2008-12-06

The Holiday Playlist - 2008

Angels We Have Heard On High - The Brian Setzer Orchestra
2000 Miles - The Pretenders
X-Mas at KMart - Rootboy Slim and the Sex Change Band
Why Christmas? (The Longest Day of the Year) - Paula Kelley & the Misfit Toys
There's Always Tomorrow - Janet Orenstein & the Videocraft Chorus
Thanks for Christmas - XTC
Sweet Secret Peace - Neil Finn
O Holy Night - Andy Williams
Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy - David Bowie & Bing Crosby
Christmas Don't Be Late - The Chipmunks
Making Christmas - Danny Elfman
Just Call Me Scrooge - Fishbone
Soulful Christmas - James Brown
Mele Kalikimaka - The Gravy
Away In A Manger - Johnny Cash
Father Christmas - The Kinks
Little Drummer Boy - The Miracle Legion
Fairytale of New York - The Pogues
Dance of the Latkes Queens - Shirim Klezmer Orchestra
Merry Christmas Everybody - Slade
Santa Doesn't Cop Out On Dope - Sonic Youth
Santa Claus - Throwing Muses
Israel - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Christmas With The Devil - Spinal Tap
Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis - Tom Waits
Double-O Santa - Seks Bomba
O Come All Ye Faithful - Twisted Sister
Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
Last Christmas - Wham!
Christmas Time Is Here - Vince Guaraldi Trio
Frosty the Snowman - The Ventures
Christmas Day - Squeeze
Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt

(I welcome suggestions/additions, but know that McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime" will never, never be included. Ever. Because that song SUCKS, that's why. It's like those earwig things on Ceti Alpha Five in "Wrath of Khan." It burrows its way through your ear canal, wraps itself around your cerebral cortex, and makes you want to KILL.)

lisamcc at 8:03 p.m.

13 comments so far
Stephen
2008-12-07 08:48:35
I'm right there with you on the Paul McCartney song. Some additions for you to consider: Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - New Bomb Turks Brown Christmas - El Vez Listening to Otis Redding At Home During Christmas - Okkervil River Annunciation Day/Born on Christmas Day - Ted Leo / Pharmacists Christmas at the Zoo - The Flaming Lips The Christmas Song - The Raveonettes Mele Kalikimaka - Poi Dog Pondering with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
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Westbye
2008-12-07 14:46:11
I almost didn't see The Waitresses on there! Crisis averted. Merry Christmas Darling - The Carpenters What Child is This?/The Holly and the Ivy - Bing (1968, I believe) Ain't no Hole in the Washtub - Ma and Emmet Otter Buffalo Gals - George Bailey & Mary Hatch and of course! Blue Christmas - Elvis
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LisaMcC
2008-12-07 20:22:09
I actually can't do the Elvis version of "Blue Christmas," out of respect for my Ma, who to this day is still traumatized by a night out at a bar where the jukebox was STUCK on that song for, like, hours. She tells the story with a tinge of revulsion which makes me not want to listen to it ever again, either.

The Paula Kelley version of it is nice, though, and not just because I sing on it.
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ska-t
2008-12-07 23:20:11
i was regaled by grocery store muzak, yeasterday.. in particular, Paul McCartney's airhead dreck. i thought i was going to hurl an hour later. related? James Brown's "Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year" is flat out testifying. los Straitjackect's "Marshmallow World" is quite twang-i-licious. and lastly... why am i not surprised that you included Root Boy Slim? (i went to his "Punk Prom" in a Goodwill tux, and got to shake his hand when he admired my "get up". anointed by the Duke of Puke. my legacy.
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Katie DeBonville
2008-12-08 14:39:42
I've always found the Crosby/Bowie duet oddly fascinating and a bit unsettling...
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Honey
2008-12-08 17:22:39
Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas - John Denver No, I didn't make that up.
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Rebecca H.
2008-12-08 18:30:56
The Monkees, "Riu Riu Chiu"
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Spooney
2008-12-08 19:30:37
I Believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake (of ELP fame)is a nice one
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ska-t
2008-12-08 22:36:45
...oh, and Merle Haggard's "If We Make It Through December", if you need that bummer-Christmas feeling to take the edge off.
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Toddlington
2008-12-09 15:47:43
Don't forget that cheeseball classic, "Feed the World", o-lady o' the 80s.
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vikkitikkitavi
2008-12-11 00:39:45
Spooney stole my song. I don't believe he would know that song if it weren't for my 70s-tastic musical taste. Oh, and you know the only reason that Paul McCartney made that crap song is because John Lennon had that huge Xmas song.
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vikkitikkitavi
2008-12-11 00:42:42
Oh, and please consider Nancy Wilson's "That's What I Want for Christmas." You can hear it here: http://www.last.fm/music/Nancy+Wilson/_/That%27s+What+I+Want+for+Christmas
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kellie b
2008-12-22 14:32:59
Been in Texas - so I am late chiming in: "Merry Christmas from the Family" Robert Earl Keen. A classic.
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