This year's top holiday duet doesn't feature Mariah Carey or Will Ferrell. It's
Rodney the Mailman [local news] and
Andrew WK [original], live from the Chicago offices of the Onion AV Club in their Holiday Undercover project.
In typical Andrew WK style, a slightly...
different version is also available.
But this is not Rodney's first appearance -- nor are these covers few and far between.
Other AV Club artists in the Holiday Undercover project, performing songs of their choice
(you may get sick of the vodka/Sugar Plum Fairy opening; sorry!):
Fran Healy, formerly of Travis, covers Joni Mitchell's
River [previous Travis cover
here; Joni Mitchell original
here]
Brendan Benson covers Slade's
Merry Christmas Everybody... and surprise!
So does Kate Nash. [
original]
The Walkmen cover Lindsey Buckingham's
Holiday Road [
original]
Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater covers Randy Newman's
God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) [
original]
The Dresden Dolls cover Neutral Milk Hotel's
Two Headed Boy [
original]...
...which was also covered earlier this year in the original Undercover project by the
Swell Season.
Everyone's favorite postal employee also made brief cameos in two more Undercover videos:
Retribution Gospel Choir covered the Beach Boys'
Kokomo [
original… okay, and here’s a
version by the Muppets. This IS MetaFilter, after all.]
Fruit Bats covered Hall and Oates'
One on One [
original]
The Undercover project was previously, erm, covered in
this post from last June. Check out a recap, and results of voting,
here.
posted by alasdair at 11:36 AM on December 22, 2010