Editor’s note: 2 DJs and a Boombox is exactly that. Dark Knight, a popular radio personality, and Moss Pit, a local mobile music DJ, play a few tunes for each other and let their thoughts flow.

Dark Knight and Moss Pit: One, two, three …

DK: Yes, rock smashes the scissors.

“Holy —-, It’s Christmas”

Red Peters

DK: We’ll play the edited version of this one.

MP: ‘Cause we’re edited people.

DK: This is the one I’d play.

MP: Oh, I love those kids’ voices.

DK: It’s almost like a rip on The Chipmunks.

MP: Red Peters. You gotta give him credit for that name.

DK: That’s most people’s reaction, too. All of the sudden, you realize it and think, “Holy … Christmas is here.”

MP: Yeah, that’s usually my reaction. As soon as finals are over.

DK: “Roast nuts chesting on an open fire.” Would that be like a hermaphrodite on an open fire? Because if they were a hermaphrodite, they’d be burning their nuts, but their chest would be OK. The silicon would survive, I think.

MP: Nice family Christmas tune here. Play this one for grandma.

“Little Drummer Boy”

Tori Amos

MP: I’ll make you guess this one.

DK: Tori Amos?

MP: Good call.

DK: Well, I knew it was either her or Jewel, and Jewel’s voice is a little higher.

MP: Tori does this good.

DK: This and “Do You Hear What I Hear” are great. I hate to say it, because I’m not a big fan of her, but Whitney Houston does a great version of “Do You Hear What I Hear.”

That’s just one of those you hear, and you get that cool Christmas feeling, like if you were sitting at a Christmas service and the choir was really good. When I hear that song or this one, that’s what happens.

MP: Bob Seger’s version of “Little Drummer Boy” is pretty sweet.

DK: The version that really hits me every time I play it is David Bowie and Bing Crosby. That is fantastic.

MP: Yeah, I do like that one. I have a version of Beck doing “Little Drum Machine Boy.” He ad-libs all the lyrics, with nothing about Christmas, but the music’s an electrical version of this.

DK: I’ll give Beck credit for being creative, but there’s some things you don’t mess with, and Christmas music is one of them.

“Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas”

Local H

MP: I’ve played Local H before, but you probably won’t be able to tell this is them. This is from the “Gravesend” soundtrack.

DK: Never heard of it.

MP: I love this tune, but I’m biased.

DK: I’ll hear stuff like this, and I hope they realize how this sounds because if they’re doing it like this on purpose, I can live with that, but if they think this is fantastically creative, than I don’t know. His voice just doesn’t go with the song, and when the heavy guitars come in …

I had the chance to chat with a couple guys from the Goo Goo Dolls, and I asked them about “Iris” being so different from their other stuff. And they said, “Yeah, it was amazing. We did that song and the producer looked and us and said, ‘You guys finally learned how to play.'” Because they weren’t trying to hide the mistakes with the heavy guitars and drums.

MP: I don’t know; I would agree it’s a big step when a rock band can do a good ballad. Green Day’s a good example.

DK: At the beginning of this one, you get the feeling that he’s really trying to make a pretty song. Then that guitar comes in and you’re like, there that goes.

MP: That alt-rock stuff again.

“Every Morning”

Sugar Ray

DK: I just opened this this morning. I was glad to see it; I was beginning to worry they would be another one-hit-wonder.

MP: This is pretty good. I’ve always liked Sugar Ray. The guy just has a fun voice.

DK: I like bands that can take a bunch of different kinds of sounds and mix ’em up and make ’em sound good. “Fly” was like that, and a few other songs on that record.

MP: You know what’s a really good song is “Stand and Deliver,” that Adam Ant cover.

DK: Well, we’ve heard them do Steve Miller, so …

I think doing that song from that soundtrack pushed this record up. People heard that and said, “Oh yeah, Sugar Ray, I want to hear something new.”

MP: This song’s got the whole Hawaiian thing going on.

DK: And the whistle.

MP: I haven’t heard a whistle in a song since “Walk Like an Egyptian.”