Yesterday, we gave you a Christmas song from the Barenaked Ladies. If you also look at the tag cloud, you might notice that the “Barenaked Ladies” have the second biggest font size, after “Christmas” itself. And you might be wondering why a band from Toronto with an unassumingly successful career (a couple of big American hits, six top 10 Canadian hits and four platinum albums) has such a huge presence (three posts worth) on this Christmas music blog? Well, “BnL” is the all-time favorite band of Jingle Blog Rock’s co-author, Ryan. And even that is an understatement. He goes to any BnL show within a 2-hour radius of LA. The only time I’ve seen him take a personal day from work is to see them in San Diego. A couple of years ago, he once took a long lunch to see BnL play children’s songs at a local mall. Our boss and I asked him how the concert was the next day. “It was great,” he said. “But it did feel weird being the only adult there without a kid.”

I have to admit though that I find it a bit odd that BnL is the only group to make a Repeat Appearance on this blog. Of all the legendary acts who recorded Christmas songs: the Beatles, James Brown, Bing Crosby, et al, BnL topped them all. I am not a fan like Ryan though. I found “One Week” annoying when it was on the radio every 15 minutes, but I kinda liked “Pinch Me” when it was a regular on VH1 and “If I Had $100000” was cute enough. And that’s about all I know of them. Judging by their Christmas album, there are 18 songs Ryan has yet to post. We can only hope that this blog is around long enough for him to post all of them.

Anyway, I decided to continue the Canadian-Christmas theme with a 2008 holiday original from Toronto punk band, Fucked Up. This is actually the second mention of Fucked Up on this blog, which means the only two musical acts to make a repeat appearance on this blog are both from Toronto. BnL might be Ryan’s favorite act from Toronto, but Fucked Up is mine.