First Christmas
The purported first album chronologically, this is our take on that classic of holiday literature, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. (We figured it was inevitable.)
This album includes our first attempt to actually explain something about who or what the Shadeaux Bros. are (Become the Darkness). Also our first real experimentation with writing actual scripts for some of the skits. This was also the album that Jonathan really worked overtime on the assembly as I had approximately 2 hours to record that week so the bulk of my lines were recorded alone, then slapped into the scenes later after the other actors recorded. A skill that would stand him in good stead in our later podcastery.
This was also the album where we really assumed that our friends would remember album tracks from previous years as the Christmas Foods tracks make zero sense unless you realize they are a riff on previous album's Christmas Truths. We are hilarious.
Mega Happy Sound Song for Jeff definitely makes us cringe now as we're blatantly poking fun at bad anime dubs. It feels like its veering into some racially insensitive territory with 2020 eyes, but we decided to leave it in for this reissue. Partially to avoid sweeping it under the rug and welcome THE DISCOURSE. But also because I think it's fairly clear that the characters of D. and J. Shadeaux are idiots. Plus our obsession with Jeff Chen cannot be hidden on the cutting room floor of history.
First Christmas (2012)
TRACK LIST
1. A Beginning ( Save a Major Holiday)
2. Become the Darkness (Shadeaux Lore)
3. Rejecting the Call (And We’re Running)
4. The Ghost of Christmas Past (Amy Miller)
5. What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? (Amy Miller)
6. Christmas Foods #1 (Yams)
7. A Botched Attempt (We are awful.)
8. When the Meadow was Bloomin’ (Don Smith)
9. Christmas Foods #2 (Turkey)
10.The Ghost of Christmas Presents (Josh Darnell)
11. A questionably better attempt (We are awesome!)
12. 2000 Miles (Jonathan)
13. Christmas Foods #3 (Invisible Cupcakes)
14. Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (Jeff Chen)
15. Mega Happy Sound Song for Jeff
16. At Album’s End