It’s beginning to look a lot like has beens, everywhere you go. There’s a feeble attempt to groove, a face too plastic to move, a greedy ex-wife, plus there’s all the blow…
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the legendary punk rocker Billy Idol has finally given up all pretense to cool and released the predictable mid-career Christmas album, twenty years too late. While his voice has always boasted the lushness of port-soaked velvet and may indeed suit the material (or it did a generation ago. like when he released Yellin’ at the Christmas Tree), let’s just say that celebrating the birth of the baby Jesus in song isn’t the very first thing that comes to mind when I think of Billy Idol.
Listen to a bizarrely country-themed yet shockingly not half bad Winter Wonderland here. And while you’re there, you can order Billy Idolwear, including thongs! As if anyone close to Billy wears underwear…
And just for auld lang syne:
“Yellin’ At The Xmas Tree“
(Billy Idol/Brian Tichy)
When I was a small boy
Here in London town
Seasons snow was falling on the ground
All the friends and family
Here on Christmas Eve
Gather round to dress
The Christmas tree
But daddy’s down at the pub
Full of Christmas cheer
Probably won’t come home
Until next year
[Chorus:]
Oh the Christmas bells are ringing
And the carolers are singing
But Daddy, he don’t hear ’em
He’s yellin’ at the Christmas tree
Santa’s balls are jingling
Mommy’s hips a-wiggling
But Daddy, he don’t hear ’em
He’s yellin, he’s yellin’
At the Christmas tree
All right now yeah…
Uncle is a sports fan
Granny likes a joke
But no one laughs when
Daddy’s stumbles home
But he don’t fall asleep
Wah! The night was getting black
You see, oh God,
Dad had too much Jack
Oh Lord!
Every year is the same old thing
Like Rudolph’s red nose
Telling this story will never get old
[Chorus]
Well alright now yeah…
Well alright now…
Yellin’ at the Christmas tree
Santa came down the chimney
But then he ran upstairs
Jumped in bed with Mommy
She didn’t care
Across the room went the fruitcakes
Ah, the wreath came off the door
If these are holidays I can take no more
Every year it’s the same old thing
Like Rudolph’s red nose
Hearing this story will never get old
[Chorus]
Santa’s balls are jingling
Mommy’s hips a-wiggling
But Daddy, he don’t hear ’em
He’s yellin’
He’s yellin’ at the Christmas tree
Well alright now yeah…
He’s yellin’ at the Christmas tree
He’s yellin’ at the Christmas tree
He’s yellin’ at the Christmas tree
He’s sleeping it the Christmas tree
raincoaster 
Okay, that’s just wrong!
Ack.
Billy Idol does Chrissy… hmmm *thinks deep* I think not
Well, I am trying to decided whether to get this one or the Twisted Sister Christmas. Hmmm, you know what? I’m gonna get both. Yeehaw!
Ack is right. Good God.
Hi,
I was desperate so looked under the tag-Books, and there you were on top of the heap. A blessing and a curse. I have been tagged, and so I tag you.
Instructions:
1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence.
3. Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog.
4. Name of the book and the author.
5. Tag three people
I don’t know. I just do what I’m told. Dr. Nostrum
This must be one of raincoaster’s heaviest hangovers ever – no comment or posting for four days!
I disappeared from her site a while ago apparently forever (as if). My fear is that grief has driven her mad and she is creaking like a strange fruit from a barn beam right now.
Happy Xmas R .
This may not fit in the mid-career xmas album category– as you say, it’s 20 years too late. Maybe he’s born again?
No internet since the windstorm on Thursday. Still no internet, though, so Im not going to be posting much for the next wee while. Try to find a way to go on in the meantime.
Billy Idol, born again. He’s been hanging out with Donny Osmond too much. (Seen Osmond as the go-go boy on Weird Al’s White and Nerdy? Hilarious!)
I love it
I always say, God makes us become what we claim to despise, so it makes sense that Idol is now recording MOR religious songs.