Elves Gone Wild!, Robert Lund (self-issued)

Lund's a jingle writer with a sideline doing hit parodies (nine full CDs of them in fact), and this is the only one dedicated to Christmas. It's from 2003 and I probably wouldn't have it to this day if the author hadn't gifted me with a copy. Lund covers some of the same ground as Bob Rivers, and this CD is right up there with some of Rivers' comedy classics. There's a lot of chart material on this -- "Every Toy You Break" is the classic Police tune, "Santa" plays off R.E.M.'s "Stand," "Milk For My Reindeer" takes off from Toby Keith and Willie Nelson's "Beer For My Horses," and "Who Let the Elves Out" is self-explanatory. "Nuttin' But Spam" brings in a guest performance from the AOL mail guy, "I Want Some Plastic Surgery For Christmas" is a rare takeoff on Gayla Peevey's ode to a hippopotamus, and Lund brings aboard his pal Billy, whose "Ding Fries Are Done" is all over the Web. A minor misfire is having two songs about going broke buying presents -- "Maxed Out Credit Cards" and "I'll Be Broke For Christmas" -- and the four bonus tunes aren't holiday numbers, though they're good examples of his non-Christmas work, including a takeoff on Coldplay's "Yellow" and Kermit the Frog's version of Five For Fighting's "Superman" called "SuperFrog." OK, here's "Ding":