SWEET CHRISTMAS JAMS
Christmas time is here!
It's no secret that I have questionable taste in music, so I generally refrain from making music recommendations à la Sam or Ashley — i.e., people who can offer a more nuanced description of a song than "OMG Booty Luv makes me wanna shake my groove thang!"
However, when it comes to Christmas music, I consider myself enough of an expert to share my favorites with all y'all on the onlines.
I had the idea to post a few of my more obscure favorite Christmas tunes back about a month ago when EZ 103.1 (Tempe translation: KEZ 99.9) started playing nothing but Christmas music. But I'm clearly only getting around to it now, four days before Christmas, so expect the holiday jam recommendations to start coming all fast and furious like for the rest of the week.
Let the sweet jams begin...
First up is a song that I heard on my way out to and back from Arizona this weekend on one of the stations that kept me going in between the Palm Springs and Phoenix markets, the little Blythe translator station for The Effect.
This cover of "Christmas Time is Here," the song that you've undoubtedly heard on A Charlie Brown Christmas, is by a band I'd never heard of (Family Force 5) but the rendition was so peppy that I decided to add it to my holiday faves list.
Click below to listen to this Christmas jam, courtesy of whomever uploaded it to YouTube:
Then click here to buy the MP3 from Amazon.com and, if I coded the link correctly, to also support Valley Wesley in the process by telling Amazon to direct a portion of the profits toward the United Methodist campus ministry at ASU.
But wait! There's more!
While I was downloading that song myself, I stumbled across a potentially even better holiday classic from Family Force 5. Check out their Auto-Tunetastic version of "Carol of the Bells:"
Now, click here to download that wintry gem (and support Valley Wesley).