#christmas covers

[dynamoe]

in case you missed it...

🎄Every Venture Bros Christmas Song🎄

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→ hear the Venture Bros Xmas song on KenPlume's youtube → back to the Billy Quizboy & Pete White index

Billy Quizboy as the rabbit-toothed guitarist DAVE HILL of glam rock band SLADE— sporter of the worst bangs in rock n' roll history*— circa their 1973 Christmas #2 Merry Christmas Everybody**, which was covered as the annual Venture Bros holiday song this year by Pete White, Master Billy Quizboy, his mom and her lovers (the elderly superhero polycule).

Merriest Twelfth Day of Christmas to you, to Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer and to Slade and anyone else still reading.

I know with the orange hair & eye patch, which Dave Hill did NOT have, Billy looks more like Ziggy Stardust— the Quizboy:Slade ratio is a delicate balance.

If you're wondering why you've never heard this song before, know Slade is more of a British thing, really. They had a ton of British hits in the 1970s as a glam rock band, but didn't make any impression in the US until the 1980s after Cum on Feel the Noize was covered by Quiet Riot. They had a minor US top 20 hit, but still remained primary a British thing.

Merry Christmas Everybody— not released in the US as far as I know

Noddy Holder was more of the “face” of Slade (head to toe plaid, mutton chops, top hat covered in mirrors). I suspect the all-plaid outfit on Col. Gentleman in the Vbros cover art is a take on Noddy's look... or he ignored the brief and dressed as one of Scotland's own Bay City Rollers.

Slade suffered from a lesser case of Cheap Trick syndrome, where every member dressed like they were in a different band. Dave dressed full spaceman-- face glitter, every variety of metallic fabric available (lurex, glitter knit, vinyl, lamé). The other guitarist whose name I won't look up wore a red lurex suit (I guess that would be Pete's outfit in their cover band) which he had to keep replacing because he sweated so much on stage the fibers literally melted (one of the suits was preserved by the V&A on an episode of Secrets of the Museum) And no one cares about the drummer.

The only reason I know anything about Slade — I'm no rock trivia geek, I’m a comedy nerd — Slade was a constant punchline in 1990s British Comedy. Noddy appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks in the LaMar era. The 1993 sketch show The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer had a recurring mini-sitcom “Slade in Residence” (the band living in a suburban home together, wearing their stage costumes, eating nothing but cup-of-soup, obsessing over monster truck rallies and­— the key to their appeal to Vic and Bob, I imagine­— whining in thick Black Country accents.)

Billy is my Covid muse and if he stars in the annual Christmas cover (he had only sung before on 2006's VentureAid; read poems on their take on the Beatles Fan Club records), it's not like I CAN'T draw something despite saying I was done with this fan art shit. I promised a *technically* Christmas Billy drawing and I *technically* delivered. ___

*Dave Hill was just being a futuristic spaceman, those micro-bangs were the hotness on all the skater girls of the late 1990s.

**Having the #1 song at Christmas is a big deal in the UK (as you may remember from the Bill Nighy segments from Love Actually) and the 1973 slug match between Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody and the eventual winner Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday looms large in music trivia, to the degree that I was sure Astrobot Go was going to release a cover a day later of some other (more fan-favored) characters doing their version of Wizzard to rain on Billy et. al’s parade.

→ Wizzard

So which character dons the beard and harlequin eye facepaint to be the guy from Wizzard? Probably Hank, right?

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[threephantomrey]

my all time favorite cover of christmas songs. literally the only reason i know “breath of heaven”😭😭

[cordspaghetti]

ALL I WANT IS YOU….!!!!!

[silentradi0]

am i the only one who loves listening to Phoebe's Christmas covers in summer 😭

[peacefulandcozy]

ig credit: ichmiles

[heartorbit]

stay warm! 🌟🍬🤖🎈

[maureen2musings]

juusohd

[dailydccomics]

Batman and Catwoman by Jim Lee and Scott Williams

[north-noire]

Henry tries to come to terms with the kind of man William truly is.

Hidden Hands Chapter 7 is out! AO3 Fic Link Previous Chapter Beginning Chapter

Hey, I would appreciate it if you reblog this post! I try my hardest for this AU fic, so reblogging it and being able to share it goes a long way!

[jazzkolart]

Festive Argenti based on Vogue cover from 1910 by Coles Philips

[weirdlookindog]

Sanjulian (b. 1940) - Bloody Christmas

original cover art for 'Shudder' #14, February 2024

[comic-covers]

(1982)

[carlytayjepsen]

Taylor Swift - The Christmas Collection (2024)✨

1. Christmas Tree Farm 2. Lover (Christmas Lights Remix) 3. Snow On The Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey) 4. Champagne Problems 5. Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call (Bleachers feat. Taylor Swift) 6. Winter Wonderland 7. Ivy 8. I Look In People's Windows 9. Landslide (feat. Stevie Nicks, Live From The Eras Tour) 10. Back To December 11. Christmases When You Were Mine 12. 'Tis The Damn Stick Season (with Noah Kahan) 13. Willow (Christmas Witch Version) 14. Evermore / Cold As You / The Lakes (Live From The Eras Tour) 15. Stay Another Day 16. Last December (Nina Nesbitt feat. Taylor Swift) 17. You Are In Love / It's Nice To Have A Friend 18. All Too Well (Ten Minute Version) (First Fall Of Snow Remix) 19. So Long, London 20. New Year's Day

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Lost Child at Information Booth - art by Thorton Utz (1958)

[7cfc00]

home is where the heart is (and yours is gone)

[theamericanpin-up]

Haddon Sundblom - December 1972 Playboy Magazine Cover Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection