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minimetoo26 · #51 Post by **minimetoo26** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:44 am

Paisan!! Welcome!

I LIKE your song!

minimetoo26 · #52 Post by **minimetoo26** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:47 am

I was psyched to hear Twisted Sister's version of O Come All Ye Faithful, which was a natural since it is similar to We're Not Gonna Take It. It was very well reviewed.

It was very disappointing. Just a bunch of shouting. No wit, or even an attempt at singing. This would have benefitted from a very broad wink.

Alas.

#53 Post by **littlebeast13** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:51 am

minimetoo26 wrote:I was psyched to hear Twisted Sister's version of O Come All Ye Faithful, which was a natural since it is similar to We're Not Gonna Take It. It was very well reviewed.

It was very disappointing. Just a bunch of shouting. No wit, or even an attempt at singing. This would have benefitted from a very broad wink.

Alas.

Maybe Dee Snyder should try the Hippo song. He couldn't be any worse than the annoying kid who sings it....

lb13

minimetoo26 · #54 Post by **minimetoo26** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:54 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giuTdKFvr_s

Enjoy. Or not.

#55 Post by **littlebeast13** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:59 am

minimetoo26 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giuTdKFvr_s

Enjoy. Or not.

That was pretty crappy.

Twisted Sister videos are supposed to be all about that one guy getting his ass kicked. This was just some horrible animation, and I'm glad I didn't have the sound up too loud....

And why wasn't this on the Beavis & Butthead Christmas special....?

lb13

#56 Post by **eyégor** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:03 am

Best Christmas album?

Hands down, it's "Bummed Out Christmas"

Any album with "Christmas in Jail", Somebody Stole my Santa Claus Suit:, "Santa Got a DWI", "Christmas in Viet Nam" AND "Santa Came Home Drunk" is hard to beat.

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #57 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:09 am

Dominick the Donkey wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
VAdame wrote:Oh, crap! Up until today, I'd never heard of the Hippopotamus Song. So I got curious & looked it up on that site that rhymes with NewBoob.

And now, the Hippopotamus Song is stuck in my head!!!!! It's an EARWORM!

Accckkkk! Out, out damned river horse!!!!

Heeeellllllllp meeeeeeeeeeee.............................
I've gotten the Dominick the Donkey earworm. At least it is pleasant!

La la la, la la lalalala la.....

Good, I could use a nice home during the warmer months. I'm housebroken, sort of....

Dominick, you look like Donkey from the Shrek movies.

minimetoo26 · #58 Post by **minimetoo26** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:15 am

PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
Dominick the Donkey wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote: I've gotten the Dominick the Donkey earworm. At least it is pleasant!

La la la, la la lalalala la.....

Good, I could use a nice home during the warmer months. I'm housebroken, sort of....
Dominick, you look like Donkey from the Shrek movies.

Those of us who create lots of avatars take what's available, especially if it's already sized correctly. I forgive him...

#59 Post by **littlebeast13** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:17 am

minimetoo26 wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:
Dominick the Donkey wrote:
Good, I could use a nice home during the warmer months. I'm housebroken, sort of....
Dominick, you look like Donkey from the Shrek movies.
Those of us who create lots of avatars take what's available, especially if it's already sized correctly. I forgive him...

Sadly, I admit I was actually seeking out Shrek Donkey pictures for Dominick's avatar. I wanted Dom to have a celebrity representing him, like in the Geico commercials....

lb13

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #60 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:19 am

littlebeast13 wrote:
minimetoo26 wrote:
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote: Dominick, you look like Donkey from the Shrek movies.
Those of us who create lots of avatars take what's available, especially if it's already sized correctly. I forgive him...

Sadly, I admit I was actually seeking out Shrek Donkey pictures for Dominick's avatar. I wanted Dom to have a celebrity representing him, like in the Geico commercials....

lb13

I have never head of Dominick the Donkey and have been following the conversation. I was surprised that he looked like Shrek's donkey.

VAdame · #61 Post by **VAdame** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:42 pm

I did a very cruel thing -- I got rid of the Hippopotamus Earworm by giving it away!!! Leah came into the room and I sang a few lines to her! So, I gave it to her

Hey, it worked, too!

T_Bone0806 · #62 Post by **T_Bone0806** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 7:12 pm

traininvain wrote:
mellytu74 wrote:SOmebody else has a recording of Wham's Last Christmas.

It's still just as bad in that version, too.
There are a bunch of them but, the version by Jimmy Eat World is pretty good.

First thing that came to my mind when I read this too, TiV..I think Jimmy Eat World does a nice job with it.

One of my fave obscurities is by a band called Mike Viola and the Candy Butchers..Mike is the voice you hear singing on the title track in the movie "That Thing You Do" (the actor is lip synching). Anyway, they have a holiday song called "Give Me a Second Chance for Christmas". Really nice little melody...Poppy and bright, but with a melancholy spice. The song came to mind 'cuz I have it on a mix disc with the Jimmy Eat World tune.

I have so many favorites it would take a long time to list them all. My NEW additions to the Christmas library this year are discs by Twelve Girls Band (13 young ladies from China who combine ancient Chinese instruments and modern instruments and perform a variety of styles), Keith Emerson, Blackmore's Night (former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and his vocalist wife..it is not the type of music you would expect from Blackmore..mellow, and occasionally old-English style balladry), and The Smithereens.

fantine33 · #63 Post by **fantine33** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 7:54 am

ontellen wrote:My favourite Christmas album (and I found it at Amazon about 3 years ago!) is the Johnny Mathis one. I have the old album and there was never a Christmas since it came out without it.

Ellie! I have an old JM LP that is probably my favourite Christmas album (yes, LP, cause I'm old school like that). Does this one have a cover where he's standing in the snow wearing (I think) a red sweater and holding skis? At least I think he's holding skis, it might be the poles. And there's a hand-written Christmas letter on the back. When I was a kid, I thought it was funny that Johnny Mathis dotted his i's with circles (although who know if it was actually his handwriting). If it's the same one, his "I'll Be Home for Christmas" makes me all choked up every time. When I play that on the piano, I hear Johnny Mathis in my head.

ontellen wrote: I can't believe that no one has mentioned my favourite Christmas song and that's John Lennon's And So This is Christmas - never ceases to choke me up.

Hey, this is my favourite Christmas song as well! I have just not been into Christmas this year (or maybe just oblivious to it), so I heard this one for the first time this year on Saturday.

I got A Twisted Christmas last year (Twisted Sister, not Bob Rivers) and I listened to it incessantly.