I couldn’t believe it! There was me, reading the Independent on Saturday supplement, and I found a review of…
A Christmas Album by the Reverend Horton Heat: self-styled “king of psychobilly.” (Tell that to P. Paul Fenech. ) A Christmas album! Full of cover versions of stuff like White Christmas!
But wait! What is this, only two inches (5 cm.) further down the page? A review of a Christmas album (full of cover versions of White Christmas etc.) by none other than Brian Setzer - the self-styled “tatooed rocker with a Gretsch” from Stray Cats and the Brian Setzer Orchestra.
Have these people no shame? What next? Lemmy, singing, “All I want for Christmas is the Ace of Spades”? The Meteors singing “My Daddy is a Snowman”? Maybe even Children of Bodom getting together with St. Winifred’s School Choir to sing a selection of carols?
Maybe Brian Setzer will sell you his, now his rock and roll days are done. He’ll probably spend the money on a set of sleigh bells and a comfortable woolly jumper.
There is no way back to street cred from doing a Christmas album.
I wouldn’t put it past Children of Bodom to release a christmas album. Those guys (and their 100 side projects from Warmen to Kotopelti to Sinergy) are all awesome and original.
Hell, even 80s metal Shred-god Michael Angelo (ex-Nitro) released a christmas album.
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Children of Bodom … Those guys are … awesome and original.
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As I posted here a while back, I made a point of buying a Children of Bodom album after the great Bodom/Bodem debate. Played it again today in the car. It’s growing on me - but then, so is athlete’s foot.
Off topic:
I bought a CD on the spur of the moment today - some 1980s 3 piece band with Joan Jett in it. Looked like it would be good ol’ no nonsense rock and roll. It was recorded so badly it sounded like they were playing in the shower*, with the sound engineer making coffee in the kitchen. It was painful to listen to - and I have vinyl and CD recordings of stuff from the 1920s, so I’m used to poor sound quality. It is the first time ever I’ve taken a CD back under the Sale of Goods Act as not of merchantable quality.
*Visions of Joan Jett playing in the shower with two other laydeez:p
I’ve got a nice 1981 Hondo copy It’s natural wood finish though - I think Setzer usually played a white or red one from what I can remember. My guitar playing doesn’t really justify the expense of a genuine one :o
Mine neither. I took lessons in the late 80s and this was before my mortgage, kid, car payments days. I bought a really nice American made Fender Stratocaster which I’m using now. I really can’t complain.
But just to stay on topic, I promise never to put out a Christmas album. That’s never Billy; you can hold me to it.
) A Christmas album! Full of cover versions of stuff like White Christmas! 
That’s