Regulation Podcast - Xmas Music Draft

Episode Date: December 16, 2023

Rockin around the F**kface tree this year is AN EGG as they pick their favorite holiday tunes. Is music the reason for the season? Is a snack draft important for picking here? Want to listen to the whole playlist? Check it out here but SPOILERS it has all the songs on it: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/64wNuttWuzeunT00CHG0MZ?si=9f5191f0d68d42da Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christmas music is here. Doing the draft. It's a Christmas song draft. Nobody else wanted to do the intro, so I'm having to do it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you're happy to do it. Oh, no, I said having, not happy. I wouldn't say that.

Thank you for your sacrifice. Hey, person listening, do you listen to music? Are you aware of the holiday season where they play music that is based around the time of the year? We're going to talk about that. That music. Boy, talk about a sincerity deficit. Can't wait for your wedding, huh? This is the Christmas music draft. We're going to talk about that. That music. Boy, talk about a sincerity deficit. Can't wait for your wedding, huh?

This is the Christmas music draft. Should we do a thing? I'll be honest, Andrew, I'm not feeling your intro. Should we go the other route? Should we all do the intro at the same time? No. On the count of three, and then just everybody, we all do it, we get it out of the way? Sure. We already did it.

Intro's done. I just got married. I'm Jeff Ramsey. I just got married and I don't feel like doing this intro. I'm not a big intro guy. Hey, welcome to the Christmas song draft. We do a song draft and I love Christmas songs.

I want you to play along at home. That's the nightmare. We're putting it all together. It's going to be a lot of fun. Play along with us if you want to. We're really excited to see you. And see which draft is the strongest. We have random.org already up,

and now we just have to figure out how much we're going to randomize. That was a hundred times better than the original one. No, no. It was so bad. It's someone who was awful. I going to randomize. That was a hundred times better than the original one. No, no. It was so bad. It's someone who was listening. Awful. I apologize to the audience. I should have done a better job

to prevent that. That's on me. They got like five intros for the price of one. Nick, can you go ahead and mix that down to a 5.1 or something so we can have a different voice coming out

of each speaker? Oh, no. Ooh. Let's see what we can do. That would be insane. That would be the craziest. That would be the craziest fucking thing. And then it all goes back to all in all channels.

Could you imagine sitting on your home stereo and all of a sudden just that part goes to 5.1? Oh, my God. Terrifying. I want to be rear left. Um, so. Okay. We have random.org, and we've done this before, where we've made a Christmas playlist, or I'm sorry, we've made a

playlist of 98, the ultimate playlist, and I think we're going to do something similar, where we're going to be drafting our songs, putting them together in a playlist so that way you guys can listen, but we have to figure out our draft order, and of course we have an egg written out, but how many times are we going to randomize guys? What's a musical number?

Oh, that's a good question. What's a, I'll me Google that. What's the most musical number? Yeah. Four probably the most musical number. According to Google is that didn't help. Okay. We'll go for, let's go with four.

Yeah. I like four, four on the floor. All right, Gavin, you feeling four? I like four. All right, here we go. Let's go with four. Yeah, four. I like four. Four on the floor. All right. Gavin, you feeling four? I like four. All right, here we go. Here's one. Oh.

Hell yeah. Here's two. Oh. Hell yeah. Oh. Here's three. Wow. What?

Wow. What? And here's four. Oh. That's some bullshit. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me with that? Andrew was top every single

time except for the last random and now he's bottom. Are you kidding me? You were first, first, first, last. So our order Now here's the thing. When we did this previously, I don't think we did it snake rules. Didn't we just go one, two, three, four, five? One, two, three, four, five? Because it was just making a playlist? I don't think we did it snake rules i think didn't we just go one two three four

five one two three four five because it was just making a playlist i don't even remember no we didn't but we'll do a draft and we'll do a playlist and we'll do snake did we not no we didn't it wasn't a draft and that one was just like hey let's talk about music of 98 this is a draft okay and we're also making a playlist for oh it's it's a draft list? Oh, I have this set up as a playlist. Well, we can make a playlist of it after. But Eric, you are about to pick the greatest Christmas song of all time. I mean, I know what I'm picking, but now I have to make another draft board. Yeah, well, you can fill.

But you're not picking where you are in the order? Yeah, you got to pick your order. Oh, we're doing that again? Yeah. Well, it was really successful last time. No, it wasn't. Do you think it was? Okay, then I will...

We'll vamp for you while you prepare. So, Andrew, what is your favorite Christmas cookie? What do you mean by Christmas cookie? Like a cookie I would only have at home? Never mind, here, here. No, I don't know what a Christmas cookie is. Never mind, I got it. Like a gingerbread? Is that what you mean by Christmas cookie? Like a cookie I would only have at Christmas? No, I don't know what a Christmas cookie is. Never mind, I got it. Like a gingerbread? Is that what you mean?

Don't worry. I like a sugar cookie. Yeah, no. Scratch that. I like some in my coffee. Okay, so with my pick, the draft order selection, I have been chosen as first in the draft order and so I'm going to go first

lack of imagination is what I'd say about that Nick is number two Nick where would you like to draft? I've been chosen second right? and I'm going to pick second interesting next we have Gavin

Gavin you're third where would you like to draft? I think I'll go third. Oh, okay, cool. I think that's great. I think that's strong.

Um, and now Jeff, you're fourth. So now I, I can't bump one through three. I can only pick fourth or five. Yeah. If I decide I want to go last.

Well, here's the problem with that. I went last last time. Yeah. And while I had a lot of fun with it, uh, I think there are a lot of, there are a lot of pressures with going first or last. Cause yeah. Uh, well, it's the problem with that. I went last last time. Yeah. And while I had a lot of fun with it, I think there are a lot of pressures with going first or last. Yeah.

Well, it's just a whole thing. So I'm going to go. I'm going to stick with fourth. Oh, I like that. That's great. And so, Andrew, you have no choice but to go fifth. I would like to go second. Nope.

You can go fifth. So enjoy fifth. And this will be a snake draft, apparently. We're doing a snake draft for this. Now, Andrew, did the new rules work out exactly as you thought they would? With this group of people? Yes. Yes, I did.

That is exactly what I expected from everybody here. Yes. OK, wonderful. OK, so the way this is going to work is we're each going to pick a song and we'll go through one two three four five and then five four three two one one two three four five snake draft like we've done every other time so uh i will kick it off with my favorite christmas song of all time to me number one with a bullet uh and that is paul mccartney's Wonderful Christmas. Oh! Jesus. Gavin hates it.

Gavin's not a fan of that song. Here's the thing. I didn't know that Gavin hated this song until we talked about it a couple weeks ago, but it was already my favorite Christmas song. God, now it is the regulation greatest Christmas song of all time. Yes, number one. What a weird one for Gavin to hate. Mm-hmm.

When it comes to Christmas time, I don't know who you are, Eric. I couldn't, in my head, there's nothing less Eric Badour than you bopping around your house with simply having a wonderful Christmas time while Love Actually is playing in the background. I love it. It's great. All of that feels so unlike you in my head.

Oh, dude, he's got a Christmas sweater on and he's sipping some single origin coffee. That's totally Eric. Absolutely. I got my hoodie on that has Snoopy in a big puffer coat, and then I have my Snoopy ornaments hanging on my tree.

I'm ready to go, baby. I think Paul McCartney, it's great. What do you hate about it, Gavin? I think it's annoying. Under the chorus, there's some sort of like, it just doesn't line up with any of the musical lyrics. It just pisses me off. Skip.

Skip ahead to the next one, please. Thank you. I love that song. I just think it's a great, the music video's really fun. The moon is out. Oh, it's so bad. The video stinks I just think it's a great... The music video is really fun. The mood is out. Oh, it's so bad. The video stinks.

Oh, it's the best. Yeah. It's such a great... It just evokes Christmas to me, and it's number one. I would listen to Nick's version of it. Is that... That's pretty good.

We should do a Nick Sings the Classics. That's pretty good. We should do a Nick sings the classics. That's pretty good. Dude, no licensing issues there. That's my number one pick. So now it's time for Nick to have his number one pick. The Nick pick. The Nick pick. Sticking with a former Beatle.

I'm going with John Lennon's Happy X-Mist, War is Over. It's also with Yoko. But, yeah. There's something about that song. There's something about this song, I don't know, that just, like, anytime you hear it, there's that haunting chorus with the kids singing in the background. I don't know. It has a really good anti-war message, which is interesting.

It was for the Vietnam War. And then it's become more of, like, a Christmas hit hit that's still played and a lot of bands have covered it actually shine down does a really good cover and i still love that version of that song too so it's like one that i always play and i always think of and also i wanted to make sure that i got it before anyone else here i hate this song i think it is i think it's hollow i think it's really i think the message is really stupid. I think that it's not a very good Christmas song. I don't like that song at all.

Which is so weird because if you put them together, Wonderful Christmas Time and Happy Christmas War is over. One is a lot stronger than the other, but I like Wonderful Christmas Time. What a dichotomy here. Yeah, but that's the way, Nick, that's the way people look at us. I'm the Paul, you're the John. I think that totally makes sense.

Oh, I don't know. Hey. What? That's so sad. You're dead. Yeah, I know. Merry Christmas? Eric chose life and he damned you.

What is it? I don't. Yeah, oh yeah i was gonna disagree but you're right in that context he did choose life assigned to you death oh oh man you've been dead for a while you've been dead for a bit i will say i think it's the perfect amount of kids choir that can be a real problem with Christmas music too much kids choir John Lennon's Happy Xmas just the right amount yeah it works it's not annoying in my opinion it works yeah I agree totally get it but now it's

Gavin's pick and I'm so excited it's a classic fuck it's a Christmas classic Merry Christmas everybody that's the name of the song by who it's by Slade Fuck. It's a Christmas classic. Merry Christmas, everybody. Huh? That's the name of the song. By who?

It's by Slade. Oh! The glam rock band, Slade? Yeah, it's like, so here it is, Merry Christmas. Everybody's having fun. That's them. That's the band that wrote all of Quiet Riot's hits. Yeah, come on, feel the noise.

Originally by Slade. What? Yeah, all of Quiet Riot's hits. Yeah, come on, feel the noise. Originally by Slade. What? Yeah, all of Quiet Riot's hits were covers of Slade. Oh, that makes me upset. Noddy, what's the guy? Noddy Holder, I think is the guy's name. Yeah. The guy that sings with the teeth.

And the best part of the song is towards the end, he just goes, It's Christmas! None of that came through. The best part is that that was pure silence when you when you think of when you think of slade do you think this is all i think of when i think of slade oh i think of come on feel the noise add this yeah it's it's the guys it's the guys holding their hands out and slade is written on their four fingers and their thumb and it looks so dumb. And what's the other guy?

Dave Hill, I think. Is it Dave Hill from Slade who has the best hair? Let me see. It just looks like Slad. Oh, yeah, yeah. Look at this. Okay. Let's post this in the

Discord. Dave Hill from Slade. Dear God. Come on, feel the noise. Does he help Robin Hood? Fry a tuck! That's my pick. Alms for the poor alright

merry Xmas everybody by Slade Jeff you're the fourth okay okay I'm excited about this now

listen I have a lot of fun when we do these drafts but I think one thing I hope you know about me at this point is that I don't fuck around with music

I take it very seriously. I don't think you guys are gonna agree with my picks but I guess I don't really give a shit. So I'm gonna probably send links because I don't think you will have heard of some of these songs.

The very first. Are we doing four or five? Four. Okay. I thought we were doing five for some reason I the first song I'm gonna pick is the Ramones Merry Christmas I Don't Want to Fight Tonight yeah hell yeah that I think it's a fucking phenomenal song I wouldn't be

surprised if you haven't heard it like I said so I'll put it in the chat here for you if you want to listen to it at some point it is a great it's a great song that is a great that's a really great song good pick it's a it's one of those songs that it is technically a christmas song but you don't it's good all year round it's fucking awesome perfect like at the ramones when they were i i don't know when they were at their absolute best uh just a just an absolute fucking banger of a song so there there you go. That's all. I'm surprised you didn't pick something that was written by Blake Shelton's mom as just a song.

Well, I would pick a Blake Shelton song probably. Oh, yeah, you're right. She's the writer. Yeah, it's smart. Andrew, you get two picks. A little back-to-back action being fifth. I can't believe that what's available is available to me. I love this.

This is great. I was worried about it. Once again, I would have wanted top two. Didn't need it. And I get the swing. I love this. This is great. I was worried about it. Once again, I would have wanted top two, didn't need it. And I get the swing. I get both of these. I'm going with, and this is, I think, the most iconic Christmas song.

One of them, at least. When you hear this, you think Christmas, all time great. Mariah Carey, All I Want for Christmas. Of course. Fantastic song. For me, fond memories of a kid of like blasting this around the holidays and running around the house with my mom. I have a personal connection to it.

Just a great Christmas song. An absolute banger. Do you think maybe overplayed? No, I don't actually. I think it's such a good banger. Not overplayed. It makes me feel like I'm in the mall whenever I hear it. is what i want for christmas it does it sounds like being in the mall that's a good way to put it oh yeah do you know how much she makes for that song no uh she

apparently as of 2021 she'd made over 60 million dollars oh my god my god oh i thought she makes like 60 million a year no i think she makes about $3 million a year in, uh, in royalties from it. And then it's totaled up to about 60, 60 million. Hell yeah. Uh,

I think 80 million is what I'm seeing now as of 2023. Yeah. That's great. A lot of money in Christmas music. Yeah. Big time. You guys just got to do something for the holidays that people put on. Like,

I don't know. Like if you go on YouTube and you find like a Yule log video, that's eight hours long that your favorite podcast put out. And then you just put that on for it a long time. Like, yeah. What's the resolution on that bad boy there? Oh,

it's got it. I think that's a, that's a 4k, isn't it? Well, it was 8k, but I'm sorry. Is that an 8k?

Wow. Wow. That's impressive. You know what what the perfect holiday would be for me i think it would be putting on the 8k yule log video then turning on spotify selecting the uh face holiday songs playlist and just just sitting on the sofa yeah and maybe maybe relaxing while listening while watching some some logs burn and listening to some joyous holiday music what a day i get that gavin you're right it is an 8k i guess my issue is i always just watch it in like 240p so so that's why i was confused but you're right it is an 8k wow that's really incredible What an incredible thing we did. You need faster internet. Mm-hmm.

Andrew, you get another pick. I'm going with Nick got it the first time from me in the last movie draft we did. I didn't get Home Alone. I'm getting my Home Alone pick in right now. I'm going with Chuck Berry's Run Rudolph Run. Such a fun Christmas song. Great scene in Home Alone, the running through the airport. Just an all-time, I think, essential part of fun Christmas song. Great scene in Home Alone. They're running through the airport. Just an

all-time, I think, essential part of any Christmas playlist. Great song. Good pick. Very good pick. I gotta rethink this. Jeff, what do you think? Oh, it's me again already. Oh, wow. So this next one,

I'm gonna go with something a little newer uh i'm actually new to the song but i've been really enjoying it this holiday season i didn't even know this album came out in 2016 it is a holiday album from one of my favorite artists so let me go ahead and link it here this is uh big frida's santa is a Gay Man and it's sung to the Mr. Sandman song. It's fucking awesome. I recommend the whole album. It's like a six song album, but that one in specific

I think is a really fun and festive and dancey buzzy kind of song. Never heard it. Excited to listen to it. Yeah, big time. I'm glad that's part of the playlist. Please do. Please do. I put a link in the thing. The whole Big Freedia album, the Christmas album is really good. Yeah, big time. I'm glad that's part of the playlist. Please do. I put a link in the thing. The whole Big Freedia Christmas album is really good. So exciting. Gavin,

after that, do you think you can top Big Freedia Santa is a Gay Man? I mean, I think in memory of Shane McGowan, recently, unfortunately deceased. I'm going to have to go with The Pogues, Fairytale of New York. Oh, that's a good one. That's very, that's very cool.

Might be a word missing from it these days, but the spirit is the same. Uh-huh. A little different, but it's okay. How are you feeling about his passing? I mean, I'm sad about it, but to be honest, based on his life, I can't believe he lived so long. Yeah.

I saw somebody post about it, sum it up, and say, like, not surprising that he passed, surprising he made it to his 60s. Yeah. Crazy. That's crazy. Fairytale of New York, I think, is a really great song. Yeah. There's a lot of really good Christmas music. that is definitely that's way up there was that big hit in the u.s yeah i mean it's about not not as not big like it it was in the uk i don't think but i think it was

a pretty big deal i think it's i think it's one that you would hear on like the classic rock station or like the rock station they would play around christmas time very distinctive voice very distinctive sound very distinctive teeth do you oh man i just don't whoa my god crazy crazy nick how you feeling about your next bit oh not good eric not good at all i have to admit no that andrew's thrown me a bit of a pickle and now i might have to pivot here and become very annoying. So let's see. I'm going to go with Vince Guaraldi.

What? What the hell was that? What just happened? Did you guys hear that? Yeah, what was that? That was, I assume, you. No. Who's here with us?

Nick, Gavin, Jeff, Andrew, Craig. Craig? The fuck? Well, we're just going to go past Vince and go with Last Christmas by Wham! Oh, Last Christmas. That's on my list. It's a song that I find you can probably hear it once and then if you hear it more than that in a single season you will start to lose your mind and if you're

out shopping you will hear it many many times so it's your number two pick yeah and i think the moral of the story is like don't give away a heart on boxing day oh yeah yeah do you guys remember that there was a movie that came out like two years ago called Last Christmas? Yes. Where somebody literally gave them their heart after a car accident? It's all I think about. Could have been on the movie list.

Whenever I hear that song, that's all I think about is somebody thinking they were a genius being like, dude, what if this was literal? What if this was a literal story and it was a ghost? But we have to title it. It has to be Christmas. We have to make it as

obvious as humanly possible what we're doing here. It would have been so funny if they couldn't get the rights to the song. Just the song as the movie. That's one of those super high budget music videos that was shot on really high quality film so it's uh it's like remastered in 4k that music video oh wow jesus christ it's a it's a

schmaltzy song and i like it you know it's got that kind of fun schmaltz factor yeah yeah there you go my pick so i got two in a row here my first one that i'll pick here is uh drifters white christmas which i think is the best version of that song with like the real boom boom boom boom i love it i think that is oh so that's so that's so christmasy to me uh i love it i think it's the only good thing from the santa claus is i think of when i hear that song i think of the scene from that movie. But that's that's really it. I really, really think that song's great. Summer is like a cocktail.

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well, I guess we'll just go. It's a Bing Crosby song. I think Bing Crosby is a uh i love a crooner uh for christmas music uh melaka leaky maca is the thing to say uh on a hawaiian christmas day and i love that song i love that kind of throwback sound for christmas it that growing up i never had snow on christ Christmas so that kind of like bright cheery Christmas stuff I always really resonated with and that song is very bright and cheery uh never ever snowy in San Diego uh on Christmas so I always thought that was nice I really I like that

song a lot if you haven't heard it listen to it on this playlist but it's uh it's a great one good crooner stuff my introduction to it is a christmas vacation oh yeah yeah not that right but but yeah it's that song is in the movie when he's looking out his window and imagining why it's uh it's a great i just i love those two songs i think drifter i like an old christmas sound and that is definitely an old Christmas sound, both of those. Nick, how about you? Taking the schmaltz up a notch, we're going with the Beach Boys' Little Saint Nick. That's a fun song. It's only two minutes, too, so it's really short.

So if you are annoyed by it, you get through quickly. But I will say this song actually has a special place in my heart because last year year we started playing it in front of our son and he loved that song in fact we played it so much that it was the number one song on our spotify as a result of it and anytime it ended he was like more more does he think it's about you i'd like to believe so like that's wow've done it. Pretty special. I'm a little saint. Okay. That's awesome. Gavin, your pick. I'm going to go with Feliz Navidad.

Good song. Oh, yeah. It just gets me moving in a way that a lot of these old farty Christmas ones don't often do The way you feel about Wonderful Christmas is how I feel about Feliz Navidad Wow Yeah, I don't like it this personal preference. What don't you like about it? I just died. I hate everything about it I hate the sound. I hate the lyrics. I'm not a fan of any of the feel of it.

It feels very corny to me personally, but that's just a me thing. It gets me moving in a way where I like, I bend my elbows and make fists. So they're like pointing at each other. And then I just like shimmy the upper half of my body. I can picture that so clearly. And I'm so happy you have that in your life.

It just, for whatever reason. And I get little stompy feet on the spot. Totally. I'm glad it made the list. It was on my alternates to add in. I love that song. It's such a great song, despite what Andrew thinks.

Yeah, despite what Andrew thinks. I agree. No, I agree. No, I'm just kidding, everybody. I do love that song, though. It's a great pick, Gavin. That said. I agree. No, I agree. No, I'm just kidding, everybody. I do love that song, though. It's a great pick, Gavin. That's a good pick. I wouldn't have thought to pick that one.

I think it's a really good pick, Gavin. I like that on this playlist. That's fun. I'm really, honestly, with the deeper we get into this, I always struggle with Christmas playlists because it's never really the mood that I want or whatever. Having all of these on one playlist, I'll be able to keep probably for the rest of my life on one playlist and

feel really good about what we have here. This is, it's not a rule. So it's not done yet. We got a whole round. Guys, what are you about to do? Oh no.

Okay, Jeff. Okay. From my next pick, uh, I'm pretty sure... I'm going to make an assumption that nobody has heard this song

except for Eric, who I'm pretty sure has probably heard this song. It's a punk rock classic sticking with the theme of music that's important to me. Obviously, I started off with the Ramones.

I'd be remiss if I didn't add the 45-second banger by The Fear, Fuck Christmas. Fuck. Yeah. It's a great song oh my god put it in the uh put it in the in the chat for the people that don't know it oh that's so cool what a great great what

a great one uh oh this is so cool this is great i'm really i'm i'm so excited for this one to be on the list that's awesome that's so cool it's a great change up I haven't heard it oh yeah it's just um here's the thing about fuck Christmas they say it a lot yeah it's pretty much

the chorus I would say it's more than half the song yeah it's pretty much the chorus I would say it's more than half the song uh yeah it's pretty exciting uh god oh that's great I wonder where it would be best place like if you hit shuffle on this playlist do you want it as the first track do you want it randomly in the middle where do you want you want it last

okay I want all I want for Christmas is you to end and fears fuck Christmas. Oh, man. Andrew, you get your last two picks. You're back to back. Oh, man. It's tough because there's so many great options still on the board.

There are. There's a lot. There's a lot on the table. Fuck. What am I going to go with? You know, I'm going to go with run dmc's christmas and hollis it's a great christmas song and it's an even greater music video i'd highly recommend anybody watch the music video for christmas and hollis the plot of it is that there's a sneaky little little little trickster elf who's just making everybody naughty,

and he fucks up and he puts Run DMC on the naughty list, and they go investigate it and track down this troublemaker of an elf. It's ridiculous. It's a fun Christmas song. It's a rap song, so it's a little bit different than your traditional playlist. It's a nice change of pace.

I think it's just an all-around great song. That's great. I love that. Sounds so Christmassy, too. It does, yeah. It has a great change of pace. I think it's just an all-around great song. That's great. I love that. Sounds so Christmassy, too. It does. Yeah, it has a great Christmas sound to it. Speaking of great Christmas sounds, a song that I thought Eric would have went with,

and I was going to try to undercut him with this pick, we talked about before, the right amount of child choir in a Christmas song. Charlie Brown's Christmastime is Here has too much, in my opinion. Okay. I like the song, though, so I'm going with the instrumental version of Christmastime is Here from the Charlie Brown Christmas.

It is such a classic, iconic Christmas sound. It's perfect for, like, kind of end of the night, winding down. It's the Christmas sound. It's perfect for like kind of end of the night winding down. It's the Christmas spirit. I think it fills a really important role in a general playlist of like embracing the season and just kind of taking it all in for a moment. And I don't think there's any more iconic Christmas music than that. No, that's that's a good one, too. It was on. It's on my list and I was considering making it my fourth, but not the instrumental version. That's what I thought you're going to pick the normal version.

And then I was going to take the instrument. I was absolutely going to pick the normal version. I love the normal version. I listened to, as soon as Thanksgiving is over, I put the Peanuts Christmas album on and I am so excited. I love that album. I think it's a great album.

Yep. Yep. Yep. Jeff, your last pick. Man, I had a really hard time with this last pick. I narrowed it down to three songs. I'm just going to tell you what I eliminated because I don't think you guys are going to pick them. Murder City Devils had a song called 364 Days, which is a really good. It's a like a it's a good song, but it's also a Christmas song.

But it's not like it's like a Christmas song, if you know what I mean. But it is a really good it's a like a it's a good song but it's also a christmas song but it's not like it's not like a christmas song if you know what i mean but it is a christmas song uh but it's a little long and then i was on the fence about easy ease merry motherfucking christmas but i felt like that might have been a little obvious i wanted to go with something a little more unique and i don't think you guys are familiar with this you guys know christopher lee right the actor yeah yes do you guys know he's in a heavy metal band i do know that but i have no idea what like type of music like how deep that hits heavy metal yeah uh that's what i call it heavy metal band well he was in a heavy metal band and his heavy metal band is just called christopher lee i believe they made a christmas album and so the last song I'm picking, and I put a link in here,

is Little Drummer Boy from A Heavy Metal Christmas by Christopher Lee. So if you ever wanted to hear Christopher Lee sing the Little Drummer Boy. What? Okay. This is fucking real.

It's 100% legit. Okay. What? I didn't know this existed that's interesting yeah i didn't either i was doing a bunch of research and i found i went down this rabbit hole and i have been i've just been transfixed it's so fucking clearly christopher lee singing little drummer boy to heavy metal music that doesn't fit the music at all it's quite loud as well okay i take back everything that i said about being excited about this playlist to have on for the rest of my life oh come on it's the little drummer boy that's heavy metal it's good you listen till you

love it you'll love it i'll love it um gavin your last pick can you top christopher lee's metal version of little Drummer Boy? Oh, probably not. Once I'm all sweaty from Feliz Navidad, I like to sit down by the fire and listen to a little bit of Chris Rea, Driving Home for Christmas. Different vibe.

I don't know this. Oh, is that not? I don't know what's popular in which country. Chris Rea. R-E-A. Rea, okay. Yeah. oh is that not I don't know what's popular in which country Rhea R-E-A Rhea okay you never heard driving home for Christmas it's a mellow one

driving home for Christmas do you guys know this song no it's so weird which ones just didn't make it over here I've heard that probably 7000 times. From like 1986.

Never, never, ever heard of it. No. I don't know who Chris Rhea is. I don't, no idea. Damn. What a clinker. Uh-oh. No, no, no, no, no.

It's about sharing your culture with us. We're expanding our minds. We're going to learn. I mean, Gavin, if you look at your list, it's pretty international. So it's pretty. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. You're broadening our horizons, much like I did with Christopher Lee.

It's what the point is. And fear. Nick, your last pick. I have been bouncing back and forth on this decision because on one hand, who doesn't love Trans-Siberian Orchestra? But there is another song. I don't love them. Aside from Jeff, who doesn't love Trans-Siberian Orchestra? Of course.

But that being said, I did go with this song because I think a lot of our fans and I bet some of us are also familiar with it from guitar hero 3 it's a it's a cover of um we three kings uh by steve womette o u i m e t t e it's a it's like a a metal cover of the song you know so it's like it's it's really really i don't know i had a stroke in the middle of that apparently so i'm not the only one to pick a metal version of it yeah it's really really good i don't know i had a stroke in the middle of that apparently so i'm not the only one to pick a metal version of a yeah it's a great song there's it's there's no lyrics in it it's just the guitar riff essentially and uh it's really good it's a really fun song and i highly recommend what song is it we three kings great ice cube movie that was a great ice cube movie yeah I like when Mark Wahlberg stands up and he goes are we shooting people

and they go what are we shooting people or what it's great that part's cool uh we three kings huh you you you don't like it no no I just I just don't know that it's Christmas I know the song but like I don't know this version I guess

well you're about to I know I was, but like, I don't know this version, I guess. Well, you're about to. I know, I was going to say, I'm excited to hear it. It's going to be on your Christmas playlist for the rest of your life. I'm really excited to hear it for the rest of my life. Guitar Hero 3 DLC,

We Three Kings Expert 100%, 1,100 note chart. Okay, awesome. I have a lot. I think we should go through honorable mentions when we're done here of what else could potentially be on this because i think there's a lot but i'm gonna round mine out with a song that i didn't think was anyone else was gonna have on this list but i am uh definitely putting on here and it is the kinks father christmas i i love this song i know that i am i'm such a big

fan of this song uh growing up it was something my dad would put on and uh he had like a cassette with all like these different i think it's probably why wonderful christmas time is way up there for me too uh it was also on the same cassette and uh yeah father christmas is a great song from the kinks uh So that is. Wow. That's my list. It was on my list. I feel good about that.

That looks like a solid playlist. This is a very solid playlist. I think. I don't think there's any clunkers in here at all. Let's run it down real quick. My four picks. Paul McCartney, Wonderful Christmas Time. Drifters, White Christmas.

Bing Crosby, Melaka Likiaka. Number four is Kinks, Father Christmas. Nick's four picks, John Lennon, Happy Xmas, War is Over, Wham! Last Christmas, Beach Boys, Little Saint Nick, and Steve Aumet, We Three Kings from Guitar Hero 3, the DLC. What a mix. Also, there's a Beach Boy songs in Three King.

There's a Beach Boy, run, run, run, I get around. Oh, yeah. All right, we gotta watch Three Kings. I get plugged up and down the same old thing. Gavin's four picks are Slade, Merry Xmas, Everybody, The Pogues,

Fairytale of New York, Jose Feliciano, Feliz Navidad, and Chris Rea, driving home for Christmas. I will say, Gavin, before we did this draft, I thought,

can I undercut Gavin in some way? So I searched Mr. Blippi Christmas just to see if there was one, and I was very disappointed that he does not have a Christmas song. Mr. Blippi? Whatever the fuck. Blobby. Blobby. Whatever the fuck. But that song,

that Mr. Blobby song I posted was a Christmas number one. It was, no, it was, but it's not a Christmas song. It's just about him. Yeah, but he was searching for Mr. Blippi songs, so it didn't come up. Yeah, you ended up watching Blippi songs, so it didn't come up. Yeah, you ended up

watching Blippi videos. That dude's all over my fucking Hulu splash screen. Jeff's four picks are Ramones, Merry Christmas, I Don't Want to Fight Tonight. Great song. Great song. Big Freedia, Santa is a Gay Man. Great song.

Fuck Christmas. Great song. That's really a metal version of the Little Drummer Boy. Great song. Fuck Christmas. Great song. Christopher Lee's metal version of the little drummer boy. A little bit out there. And finally, Andrew, our last pick. Honestly, very conventional picks from Andrew.

Yeah. I was surprised to see this. Mariah Carey, All I Want for Christmas is You, Chuck Berry, Run Rudolph Run, Run DMC, Christmas in Hollis,

and Charlie Brown's Christmastime is Here, the instrumental version. Nobody picked Jingle Bell Rock. Oh, interesting. No, there's a lot of classics that were missed. There was a lot left on the floor here. Is Christopher Lee the only known killer in our Christmas picks? I don't mean in a murder way, just like he was in the military, he killed somebody.

No, he killed lots of people, yeah. Killed tons of people. I'm looking at this list, I'm curious if anyone else has killed anyone. He like slit throats

and shit. He did some scary shit in the military. I think he might be the only killer. I don't know if John Lennon ever killed anybody, did he?

Not that I'm aware of. Chuck Berry pissed on people, but I don't think he killed anyone. Only consenting people. Yeah. So. I don't know much about Steve. Is Chris Ray, was he a serial killer?

Chris Ray, I don't think so. A lot of people on this list were killed. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You've got Lennon. You've got Kirstie McCall in the Pog the pokes i don't know she was in the pokes but she sang on that you've got uh uh what's his name in run dmc jam master j he got murdered in studio charlie brown oh yeah he's dead yeah he got massacred rest in peace that dog killed him

it's fucked up oh man uh what what do you guys have for honorable mentions, then? All the Ramones are dead. Beach Boys have a Charles Manson song, right? So that's kind of on the edges. Well, I already said mine. Easy E, Merry Motherfucking Christmas was on there. I have a lot. What do you got, Andrew?

Throw them out there. Darling Love, Christmas Baby, Please Come Home, fantastic Christmas song. I have Brenda Lee's Rock Around the Christmas Tree. Frank Sinatra's Let It Snow. Oh, yeah. What other? Otis Redding's Merry Christmas Baby.

Fantastic Christmas song. God, that's a good one. One I really considered, but I was on the fence about. DMX is Rudolph. The Red Nose Reindeer is way better than it should be. Johnny Cash is Silent Night. Bob Dylan has a Christmas song called Must Be Santa. And it's not.

It's the weirdest. Like you listen to it. Go like that wasn't great. But then it gets fucking stuck in your head. It's such an earworm. What else am i have uh we just has a christmas dirtbag song that they just released which is very odd that that's incredibly weird a thing that exists how is it just the lyrics changed it's a completely yeah it's like a parody song

of teenage dirtbag but it's christmas themed oh it's very weird uh and i think that's it i think everyone else took the other picks i have nobody picked santa got run or grandma got run over by a reindeer that was the sequel yeah uh i have some different ones i got um bruce springsteen merry christmas baby is maybe one of the only bruce springsteen songs that i like oh um yeah uh and i also have i didn't want to maybe put this on this playlist but i do think everyone should go check out um gucciane has some albums called East Atlanta Santa. Saint Brick intro is what I really recommend. He's got an igloo full of snow and a white stove.

Um, he talks about, um, how he's the Santa of East Atlanta. He's Santa Claus of the hood and he's going to pull up, uh, to you and, uh, you're going to get murked. So that's what he's bringing you every year. Gucci Mane, East Atlanta Santa albums are fantastic. His mixtapes are really good, but Saint Brick Intro is what I would recommend. That's on my mentions.

I've got a couple for my just stinker list, just shitty. Wonderful Christmas Time would be on there. Thanks, man. Great. I hate that It's Cold Outside duet song. I think that's just a turd. And skip that

as well. Just like, God, shut up. And let her leave, for Christ's sake. You know what's interesting is in the original version of that, the genders are reversed for like what you commonly think of. It's the woman saying to a man to not leave. Yeah.

Interesting. I didn't know that. Does that change anything for you, Gavin? I mean, I think it changes a lot about the vibe, but I just genuinely don't like the song either. Well, this is great. This is a great playlist. Jeff, are you going to make this playlist so that way we can share it out?

Uh, yeah. Sounds like you're really excited about it. That's great, man. I mean, somebody should definitely make the playlist, right? Like, somebody should make that. I mean, you are the music guy of this podcast. As you say, you take it very seriously. And I feel like you did it last time. Did you not

do it last time? I get what you're saying is I'm somebody is what it sounds like. Yeah, I can do it. I can do it. I got it. Happy to do it. It sounds like it. Yeah, you sound like how Andrew was happy for your wedding, man. It sounds great. I'm so happy about your wedding, dude.

Yeah, you really sound like it thank you uh boy let's see uh fuck yeah i can do it you don't you certainly don't have to no i'm gonna do it i just i was taking a screenshot then i realized i didn't know where it went i was just trying to find it i might just need access i might just need access to this document. I got you. I don't know how to make playlists and I use Spotify so little that my Spotify wrapped this year was the two times that I played the Summer of 98 playlist.

I went to my Spotify and it said oh we can't do wrapped for you. And I went okay. Thank you. And then went away. You need to get your American Spotify fucking sorted so that you can have the full trucking experience. I know.

I got weird foreign Spotify. Foreign Spotify? Make an American Smurf account. Well, I do hope that you enjoyed our draft order here and what we've picked for you to listen to. If you go to the description, there will be a link in the description for, uh,

what this is and, and, uh, the playlist and everything. So you can listen to it with your family. And then when the Christopher Lee song comes on or when fear comes on, you just, you look at grandma and you go,

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And then you just,

you let it play the fear one short. So it's fine. It's 45 seconds. Just wait till she goes to the bathroom. What a fun, what a fun list that we put together another 20 songs that i'm really excited to listen to uh this holiday season this is gonna be and if you ever get tired of our great playlist you can listen to i believe we have two christmas albums that the community made oh that's right face christmas album oh yeah go back and revisit some of those all-time classics.

Yep, so go check them out. But that'll do it. Let us know in the comments who you think had the best draft here, I suppose. Wait, are we just having one person do the outro? Oh, yeah, you're right. Oh. Go to f***facepod.com

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See you next year. Merry Christmas, everybody. Happy holidays. Happy holidays. Happy holidays. Oh, Christ.