Finally tackled that song that you wanted to do. Good job with it too... You should record this one.

It isn't the moral dilemmas we face during the 12 days of Christmas, it's the ones we ignore during the other 353 days...

Big smile over the iCare line, but drawing to mind your winning stab at JC (Johnny Cash, not Jesus Christ) I thought you did'nt care... ;-)

Awesome job, awesome start for Sled Zeppelin

beautifully written...especially liked 'icare"

dktos, but I know your pacing is escellent and the mesage was SUBERB! ( I liked the iCare line too). 5's

Yes, the iCare was key and I loved the 364 line too! 555. I must be Going to California, the security code is LAX, I kid you not.

I must echo Peter and alvin.

Great parody for Cyber Monday. You clicked the mouse right into the red.

iCare
youCare
he,she,itCares
WiiCare
youCare
theyCare

Who cares - here just take these 5s.

Very well done... 5-5-5

Awesome job Jack to a classic Led Zepplin song. Season of cash - common God That they trust - good as gold

Excellent parody. The iCare was the best of several creative lines. I might be missing something since everybody else has awarded this parody 5s for pacing, but I had to deduct a point because "commercial" has 3 syllables and "California" has 4.

Being someone that WORKS in the "Wal-Mart machine", I can tell you that what you said was 100%...ACCURATE! Well done! Fives...out of five!

Overall good work! here's an early christmas gift: 555

Thanks to Matthias & Peter & Jack & Alvin & Pat & Rick & PMS & Guy & Macphisto & Dave & John J!

John J first: (I was hoping I could get away without explaining this one -- ho ho ho!) Yes, there is a syllable difference between "California" and "Commercial". At face value, they are also stressed quite differently from each other. However, Robert Plant utterly obliterates the "to" in the title (as well as elsewhere in the song), so it's sung more like "Goin' California" (or "Go ta California"), with the 1st, 3rd and 5th syllables stressed (6 syllables total). "Growin' Too Commerical", despite the syllable shift of the "too", is also 6 syllables, 1st, 3rd and 5th stressed. "Snow in Minnesota" would be another perfect title fit despite the apparent lost syllable. But thank you much, sir!

Matthias: I've wanted to do TOS for ages. I stalled with the idea "Getting Geriatric", probably for the best... Recording this would be fairly easy, all I need is a guitar and a mandolin (there are no backing tracks I know of).

Peter: As Christmas starts here the day after Thanksgiving, it's more like 32 days this year instead of 12. As for the i Care (I should work for Apple...), it's more a satircal jibe at "must-have" products: I could really care less about iPhones and most of the other commercial crap that is incessantly foisted upon us this time of year.

Thanks to everyone else who commented as well on the "iCare": it was a spur of the moment creation, nothing that had been "saved up", so to speak. Good friends, great comments: what more could a guy want?

(okay, a trailer and an ATV would be nice... :D)

Thanks Chris and Joel! I missed you while typing my above reply. Chris: Glad you liked the Wal-Mart dig. And my condolences. ;)

Pretty depressing telling about the true meaning of Christmas. Some songs don't have to be funny to be powerful and this was one of them. I still like the iCare line, and this was very poetic (Although a little out of season)

Bang on I think all of the holidays are way too commercial nowadays and koodo's to you for pointing it out in a classic way

(Artitrsy) Good work on a very difficult tune here. I dug the "goint'commercial" pacing aspect that you explained above without any need for explanation. The rhymes were great, almost always a foundation of your work. "Fa lala" was inspired as well.

(Artistry) Brilliant work. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to shopping -- there's only 248 days until Christmas.

(Artistry) Kinda out of season, but still powerful, yet funny (didn't think that was possible). 555 for you!

Still think this one is great, though I generally don't get into Christmas parodies in May. . ."iPods and iPhones but where is ... the iCare...?" is just too funny not to laugh even in January. . .still awesome, and it's good to see it in a contest.

This is fantastic Ant, and so true. I have to tell you though, when I first read "Goin' to California" my brain registered Wyclef's "Gone til November" for some reason and I was trying to pace it to that. It didn't work so well. Once I got the correct song, it was perfect. :)

Thanks for all the wonderful comments guys, and especially to Ash.

this parody captured the disintegrating values society has placed on "THE HOLIDAYS" in a comfortable, easy to sing a long with way. good job red ant!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends, and belated ty to foolindarain ~~