Fear - Fuck Christmas
Hardcore bands are way too tough to bother with Xmas songs, right? Wrong! LA knuckleheads Fear included this 45-second blast of humbuggery on their bitchin' début LP back in 1982, eschewing the festive cheer typical of many seasonal releases for a ripsnorting rampage through some brutal moshpit powerviolence. But then again these guys hated pretty much everything apart from beer and punk rock and that included their own audiences most of the time - check out their crowd-pleasing turn at the end of Penelope Spheeris' 'Decline of Western Civilisation' documentary if you need to see some proof. 'Fuck Christmas' is unlikely to appear on any 'Most Awesome Xmas Music!' playlists but it does have its place in the canon of festive favourites, if only as the soundtrack to your drunken uncle blundering home after half a bottle of whisky and smashing up the kids' toys in a frenzy of existential despair à la Billy Bob Thornton in 'Bad Santa'. Aaah Christmas, it brings out the best in all of us.
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