Here's one for all geeks and nerds. Remember when Windows 95 came with an installation CD that had Weezer's 'Buddy Holly' song on it? The video where the band perform the track blended into scenes of TV's 'Happy Days' with the Fonz, Ritchie, Ralph and Potsie at Arnold's Drive-In?
Whaddya mean 'No, how old are you Grandad?' Cheeky *****! If you've not seen it then you need to.
Watching a video on a PC was rare then and the popularity of the song - and more significantly the video - was seismic. You could barely find anyone who had Windows 95 who hadn't watched it what seemed like a hundred times. It catapulted Weezer into the mainstream, landed them with a hit on both sides of the Atlantic and gave them a career they still have today.
Anyway, I mention this as Weezer have a six-song Christmas CD where every track sounds vaguely like 'Buddy Holly'. Want to hear 'O Come All Ye Faithful, 'The First Noel' or 'Hark, the Herald Angels Sing' and be reminded of Windows 95? Then 'Christmas With Weezer' is for you. It only lasts just under 15 minutes and is the record you didn't know you needed.
'We Wish You A Merry Christmas' is a Carol that's not been on the Calendar before and at 1' 24" it doesn't outstay its welcome either. Play it while you convert some MS-DOS files.
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