When you can't decide which song to cover, just cover all of them.

This song was the worst best idea I've had. I got the idea when I singing Frosty to myself trying to figure out how to cover it. I got to the bridge and slipped into Rudolph on accident. After that I slipping into Santa Claus is Coming to Town, completely unintentionally. This was my first realization how similar all Christmas songs are (not just content, but chords, structure, and melody, etc).

I jokingly said I should just mash em all together into one huge song. I should really know better than to jokingly issue myself a challenge.

The intro was easy, seeing as I accidentally wrote it. Hark the Herald Angels sing was inspired by the Peanuts gang when they hum in harmony (except we don't harmonize humming, we harmonize guitars).

God Rest Ye Gentlemen was another accident. I was just jamming and figured out the main riff. It happened to be in the same key, and I love how piratey the main riff sounds.

Twelve days of Christmas is easily my most hated Christmas song. I wasn't sure if I was going to put it in the song, but once thought of the Bad Religion line, I knew I had to. That lead to the next part. I originally wanted to do some Bad Religion styled Whoa's transitioning into the next Christmas song, but then realized that Do What You Want is in the same key, and that song rules. The way it transitioned into Carol of the Bells sealed the deal. Daniel came in and got all Bad Religiony on the guitar solo, and we were set.

Deck the Halls is a Christmas staple, but I really just wanted to do the Fa La La La La's with harmonized guitars. We changed some of the lyrics around, especially the last line. Without Googling the lyrics, how many of you know that last line of the first verse? And even if you do, the line makes no sense, I'm happy with our blah blah blahs.

Homegrown did an awesome cover of Feliz Navidad, so I didn't want to the whole song, but when we talked about having friends come in and do gang vocals, I knew this would be a perfect way to end the song.

I wrote the finger style Last Christmas chorus when I was still tossing around the idea of doing the full song. It's fun to play and thought it would be a good idea to jokingly throw in at the end. When recording the guitar track, Daniel motioned for me to keep playing long after the drums faded out. He said he had an idea for the gang vocals. Despite alcohol's best attempt at thwarting that idea, we executed it exactly how we wanted to.

Phew, so that's a peak into my brain during the writing process of this ridiculous song. Thanks again to all our friends that came and did gang vocals with us. You guys are amazing.