Bad Religion | Christmas Songs
Merry Christmas from Empty Bottle Evenings! Or Happy Christmas to our non-American readers. Or Go to Hell for everyone who doesn’t celebrate Christmas. It was a pagan holiday, it’s not even close to the day Jesus was supposed to be born, and you get a day off from work to open presents and celebrate. I’m not religious, but if you can’t enjoy the absurdity of a holiday where you cut down a tree and stick it in your living room and hang your socks on the fireplace for no particular reason then you are missing out. Embrace the holiday cheer and stop being a pain in the ass. And what better way to enjoy Christmas than listening to Bad Religion play Christmas songs?
Personally,I’m sick of listening to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” but that’s just because I’ve karaoked to it a thousand times already and I’m sick of being judged. I know people hate Christmas songs, but unless you work in retail and you hear them every single day on repeat, I think the biggest problem is nothing new comes out. Well nothing new that is not exact replicas of the same song or unrecognizable covers that are poorly done. I need something new so that I’m not shuffling through Mariah, the same 3 Transiberian Orchesta songs, Jimmy World’s “Last Christmas”, John Lennon, and a song about a fucking Donkey.
Bad Religion is not the first band to play punk covers of traditional Christmas songs, but they are the best. Yeah, I’ll stand by that. Nearly every X-mas punk cover that I’ve heard sounds like the band took 4 seconds to figure out the words and just tried to sing it louder and more obnoxious. These Bad Religion songs sound like they actually took some time to figure out the arrangements. You can tell who the band is that recorded them but there is an effort to retain the essence of the originals. The production quality is great, and the whole album lasts only 19 minutes, which should be just enough time to realize you’re done celebrating Christmas and you’d rather just be drinking alone.
The Drink: Egg Nog loaded with alcohol. Actually I don’t like egg nog either. Go pound tequila. Feliz Navidad.
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