Tuesday, December 17, 2024

THEME TIME: Home Alone, ya filthy animal

As you know, we're keeping a list (HERE, and HERE) of songs that underline that Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Or are just about the movie, the characters, or just a line.

Another modern day classic Christmas movie, is the Home Alone series (well, #1 and #2 are). McAuley Culkin, Joe Pesci, Donald Trump even, the 'Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animal'-line, you've seen 'm. Probably more than once.
This week I bumped into this track, from a nice Australian Christmas EP. Basically the story of the first movie, retold as a folksong:

So, I looked for, and found of course, more songs with a Home Alone-theme. Here are some notable examples. If you know more, please holler in the comments.

Let's stay with the Kevin MacAllister-character. From Austin, Texas, the Basketball Shorts, punking up the story of a guy being 'home alone' and fighting 'them' on his own:
Kevin McAllister looking back on what he did, as a 28 year old, with a rapsong: 'Did I really have to hit them in the face with the paint cans/Did I have to set his hair on fire step on the ornaments'
'Maybe I've hit rock bottom', Oklahoma's Five Nine Three states about this EP with songs about McAuley Culkin. 'Rock bottom' could refer to her off-kilter singing, her ukelele-playing and her lyrics. Odd stuff:
Slightly distorted pop song based on the story of Home Alone 1: 'My family don’t deserve me/they left me home alone/Christmas in Paris/could have called me up the stairs.'
'Home Alone is a great Christmas movie!', the singer of this 'weird band' exclaims. We like weird:
One of the best known lines from the movie Home Alone comes from a movie within the movie. Two black & white gangster films are played, called Angels With Filthy Souls, where mobster Johnny says the catchphrase, 'Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal. And a happy new year.' Read more HERE.
That phrase is the title of this emo-track, which mentions Christmas, but isn't really about Home Alone:
A sample of the Filthy Animal-line starts this screamo xmas track:
More samples, that óther Filthy Animal-line, and more emo-punk:
Can't quite make out the lyrics, MacAuley Culkin is namechecked in this fuzzy powerpop-track:
Beautiful, heartbreakin' ballad by the heavenly voiced The Staves, about wondering if your former lover watches Home Alone, too: This song was covered by A Special Guest (HERE), Rosalind (dreampop, nice, HERE), grungey by Finland's Oskari Ja Vilma (HERE) and distorted but nice by Marv Murchins (HERE)

Good song, not really about watching Home Alone but watching Elf, but we'll allow it:
That other great song about Die Hard and Home Alone, where MacAuley meets Bruce:
Sounding like a musical number, this track about being glad watching Home Alone 2:
Another famous line, from Home Alone 2: 'Harry, I've reached the top' (see HERE), this metal band, sounding like a loud lawnmower, made a song of the whole scene leading up to that line:
But wait, there is more! Our friend Kristian Noel Pedersen made a song about Home Alone (HERE), another song by Bloody Chuckles about Home Alone (HERE),THIS fierce female fronted rocksong by Mary Jane Snow...and I left out all the Home Alone-soundtrack covers, but there are A LOT of those too.

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