Feast Of Lights

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song name Feast of Lights
artist They Might Be Giants
releases Festival Of Light 2, Dial-A-Song, TMBG Unlimited - December, They Might Be Giants In Holidayland, theymightbegiants.com Free MP3s, TMBG Clock Radio, Podcast 11A
year 1999
first played December 15, 2006 (2 known performances)
run time 2:35
sung by John Linnell


Trivia/Info

“Feast of Lights” is pretty dire. But I think it reflects an emotion that only comes up at Christmas time… I mean, holiday time. There’s another song in our history that kind of runs parallel to that track, called “We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime.” […] Our Jewish friends reached out to us. There was this compilation record being made by one of the original owners of the Knitting Factory, and he was collecting a bunch of Chanukah songs. Because he felt like there should be a Chanukah record. “What about Chanukah?” So we cooked up the track, to revisit the “We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime” concept, but in a way that was clearly masked from our actual family and relations.
  • When played live, Linnell has sung altered lyrics including, "We'll listen to electronica and we'll pass the chocolate coins," "Just you and me and Monica and a bag of chocolate coins," and "I got you a melodica."

Song Themes

Food, Holidays, Music, Religion, Supernatural, Telecommunication, Violence, Writing

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