Santa Claws is coming to town --- Alice Cooper --- We wish you a Metal Christmas and a Headbanging New Year (2008)
Who else but the king of shlock horror rock could make the phrase “Santa Claus is coming to town” seem like a threat, something not to look forward to but to fear? When he grins “Santa Claws is coming to town:
your town! He knows that your windows are open! He knows what’s underneath your bed!” a little shiver goes down your spine and you start to question whether or not it actually
is a good idea to be inviting this half-ton housebreaker into your home? Doesn’t he have a well-documented predilection for little boys and girls? Isn’t he always going on about people being naughty? Doesn’t he have a nasally-challenged reindeer in his team? Who IS this guy, really, and why should we trust him?
Brilliant mock-horror version of the old Christmas favourite, with John 5 going mental on the guitar and Vinnie Appice pounding out the beat like a bunch of kids falling down the steps and breaking their necks on Christmas morning (thought you’d appreciate that one, Batlord!)
as Alice growls out his warning with sick, twisted satisfaction. We know what Alice wants for Christmas: a nice new shiny sharp axe and the address of the nearest coed dorm…
Merry Christmas, Mister Cooper!
Taken from the album “We wish you a Metal Christmas and a Headbanging New Year”, featuring such delights as Lemmy snarling through “Run Rudolph run”, Ronnie James Dio’s version of “God rest ye merry gentlemen” and Testament’s singer Chuck Billy making it a very un-”Silent night”, this is one album I may have to return to again….