to experience it.

Well, this is good to know. A lot of my guidance on this stuff came from a guitar teacher of mine. While he was an awesome teacher, his taste was always suspect.

I forgot about The Vandals Christmas album. I do enjoy that if it comes up.

Rich Horror sings it.

I love trans Siberian orchestra!11!!!1!!!!!1

Santa Claus, suck my balls
drunk as hell ringin' bells at the malls
dancer, prancer, nixon and cupid
i'mma get stupid hahahah eh
i sat around all night under the chimney
holdin' my sack like gimme, gimme
i know that he's comin', he's comin', he must
lookin' up nothin' but rust, dust
turned on the tv the very next day
i see you gettin' paid, leadin' the parade
i'm that sniper on the building
listen to my 9 go click, BOOM, Santa's a fat bitch.


and no, i didn't have to look one word of that up.

Cmon guys...nothing more appealing to me during the hoiday season than a choir of golden retrievers howling a rippin' rendition of 'jingle bells.'

*mental note:
Yeti is a closet jugalow....

Jingle Bells
Batman Smells
Robin Laid an Egg
The Batmobile Lost a Wheel
And the Joker got away

Batman's in the kitchen
Robin's in the Hall
and Joker's in the bathroom, pissing on the wall

Never heard this half.

That was always the best part.

when i was a kid, i used to laugh so hard at the pissing on the wall part. then i'd go into the dunkin donuts bathroom and piss all over the wall.