We recorded a short Christmas tune for Whorehay's show last year. It was a done quick and dirty like. I recall we consumed 12 minutes from learning the song to stopping the little recorder. But it was all for fun. It had the sound of breaking glass and I even got to use the word "motherf***er" in it which I don't think has ever been done before in a holiday classic to my knowledge. The whole thing was kinda in bad taste. A real gem.

I can't imagine we'd ever do another one, even though I like Christmas music.

SSIV

I fall back on Twisted Sister's holiday offering when all else fails.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlf9Vc50Puc&feature=related

http://www.reverbnation.com/thegreasemonkeyz

Little Drummer Boy by the Bomboras

formerly SvD, bots.... member since 2006. Same game different name!

"I like a lot of the Christmas surf instrumentals, but not all of them. The same goes for the non-Christmas surf instrumentals."

Amen to that!!!!!!!

The TakeOffs
"Kauai's Only All-Instrumental Surf Band"
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heres some free music my friends and i have made the past 4 years, some of it is really rough, some of it is the best christmas music i have ever heard

http://www.mediafire.com/?8dndnvjgz3i <---- Christmas friends 2007 (first year)

http://www.mediafire.com/?h422zwwmhum <----- 2008

http://www.mediafire.com/?y2tnemd0mn1 <-2009

theres a 2010 one but i cant seem to find it, if anyone really really really is interested let me know and ill track it down

http://dinosaurghost.bandcamp.com/
http://sixtycyclehum.podbean.com

windmill wrote:

What most people are really complaining about is about
the amount of christmas music they are exposed to.They
are sick of it due to overexposure, not the actual
music itself.

Actually, I would argue that Christmas surf is inherently more lame than regular surf. ElMostro was right in the first post, that with few exceptions a Christmas approach really lacks what makes surf cool to begin with. My tastes mostly lie on the darker and more driving side of surf music, but even with the fun surf I love there's a certain excitement and energy to the approach that I think is totally lost in a contented, jolly tune. Whether fun or serious, the best surf is always dramatic somehow, which is hard to capture in a plodding, major-key holiday tune with sleigh bells slathered all over it. Yuck.

Hey, it can be fun !

(as long as it is not overdone)

Freshwater Surfin'

The Murray Basin
Australia

Oh Santa you know what I want for Christmas

Hey Santa you know what I want this year

Oh will you please be nice to me

and bring a surf board 9 foot 3

Oh Christmas is near

it only comes once a year.

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I do understand what many of you are saying - there definitely is some bad Christmas surf music out there (I get just about all of it for review in the Continental magazine, but I also hear it through Pandora and various podcasts and radio shows). Since we've put out 3 volumes of our "Seasonal Favorites" CD's, I guess I'm guilty of unleashing even more Christmas surf to the masses. While I like all of the discs and all of the songs on 'em, I know it's impossible for everyone to like every single song on 'em.

What we have tried to do is include more traditional songs from other countries. To me these are the most interesting songs on the comps. Here are just a few examples worth checking out:

Leise Rieselt Der Schnee - The Incredible Mr. Smith
Morgen Kinder Wirds Was Geben – The Razorblades
Så Går Vi Rundt Om En Enebærbusk – The Mobsmen
Staffan Var En Stalledrang – The Surfites
Rocknuts - The Lunatics
Alle Jahre Wieder – The Incredible Mr. Smith

The three discs have been among the most popular releases we've put out. Having said that, it felt kinda ridiculous putting out volume 3 in a series of Christmas surf CD's, and it feels even more ridiculous thinking about a volume 4. I know I'll definitely want to do another holiday release though. I just need to find the right angle for it. Maybe a single artist release (CD or EP), or perhaps a single theme. Let me know if you have any ideas!

Sean
Double Crown Records
www.doublecrownrecords.com

Surf CD's / Vinyl / Fanzines / DVD's
Frankie & The Pool Boys - Endless Drummer LP / CD
Aloha Screwdriver - Lunar Wobble CD
Continental Magazine - Issue #39 With Compilation CD

I don't mind a little Christmas music. Or a lot of surf music, or some mixing of the two. But not indiscriminately. The problem? In both cases the genre is a collection of rather different things united more by non-musical history than by being a coherent musical whole. Some of the subgenres are less appealing to me (pseudo-norteno polka surf piece anyone?). And even if things were coherent - grateful they aren't - some of pieces in any genre bear repetition less well, and some are just not very good even the first time you hear them. In fact, some of are pretty horrible. Unfortunately, quality control in Christmas music is not very good - Frosty the *** Snowman, really? - and Christmas music programmers seem to fixate on the sludge. Maybe because they have 4 weeks to fill with a smallish collection of material. On the other hand, when I think of all the good Christmas music I never hear in Walmart I'm actually kind of grateful.

For what it's worth, although on the whole I like the sound of "horror" surf, I actually find the adult fixation on Halloween these days to be incredibly annoying, and there is certainly a certain amount of dreck in this musical genre too. Lyrics especially, if there are any, tend to be rather brain dead, and I mean that in the bad way!

Worst Hanukkah surf song ever: any attempt at the Dreidel song. Actually any non-surf attempt at it, too, keinahora.