Christmas Cards

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song name Christmas Cards
artist They Might Be Giants
releases O Tannenbaum (Single)
year 1993
run time 2:32
sung by John Flansburgh


Trivia/Info

  • Flansburgh on the song's creation and recording:[1]
[Christmas Cards] is a really fucked-up recording that was performed completely spontaneously. We just rolled tape. Nobody knew what key anybody was going to play in. It was completely experimental, and it came out okay. But I don’t know if it holds up to repeated listening, and it didn’t seem as action-packed as other tracks we included [on Holidayland].
  • When asked why this song didn't make the Holidayland EP, Flansburgh stated, "I've never thought about what happened. It is a crazy recording. Maybe it just is better existing as a rarity..."[2]
    • According to this interview, "Christmas Cards [was not] on Holidayland because Flansburgh was never too happy with it, although Linnell really likes it."


Song Themes

Criminal Activities, Holidays, Writing

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