Smash Mouth, it’s time to (baggage) claim your Christmas title.
Love them or hate them, ’tis the season for Christmas songs – and they are everywhere. Thousands of them, in any number of versions and varieties.. They’ve been covered and rearranged and reimagined more times than Santa has been down chimneys. Some are good, some are terrible, most are entirely redundant. Some are simply inescapable – looking at you, Mariah Carey.It’s a crowded marketplace.
Over a propulsive, ever-so-slightly-distorted riff, lead singer Steve Harwell relays the all-too-relatable story of picking up a loved one from the airport just in time for Christmas, driving around the old neighbourhood and reminiscing on holiday memories. An exercise in simple, evocative storytelling, it’s nostalgic and hopeful and surprisingly poetic.
Lines like “Never saw Santa Claus’ face/ Apartment’s got no fireplace” conjure memories of whispering conspiratorially with siblings as you wait for Santa to arrive and falling asleep every time. Others, like “A jet plane ain’t no Christmas sleigh/ And the pilot’s beard ain’t long or grey”, will resonate with anyone whose family has scattered in adulthood and where catch-ups are joyful but regretfully sparse.
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