hello and welcome to the FOURTH semi-sorta-annual reissue of
SANTA'S WORKSHOP IS CLOSED:
GUY LLAMA's GREATEST XMAS HITS 1990-1993
As originally remixed, "anthologized" and re-released in 1999, this is the highly-sifted product of my teenage years (age 14-17), in which one of my many hobbies was deconstructing the Christmas tradition in a most postmodern fashion by grafting its music to funny voices, explosions, loud guitars, and jokes about mental illness on a four-track portable cassette deck.
Most of the material, while well-done enough considering the uh unusual factors surrounding its origin, is quite silly, and comes off pretty corny in the same way that, say, Friends does now to us jaded post-9/11 types. You have been warned!
Before you download the whole album, which is below, here are two-and-a-half sample tracks in MP3 format. they reflect but two of the many genres on Santa's Workshop: Classical Favorites As Performed While High, and Screaming-A-Lot.
Frosty Built My Hotrod (1992, mockery of metal meets mockery of Michael Bolton sorta meets i dunno; badass Billy Graham samples at end)
Handel's Hallelujah Chorus (1990, the very very first Guy Llama xmas track!), and its buddy:
Hallelujah '92 (1992, the TECHNO REMIX-- edited for today's short attention spans; the album version then goes into a note-for-note parody of Prince's "Batdance," for some reason)
If you like these two-and-a-half tracks, you may wish to download the entire 70-minute, 22-track anthology in one of two formats.
MP3 format (70mb; individual track files with HTML / PDF liner notes)
or, for people who are picky about sound quality and CD-sequence exactitude: FLAC format release (400mb .zip - yes, that's big!; this has a single FLAC file with cue sheet and burning instructions, *and* all the liner note nonsense; plays great even if you don't burn it to disc, I promise)
...Did you know? Album sequencing matters to us musicians, even though we know we are just pawns for the consumer's amuuuusement. Still, consider us on occasion: please just think about using a good true-gapless-capable playback program like Foobar2000 so you don't miss all the carefully crafted segueway-excitement!