Jonathan Coulton - Christmas Is Interesting
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Oh, they do make perfect sense. The thing is, it's about Christmas tropes, metaphors, and complex literary references.
Also Christmashate, and the various ACTUAL interesting facts about same: Hell, suicide rates doubling is STATISTICALLY interesting.
Another potential point for the song: Interesting does not equal GOOD.
3 years ago 18
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Nahh. Weird Al is still the Weird Al. JoCo doesn't do song parodies, and that's the majority of Yankovic's fame. I'd say that JoCo is more the new TMBG/BnL with their mix of quirky and deeply emotional songs.
2 years ago 14
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Great song to sing around the Christmas tree...
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I do believe I am the 38,000th viewer... interesting..
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Lynch+Coulton+Minchin*
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JoCo > Weird Al
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Rosebud!
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lynch + coulton + weird al = puts laughter into life
2 years ago 3
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Wow, I JUST NOW got the Citizen Kane reference. >_>
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Quite possibly the best Christmas song out there.
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It's a reference to the Rankin-Bass "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". Herbie's an Elf who'd rather be a dentist, and both the square-wheeled train and jam-shooting squirtgun are residents of the Island of Misfit Toys.
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This song was on the album "Smoking Monkey" from 2003. Thing a Week started in the Autumn of 2005. He had as much time as he wanted to put this one together.
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What is the reference "He takes you watch and he gives you a hairbrush, your wife gets a wig on a chain" from? I recognize the others. This is my fav Christmas song now.
bubblemum 4 years ago
It's from "The Gift of the Magi" by O Henry. A couple sells things they value to buy gifts for each other. The wife sells her hair to buy her husband a watch chain. The husband sells his watch to buy his wife a set of hairbrushes. Irony ensues.
natpasq 4 years ago 12
Any chance you shot the next number, too? Chiron Beta Prime?
psychclops 5 years ago
Sorry, I didn't.
natpasq 5 years ago