A fun little number and you should hear it

December 22, 2013 2:59 AM

Listen, MetaFilter, 'tis the season and all that, so get yourself over to MetaFilter Music (you know, that subsite you never go to) and check out the absolutely wonderful little Hawaiian Christmas ditty that your fellow Mefier chococat posted, OK? It's called Mele Kalikimaka and it's big fun and just all kindsa damn good and full of holiday cheer and slippery guitars.
posted by flapjax at midnite to MetaFilter-Related at 2:59 AM (24 comments total)

Seriously. You'll be singing "Mele Kalikimaka is a thing to say" while badly dancing the hula all day.
And this is a good thing.
posted by billiebee at 3:53 AM on December 22, 2013

Mele Kalikimaka, MetaFilter!!
posted by DarlingBri at 4:11 AM on December 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

Lovely, thanks!
posted by Wolof at 4:18 AM on December 22, 2013

Yay! Earworm, for sure; thanks for pointing it out, flapjax.

Now, do that Hawaiian yule classic that goes, "Away in a manger / no crib for His bed / The little Lord Jesus / lei down his sweet head"!
posted by taz (staff) at 4:30 AM on December 22, 2013 [4 favorites]

Don't forget chococat's Hawaiian Christmas song from 2011!
posted by travelwithcats at 4:58 AM on December 22, 2013 [2 favorites]

very excellent.
posted by sciencegeek at 6:32 AM on December 22, 2013

+1 will play it again, and again, and again...
posted by COD at 6:39 AM on December 22, 2013

Spam is mine, its bitter perfume
breathes a life of gathering gloom
posted by Wolfdog at 7:11 AM on December 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

AWESOME!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:45 AM on December 22, 2013

Yay! Happy, happy Christmas ear worm, everyone! What a fun little ditty.
posted by misha at 7:48 AM on December 22, 2013

That is pretty darn great.
posted by LobsterMitten (staff) at 7:51 AM on December 22, 2013

Meta Kalikimaka is the thing to say....
posted by NoraCharles at 8:01 AM on December 22, 2013 [3 favorites]

This is so delightful it slipped straight past my "bah humbug no damn Xmas music" shields and I found myself dancing in the living room with the cat. Thanks, chococat!
posted by Lexica at 9:04 AM on December 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

This is my wife's favourite Christmas song by a country mile. We've just been dancing around the kitchen to this. Thanks, chococat!
posted by arcticseal at 9:05 AM on December 22, 2013

I love chococat and I love this song, and I love his cover of it!
posted by rtha at 10:28 AM on December 22, 2013

You'll be singing "Mele Kalikimaka is a thing to say" while badly dancing the hula all day.

It means fish food!
posted by curious nu at 10:30 AM on December 22, 2013

Whoah, thanks everybody. And thanks for the Meta, flapjax. Pretty cool to wake up to.
Ironically, I had a bit too much fun at a Christmas party last night and I'm feeling the exact opposite of that song right now. I think I'd actually threaten harm to someone if they put it on in my house.
posted by chococat at 10:43 AM on December 22, 2013 [7 favorites]

chococat is fantastic. I also have another song of his on one of my MefiMu playlists and they are both heartily recommended!
posted by librarylis at 1:19 PM on December 22, 2013

ah crap.

I gotta go fix my humbug meter.

Anyhow, mele kalikimaka and mahalo nui loa...to allayuz...
posted by mule98J at 1:33 PM on December 22, 2013

Glockenspiel, y'all!
posted by a humble nudibranch at 2:02 PM on December 22, 2013 [1 favorite]

Well that is just WONDERFUL.
posted by JanetLand at 4:05 PM on December 22, 2013

Yup, still stuck in my head.
posted by moonmilk at 8:50 PM on December 22, 2013

Some of my very favorite Christmas songs are from MeFi Music. They are in frequent rotation on my holiday playlist and I love turning people onto them. Here are some picks:

ShH 408t: Bennington by The White Hat- Great recent addition!
O Holy Night - Chococat. A rustic and earnest version of an incredible song.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Gallus. A "Sleepwalk"-style electric guitar update.
O Little Town of Bethlehem - Usonian. A warm happy banjo on one of the sweetest melodies ever made.
O Magnum Mysterium - Chara. Just hauntingly beautiful.
Christmas Rhapsody - Doubtfulpalace. Few parodies, of any kind, in any medium, are this perfect. This is one that people demand from me when they hear me play it.
Christmas Time for Boys and Girls - ludwig van. This is the one I expect to be the MeMu Holiday Challenge breakout hit. Just a beautiful song, a new classic as far as I'm concerned.
Huron Carol and Deck the Halls by antifreez_'s excellent brass band.
posted by Miko at 7:27 AM on December 23, 2013 [8 favorites]

MetaTalk is where I learned how "Mele Kalikimaka" came to be, linguistically, so this feels rather fitting. And a lovely job on the song, chococat!
posted by EvaDestruction at 1:12 PM on December 23, 2013 [2 favorites]