Monday, December 5, 2016

Sonic Advent Calendar: Day 5 - Christmas at Ground Zero

An irreverent Christmas song from a non-Christmas album, Weird Al Yankovic's "Christmas at Ground Zero," from 1986's "Polka Party!," was a silly piece of satire meshing holiday cheer with Cold War anxieties, a pretty perfect reflection of 1980's nuclear fear...that suddenly feels all the more prophetic due to our current political climate.


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