Ooooh, funky.

[digitaldiscipline]

There's been some bemused angst wafted around lately at the discovery that Billy Idol has a holiday album out there. While trying to find something I learned about on NPR's Morning Edition this morning (music composed for, and performed on, bicycle parts), my eyes were opened to the existence of a Twisted Sister Christmas CD.

From NPR's site:

Twisted Sister
A Twisted Christmas
Listen: "Heavy Metal Christmas (The Twelve Days of Christmas)"
So the notorious hard-rock group Twisted Sister, whose members have resurfaced on and off since their mid-'80s heyday, decides to record its final album, and it's a collection of Christmas staples performed in the band's glam-metal style. Makes perfect sense, right? The tracks are almost shockingly straight-faced in execution: With the exception of the weirdly interminable "Heavy Metal Christmas (The Twelve Days of Christmas)," singer Dee Snider barely fiddles with the words at all. Those looking to explore the melodic similarities between "O Come All Ye Faithful" and the band's 1984 hit "We're Not Gonna Take It" won't walk away disappointed, nor will those wondering what guest vocalist Lita Ford has been doing lately.

I'm probably going to do my usual December offensive and bring in a whole lot of Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Time to set the "Wizards of Winter" video as wallpaper.

Comments

[ex-xn667.livejournal.com]

There's been some bemused angst wafted around lately at the discovery that Billy Idol has a holiday album out there. While trying to find something I learned about on NPR's Morning Edition this morning (music composed for, and performed on, bicycle parts), my eyes were opened to the existence of a Twisted Sister Christmas CD.

I'll take that as proof I should post less crap and more content so you'll actually be more inclined to read my shite ;) I posted links to both of those a while back...thanks to kaliva, heh. Get with the program :P

[etcet.livejournal.com]

It's not that, but occasionally, I will glaze over some of your *ahem* lengthier epistles....

[ex-xn667.livejournal.com]

glaze? i accuse you, sir, of tact :P no harm no foul, i hope you realize...hell, *i* can barely stand some of my lengthier epistles, and i'm enamored of my turgid style :>

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

i liked the bicycle-parts music too- lemme know if you find anything ;}

[trystbat.livejournal.com]

I just bought Twisted Sister's "O Come All Ye Faithful" off iTunes. I am in love. I'm an xmas music nut anyway, but this takes the fruitcake. It's &exactly* "We're Not Gonna Take It." Dude, a holiday carol I can headbang too. My life is complete!

Sadly, Billy Idol's xmas CD is not available on iTunes, & I haven't been to a brick-&-mortar music store in ages.