IT'S DISSSSMAAAASSSS!!!! - favourite alt.xmas songs/covers?
Hi All,
Putting together a 50 'DiSmas' songs playlist on Spotify to run on the site but am sure there's stuff on there I've forgotten and ain't thinking of.
Also, what Xmas singles since the Darkness have actually been any good? Seems like popular music is missing exceptional personalities to write Christmas songs. Any thoughts on why? (am in the middle of writing why I think it is for my next Times column)
Anyway, here's the playlist at the moment of Christmassy songs and covers that I quite like http://open.spotify.com/user/seaninsound/playlist/2sFop4Z6a9oczYj8nGwSLL
Tracklist for those where Spotify ain't available
Sufjan Stevens – Jingle Bells
Fall Out Boy – What's This?
Fountains of Wayne – I Want An Alien For Christmas
Jimmy Eat World – Last Christmas
The Killers – Don't Shoot Me Santa
The Darkness – Christmas Time
Smash Mouth – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
The Ravonettes – The Christmas Song
Mew – She Came Home for Christmas
Frightened Rabbit – It's Christmas So We'll Stop
Au Revoir Simone – Christmas Time Is Here
Kate Havnevik – Winter Wonderland
Slow Club – Christmas TV
My Brightest Diamond – Nature Boy
Sufjan Stevens – That Was The Worst Christmas Ever!
Emmy The Great – Christmas In Prison
Chris Isaak – Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Duet With Stevie Nicks
Sufjan Stevens – Star Of Wonder
Martha Wainwright – Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Damien Rice – Silent Night - Live From Union Chapel
Fiona Apple – Frosty The Snowman
The Hives – A Christmas Duel
Girls Aloud – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
The Killers – A Great Big Sled
blink-182 – I Won't Be Home For Christmas
The Who – Christmas - Remixed Album Version
The BellRays feat. Lisa Kekaula, Tony Fate and Bob Vennum – All I Want To Do Is Shag For Christmas
No Use For A Name – Fairytale Of New York
The Wombats – Is This Christmas? [Radio Edit] - New Mix - Radio Edit
Third Eye Blind – One Of Those Christmas Days
KIDS Allstarz – Merry Xmas Everybody
Busted – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Marah – New York Is A Christmas Kind Of Town
RJD2 – Christmas Eve Montage
Daz Dillinger – Christmas In The Hood
Half Dead & The Twinz – Just Like Xmas
Destiny's Child – 8 Days of Christmas
Ella Fitzgerald – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Boyz II Men – Silent Night
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – It's Christmas Time
Katy Perry – White Christmas
Carpenters – The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale Of New York
Nat King Cole – God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Emmylou Harris – O Little Town of Bethlehem
Tori Amos – Emmanuel
Sufjan Stevens – We Three Kings
Sufjan Stevens – I Saw Three Ships
The Album Leaf – End Title
Mogwai – Christmas Steps
Sufjan FTW?
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No Low?
Surely 'Just Like Christmas' is the ultimate indie Christmas song.
yeah
only because it wasn't on Spotify.... non-Spotify suggestions welcomed. When I do an article on DiS next week and I can obviously mention and link to tracks/videos.
I think it is, I managed to find it but I can't get on Spotify at work
should be on the OC's 'Merry Chrismukkah' collection.
Yeah I remember finding it on this little gem of an album too.
o h y e h
b a l l s
s r y
Also, don't forget.
Low. Santa's coming over.
With it's truly disturbing video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZIDci7FW6E
a list of who's releasing Xmas 'singles'/EPs/Abums this year?
So far on my list I have...
Pet Shop Boys http://flavorwire.com/54987/a-very-indie-do-they-know-its-christmas-6-more-alternative-holiday-jams
Fucked Up
Tori Amos
That Lost Camp' and friends track from our news last week...
the latter one
is this in case anyone missed it http://awesomeatchristmas.wordpress.com/
JAG (sorry, sorry)
http://golauglau.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/foolstide-is-here/
Dame Wendy of Roby reviewed it and Huw Stephens played it.
Very good it is too!
Aw man
Thank you.
also
Slow Club - Christmas, Thanks for Nothing EP
and Avalanche Records is putting out a Christmas album including this excellent song from There Will Be Fireworks:
http://soundcloud.com/illfit/there-will-be-fireworks-in-excelsis-deo/
I am excited for the PSBs Christmas EP
I think Slow Club have one coming out too, and Parenthetical Girls released (another) one. I'm sure I saw somewhere that Camera Obscura had a Christmas song out as well.
Other songs for your list:
The Magnetic Fields - Mr Mistletoe
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Cold White Christmas
The Knife - Christmas Reindeer
Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again
Rufus Wainwright - Spotlight On Christmas
Bright Eyes - Blue Christmas
Nathan Fake - Silent Night
Oh and...
of Montreal - Christmas Isn't Safe For Animals
i really like that bright eyes cover
thank you for these suggestions
The whole Bright Eyes/Saddlecreek
Christmas album is awesome.
Add God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen from that onto the list.
I like 'have yourself a merry little christmas'
sung by conor is pretty funny
Cold White Christmas
may be the most depressing Christmas song ever
My mates just released an Christmassy EP:
http://illmurray.bandcamp.com/album/murray-christmas
their Little Drummer Boy is seriously chilling...
Grandaddy
Alan Parsons in a winter wonderland
Reuben - Christmas Is Awesome
indeed
added to playlist
maybe i should aim for 100 tracks? Or maybe 88 as it looks like baubles (rather than fat ladies)
The Long Blondes
Christmas Is Cancelled
and also
the Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)
ah yeah
added Ramones
Soulwax did a cover of Last Christmas
didn't they?
yeh, i think so
it's nowhere near as good as the Jimmy Eat World version tho! :)
this is true
James Dean Bradfield's from TFI Friday is the best!
James Pants
James Pants - This Christmas Girl from Peanut Butter Wolf presents Badd Santa
Peanut butter wolf can do no wrong.
There's the Relient K Christmas album, a few other Killers Christmas songs, and Yule Shoot Your Eye Out by Fall Out Boy, too.
The Bouncing Souls - Do They Know It's Christmas
The Reverend Horton Heat - Jingle Bells
Harry And The Potters - Wizard Chess
Run DMC - Christmas In Hollis
is that bouncing souls
version available to stream anywhere?
I found it on this blog last year:
http://www.canyouseethesunset.com/article/can-you-see-santa-from-the-southside-punk-christmas-songs/
Probably gone now though. :(
I like that Clipse track with the line...
'I'm shoveling so much snow man, call me frosty lover'
I think its called Ride Around Shinning on Hell Hath No Fury, the ice cold loops add to the Christams flavour too. I also like to throw on some Wiley Eski Beat classics like Ice Rink or Eskimo. There are some nice Sally Shapiro Christmas tracks too, oh and Informer by Snow...
Frightened Rabbit
It's Christmas So We'll Stop
The Fall
'No Xmas for John Quays' or 'Xmas with Simon'
Blakfish yeh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZmtuhbJBG0
i'm still in shock
that Snoop Dogg made a Christmas album http://open.spotify.com/album/6Yfaff9em7z9TmO9QQscpw
on the subject of Xmas albums
the Phil Spector one is obvs amazing http://open.spotify.com/album/4usxfUImNER8bHZANHcd0J
it's amsued me to find
that the Jimmy Eat World song was on an OC Mix album on Spotify! You should add the Eels song as well which is also on there.
Hanging From The Christmas Tree - FFS
This is not a jag because we're split so who cares if anyone likes it.....but Favours For Sailors did an xmas song last year - which mysteriously ended up being played by Markon Ronson in New York about 3 days after it was recorded? By my reckoning Jon came up with the funniest Christmas song lyrics ever;
www.myspace.com/favours4sailors - its on there still (if thats still there) check it out if you want to laugh at Xmas stalker/suicide.
An album with 2 Jimmy Eat World tracks on - Christmas Card & 12.23.95
"Alternative Rock Xmas" - www.amazon.com/dp/B000WAG2FA
Also has Luscious Jackson doing Let It Snow, and a Specials track, too, which is nice.
"Little Drummer Boy" - Dandy Warhols
and Julian Casablancas is releasing "I wish it was Christmas Today" in the next week or two isn't he?
finally, I have to admit that Snow Patrol did a pretty decent xmas song. Anyone ever buy that XFM charity xmas album? it was on there with Low, Eels and Flaming Lips' cover of 'White Christmas'.
the xfm album is a family favourite at home
The drugstore and six by seven numbers are class...
Mojo mag's Blue Christmas album was a good'un
http://www.discogs.com/release/521418
1 Flaming Lips - A Change At Christmas (Say It Isn't So)
2 Rufus Wainwright - Spotlight On Christmas
3 Marvin Gaye - Purple Snowflakes
4 Staple Singers - Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas
5 O'Jays - Christmas Ain't Christmas, New Years Ain't New Years Without The One You Love
6 Charles Brown - Please Come Home For Christmas
7 David McAlmont & David Arnold - Have Yourself A Merry Christmas
8 A Girl Called Eddy - The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot
9 James Brown - Let's Make Christmas Mean Something This Year Pts 1 & 2
10 Neal Casal - Cora Jones
11 Handsome Family - So Much Wine
12 Supremes - Just A Lonely Christmas
13 Ed Harcourt - In The Bleak Midwinter
14 B.B. King - Christmas Celebration
15 Ventures - Jingle Bell Rock
it was!
especially the flaming lips song. I whack this out every year when i'm cutting me sprouts.
'So much wine' is outstanding.
I don't want whatever 'gift' Phil Spector has got me for Christmas.
Thank you all the same.
Wonderland
by The Robot Ate Me is lovely.
I can only find it on emusic though
Check this compilation
http://open.spotify.com/album/2HsmRtYCavEk8xgS9hY5h9
The Joseph & Mary Chain is the Futureheads, Field Music, Kathryn Williams, This Ain't Vegas and a load of other Sunderland acts.
AFROMAN CHRISTMAS ALBUM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colt-45-Christmas-Afroman/dp/B000I5YCJC
Now, for something completely different.
Merry Xmas, rave style.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDzLHu7wo5Q&feature=related
It isn't on spotify or anything else it seems.
Which is probably a good thing.
Yo La Tengo - Its Christmas Time
Blitzen Trapper - Christmas is coming soon
Okkervil River - Listening to Otis Redding at home during christmas
Joni Mitchell - River
not on Spotify though.
JAGging around the Christmas tree
Just released - indiepop joy from the Bobby McGees, the School, the Loves, the Rocky Nest, Allo Darlin', Brontosaurus Chorus, Sweet Baboo, Little My, Silence At Sea, Them Squirrels, Speedmarket Avenue and Lucky Delucci. Each had a month to write a song about one of the 12 days of Christmas.
http://businessmanrecords.bigcartel.com/product/12-days-of-christmas
manics
There was the Manic Street Preachers song Ghost of Christmas, which was available as a free download two years ago. Completely ridiculous and a bit crap, apart from a great Noddy Holder-ish chorus.
Cap'n Jazz - Winter Wonderland
really?
must find this
ok
have added loads of this suggestions, thank you everyone, only a few more to go 'til I hit the magic 88 (which looks a bit like a Christmas decoration) and then I'll add this to the site proper
http://open.spotify.com/user/seaninsound/playlist/2sFop4Z6a9oczYj8nGwSLL
Um Mew - She Came Home For Christmas
it is better than all the songs on your list....
Already mentioned a few of these a few weeks back, but still...
Favours For Sailors - Hanging From The Christmas Tree
Hot Club de Paris - Will you Still Be In Love With Me Next Year
Nosferatu D2 - It's Christmas Time (For God's Sake)
Glasvegas - A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss)
And The Lightspeed Champion Bad Xmas EP isn't too bad either.
Get Behind Me, Santa!
The alternative alt.xmas single = Sufjan Stevens 'Get Behind Me, Santa!' - get involved here:
Join the group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=196894760422&ref=mf
As played on Lauren Laverne's 6music show on Friday - skip 22mins in http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p85dz/Lauren_Laverne_11_12_2009/
this is a massive jag, but...
i've recorded 5 alternative versions of christmas songs, free to download from here:
http://www.zshare.net/download/69797191ef43eb7a/
all done with a guitar and a loop pedal (and a bit of acoustic), slightly post rocky/lo-fi. apologies again for the jag.
Jesus Christ by Big Star
Would be my choice.
have added it
thank you
the new camera obscura single, blizzard, is quite wonderful
and white christmas by otis redding...probably the greatest ever xmas song
lightspeed champion
i forgot to wrap your presents...my bad.
that whole e.p. is good fun!
no worries
right, c'mon
make your own playlist that's better than this by midday tomorrow and i'll link to them when putting this playlist up on the main site. am sure someone can better this playlist (probably by having a playlist that's just Jimmy Eat World 'Last Christmas' on repeat!!)
Here we go Sean,
Merry Christmas to all at DiS and those that read her.
http://open.spotify.com/user/mitchellstirling/playlist/0nCVwBb3A21atBIdAIMsrV
sean god bless you for this
i'd also add tom mcrae 'wonderful christmastime' which is amazing and almost bleak but it's not on spotify :(
thanks again a great idea!
test threadmash
yo
here's a christmas playlist
http://open.spotify.com/user/m...w.../playlist/3kvlFB4wytERwmnVGXfBN6
it starts and finishes with the walkmen, what the fuck more could you ask for?
3 new from £39.44 1 used from £46.76!!!
Couple of worthwhile tracks (but not worth ^that):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Its-Cool-Christmas-Various-Artists/dp/tracks/B000051TTC
Stereogum Xmas Mix from last year:
http://stereogum.com/1047/have-yourself-a-merry-indie-christmas/news/
St Etienne & Tim Burgess - I Was Born On Christmas Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4--Lkb_Oldo
There's a version of Beck doing Little Drum Machine Boy but I can't find it on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV9tJ-YTnTQ
From the Just Say Noël album:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-Say-Noel-Various-Artists/dp/B000000OW1
five hours of festive indie tunes:
http://sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2007/12/very-sweeping-christmas-complete.html
(errr, I obviously /did/ find the Beck track)
TBC Poundsystem - Losing My Sledge
"I Was There For The First Canned Snow In Cologne..."
:-)
http://ill-ec-tro-nic.blogspot.com/2006/12/i-was-there-for-first-canned-snow-in.html
afroman
has a Christmas album on spotify featuring such classics as 12 Js of Xmas and Deck My Balls.
FFS, LET''S PICK A THREAD AND STICK TO IT
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4273784
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4273399
'Top Ten Christmas Carols Even An Atheist Could Love'
http://www.alternet.org/belief/149151/10_best_christmas_songs_for_atheists?page=entire
The rules:
-Songs cannot have any mention of God, Jesus, angels, saints, or miracles.
-Songs must be reasonably well-known.
-No song parodies.
-Songs have to be good songs.
-Bonus points for not mentioning the word 'Christmas' or being written more than 100 years ago.
10: White Christmas - How can you not love an entirely secular Christmas classic written by a Jewish agnostic?
9: Jingle Bells - The second through fourth verses (you know, the ones nobody sings or has even heard of) are all about courting girls, racing horses, and getting into accidents, so that's entertaining.
8: Sleigh Ride - Lots of fun to sing, except for the weirdly tuneless bridge about Farmer Gray's birthday party....
7: Silver Bells - ...it's in 3/4 time, which means you can waltz to it.
6: We Wish You a Merry Christmas - ...it celebrates two great Christmas traditions: pestering the neighbors, and eating yourself sick.
5: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - ...it's not about mucking around in the actual snow, so much as it is about staying the hell out of it.
4: Santa Baby - ...a song that revels in ... the not-so-subtle implication of sexual favors ... the only magical being it recognizes is an increasingly secular gift-giving saint with an apparent weakness for sultry, husky- voiced cabaret singers.
3: Carol of the Bells - ...the original Ukrainian folk tune it's based on may even be prehistoric - and it sounds it.
2: Winter Wonderland - ...a melody and rhythm that makes you physically feel like you're taking a brisk, slightly slippery winter walk with the snow crunching under your boots.
1: Deck the Halls - It's old as the hills: the lyrics are well over 100 years old, and the tune dates back to at least the 16th century, if not earlier. ...doesn't mention God, or Jesus, or angels, or virgin births, or magical talking animals, or redemption of guilt through blood sacrifice, or any supernatural anything. If there are any gods at all who inspired this song, they are entirely pagan pre-Christian ones.
christmas balls
by Korn
fucking hilarious
jag
http://cementimental.bandcamp.com/track/christmas-lullaby
Anyone mention Reuben - Christmas is awesome?
No? ok .....
Reuben - Christmas is awesome
Great tune!
I was gonna mentiont this too, but it's not on Spotify. Here's the youtube, though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH2umxtA_sc
x2
http://golauglau.bandcamp.com - whole free Christmas EP
http://golauglau.tumblr.com/post/2430276283/golau-glau-coventry-carol-free-download-golau - free disco version of Coventry Carol
mariachi el bronx - lady rosales
I made a Christmas compilation cd this year
and it looked like this:
1 Sufjan Stevens – Come On! Let’s Boogey To The Elf Dance!
2 Low – Just Like Christmas
3 Eels – Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas
4 Chris T-T – 100,000 Turkeys
5 Grandaddy – Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland
6 Babybird – Planecrash Xmas
7 Sufjan Stevens – Jupiter Winter
8 Drugstore – Maybe At Christmas Time
9 The Flaming Lips – White Christmas
10 Giant Sand – Thank You Dreaded Black Ice, Thank You
11 Parenthetical Girls – Carol Of The Season
12 Shugo Tokumaru – Sleigh Ride
13 Sufjan Stevens – It’s Christmas! Let’s Be Glad!
14 Slaraffenland – Little Drummer Boy
15 Calexico – Gift X-change
16 Departure Lounge – Christmas Downer
17 Sleep Party People – Silent Night
18 Sufjan Stevens – Sister Winter
19 Parenthetical Girls – If It’s Time For Christmas
20 Stephen Jones – Baby Jesus Opens His Presents
21 Ohbijou – Last Christmas
22 Sufjan Stevens – Put The Lights On The Tree
23 Mew – She Came Home For Christmas
24 The Flaming Lips – A Change At Christmas (Say It Isn’t So)
Obviously it owes a fair bit to Sufjan and the best ever compilation cd (10 years old now!): It's A Cool Cool Christmas.
Yeah for Chris T-T !
A live version here (with other good things...)
http://christt.bandcamp.com
The Wedding Present - Stepping Into Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5E2ARJK498
Mariah Carey - All I want for Xmas
The Vandals did a Christmas album ...
It was mostly shit
Santa f*cked your mom
Is a very dirty piece of xmas dubstep, the breakdown mid song is very naughty.
Free download here http://breakingmorewaves.blogspot.com/2010/12/special-message-from-santa-part-2.html
Fucked Up- David Christmas
some other ones that I like..
deerhoof - xmas tree
deerhoof - little drummer boy
chino moreno & far - do they know it's christmas
stars - fairy tale of new york
idiot pilot - white christmas
belle and sebastian - oh come oh come emmanuel
half handed cloud - Asian Meteorologists Predicted the Heavens blah blah
snowden or polyphonic spree - happy christmas war is over
rilo kiley - xmas cake
decemberists - please daddy (don't get drunk this christmas)
the knife - christmas reindeer
John Prine - Christmas in Prison.
Oceansize (RIP) did a cover of Walking In The Air
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kaz84z0tdr4
Paul Kelly - How to make gravy
No doubt there's a youtube clip somewhere but I'm at work.
giving this a bump
as there's a competition going on that may be relevant to your interests http://drownedinsound.com/news/4144257-dismas-giveaway--win-6months-premium-access-to-spotify
two good ones
http://youtu.be/iInAuoio-pQ Can - Silent Night! Xmas song by Can!!!!11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a5fHMlb4V0 King Diamond - No Presents For Xmas
this is great
http://soundcloud.com/torkelsen/torkelsen-have-yourself-a
Torkelsen - Have yourself a merry little christmas
Another JAG
http://golauglau.bandcamp.com/album/the-masque-of-bruma
Caitlin Rose's Christmas song is brilliant...
...and quite sad. But brilliant.
http://soundcloud.com/morrisday/caitlin-rose-and-keegan-dewitt-you-never-come-home-for-christmas
and his co-worker speedy gonzales
the hat I got for christmas is too big
Joy Zipper - Christmas Song
Is quite lovely...
still nacht goes disco...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0e42i7b2KM
(really want to hear the white christmas a-side)
and from the related videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zibyfoX4wFg&feature=related
3> this song (sakamoto)
oh adn Joan Baez http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wq3Tv3c20I
i love that jimi is in this thread
recommending clipse
I still stand by my choice
it fits nicely into a xmass mixtape, coke rap in general has so many snow refrences that its the perfect christmas hip-hop.
http://soundcloud.com/thrashhits/deftones-do-they-know-its-christmas-feat-jonah-matranga-grady-avenell
Nothing will ever beat The Boss doing Santa Claus is coming to town
The Flaming Lips - Christmas At The Zoo
Brilliantly bleak covers of previously cheery xmas songs
Tom McRae - Wonderful Christmastime - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87FJ3-yMOEQ
Laurie Cameron - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9UsZkwRYI8
Slow Club - All alone on Christmas - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxkClsPuAbM
Aidan John Moffats
New christmas bandcamp thing is amazing, his last christmas cover almost sounds jolly. http://aidanjohnmoffat.bandcamp.com/album/oh-what-a-not-so-silent-night-before-christmas
Kindle a Flame In Her Heart / The Holly in The Ivy by Los Campesinos
Frosty the Snowman - Cocteau Twins
I didn't see it on Spotify, though.
Also, another vote for Fall Out Boy's Yule Shoot Your Eye Out -- great song.
Wiley - Cheer Up, It's Christmas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/15/wiley-grime?intcmp=ILCMUSTXT9384
The definitive version of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiC1P8OT_Uc
Here’s a few Christmas crackers people might like
Pointed Sticks - Powerpop Santa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZaUW9l0blk
Joy Zipper - Christmas Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q2NZa9lkWk
Smashing Pumpkins - Christmastime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXJ36-y5bjg
Ron Sexsmith - Maybe this Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1rTSGil0Ww
The Vandals - Oi to the world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKk-2Pu2N8g
Shonen Knife - Space Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H_-ia2M2M4
The Wellingtons - I guess it's Christmas (can only find an acoustic version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Pyn6i-7sY
Hello Saferide - iPod-X-Mas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gJ0iqJ3Tuk
Enuff Z'Nuff - Happy Holiday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bc5ud6BVFU
The coolest xmas song ever is
It's Christmas Time So What by Lovenut. It's on Spotify. Defo one for the playlist
do you fancy making a part 2 playlist?
i'm meant to be not working. i'll try and add all of these if i do get bored at some point over the break tho...
festive bump
because I'm listening to Jimmy Eat World's version of last christmas.
The Dave Elvis Experiance - Blue Xmas (Shackleton Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrQoILhD2E8
http://www.daveelvis.com/
Don't know about "alt", but
2 special ones for me: Wizzard "I Wish..." & Slade "Merry..." Both from '73 - that was my last "single" xmas.
Sun Ra presents The Qualities - It's Christmas Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEpFZmN0USQ
love his doo-wop stuff
wonderful! did they have a ping pong table in the studio?
No Xmas for John Quays
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnthgtwQ-ok
Just scrolled through the entire thread and there's no mention of
Half Man Half Biscuit - It's Cliched To Be Cynical At Christmas
You people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRDJgn68h1A
BANJO OR FREAKOUT
he's done THREE christmas albums. 2009, 2010 and 2011. they are absolutely lovely.
2011 is his best i think. here - banjoorfreakout.bandcamp.com
Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis by Tom Waits
Did anyone add King Night by Salem yet?
No? Then King Night by Salem.
(Sometimes) You Have To Work On Christmas
By Harvey Danger, them who did the Peep Show theme. It's on my iPod, no idea where I got it from but it's great.