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Christmas at Ground Zero
"Christmas at Ground Zero" is an original song by "Weird Al" Yankovic, the tenth and final track on his 1986 album, ''Polka Party!'' and the final single from the album, released just in time for the 1986 Christmas season. It is done in the style of The Ronettes' numerous 1960s-era Christmas carols, with bells and a saxophone section, with a melody and meter loosely borrowed from the 1949 novelty song "I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas" by Yogi Yorgesson. It is one of Yankovic's darkest songs, alongside "The Night Santa Went Crazy" (another Christmas novelty song by Yankovic) and "Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung" from Yankovic's debut album.〔Phil Kloer. "'Mock!' The herald popsters sing: Christmas sentiments prove popular target for songwriters," ''The Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', December 17, 2001, page C1. ''While it seems like anything goes, that may not be the case. Dr. Demento (whose real name is Barry Hansen) could think of two songs he says won't be getting much, if any, radio airplay this year: 'A Terrorist Christmas' and Weird Al Yankovic's 'Christmas at Ground Zero.' Both were recorded in the 1990s and have nothing to do with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, except for an unfortunate resonance. But another Yankovic song is among the most requested on Demento's show: 'The Night Santa Went Crazy,' in which the toy-bringer turns into 'a big fat drunk disgruntled Yuletide Rambo' and goes on a rampage, shouting, 'Merry Christmas to all -- now you're all gonna die!'〕
The expression "ground zero" was largely connected with nuclear explosions at the time this song was written. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the term was co-opted by the media to refer to the large hole over which the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed in the attacks had stood. Due to the new associations of the title, Yankovic's song received far-reduced airplay since 2001 ,〔Marc Fisher. "On all-Christmas-song stations, little is sacred," ''The Washington Post'', December 25, 2005, Sunday Arts section, page N8: ''Christmas somehow brings out the corny and the crazy in many artists, providing (jockey Lou ) Brutus with a wealth of material such as ... Weird Al Yankovic, who once produced a song that you will never again hear on the radio. It was called 'Christmas at Ground Zero,' and was recorded long before 9/11, though it did have to do with a nuclear attack on Christmas Day. Still, the title renders it unplayable, which Brutus laments, 'because it's a great song.' ''〕〔Jeff Pizek. "Season's beatings" (article about non-traditional holiday songs), ''Daily Herald'' (Arlington Heights, IL), December 4, 2008, Time Out! section, page C1: ''Of all the artists whose songs were pulled from the airwaves after Sept. 11, pop jester 'Weird Al' seemed an unlikely candidate. ... The lyrics of his first holiday tune, this Phil Spector-ish Cold War reminder temporarily banned in ’01, are so sarcastically macabre you might guess they were written by the Dead Kennedys’ Jell-O Biafra. Its great video, consisting almost entirely of stock footage, was Al’s directorial debut.''〕 but continues to appear in novelty programming such as the ''Dr. Demento'' show.〔
==Track listing==
# "Christmas at Ground Zero" – 3:08
# "One of Those Days" – 3:15
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