MEGADETH BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS!
If any of you out there are old enough to remember Woodstock, you might recall a side-splitting parody album of that peace’n’love’n’musicfest called Lemmings. It was put out by the National Lampoon troupe, which at the time boasted such soon-to-be-ready-for-prime-time players as John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest, and involved screamingly hilarious takeoffs on rock folk of all types.
MEGADETH BE YOUR SANTA CLAUS!
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Moira McCormick
If any of you out there are old enough to remember Woodstock, you might recall a side-splitting parody album of that peace’n’love’n’musicfest called Lemmings. It was put out by the National Lampoon troupe, which at the time boasted such soon-to-be-ready-for-prime-time players as John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest, and involved screamingly hilarious takeoffs on rock folk of all types.
Lemmings was set at the Woodchuck Festival of Peace, Love, and Death, in which the flower children in attendance had three days to kill themselves off. By album’s end, there were still a few thousand folks left, so on came the world’s deadliest heavy metal band, Megadeath, who turned up their amps to 750 decibels and reduced the remaining festgoers to subatomic particles. The chorus of Megadeath’s swan song (performed, eerily enough, by John Belushi) went, “Living is a bummer, dying is a high...Dying is a total trip, die baby die,” while gigantic guitars whomped along like Black Sabbath at their most paleolithic. Did I mention that this record came out 13 years ago?