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A couple years ago I shared a series of weird Christmas album covers, inspired by Eric Alper’s original post 11 Christmas Albums You Don’t Want To See Under The Tree.
One of the albums I included in my list was Christmas In The Stars: A Star Wars Christmas Album.
Many were surprised to find out this album existed (also to find out that Jon Bon Jovi sang back-ups on some of the tracks).
This got me thinking “I wonder what other Christmas albums might be out there that people would be surprised someone released…”
Here are some that I found…(if I could I also tried to find a sample of the album online so you could also hear some of it)
At first I thought this was an album featuring Charles Bronson reading the classic poem “Twas The Night Before Christmas”…nope.
If you would have told me that John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John had put out a Christmas album I would’ve assumed it came out around the time Grease first came out, not in 2012…
Some TV series got into the spirit of things…
This album probably should’ve been called “A Dukes Of Hazard Christmas”
Some other celebrity holiday albums…
Sadly, I couldn’t find a copy of these last two album online for you to listen to.
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14 podcasts musicians should be listening to in 2021 [BandZoogle] – FULL STORY
Why Are Independent Artists and Labels Turning Away From Vinyl? [Pitchfork] – FULL STORY
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Alan Cross shared some interesting stats on what genres and artists did well during the COVID quarantine. CLICK HERE to read.
This got me thinking about some of the artists that stood out for me during the quarantine.
Which then got me wondering about which artists stood out for other people during the COVID quarantine?
So, here’s two artists I feel I rediscovered over the past year and a half. How about you? Who did you discover or rediscover during the pandemic.
GOLDFINGER – Early in the pandemic Goldfinger started posting “Zoom” videos (or what I’m assuming were done with Zoom). The videos reminded me how fun this band can be. Plus the cameos from their dogs in some of the other videos just made me smile. “Superman” was the first of these videos that I saw. It was soon followed by “99 Red Balloons” and one of my favourites from the album I got to work “Spokesman“
CLUTCH – My rediscovering of Clutch actually started slightly before the pandemic hit Canada with lead-singer Neil Fallon appearing in Volbeat’s “Die To Live” track/video. Soon after came the video for Clutch’s cover for “Fortunate Son” and then right at the start of the pandemic hitting Canada they released “Willie Nelson” and I was back on the bandwagon. For the following months I enjoyed as the band attempted to put on some live performance videos. Who new level of appreciation when it comes to this band.
Honorable Mention: CHARLIE BENANTE – Anthrax’s drummer stayed busy throughout the pandemic with a whole series of videos. I personally enjoyed his YO! collaboration videos that featured everyone from members of Alice In Chains, Testament, RUN/DMC, Fleetwood Mac, Anthrax, Mastodon, Living Colour and more, performing songs by Tom Petty, Mother Love Bone, KISS, RUSH (lots of RUSH) and one of my favourites, Soundgarden’s “Rusty Cage”
Remember, leave a comment and let me know which artist you discovered/redicovered during the pandemic.
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