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Metal Monday: Motörhead’s Run Rudolph Run

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OK, this is just a short Metal Monday post, because it’s mid-December and I’m not hearing enough of Motörhead’s version of “Run Rudolph Run” on the radio. (Go figure.) I was also inspired by Angélique Jamail’s series, 12 Days of Seasonal Earworms You Need Right Now. (If you want today’s actual Metal Monday post, click on over to my review of the Killer Dwarfs’ Dirty Weapons.)

Chuck Berry’s version of the song written by Johnny Marks and Marvin Brodie is the most famous one. But I have a soft spot for Motörhead, and Lemmy Kilmister’s gravelly exhortations to Rudolph to, well, run, just sound right. I first heard this version on the compilation album We Wish You a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year. (Sadly, it’s one of the only good songs on it.)

Fortunately, if you can’t find that in your local music store, someone went to the trouble of putting together an unauthorized music video. It’s bizarre, it’s great and it works.

Metal Monday: Merry Christmas from The Darkness

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Okay, this isn’t a new song, but it is Christmas, and it’s miles better than just about everything on the last heavy metal Christmas CD I listened to. I present The Darkness with “Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End).”

If you’re not a fan of The Darkness (recently reunited with a new album out… which is on my Christmas list), then please, click on, click away, hit your back button, or read what I’ve been saying about hobbits.

But, if you’re tired of sappy-sweet Christmas tunes (and as much as I love some of them, you do reach the point of total saturation), here’s something nonsensical, melancholy, loud, and more than a bit goofy.

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Metal Monday: AC/DC’s Who Made Who

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Cover of "Who Made Who"

A compilation album may not often make it onto a “best of” list, but I’ll always be  biased when it comes to AC/DC’s Who Made Who. It was a Christmas present in 1986 and my gateway album into the world of heavy metal. Once I’d heard it, I never looked back.

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Metal Monday: We Wish You a Metal Christmas

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Does the world need a hair-metal holiday album? Yes. More to the point, does it need a good one? Even more YES. Because the motley collection We Wish You A Metal Christmas and a Headbanging New Year isn’t it.

Which is a shame because there’s some heavy-metal star power on display here, including Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead), Alice Cooper, George Lynch (Dokken, Lynch Mob), Bruce Kulick (KISS), Scott Ian (Anthrax) and Geoff Tate (Queensrÿche) to name a few. Sadly, their varied efforts at Christmas classics misfire as often as not.

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