Vs Tuesday: Two Bands! One Song! Who Wins?! FIGHT! Mariah.

We couldn’t let Christmas 2020 disappear into the distance without putting head to head a pair of Christmas covers. It just wouldn’t be… well… Christmas. And lets face it; with three days to go to the big day, you’re either sitting on a huge stack of mince pies or rushing around like a headless chicken in search of some last minute dot com gifts for your nearest and dearest and as such, could use a little light relief. So “All I Want For Christmas Is You“; a classic tune from Mariah Carey that should need no introduction. If you haven’t heard it by now, you must have been living under a rock or something. It was penned back in 1994 for the songstresses album “Merry Christmas” and has been her biggest international success, reportedly earning an eye watering $60 million in royalties.

There are a million covers of this Christmas classic, including a version from Leo Moracchioli at Frog Leap Studios from three years ago, but our first choice for the Red Corner is very much My Chemical Romance. Their version appears on a compilation entitled “Taste of Christmas” from 2005, created by  by Kevin Lyman, the man behind the Taste of Chaos and Vans Warped Tour alongside business partner John Reese. In the Blue Corner it has to be August Burns Red. They’ve been making Christmas great again with their series of Christmas albums and the addition of a rendition of the song for 2020 is an instrumental pleasure that you can’t measure. Who Wins? You decide!