MIDI Week Singles: All I Want For Christmas (is to Kick Your Ass)

"All I Want for Christmas (is to Kick Your Ass)" (1998/20098)

Composer: The Midnight Riders

Record Label: Self Release

Album: Single

Game Developer: Valve

The Midnight Riders are kind of like the Spinal Tap (with obvious ZZ Top influences/rip offs) of the Left 4 Dead universe.  The "liner notes" for lack of a better term for the information on a Youtube video reads:

In 1987, the Midnight Riders were asked to participate in a children's charity Christmas album with their rock peers. The Riders refused. In a 1993 Guitar God Magazine article, Dusty explained: "Givin' kids charity just makes 'em weak, man. Teach a kid to fish, he can eat fish his whole life. Teach a kid NOT to fish, he starves to death. Where I come from that's murder, Homes." A few years later, the Riders grudgingly agreed to participate in a 1998 Christmas album in exchange for not having to do 30,000 hours of community service. "All I Want For Christmas is to Kick Your Ass" was written, recorded and mailed in less than one hour.

Aside from using this song, which wasn't actually used in Left 4 Dead 2, I feel like the above notes are really all you need to know about the song.  I didn't come across this song until sometime during the middle of this year so I thought its inclusion in our MIDI Week Single column would be most appropriate (in a loose sense of the word) for Christmas, seeing as how the holiday is in two days.



~JWfW/JDub/Jaconian
Til The Morning!