If I ran a game store I would play the song Christmas Island by LAKE.
Christmas Island is the ending credits song to Cartoon Network's immensely popular TV show, Adventure Time. The song is performed by an indie-hipster waif band from the Pacific Northwest and it sounds every bit of it. If the song weren't connected to the show there's no way it would be considered as a song to be played in game stores, but the cache of the show is too strong. People of all ages and fandoms are attached to Adventure Time (including me). The song has a very strong nostalgic feeling even though the show is an ongoing show. You just know that decades from now this song will still pull people back to the teen years of the century.
Christmas Island isn't the ending credits song to Cartoon Network's immensely popular TV show, Adventure Time. Instead, Island Song by Ashley Ericksson is the ending credits song. To be even more precise, an alternate lyrics version of Island Song by Ashley Ericksson is the ending credits song, but this version has never been released for sale or download. The only way to get the actual ending credits version with its alternate lyrics is to rip the song from Adventure Time DVDs or YouTube videos* or otherwise pirate it. Ashley Ericksson is a founding member of LAKE. Island Song and Christmas Island are the same song (slightly different lyrics), but Island Song is her solo career version and Christmas Island is her band career version. Island Song was never released for sale or download. Christmas Island was relased on LAKE's 2009 album, Let's Build a Roof. If I ran a game store I would play Christmas Island by LAKE and let the fans scratch their heads when the song sings about "a place beside the sea" instead of about "the butterflies and bees". For me, the hassle of getting a high bit-rate mp3 of the song used in the show is a barrier.
* The full version of the song is not played in broadcast or streaming episodes of Adventure Time. Only the DVDs play the song in its entirety.
Christmas Time on Google Play
Here's a YouTube video of the alternate lyrics version of Island Song by Ashley Ericksson as used in the closing credits of Adventure Time:
Link to lyrics of all three versions
Christmas Island lyrics
Come along with me
To a place beside the sea
We can wander through the forest
And do so as we please
Come along with me
To a cliff under a tree
Where we can gaze upon the water
As an everlasting dream
All of my affections
I give them all to you
Maybe by next summer
We won't have changed our tune
Just a lot to be
In this place beside the sea
Making up new numbers
And living so merrily
All of my affections
I give them all to you
I'll be there for you always
And always be for you
Come along with me
To a place beside the sea
We can wander through the forest
Do so as we please
Living so merrily
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