In honor of the return of 100bells, my favorite time of the year, here is the painfully funky, “Funky Funky Christmas” from the New Kids On The Block’s multi-platinum Merry Merry Christmas album. If you’ve never heard this song before, I should warn you that, ehm, there’s rapping. By the New Kids. Which is neither funky, nor good, or christmassy, but I do sort of enjoy Joey’s faux-British accent in the style of Slick Rick and Dana Dane (Oh my god, remember Dana Dane?! He was from Brooklyn, for pete’s sake.).

It probably won’t grace any respectable Christmas Mix, but how would you recognize a really good christmas song – like the one posted below – if there weren’t hideous little gems like these? My absolute favorite line is: Funky, dope jam top on your christmas list, do you dig this?. Oh and, what on earth does ‘we’re gonna kick the ballistics off our christmas wishes’ mean!?

   New Kids On The Block – Funky Funky Christmas

For a live performance of this song with awesome early nineties dance moves – check out the video. As a special bonus Arsenio Hall raps along in the end. Hooo boy, I still cannot believe I came across this highly significant moment in music!