{"id":4613,"date":"2006-11-29T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T17:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2009-01-03T01:30:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T07:30:48","slug":"billy-idol-rocks-out-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/billy-idol-rocks-out-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Idol Rocks-Out Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m dying from awesome! Who&#8217;d think I&#8217;d live to hear Billy Idol rock-out christmas?!*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/billyidol\" class=\"external external_icon\">Idol&#8217;s myspace<\/a> gives you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/billyidol\" class=\"external external_icon\">samples<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"billyidolhappyholidayscover.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/billyidolhappyholidayscover.jpg\" width=\"349\" height=\"357\" align=\"right\"\/>Billy Idol&#8217;s new album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billyidol.net\/happyholidays\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Happy Holidays<\/a>&#8221; is now available for purchase through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billyidol.net\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">BillyIdol.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The track list for the album:<br \/>\nFrosty the Snowman<br \/>\nSilver Bells<br \/>\nHappy Holidays<br \/>\nMerry Christmas Baby<br \/>\nWhite Christmas<br \/>\nHere Comes Santa Claus<br \/>\nGod Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen<br \/>\nSanta Claus Is Back In Town<br \/>\nLet It Snow<br \/>\nWinter Wonderland<br \/>\nRun Rudolph Run<br \/>\nBlue Christmas<br \/>\nJingle Bell Rock<br \/>\nChristmas Love<br \/>\nOh Christmas Tree<br \/>\nSilent Night<br \/>\nAuld Lang Syne<\/p>\n<p>Be one of the first five hundred people to purchase &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; and receive a Christmas card personally signed from Billy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dunc! had this thought, &#8220;Woulda been awesome if Idol took his old songs and just put Christmas words to them.&#8221;<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>White Wedding -> White Christmas<br \/>\n<LI>Rebel Yell -> Rudolph&#8217;s Bellsapples<br \/>\n<LI>Monie monie -> Santa Santa<br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p>I contributed:<br \/>\n<UL><LI>Rock the Cradle of Love -> Rock the Cradle of Christmas<br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p>Still naysay the Idol Christmas groove?  Watch the vid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/mt-archives\/005641.php\">under the cut<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/ohnotheydidnt\/9727715.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">ONTD<\/a> and <strong>*my complete sense of irony<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/vids.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&#038;videoid=1461411048\" class=\"external external_icon\">Happy Holiday<\/a><br \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/lads.myspace.com\/videos\/vplayer.swf\" flashvars=\"m=1461411048&#038;type=video\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"430\" height=\"346\"><\/embed><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vids.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.addToProfileConfirm&#038;videoid=1461411048&#038;title=Happy Holiday\" class=\"external external_icon\">Add to My Profile<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/vids.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.home\" class=\"external external_icon\"> More Videos<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m dying from awesome! Who&#8217;d think I&#8217;d live to hear Billy Idol rock-out christmas?!* Idol&#8217;s myspace gives you samples. Billy Idol&#8217;s new album &#8220;Happy Holidays&#8221; is now available for purchase through BillyIdol.net. The track list for the album: Frosty the Snowman Silver Bells Happy Holidays Merry Christmas Baby White Christmas Here Comes Santa Claus God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,60],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday","category-music","tag-albums"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}