A lot of the Christmas songs I've been posting or mentioning have tended toward the silly, goofy, and light.
This song is not any of those.
But I like it nonetheless. It's from the Irish band
The Speks, a band whose debut album
Sing-Along Songs from Glasses Island I like and really should've mentioned here by now and don't really have a reason for not doing so. Perhaps I'd heard waaay too much Irish music on a "Prairie Home Companion" episode about the time I got their disk. Anyway, they typically do traditional kids songs with an Irish music twist (that's the cover to their debut
Sing-Along Songs from Glasses Island at top), but this song is a little different from most of their music. It's a modern take on a Christmas song that features a children's choir from County Clare in Ireland. It teeters on the edge of sappy, but doesn't fall over the edge.
Download the song
here. A video and more free songs after the jump.
You know, if Bob Dylan can record a Christmas album, why can't Lou Reed?
What's that? He hasn't released a Christmas album? But I swear, this sounds just like Lou Reed!
Oh, it's just the Bay Area's Sippy Cups, returning to their song-parody roots by reworking "I'm Waiting For the Man" into "Waiting For My Man (The Santa Claus Mix)." And it's free for the downloading or streaming here. (What, "The Gift" wasn't appropriate enough?)
Photo credit: Peter Ellenby
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