A couple family members weren’t very pleased and a friend really thought I had finally lost it. But my two Christmas CD’s ended up being very strong sellers for the holiday season. I’m hoping someone will promote them heavier next year or pick them up for wider distribution.
Dogs Christmas – We Wish You a Merry Christmas MP3 Sample
Farting Christmas – Jingle Bells MP3 Sample
NOW ONÂ MYSPACE.COM!
Use the dog and fart Christmas songs on your MySpace.com page -Â Select a song at http://www.MySpace.com/Cybermonsters
Yes, it’s The Farting Christmas and A Dog’s Christmas cd collection. Go ahead and laugh, it kept my refrigerator full through Christmas. Ironically these projects were much more difficult to produce than I thought they would be. The tracks were easy enough, just the right blend of tradition and schmaltz without going over the top. But to keep the fart and dog sounds funny and entertaining was pretty time consuming.
I have a rep for being pretty picky about details and this project was no exception. The trick was to keep the sounds from being to repetitive and to give it a feel like dogs really ARE barking right along, or farting right along, with the songs. I felt I had to play them live and a little loose to make it realistic, and obviously without quantization.
The end result was I actually built a complete sample library just for the dogs with various velocity strenghts so I could control the variations, and also two random banks to use for longer notes. I kept listening to it and thought it was finished, then would start from scratch on the sample bank again. It ended up taking about 20 hours to complete the sample libraries so I could execute them live in a way I thought retained the comedy of the whole venture. If it’s not funny, why bother?
As you could probably predict, the Dog’s Christmas CD is the one women like because it’s cute and cuddly. But the guys like the Farting Christmas CD. I’ve had several guys tell me how gross the fart Christmas CD idea is while their wives are around, then when the wives leave they come up and ask me for a copy. 🙂
And for the people that can find absolutely nothing funny about dogs or farts on Christmas songs….well…..sorry dude. I’ll save you time – here the link for Pat Robertson.
Fair warning, if you do happen to purchase a Dog’s Christmas CD – your dogs are going to go absolutely nuts the first few minutes….or hours.
Full CD’s available at Music of Christmas or wholesale at Askland Music Wholesale.
My whole family would think this is funny but then again we are disfunctional :). No really, humor is what gets us through. Cool!
That Farting Jingle Bells is hilarious! 🙂
Thank you to 1310 AM in Dallas Texas for playing the CD!
LOOOOVVVVE the dog one!!!!! It’s realllllly cute!!!!!! The farting one was HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude, yeah, i like the farting ones, pretty cool!
pretty cool! i like the dogs , so cute!