Zero Skills Inc.

Christmassacre (Tastes Like Truckin’) This yuletide offering is a fine way of getting under the skin of people who insist on listening to nothing but Christmas music from Halloween on. The countrified punks of Zero Skills Inc. plow tunelessly but enthusiastically through seasonal standards like a drunk driver running down Santa’s reindeer. Slop-bucket takes on “Jingle Bell Rock” and “Sleigh Ride” are chuckle-worthy goofs, but their dark, plodding version of “Little Drummer Boy” is a one-way ticket to hell.

This article appears in December 21 • 2001.

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Greg Beets was born in Lubbock on the day Richard Nixon was elected president. He has covered music for the Chronicle since 1992, writing about everyone from Roky Erickson to Yanni. Beets has also written for Billboard,Uncut, Blurt, Elmore, and Pop Culture Press. Before his digestive tract cried uncle, he co-published Hey! Hey! Buffet!, an award-winning fanzine about all-you-can-eat buffets.