In honor of such spirit, I decided to share something with all of you.
(I know, I know. I shouldn't have. But I just couldn't help myself)
This something is not tangible, so don't get your hopes up on receiving some really awesome thing because if you do, it's probably not from me*. (I will, of course, have no problem taking the credit, though) Well. Okay. Back to the point, I suppose. I don't even know how I was going to segue into what it is I am sharing, because I did a really poor, unrelated intro, and now I've kind of just typed myself into a corner. I know it's pretty easy to just delete everything said above and start from scratch, but you know what? It really isn't that easy because then I'll have to think of something else to say. And then I'll probably get distracted and forget the post altogether, and then you may never get to experience this. And that would be a Christmas tragedy, and no one wants that, now do they? Well, I didn't think so!
Anyways, I think I was going to somehow relate the art of the mash-up with the Christmas spirit. Something along the lines of how the music is being shared, or some nonsense that I was going to bullshit. Anyways, I spent all of my Christmas Eve day (read: a few hours) listening to Christmas mash-ups. Good ones, bad ones, really horrendously terrible ones. You, see, I'm not a particular fan of Christmas music. It just doesn't really do anything for me, and I find a good majority of the slow, serious, solemn songs to be downright boring. So, this task was actually a bit tougher for me than say for Santa or one of his elves. I imagine if they got to listen to Christmas mash-ups all day long that they would probably appreciate it- I bet that's what the elves listen to when they're making the toys because it keeps them in the Christmas Spirit, but pumps them up with some funky beats. It's the best of both worlds for all those North Polians.
In no particular order, I most enjoyed these five Christmas mash-ups.
1. Voicedude- Fuck You Santa (Cee Lo Green vs. Jackson 5)
Listen to and download the unedited version here.
2. Mojochronic- Rudolph (You Don't Have to Put on the Red Light) (The Police vs. The Derric Johnson Vocal Orchestra)
Download it here.
3. Voicedude- Black Door or White Santa (Clarence Carter vs. Michael Jackson)
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4. King of Pants- Alala Falala Hasselhoff (David Hasselhoff vs. CSS)
Download here.
5. DJ Zack Darling- Santa Mash! (This is a 56:46 minute mix. think Girl Talk meets Christmas)
Listen and download here.
**A very special honorable mention goes out to Panch (aka Mo' Burr), who mixed this really awesome 17:15 minute Christmas mashup. It's fun, but laidback-- just like Panch.
You can listen to and download Panch, Mo's Mostly 'Decent' Christmas right here. To be honest, if I had heard this yesterday/last night when I was finishing up the post, I probably would have inserted it into the top 5. I'm just very honestly being lazy, and don't feel like having to choose which one goes. So, in all fairness to its later discovery, the mix gets an honorable mention instead of a top 5 spot, though they should be treated as one in the same.
If you enjoyed these mixes, and want to hear some others, click here. Oh whoops. I meant for you to actually click HERE. There's even some songs in there for my fellow tribe members, if you catch my drift. If you're looking for an easy mix to play without having to sort through the garbage, I do recommend just going for the Very Bootie Christmas mixes because they're pretty solid as a whole.
*I am not Oprah.
⁺The amount of times that I heard young Michael Jackson sing "Saaaaanta Claus is coming to town" makes me never want to hear that song ever ever ever again. Way overused in these mash-ups. It seriously just keeps playing itself over and over throughout the imaginarium (what i call my brain/mind/psyche collective).
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