Show Notes
Merry Christmas! And enjoy this funny and insightful critique of some truly Bad Christmas Songs. A super-sized panel (Jay Eldred, Jordan Poss, Carter Stepper, Megan Von Bergen, and Todd Pedlar) join Danny to discuss the following songs (and a few more):
“Wonderful Christmas Time”
“Last Christmas”
“Mary, Did You Know?”
“Christmas Shoes”
“Away in a Manger”
“Do They Know It’s Christmas?”
Our Criteria for judging bad Christmas songs:
Musical ineptness - bad melodies, production, performance
Hacky Nostalgia - making Christmas about happy memories of a time that never existed. The Thomas Kincade vision of the the good life.
Theology Armageddon - The “Mary did you Know debates”
Crass emotional manipulation - Using the holiday’s aesthetics as a weapon for gaining a cheap pathetic appeal.
Crass joke-making of the season - Grandma Got Run Over…
Perpetuation of Capitalism’s devouring of the sacred holiday - Chipmunk song? Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
Ear-Worminess
Plus, each host submits a recommendation for a GOOD Christmas song!
Links:
“Mary, Did You Know: A Mere Orthodoxy Symposium”
Patton Oswalt on “Christmas Shoes” (Explicit)
The Bad Songs:
Wonderful Christmas Time
Mary Did You Know?
Last Christmas
Christmas Shoes
Away in a Manger (by the despicable Pentatonix)
Do They Know It’s Christmas?
The Good Songs:
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Original Version)
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming (English)
Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming (German)
Gaudete
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
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