A Dreaded Xmas, Those Dreaded Gnats (self-issued)

The Gnats are the nom-de-novelty of Harry Kopy and George Simonovich, who wrote all the tunes on this except the reggae version of "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer." This 2005 collection is a decent novelty collection, though to my ears many of the gags are fairly obvious. "Santa Takes Da Rap" is a fairly obvious rap parody full of the jolly elf in the drive-by crossfire with white-guy hip-hop accompaniment, "Merry FXmas" simply adds to a growing list of four-letter holiday greeting songs we've chronicled here (with sanitized version closing the disc), and "Down With Xmas" is the usual anti-shopping lament. "Xmas Everyday For My Kids," however, is a fairly witty observation about overindulged children who treat gifts as an entitlement, "I'm Not Your Santa Claus" might just be the answer record to "Santa Baby," "Who Took the Jingle (Out of My Bells)" is a holiday hangover song, and "Just Say No to Christmas" takes a poke at overly PC reactions to the holiday. This disc definitely has its moments, though it falls a bit short of the best novelty outings. UPDATE: Apparently there was a previous disc in 2004 that had some of these same songs, and the older disc appears on Amazon as unavailable.