Wrap Music

As Chestnuts Roast, I'm Waiting on the Waitresses

WITH TWO RADIO STATIONS playing wall-to-wall Yule tunes and a four-year-old who can't sit in the car for a nanosecond without asking for Christmas music, you wouldn't think it would be all that difficult for me to hear the greatest of all modern holiday songs, the Waitress' "Christmas Wrapping." Yet with just over two weeks to go till the Claus comes out, I'm still waiting. Just as I did last year. Now, look, I'm okay with a lot of the new stuff -- Death Cab for Cutie brings a cool emo vibe to "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," for example. But do we really need to hear Celine Dion and Mariah Carey defining "over the top" with sonic-boom covers of the old classics, played wall to wall? Come on, Sunny; come on, B. Let's find some of that Christmas magic to bring this tale to a very happy ending, shall we?

Comments

[Jer]

Is that the one that includes the lyric: "On with the boots and out in the snow to the only all-night grocery (something something) world's smallest turkey (something something) you mean you forgot cranberries, too?" That's Nancy's fave, too.

[Mike]

I have it on mp3 if you would like it.

[Peter]

As you know, it's probably my favorite, too. I don't even think it's in the playlist of the two wall-to-wall holiday music stations here in Philly, which is a shame. I'll put it on the long promised girl-pop compilation I owe you.

(Finally, something I can comment on!)

[Jer]

PETER!

[Jer]

PETER!

[Tom Durso]

Um, Peter!

Jer, yes, you got it. And thanks for the offer, Mike, but I'll pass. Gotta put Peter to work, you know.

[enrico]

I posted a Christmas Mix over at the700Level here which just happens to include The Waitresses. Your Lucky Day!

[Jeff Martin]

Tom doesn't want to "cheat" and hear it via MP3. I offered him a listen on my iPod a few weeks ago and he refused.