Indespensible Holiday Classics

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Black? White? Straight? Gay? Awesome

John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

the kinks - "father christmas"

Jethro Tull- Christmas Song
The Band- Christmas Must Be Tonight
Wizzard- I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
Greg Lake- I Believe in Father Christmas
Yogi Yorgesson- I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas/Yingle Bells (a Scandinavian family tradition)

This song makes went want to commit seppuku.

this tape i made of dr. demento style christmas songs is the ONLY christmas "album" i own....also id LOVE to find this version of silent night by bad religion i heard 7 years ago.....it was great

i really dig Chris Cornell's cover of Ave Maria.

The UltraLounge Series - "Christmas Cocktails" Parts 1 and 2
Yule Struttin' - a Blue Note Christmas
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas
Jingle Bell Jazz (Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, etc)
The Roches - We Three Kings
Loreena McKennit - To Drive the Cold Winter Away
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Christmas Caravan
Hipsters' Holiday (Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Eartha Kitt etc)
Christmas With the Ventures
Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Esquivel - Merry Xmas from the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Hi-Fidelity Holiday (Keb'Mo', Cocteau Twins, Leonard Cohen, etc)
The Soulful Strings - The Magic of Christmas
SubPop's Holiday Sound Spectacular (Combustible Edison, Thornetta Davis, etc)
Arthur Lyman - With a Christmas Vibe
Brothers of the Baladi - A Time of Peace



[Edited on Dec 07, 2003 by Pyewacket]

i second that, "x-mas at the zoo" is a great fucking x-mas song.

Xmas isn't department store Xmas without Slade, dammit. And my personal fave, Sloppy Seconds' 'Hooray for Santy Claus'

Ooh! Some new additions:

The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Christmas
The Ventures - Christmas Joy
The Most Fabulous Christmas Album Ever! (Tommy Dorsey, Eartha Kitt, Carmen McRae etc)
Jingle Bell Swing (Tony Bennett, Art Carney, Louis Prima etc).

Lou Rawls - Merry Christmas Ho!Ho!Ho!
Stompin' Tom Connors - Merry Christmas Everybody
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Christams EP
Vince Guraldi - Charlie Brown Christmas
various artists - Santa Claus Blues

The Kinks - Father Christmas

Oh! One I am dying to hear is Rudy Rae Moore's - This Ain't No White Christmas!
It's by the actor that played Dolemite and looks badass but funny as hell!!

[Edited on Dec 12, 2003 by chrisnail_and_i]

[Edited on Dec 12, 2003 by chrisnail_and_i]

Run DMC: Christmas in Hollis.

forget the wordy shit. i'm keen on tchaikovsky's nutcracker cd.
I also like Moe's little christmas cd.