Balking in a winter wonderland
And in the spirit of the season Ben Rayner reviews some godawful Christmas music:
"Bruce Springsteen, 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town.' Speaking of straining, surely even Bruce is now embarrassed by the ultra-macho pummelling he and the E-Street Band delivered to Jolly Old Saint Nick on this overwrought '80s live recording. Shouting in lieu of singing over the band's typically unsubtle Jersey bar-band rumble, he comes off less as an excitable child on Christmas Eve than a knife-wielding sociopath lying in wait by the chimney.
Luther Campbell, 'Ho Ho Hoes.' Open-minded families might not balk at the idea of unwrapping their presents on Christmas morning to raps on fellatio and Santa's big bag, but this classless single from the former 2 Live Crew mastermind is still limp as hip hop and too dimwitted to be funny. Other tracks on the Christmas at Luke's Sex Shop EP, by the way, include 'Christmas Spliff,' 'Christmas F---in' Day' and the more sober 'Jesus is Black.'"
"Bruce Springsteen, 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town.' Speaking of straining, surely even Bruce is now embarrassed by the ultra-macho pummelling he and the E-Street Band delivered to Jolly Old Saint Nick on this overwrought '80s live recording. Shouting in lieu of singing over the band's typically unsubtle Jersey bar-band rumble, he comes off less as an excitable child on Christmas Eve than a knife-wielding sociopath lying in wait by the chimney.
Luther Campbell, 'Ho Ho Hoes.' Open-minded families might not balk at the idea of unwrapping their presents on Christmas morning to raps on fellatio and Santa's big bag, but this classless single from the former 2 Live Crew mastermind is still limp as hip hop and too dimwitted to be funny. Other tracks on the Christmas at Luke's Sex Shop EP, by the way, include 'Christmas Spliff,' 'Christmas F---in' Day' and the more sober 'Jesus is Black.'"
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