Namely 90s
Namely 90s
#232 - A 90s Holiday Music Guide
The boys rank some 90s holiday songs on a tier list. After the break they take a buzzfeed quiz to learn which 90s Christmas movie they are.
Do the Tier List:
https://tiermaker.com/create/90s-christmas-songs-15594524
Take the Buzzfeed Quiz:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/crmaxwel/what-kind-of-90s-christmas-movie-are-you-5v2zf28li5
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Outro:
Pixelland by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4222-pixelland
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Audio file
Namely90s ep232 - 90s Holiday Music Ranked.mp3
Transcript
00:00:00 Andrew
That's right. You're listening to naming 90s and.
00:00:04 Andrew
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00:00:10 Brandon
That's me.
00:00:12 Andrew
It is.
00:00:14 Andrew
Soda biscuit extensively.
00:00:23 Brandon
Let's get soda biscuit.
00:00:25 Narrator
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00:00:41 Narrator
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00:00:46 Narrator
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00:00:56 Narrator
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00:01:08 Andrew
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00:01:12 Narrator
It's.
00:01:28 Andrew
90s also with 90S and get signed up for one of our support levels. I'm overcompensating energy because.
00:01:36 Andrew
You have just woken up from a nap, essentially.
00:01:39 Brandon
Yes, I got home from work at.
00:01:40 Brandon
8.
00:01:41 Brandon
Way too much panda and then slept for like 3 hours.
00:01:43 Andrew
Oh yeah.
00:01:46 Andrew
Too much, panda. I love too much panda.
00:01:52 Brandon
The words I have words what?
00:01:55 Andrew
I think someone's the mayor of town and Home, Star runner at one point goes too much mail. I love too much mail.
00:02:02 Andrew
I don't know.
00:02:03 Brandon
You know, I've the only home store owner I've probably ever seen that I remember is this light.
00:02:11 Brandon
Trev.
00:02:12 Andrew
That was a deep that was.
00:02:13 Andrew
A deep cut right there, but I just went.
00:02:15 Andrew
For the king of town, the.
00:02:18 Brandon
King of town. Not familiar?
00:02:21 Andrew
Speaking of too much mayonnaise, how was your Thanksgiving?
00:02:24 Brandon
Good question. Also, my second monitor just disappeared. Yeah, I you know seeing.
00:02:33 Brandon
As we haven't.
00:02:33 Brandon
Actually gone to Thanksgiving yet? Oh, I just break through leaving. I'm sorry.
00:02:38 Andrew
Ohh geez.
00:02:40 Andrew
All right, cheeves.
00:02:40 Brandon
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:02:42 Andrew
Yes, we're recording this technically before Thanksgiving, but it'll release after, so we're going to now recap the Thanksgiving we haven't yet had.
00:02:45 Speaker 4
Yeah, cause.
00:02:50 Brandon
Yeah. Went down past dealings and uncle and like, I think technically step cousin and her kids and family. My cousin. Yeah. And then.
00:03:06 Brandon
We did something on on Friday that I haven't even thought of yet at this point in time. Hopefully I got to eat some good food. I mean, other than the Thanksgiving thing. But you know, go to LA. You want to hit up a pop-up or something or maybe a howling rays or, you know.
00:03:20 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:03:25 Andrew
Or Jane's Chicken Shack or whatever. No, that's that's not the California thing.
00:03:28 Brandon
Yes.
00:03:30 Brandon
Video of raising canes.
00:03:33 Andrew
I'm OK. OK, well, I'm. I went to North Idaho to hang out with the white meat supremacist. Actually make that joke for a while and yeah, hang out with the family, probably watch some football.
00:03:50 Andrew
Entirely too much food and they answered the question of what dessert do you want with all of them.
00:03:58 Brandon
Nice. Just bring a good point. I need to set my fantasy football team.
00:04:02 Brandon
Before I leave this week.
00:04:05 Brandon
Yeah. How was? How was that? How was? Yeah, since you just you finally moved recently again.
00:04:13 Brandon
It's been been a while since you saw the Idahoans.
00:04:17 Andrew
Yeah, it's been a bit. So it'll be nice. I my brother, can't help with some stuff around the house, but yeah, it's good to good to visit with the family always. So I will get out there and enjoy that. So.
00:04:22 Brandon
Nice.
00:04:26 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:04:30 Andrew
Let's see what else is new, something topical, but yet.
00:04:35 Andrew
Can't be too tough because it hasn't happened.
00:04:35 Brandon
Yeah, that burns 3 minutes.
00:04:39 Andrew
I don't know. We have.
00:04:40 Brandon
Ohh. I mean there's wicked and Gladiator 2 out right now, neither of which I've seen, but I've heard of use for both.
00:04:45 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:04:51 Brandon
Can you Gladiator 2 of courses garbage except for Pedro, Pascal and Washington?
00:04:56 Andrew
Denzel. Yeah, by the way, they're making two more equalizer movies with Denzel Washington, who was like, 73 and.
00:05:02 Andrew
It kicked some ***.
00:05:04 Brandon
Did that? Did that news?
00:05:05 Brandon
One come out yet?
00:05:07 Andrew
Yeah, glad your 3 was just OK.
00:05:09 Brandon
OK. Oh yeah. Was just going to.
00:05:10 Andrew
I mean, it's no, it's no clean latifah, but.
00:05:11 Brandon
Send me.
00:05:15 Brandon
Were there was that was that related, I mean?
00:05:18 Andrew
I mean it's the same base story, but they're not like in the same universe. They're like parallel.
00:05:22 Brandon
Gotcha. Gotcha.
00:05:26 Andrew
Parallel universes in which the equalizers woman and clean the chief as a good actress, which I think she probably did win some kind of award. So I'm just saying that to be funny, but.
00:05:38 Brandon
You know, the funniest thing is undercutting your joke with.
00:05:42 Brandon
Facts.
00:05:44 Andrew
Yeah, I'm sure she won an Emmy or Oscar or something. And then of course, wicked, which Xfinity has been cramming down my throat anytime, like the TV goes inactive. It shows pictures of wicked, and then I'm like, why is Lady Shrek on the screen all the time?
00:05:54 Speaker 4
Hmm.
00:06:00 Andrew
Someone said Lady Hulk or she Hulk.
00:06:02 Andrew
That was a kind of a.
00:06:02 Andrew
Mean thing, yeah.
00:06:03 Speaker 4
You know.
00:06:04 Andrew
Because she's not, like, hooky at all. And I made the joke about how the Republicans were offended that the wicked witch wasn't.
00:06:12 Andrew
Whites and I calls me the woked witch I believe, and then said that they should try defying racism, which is also a reference to the song defying gravity by Indians. Menzel, what did that? What did?
00:06:16 Brandon
Both work, which?
00:06:32 Andrew
John Travolta color.
00:06:33 Brandon
I. Yeah. Dina Minnesota. Yeah. Do you? I do a dining zoo? Yeah.
00:06:34 Speaker 4
It's it's.
00:06:36 Andrew
Edna, Minnesota.
00:06:47 Andrew
And.
00:06:48 Andrew
Menzel.
00:06:51 Brandon
Yes.
00:06:51 Andrew
Wait. Wait. Is that her name? No, now I forgotten.
00:06:55 Brandon
I think.
00:06:56 Andrew
Now, he said it completely wrong.
00:06:57 Brandon
Yeah, you know, just trying to throw people off the trail of him, like in new schools or not.
00:07:04 Andrew
Ohh Adele dazeem.
00:07:09 Brandon
OK, makes more sense.
00:07:12 Andrew
Tell to leave anyway.
00:07:15 Brandon
OK, board.
00:07:18 Andrew
Yeah, but I'm sure it's going to do a lot better than that red Christmas thing where it was called like the rock and JK Simmons and other people.
00:07:22 Brandon
Yes, red 1.
00:07:26 Brandon
Red 1.
00:07:28 Andrew
It's just bombing.
00:07:30 Brandon
Yeah. The question is, who is that for? It's a serious action Christmas movie starring the Rock, but not that I I don't think. I don't think it. I think it takes itself too seriously from what I've I've heard.
00:07:45 Andrew
Also they released it.
00:07:47 Andrew
Too early. I think that's part of the issue.
00:07:50 Speaker 4
Well, I mean.
00:07:51 Brandon
Most countries, most countries, don't have American Thanksgiving.
00:07:51 Andrew
Mid November release for that.
00:07:56 Speaker 4
True.
00:07:58 Brandon
Yeah, it came out well. Oddly, he came out last week for us two weeks ago for us versus week. So he came out a week before Wicked and got you.
00:08:16 Brandon
To around the world, whereas it swapped around the world for everyone else, they got to see Gladiator 2 and Wicked 1st, and then we got that one after.
00:08:29 Andrew
Until Dazeem, I can't stop laughing.
00:08:32 Brandon
I can't, yeah.
00:08:35 Andrew
Actually, the ten year anniversary of that.
00:08:36 Andrew
Was this year.
00:08:37 Brandon
Of him saying Adele disease.
00:08:39 Andrew
Yeah, 2014, March.
00:08:41 Brandon
That's insane. That seems like it was.
00:08:45 Brandon
Much closer was that for frozen.
00:08:48 Andrew
Yeah, let it go.
00:08:49 Speaker 4
Oh.
00:08:50 Andrew
There, there you go.
00:08:52 Brandon
Is frozen 2 or something?
00:08:57 Brandon
Yeah, well, it's technically a Christmas season. We saw them figure out what we're doing for.
00:09:03 Andrew
Happy holidays.
00:09:06 Andrew
That might mean we're doing nothing, honestly.
00:09:06 Brandon
Alright, Christmas is right.
00:09:11 Andrew
Because we'll be back in the studio the first week of September, the first week of December.
00:09:17 Brandon
Yeah, that's unfortunate.
00:09:18 Andrew
Ah.
00:09:20 Brandon
Yeah.
00:09:21 Andrew
Oh well.
00:09:22 Brandon
Well, we'll see. We'll see.
00:09:24 Brandon
What happens? I'm running? If not, we have 48 other episodes that you can.
00:09:29 Andrew
I feel like at the very least we should record so that we have something to release.
00:09:32 Andrew
On the Mondays.
00:09:33 Brandon
Yeah.
00:09:33 Andrew
Just so he's never missed a Monday.
00:09:36 Brandon
Yes, that's fair.
00:09:39 Andrew
But.
00:09:39 Brandon
We'll want to coordinate that later.
00:09:42 Andrew
There's a loop of John Travolta saying Adele.
00:09:44 Speaker 4
Do you?
00:09:48 Brandon
Uh.
00:09:51 Brandon
And it still didn't get us through.
00:09:51 Andrew
OK.
00:09:53 Brandon
Your chat, but alright.
00:09:58 Andrew
Classic. Well, not all the shows can be winners. I've said that from day one.
00:09:59 Brandon
I know.
00:10:03 Brandon
Wow. And I'll put more effort into this episode than the last outline, yeah.
00:10:09 Speaker 4
They all.
00:10:13 Andrew
I'm just going to keep singing that song.
00:10:15 Brandon
And like a drunken like a drunken uncle in the corner.
00:10:19 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:10:20 Andrew
I mean, that's what the song sounds like anyway. Is that is that Bing Crosby or is that?
00:10:22 Brandon
Used for.
00:10:27 Andrew
Is that Frank Sinatra? Just Jerome Cohen. Proud liquor, happy holidays.
00:10:27 Brandon
Frank Sinatra, I think it's just.
00:10:31 Brandon
Example.
00:10:34 Brandon
It's.
00:10:36 Brandon
Andy Williams.
00:10:37 Andrew
OK, Speaking of Christmas song.
00:10:40
Yes.
00:10:42 Brandon
Ohh yeah.
00:10:42 Andrew
That one's not from the 90s, but.
00:10:45 Brandon
But this article from U.S. magazine, sorry, US Max got can we can we can can we start over?
00:10:53 Andrew
US made all the hot happenings in the United States.
00:10:58 Brandon
So can you can you start over?
00:11:01 Andrew
Better than them magazine.
00:11:03 Brandon
This came out last year, but I'm sorry this came out two years ago on December 25th, which I believe is Christmas called Best Christmas and holiday songs from the 1990s, from Mariah Carey In Sync, TLC MORE.
00:11:20 Brandon
That's the title I went through this list of 12 songs. I've heard two of them.
00:11:29 Andrew
I just hit my head into my microphone for anyone who's watching the video version.
00:11:30 Brandon
Ladies, for you.
00:11:35 Brandon
And I mean answer, I probably know half of the songs, but I thought we should take the time to do it too. List because everyone loves when we do 2 list, especially Andrew and you're recording your screen.
00:11:47 Andrew
Yeah, sure.
00:11:51 Andrew
Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. What?
00:11:56 Brandon
You're recording your screen.
00:11:58 Andrew
I'm recording my camera.
00:12:00 Brandon
Yes, cool. Then that means I can do this for once.
00:12:04 Brandon
And not worry about losing you.
00:12:07 Andrew
Yeah, I believe I'm, I believe I'm recording on split Cam as well.
00:12:11 Brandon
Drinking.
00:12:15 Brandon
Alright, well.
00:12:15 Andrew
And I'm on a giant monitor. This is great.
00:12:18 Brandon
So we have tier Baker list I put in order of the list. On this last weekly article.
00:12:28 Brandon
Or Us Weekly, as I said, and yeah, so we're just going to rank them and I we start at the top with St. as always, then it's a tier underneath that and then end tier which is not too bad.
00:12:30 Andrew
Us today. Wait, it's different.
00:12:47 Brandon
Teen Tier, which is uh.
00:12:49
10.
00:12:50 Brandon
Yeah, I was gonna say terrible.
00:12:52 Andrew
And A is for atrocious, abysmal abomination. Any of those a words, as the song is asked.
00:12:54 Brandon
Yes.
00:13:00 Brandon
And what is that spelled Santa? So thought that would be fun. And you can find this freemaker list in the description below. And do your own rankings and send it to us and tell us why we're wrong. But let's start with.
00:13:05 Andrew
At mass. Oh, no. The other way is Santa. Yeah.
00:13:20 Brandon
Guys carries all I want for.
00:13:21 Brandon
Christmas is you from 1994.
00:13:25 Brandon
As the article says, from James Gordon's epic carpool karaoke mashup of Carrie singing her holiday classic with everyone from the Dell to Selena Gomez to New York City's Empire State Building during a choreographed light show to the song, all anyone wants for Christmas is to belt this 1990s hit.
00:13:41 Andrew
It's a Dino design.
00:13:43 Brandon
Yes, Mariah Zinger, Adina epidemia carry.
00:13:48 Andrew
Dated reference. My God. I mean, I think most would agree this is an S tier.
00:13:51 Brandon
10 year old.
00:13:55 Brandon
Send it.
00:13:56 Brandon
Here.
00:13:56 Andrew
Yeah, it's an as to your song.
00:13:59 Brandon
Absolutely.
00:14:00 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:14:01 Brandon
Yeah, there's no like one of the only songs that I want to hear leading into the holidays or even before the holidays.
00:14:09 Andrew
And also, isn't it? It's not just a remake of like an old Christmas song, is it? It's like an original.
00:14:14 Brandon
I believe it's original. I mean, it's old now.
00:14:16 Andrew
Yeah, yeah.
00:14:18 Andrew
That that goats it, though, like come up with something original, you know, original Christmas song that like becomes.
00:14:24 Andrew
That popular, I mean, who knew who thought it was even possible now?
00:14:33 Andrew
That's just, yeah.
00:14:33 Andrew
It's your uncle who drank too much bourbon.
00:14:37 Brandon
I'm like I'm picturing drunk uncle from Saturday Night Live weekend. Ohh. Let's see. It is following the success of your 1993 album and music box carrying her management Echo Records.
00:14:55 Brandon
Blah blah blah.
00:14:56 Brandon
Blah began planning further projects they discussed at Christmas album.
00:15:05 Brandon
Songwriting partner of four years said back then you don't have a lot of artists with Christmas albums. It wasn't a known science at all back then and there was nobody who did new big Christmas songs, so we were going to release it as kind of an everyday hey, you know, we're putting out a Christmas album, no big deal.
00:15:22 Brandon
NBD, NBD.
00:15:26 Andrew
TBH is NBD FYI.
00:15:27 Brandon
Yeah. So.
00:15:29 Andrew
Lol.
00:15:30 Brandon
They must have. Ohh it must be original.
00:15:36 Brandon
Yeah.
00:15:36 Andrew
Alright, I disappeared to move my gear so I'm getting.
00:15:39 Speaker 4
Silly.
00:15:40 Brandon
A bit chilly, yeah.
00:15:45 Speaker 4
All right.
00:15:46 Brandon
Can you describe the song as fun? In the 1994 interview?
00:15:50 Andrew
It's really intense.
00:15:51 Brandon
It's very traditional old fashioned Christmas. It's very retro coming the 60s, yeah.
00:15:59 Brandon
That's probably the Best Song on this list. Speaking of not good songs, Next up we have instincts. Merry Christmas, happy Holidays from 1998.
00:16:13 Brandon
Yeah.
00:16:15 Andrew
That's when he goes Merry Christmas. Happy holiday.
00:16:19 Brandon
Days, yeah, clearly you're going to suffer stricken because we've seen these so well. How do you feel about this one?
00:16:25 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:16:31 Andrew
It's a decent song also.
00:16:34 Andrew
Original.
00:16:36 Brandon
Probably, yeah.
00:16:36 Andrew
Kind of, in a way.
00:16:40 Andrew
Yeah, I don't know if I call it nest here, but I I'd call it.
00:16:45 Andrew
A or N.
00:16:47 Brandon
You're in. Yeah, I think I think this has grown on me. Like, I didn't like it as much back in the 90s. But like, it's now kind of like.
00:16:58 Andrew
Merry Christmas.
00:16:59 Brandon
I prefer to hear this than like something terrible, and then the music videos them in front of a green screen and it's like.
00:17:07 Brandon
UM.
00:17:09 Brandon
Yeah, because I just googled it and the thing playing right now is them going like.
00:17:09 Andrew
How do you know that?
00:17:19 Brandon
This on on a sleigh that's not moving with like stars moving in the background.
00:17:24 Andrew
The Big Green reflecting off their backs.
00:17:26 Brandon
It's. Yeah, there's a green outline around all of their bleached blonde hair. Yeah. Alright, let's let's put it right here. Move on. I'm Speaking of boybands. We have Backstreet Boys. Christmas time.
00:17:44 Brandon
Which I don't actually remember.
00:17:46 Andrew
I I cannot say I remember that.
00:17:51 Brandon
Off of Christmas. Christmas.
00:17:55 Brandon
Album.
00:17:56 Andrew
OK, I really have no idea, but I can't imagine it's good.
00:18:01 Brandon
Yeah, it's.
00:18:04 Brandon
Sort.
00:18:04 Andrew
Of syringe here, I don't know.
00:18:07 Brandon
Not, I mean, might as well just.
00:18:09 Andrew
You don't know. I guess the problem we don't know.
00:18:10 Brandon
Forget to hear.
00:18:12 Brandon
Christmas time.
00:18:17 Brandon
Yes.
00:18:17 Andrew
Merry Christmas.
00:18:20 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:18:23 Andrew
Which is the worst song in history?
00:18:25 Brandon
So.
00:18:26 Andrew
I hate that song.
00:18:28 Brandon
OK, Mr. Troy.
00:18:30 Andrew
Yeah.
00:18:33 Andrew
So much of like ethereal children's choir singing.
00:18:35 Andrew
And like ooh.
00:18:37 Brandon
So this goes from the good a tier for instinct and the bad a tier for actually guys.
00:18:44 Andrew
Oh, that's right. We have good tier bad tier. It's going bad tier, atrocious of Jesus moles.
00:18:47 Brandon
Yeah.
00:18:49 Brandon
Atrocious asss. Speaking of assets, we have hansons. Everybody knows the claws. Ohh, I've never heard the song in my life.
00:18:53 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:19:03 Andrew
But you know, that was the thing.
00:19:04 Andrew
And I'm not.
00:19:05 Andrew
Happy that it is.
00:19:06 Brandon
It sounds like Bob just to start.
00:19:09 Andrew
Christmas today, Christmas.
00:19:11 Brandon
You got Christopher.
00:19:18 Andrew
It's going to be at least terrible.
00:19:20 Brandon
Wow, this came out just six months after their debut album.
00:19:27 Brandon
From what I just heard, I would also put this in bad A.
00:19:31 Speaker 4
OK.
00:19:34 Brandon
Alright, that's easy. 190° of this gift.
00:19:39 Andrew
Then you hear that 90° is body temperature is.
00:19:42 Andrew
That why they did that.
00:19:42 Brandon
I believe so, yes, Nick Cliche.
00:19:49 Andrew
Other people that were in the band.
00:19:49 Speaker 4
I didn't.
00:19:53 Speaker 4
The snow is falling, the city is falling.
00:19:58 Brandon
It's it's a ballad, but it actually sounds like it might be decent. I'm not a 98° fan, honestly.
00:20:06 Andrew
Couldn't name a song of theirs.
00:20:10 Brandon
Is that the one where? Yeah, I couldn't either. They did the so they were popular. They got popular because they did the ending theme theme from Mulan, apparently.
00:20:13 Andrew
Mean three more. Wait.
00:20:15 Andrew
You didn't say anything.
00:20:26 Brandon
So anyway, I think this is better than the last two songs, so we could put this in the terrible two. It's it's it's not. It's not a terrible ballot. I would even venture just put it in end. But this entire list is terrible. So when it's not the worst.
00:20:33 Andrew
OK, OK.
00:20:47 Brandon
Kelsey's sleigh ride.
00:20:49 Andrew
I haven't heard it.
00:20:51 Brandon
I feel like we've done.
00:20:54 Brandon
We've we've done a 90s like.
00:21:01 Speaker 4
Merry Christmas and Happy New. Yeah. Ohh yeah.
00:21:06 Brandon
Yeah.
00:21:08 Andrew
Either not that bad.
00:21:09 Andrew
Or good enough, I would say.
00:21:11 Brandon
UMI.
00:21:15 Brandon
I would say.
00:21:20 Brandon
Would you listen to it as much as?
00:21:22 Brandon
The *NSYNC song.
00:21:24 Andrew
Yeah, probably.
00:21:25 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:21:26 Brandon
Good. Later. Uh. I mean, yeah. Give him up to to Lisa. Left eye. Lopez ripped the Max.
00:21:34 Brandon
And this is an original song featured on the home alone, 2 lost New York soundtrack featuring our 45th and 47th president. Yeah, Speaking of weird songs for.
00:21:39 Andrew
With Donald Trump on the drugs.
00:21:51 Brandon
I.
00:21:51 Brandon
No, that's the wrong 1. Amy Grant grown up Christmas list. Ohh God, I don't know, isn't it?
00:21:56 Andrew
Mean. That sounds just creepy. It's like vibrator. OK, well, my kids sometimes listen to this. Oh, boy. That's. That's teetering on the edge of tea and bad a wait.
00:22:07 Brandon
Ohh this wow this this starts with.
00:22:09
Team.
00:22:13 Brandon
Better. This starts with her going into her child's room, stroking her sleep, child's forehead and taking a Santa doll away from her.
00:22:24 Andrew
This is not that insufferable elf on a shelf.
00:22:29 Andrew
Ah.
00:22:30 Brandon
Do you wanna talk about your?
00:22:31 Brandon
Hate of Elf on the shelf.
00:22:33 Andrew
It's just like when did it start? Why did it start? Why do?
00:22:35 Andrew
I hate it so much.
00:22:38 Brandon
It started. I want to say like mid 2000 and.
00:22:41 Andrew
It's why they shouldn't start new things.
00:22:45 Brandon
This entire list is about music that was new at the time.
00:22:51 Brandon
Some some lyrics from this song. Do you Remember Me? I sat upon your knee. I wrote you with childhood fantasies. While I'm all grown up now and still need some help. I'm not a child, but my heart still can dream. So here's my lifelong wish. My grown up Christmas list. Not for myself, but for a world in need.
00:23:10 Brandon
But this is going to.
00:23:11 Brandon
Get sexy. No more lies.
00:23:12 Andrew
Yeah, it's Sophie B Hawkins.
00:23:14 Brandon
Yeah. Wow.
00:23:19 Brandon
What is this illusion called? The innocence of youth? Maybe only our blind belief. Can we ever find the truth. No more lives torn apart. This is is.
00:23:28 Andrew
This.
00:23:28 Andrew
A bummer. Good God.
00:23:29 Brandon
Yeah.
00:23:31 Brandon
Is this terrible or?
00:23:33 Andrew
I think it might be atrocious.
00:23:36 Brandon
Yeah. Sorry, Amy Grant.
00:23:39 Andrew
Kill loves Amy Grant.
00:23:40 Andrew
Whoops.
00:23:40 Brandon
Really, Kelly Clarkson also paid homage to the song in American in an American Idol Christmas special.
00:23:49 Brandon
So this is technically this a song written for Natalie Cole in 1990, but didn't take off until Amy Grant added her own verse in 1992.
00:24:00 Brandon
Next up, one of my favorites and samplers, the Hanukkah song from 1994.
00:24:07 Brandon
Originally, I think from SNL with wines such as Snuffaluffagus and Robert De Niro, let's see the Hanukkah song.
00:24:24 Brandon
Do you have? Do you have opinions?
00:24:27 Andrew
Yeah, I don't know the skeptical of that.
00:24:29 Brandon
What?
00:24:32 Brandon
On your yamaka, here comes Hanukkah. So much Hanukkah to celebrate Hanukkah.
00:24:35 Andrew
Not that bad.
00:24:41 Brandon
Yeah.
00:24:41 Andrew
Not that bad. Sounds like a song that Phoebe Buffet would have played on friends.
00:24:44 Brandon
True, that is actually clown knows lying OJ Simpson, not a Jew.
00:24:53 Brandon
But guess who is the Hall of Famer? Rod Carew you converted?
00:24:53 Speaker 4
That's fine.
00:24:59 Andrew
And he does the voice in the.
00:25:00 Andrew
Song at times.
00:25:01 Brandon
He that he the the the voice that yes whereas.
00:25:06 Andrew
I think Adam Sandler has the capacity to be funny, but it's not reliably funny, and this song is like, OK, but he's like, I don't know, it's fine. And here for me. But if you need to, if you want to bump it up, I'm fine.
00:25:19 Brandon
OK, tell your friend Veronica it's time you celebrate Hanukkah.
00:25:23 Brandon
I hope I.
00:25:23 Brandon
Get a harmonica on this lovely, lovely Hanukkah. So drink your gin and Tanaka.
00:25:29 Brandon
And smoke your marijuana Co if you really, really wanna have a happy, happy, happy, Happy Hanukkah. I would for us here, but we got a tier. Good day.
00:25:45 Brandon
Glass Stephens Christmas through your eyes. Never heard it. No. You have heard this one.
00:25:56 Brandon
It's the Latin American songstress wrote the title track for a 1993 Christmas album with the anchoring.
00:26:05 Andrew
You tell me what you think of it, but it can't be good.
00:26:08 Brandon
Well, it sounds.
00:26:09 Brandon
Like there's like all an electric pairing flute.
00:26:13 Andrew
Well, you can't judge that. I mean, there's a Latin Latin song.
00:26:17 Brandon
I say I do.
00:26:24 Andrew
The problem is if it's not good, ends up sounding really cheesy and kind of money grabbing.
00:26:28 Brandon
Yes.
00:26:31 Brandon
Let's see if I can find some fun.
00:26:36 Brandon
I want to see Christmas through you, yeah.
00:26:42 Brandon
This is like.
00:26:43 Brandon
Amy Grant Song except a little less depressing so.
00:26:48 Andrew
Yeah, maybe we.
00:26:48 Andrew
Can get that up to the T.
00:26:49 Andrew
Tier or the Entier, it's up to you.
00:26:50 Brandon
Teach here. Do I mean I don't like the song. I think I'd rap. I think I would put it on the same level.
00:26:56 Brandon
As 98° do too.
00:27:01 Brandon
Speaking of people that look like Phoebe from our friends, we have Kanye Windy Wilson's Hey, Santa.
00:27:10 Brandon
How do you feel that song? Hey, Santa?
00:27:15 Andrew
I haven't heard it.
00:27:16 Andrew
But you and you know that this is Wilson.
00:27:18 Andrew
Phillips.
00:27:19 Brandon
This is after the disbanded Wilson Phillips. This is the first album recorded by the Wilson Sisters.
00:27:27 Speaker 4
Hmm.
00:27:27 Brandon
After the breakup of the original band, where's the lyrics? Let's say it's hey, Santa.
00:27:37 Brandon
It's.
00:27:40 Brandon
If Christmas, if all of you did OK, let's see if I can do this.
00:27:49 Brandon
It's like a little twangy.
00:27:52 Andrew
I just feel like if the song didn't really penetrate then it can't be that good. You know what I mean?
00:27:56 Brandon
I don't want to talk about penetrating the Wilson sisters. Hey, Sam.
00:28:05 Speaker 4
Ohh yeah.
00:28:12 Speaker 4
Rural health.
00:28:16 Andrew
I do remember this song.
00:28:17 Brandon
Yeah.
00:28:19 Andrew
UM, not that bad.
00:28:20 Brandon
Yeah, not that bad, right in the middle, like.
00:28:25 Speaker 4
It's.
00:28:25 Andrew
It gets a little bit like.
00:28:25 Brandon
Cringy but.
00:28:26 Andrew
Too much like, yeah, yeah.
00:28:30 Brandon
Yeah. So you're going a little too much. We have LeAnn Rimes put a little holiday in your heart from.
00:28:39 Brandon
The 1997 made for TV movie on ABC called Holiday in Your Heart, which was based on a story Co written by the then 15 year old LeAnn Rimes.
00:28:50 Andrew
I don't mind Leanne rhymes.
00:28:51 Andrew
They just she like that. How do I?
00:28:52 Andrew
They breathe without you or whatever. That song. That's pretty good.
00:28:56 Brandon
Is that her? Yeah, I can.
00:28:59 Brandon
Based off the album titles on this one, we have, God Bless America and national anthem, the Lord's Prayer, the Sands of Time. Why can't we put a little holiday in your heart? Middle man? I believe a broken wing. Amazing Grace.
00:29:16 Brandon
She does have a good voice.
00:29:18 Brandon
And his face, as they found.
00:29:22 Andrew
I mean, I was like, that's really religious. And I realize what Christmas is all about.
00:29:28 Speaker 4
Capitalism.
00:29:30 Andrew
I mean, she does have a good voice. I don't know the song.
00:29:33 Andrew
I guess it's not that bad.
00:29:36 Brandon
Yeah. Like just I like your voice. Ohh.
00:29:41 Andrew
Where do we ask? Right here. I'd have to know of.
00:29:43 Andrew
It by name really.
00:29:43 Brandon
True.
00:29:49 Brandon
She has a good voice, but.
00:29:50 Andrew
Yeah, I'm going to end.
00:29:51 Brandon
And here, OK. And finally, master list. We have policeman and brightening mates let it snow 90s R&B royalty. You made for the song containing super 90s phrases like you are my everything.
00:30:00 Andrew
Oh.
00:30:09 Andrew
Well, that's going to be it's going to be pretty good. It's going to be at least 8 here for me.
00:30:12 Brandon
You know, I'm going to agree. It's like.
00:30:15 Speaker 4
Man, it's like.
00:30:19 Brandon
Very, very baldy. And this girl must have been very alone on Christmas.
00:30:24 Brandon
For this article it's this is a very ***** article.
00:30:30 Brandon
Yeah. So that's our.
00:30:35 Brandon
90s Christmas song to your list of girls.
00:30:38 Andrew
There you go, Mariah Carey's the goat. She young painkillers.
00:30:40 Brandon
Definitive.
00:30:43 Brandon
Yeah, we're definitely talking about Mariah. Not not the one where she looks like she's lost her voice every time she sings nowadays.
00:30:58 Brandon
But yeah, much love tomorrow, Kerry. I understand. And it's not a lot, I guess.
00:31:08 Brandon
And if we had a break, this is where we be.
00:31:10 Andrew
And now this is where we normally go to Brandon for the nearly 90 minute because we don't have one. Now back to the show.
00:31:16 Brandon
And we're back.
00:31:18 Andrew
Although do we need to restart our meeting?
00:31:22 Brandon
We have 4 minutes left down.
00:31:23 Brandon
As well.
00:31:25 Brandon
Goodbye.
00:31:26 Andrew
Bye.
00:31:56 Brandon
No.
00:32:02 Speaker 4
Some.
00:32:08 Andrew
But since we don't have one now back to the show.
00:32:12 Brandon
OK.
00:32:14 Brandon
Let's since we're on the topic of these Christmas stuff, we have another grocery twins this week, and it is called give me your holiday preferences.
00:32:28 Brandon
On these divisive topics.
00:32:31 Brandon
And I'll tell you which 90 use Christmas movie you remind me.
00:32:34 Brandon
Of.
00:32:35 Andrew
Well, that's stream of consciousness. Also, by the way, I'd like to point out that we put a song about Hanukkah on the A tier for Christmas song.
00:32:43 Brandon
I mean, I guess.
00:32:44 Andrew
Christmas season holiday season.
00:32:47 Brandon
Yes, haven't been inclusive ever for the holiday season. Did you know Hanukkah starts on Christmas this year?
00:32:53 Andrew
No.
00:32:53 Brandon
Yeah, so 8 crazy nights. Maybe we should. Maybe we'll do. Maybe we'll do.
00:32:55 Andrew
Happy Hanukkah.
00:33:00 Brandon
Like a special.
00:33:04 Brandon
Anyway, give me your holiday preferences on these divisive topics. This is from Community contributor CR Maxwell and there's.
00:33:14 Andrew
Now this is 90s Christmas season with three greater than signs and then any other Christmas season since, but not before.
00:33:19 Brandon
Interesting.
00:33:22 Brandon
True, I mean there is the the great Christmas oil drought of 1977.
00:33:30 Andrew
Alright, let's back.
00:33:33 Brandon
LFG.
00:33:35 Brandon
What's your favorite color of lights? Christmas lights? Is it red? Is it white? Is it classic yellow? Or is it multi?
00:33:42 Andrew
Colored. Ohh, this is a tough one.
00:33:47 Brandon
So she sings. Classic yellow is just warm.
00:33:49 Andrew
Multi, multi colored, very nostalgic.
00:33:55 Brandon
Yeah, I like multi colored on a tree. Uh, but.
00:33:59 Andrew
Yeah, they were all.
00:33:59 Andrew
Trees that were shown, by the way.
00:34:01 Brandon
Yes.
00:34:04 Brandon
You know there is something, there is something about that classic, like terrible looking, yellow light. Ohh, go with that.
00:34:12 Brandon
You know like.
00:34:13 Andrew
That's a 2700 Kelvin color temperature usually maybe a little bit warmer than that actually.
00:34:17 Brandon
Yeah, yeah.
00:34:20 Brandon
Which is not how the temperature work settings works on your Logitech.
00:34:22 Andrew
Which, ironically, though the warmer it is, the lower the temperature is make. That makes sense.
00:34:28 Brandon
Interesting. Interesting.
00:34:31 Andrew
OK, what's your favorite holiday tradition? Shopping for gifts, decorating cookies, eating everything, or decorating the Christmas tree.
00:34:41 Brandon
Controversial opinion here you know I.
00:34:43 Brandon
Hate the most decorating the Christmas tree? Yeah.
00:34:47 Andrew
You need it? Yep. Garbage.
00:34:48 Brandon
Like it's fun for like 5 minutes and then you're like.
00:34:52 Andrew
I will be done now.
00:34:53 Brandon
Yes. And then your wife's like that. You can't hang that there.
00:34:59 Andrew
Yeah, I I don't even do it anymore.
00:35:02 Brandon
UM.
00:35:04 Brandon
And I said my wife, you know, I.
00:35:06 Brandon
Said your wife, but still.
00:35:09 Brandon
I I like I do like.
00:35:11 Brandon
Drinking Christmas cookies.
00:35:14 Brandon
Although I don't like decorating Christmas cookies, so shopping for gifts, then I'll pick eating everything I like eating everything.
00:35:18 Andrew
Dang, I like shopping for gifts, too. You know, shopping for gifts. I mean, it's like annoying. But I do like going to a mall on, like, a holiday season with, like, a hot cocoa. Or, like, a nice peppermint white chocolate mocha or something.
00:35:23 Brandon
I am fatty.
00:35:31 Brandon
You you enjoy more than I do then.
00:35:35 Brandon
Yeah.
00:35:35 Andrew
Yeah, I think you just enjoy, like, dodging weirdos in your car and like, getting stuff done.
00:35:40 Brandon
Yeah, it's like, like yesterday I went to Costco for 6/6 item. No cart run at closing time before Thanksgiving. What is?
00:35:51 Brandon
Your favorite holiday?
00:35:51 Brandon
Cookie thumbprints, which they.
00:35:56 Andrew
There's like those Danish Jelly.
00:35:58 Andrew
Cookies that you think?
00:35:58 Brandon
Yeah, those are Jammy Dodgers. Thumbprints are, I thought, thumbprints have the the peanut butter cookies with the Hershey's cakes on them.
00:36:01 Brandon
Jammy Dodger.
00:36:09 Andrew
I think so. I like how the classic sugar looks like.
00:36:12 Brandon
Not a sugar cookie at all.
00:36:13 Andrew
Not sure. It looks like a biscuit.
00:36:15 Brandon
Yeah, ginger snaps, which they just have border flower and the fancy homemade ones. Only mom can make.
00:36:24 Andrew
Well, I would say ginger snaps aren't really a holiday cookie. The chocolate crinkle cookies that have, like the cracks in them and the white, the powdered sugar on.
00:36:33 Andrew
Which those were on here because things are freaking phenomenal.
00:36:36 Brandon
I'm not familiar with those.
00:36:38 Andrew
Ohh yeah, they're like chewy chocolate. Cookies are thin and they have like cracks in them, and they're just dusted with powdered sugar. Ohh and.
00:36:44 Brandon
That does sound good.
00:36:47 Brandon
Does that count as the fancy homemade ones only mom can make?
00:36:51 Andrew
No, for I will say for.
00:36:53 Andrew
For classic sugar for the holidays, for me, not the ones pictured, but.
00:36:57 Brandon
Yeah, I do thumbprints, not the one that's pictured for sugar for holiday sugar cookies or I would do like something from like a.
00:37:08 Brandon
Like a sprints or AM? Yeah. Sprints or.
00:37:14 Brandon
What are they called?
00:37:16 Brandon
Anyway, short bread.
00:37:20 Andrew
OK, what is your ideal holiday weather? Cozy and rainy, chilly, sunny and warm or snow?
00:37:30 Andrew
So there's that exclamation.
00:37:31 Brandon
Snow, Snow, Snow, snow. That's a good question. Like for Christmas. But for Christmas Day, you know, we generally travel to someone's house for for Christmas dinner and weeks. No, I'm only driving it.
00:37:48 Brandon
But I like for the holiday weather. I like snow.
00:37:53 Andrew
I mean, there's something to be said for cozy and rainy, which is like not an uncommon occurrence in Western Washington. And it's I remember Christmas, somebody cozy and rainy.
00:38:02 Brandon
Nice, chilly. Just doesn't sound fun. Some something warm. Sounds awkward. Yeah.
00:38:07 Speaker 4
What is your favorite holiday?
00:38:08 Brandon
Food roasted veggies, Turkey. Any kind of potato?
00:38:13 Brandon
Him.
00:38:15 Andrew
Corn on the cob. What?
00:38:20 Brandon
I don't have any kind of potato. May actually just be.
00:38:27 Brandon
Are those potatoes, or are those are those fingerling potatoes, or is that definitely?
00:38:32 Brandon
Like an onion.
00:38:33 Andrew
Listen, it's fingerling. I'm. I'm gonna go Turkey. I mean, you know, well, people don't love Turkey. For me, it's like an event. And how smells like cooking all day. And I love that sort of thing. And also.
00:38:48 Andrew
And then just douse it in gravy. I just, just gallons of gravy.
00:38:51 Andrew
I love Turkey.
00:38:52 Brandon
We're we're not a Turkey on Christmas family, we probably.
00:38:57 Andrew
No, I know. And I of those things, they're.
00:39:00 Andrew
Like, yeah.
00:39:01 Andrew
Don't do a ham. Come.
00:39:02 Andrew
On get out of here.
00:39:03 Brandon
We we, yeah, we'll, we'll have a Christmas ham, which is not my favorite. I I like the prime rib, which is not any of these four choices. So I think I'll go with any kind of potato smashing, mash them, put them in a Stew.
00:39:13 Andrew
Fair.
00:39:17 Brandon
So they thought.
00:39:19 Andrew
If you make a gingerbread house, you eat all the candy. You laugh while everything falls apart. You don't make gingerbread houses.
00:39:28 Andrew
And you assemble it perfectly and even.
00:39:30 Andrew
Add special features.
00:39:31 Speaker 4
Hmm.
00:39:34 Brandon
I usually eat gingerbread houses and have fun choosing from the other 3.
00:39:40 Andrew
I usually would curse when everything falls apart, but I would just eat.
00:39:43 Andrew
All the candy.
00:39:44 Speaker 4
Or.
00:39:46 Brandon
Uh, what's your holiday? What's your favorite holiday drink? Apple cider? A seasonal Starbucks late?
00:39:53 Brandon
No, it says water, eggnog or hot Coco.
00:39:58 Andrew
I mean, it's going to be a Starbucks latte, honestly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:40:03 Brandon
Like the caramel, caramel, holiday.
00:40:07 Andrew
I mean it's.
00:40:08 Andrew
A mocha technically, but I'm always partial to the white chocolate peppermint mocha 2 pumps of white chocolate.
00:40:12 Brandon
That's a good one. I oh, I've never done a double pump.
00:40:14 Brandon
Of white chocolate.
00:40:15 Andrew
No, it's a half pump comes with four every grade. Starbucks drink comes with four pumps of the syrup. They do 4 of that. And then I think 4 of the Peppermint, it's too much.
00:40:24 Brandon
Good Lord, I like a hot cocoa.
00:40:28 Andrew
And two pumps of insulin. OK, hot cocoa.
00:40:29 Brandon
But like made with made with actual meal.
00:40:34 Andrew
What is your favorite holiday color? Red, silver and gold?
00:40:40 Andrew
Green or white?
00:40:43 Brandon
Is your favorite holiday color. Second option is 2 colors.
00:40:50 Speaker 4
I.
00:40:53 Brandon
Something partial with green.
00:40:55 Speaker 4
OK.
00:40:56 Andrew
You win this round. Yeah, I like the green cause we put like garlands and stuff up on the railings in the house.
00:41:01 Brandon
Mm-hmm.
00:41:02 Andrew
Always like that, but I could go.
00:41:05 Andrew
I could go red.
00:41:06 Brandon
I mean, you can always choose the same number.
00:41:08 Andrew
Then I could go red.
00:41:09 Brandon
OK. OK. What's your favorite Christmas trees aesthetic? Is it classic, which is white with silver ornaments? Is it colorful which, like in silver ornaments with multi colored lights, apparently non traditional, which is a picture of a tree without anything?
00:41:30 Brandon
And playful and funny, which features a Lilo and Stitch Santa ornament.
00:41:37 Andrew
I'm gonna go colorful, I think playful and funny. Christmas trees are annoying.
00:41:39 Speaker 4
OK.
00:41:44 Brandon
My Christmas tree is a Charlie Brown Christmas tree and I put a bunch of enterprise ordinance on it, so I'm almost playful and funny.
00:41:54 Andrew
All I want for Christmas this year is for this quiz to end already. What do you want for Christmas? A trip you would rather give gifts.
00:41:57 Brandon
There's a lot. Oh, it's the last question.
00:42:04 Andrew
The newest and trendiest clothes, or a new phone if I ever asked someone what their favorite thing was to get for Christmas and they said I prefer to give than receive, I just, I would smack them. I think anyway. Go.
00:42:18 Brandon
Well, I would never ask for a new phone for Christmas just because they're expensive. I would know. I just got a new phone. A trip.
00:42:37 Brandon
None of these options are really I hate getting closer Christmas because of my height and size.
00:42:44 Andrew
Yeah, you're pretty good at giving gifts though.
00:42:45 Brandon
So.
00:42:47 Brandon
Me, I don't know if you want of of.
00:42:52 Brandon
Never mind. Thank you. I'll take the compliment I was about.
00:42:54 Brandon
To just like.
00:42:55 Brandon
No, I don't know what you're talking about.
00:43:00 Brandon
I guess I would rather give and then receive them and get punched by you.
00:43:05 Andrew
Rather dimmer than receiveth.
00:43:07 Brandon
Yeah.
00:43:09 Brandon
This is a terrible question.
00:43:12 Andrew
I would get a new phone. I love new electronics.
00:43:15 Brandon
I do too. I didn't think about that and that.
00:43:19 Brandon
All right, there you go.
00:43:21 Brandon
And we both got.
00:43:25 Brandon
Go all the way.
00:43:26 Andrew
Malone 2.
00:43:31 Brandon
OK, I gotta Jingle all the way from 96. You have to travel during Christmas time. Kind of have to. Whether it's going through the mountains to cut down, you don't to cut down your Christmas tree, you're going across the country to.
00:43:43 Brandon
See your distant relatives.
00:43:44 Brandon
You love it all. You especially love buying gifts for people and often go out of your way to get the perfect one. Games like white elephant and Secret Santa are the things you look forward to most.
00:43:54 Brandon
I mean, it's not.
00:43:58 Brandon
Wrong. The sentiment is wrong. But uh Trish.
00:43:58 Speaker 4
OK.
00:44:03 Andrew
I got home alone, 2 says cities are your favorite places to be during the winter time and you aren't afraid to do a little exploring by yourself. Who knows? You might even run into Donald Trump. You love the small things about the holidays like window shopping, drinking hot cocoa and catching snowflakes on your tongue. Just don't do it too close to Donald Trump. Your keen sense of adventure gets you into trouble sometimes.
00:44:23 Andrew
You always make it safely back home after being accosted by Donald Trump, he said. All.
00:44:29 Andrew
Of those.
00:44:30 Brandon
So all those things in 2021?
00:44:39 Brandon
Yeah, how?
00:44:43 Andrew
Grab this holiday season by the sleigh bells.
00:44:48 Brandon
Well, that's gonna that has to be our our Christmas love universe here.
00:44:54 Brandon
I I guess I guess this causes which movie is this person really mind this person of?
00:44:59 Andrew
We remind them of, yeah.
00:45:02 Speaker 4
But you know all the way really.
00:45:05 Andrew
Yeah, apparently that's right. You've been listening to the 90s. This is dumb. Yeah.
00:45:13 Brandon
Well, final thoughts, Sir. This musical and movie.
00:45:17 Andrew
No, but special thanks to BuzzFeed for filling the second-half of our show with nonsense.
00:45:22 Brandon
That's it for this week's edition 1990s, and you can find new episodes out every Monday finds and Instagram this on YouTube and use the 90 US and.
00:45:29 Brandon
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00:45:30 Brandon
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00:45:51
Next.
00:46:13 Andrew
Happy holiday.