Christmas POX

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And now, the inevitable POX :-)

My list:

1. Squeeze: Christmas Day
2. Wham!: Last Christmas
3. XTC: Thanks For Christmas
4. Slade: Merry XMas Everybody
5. John Lennon: Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
6. Captain Sensible: One Christmas Catalogue
7. The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl: Fairytale Of New York
8. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Christmas Time Again
9. Jona Lewie: Stop The Cavalry
10.Bryan Adams: Christmas Time

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:37 (twenty-two years ago)

XTC, I'll have that

― Fug (Ferg), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The XTC one was credited to Three Wise Men

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 December 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

1. The Pogues - "Fairy Tale of New York"
2. George Winston - "Carol of the Bells"
3. ??? - "Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland"
4. Kevin "Bloody" Wilson - "Oi! Santa, Where's Me Fucking Bike!?"
5. Big Star - "Jesus Christ"

I don't know any others.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 15 December 2003 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

01 "Jingle Bells" - Clancy Brothers
02 "Little Drummer Boy" - Bing Crosby & David Bowie
03 "Jesus Christ" - Big Star
04 "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" - John & Yoko
05 "Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland" - Grandaddy
06 "I Want an Alien for Christmas" - Fountains Of Wayne
07 "Skating" - Vince Guarladi Trio
08 "(Sure Doesn't Feel Like) Xmas Time" - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
09 "Xmas At K-Mart" - Root Boy Slim & the Sex Change Band
10 "Christmas Rappin'" - Kurtis Blow

Honorable mentions:
- "Christmas With Satan" - James White & The Blacks
- "The ‘Priest’ They Called Him" - William S. Burroughs & Kurt Cobain
- "Twelve Days Of Christmas" - Bob & Doug Mackenzie (Rick Moranis & Dave Thomas)
- "'Zat You, Santa Claus?" - Louis Armstrong
- "Merry Christmas Emily" - Cracker
- "Just Like Christmas" - Low

― billstevejim, Monday, 15 December 2003 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

low's xmas stuff rules.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 15 December 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

1)Little Drummer Boy / Peace on Earth - Bing and Dave
2)Driving Home For Christmas - Chris Rea
3)2000 Miles - Chrissy Hynde
4)Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
5)The Gift - Philip Aaberg
6)Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Lennon
7)Bethlehem Down - Sting
8)A Christmas Song - Jethro Tull
9)Gabriel's Message - Sting
10)Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Chrissy Hynde

― bahtology, Monday, 15 December 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Coventry Carol"
"I Wonder As I Wander"
"We Three Kings"
"Another Lonely Christmas" - Prince
"Carol of the Bells"
"Personet Hodie"
"In Dulci Jubilo"
"Silent Night"
"Oh Come All Ye Faithful"
"Angels We Have Heard On High"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

All the Christmas stuff at the end of Crunk and Disorderly

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)

#1 Darlene Love - "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Wham! 'Everything She Wants'
Pet Shop Boys 'Always On My Mind'
Human League 'Don't You Want Me'
Queen 'Bohemian Rhapsody'
Frankie Goes To Hollywood 'The Power Of love'
The Beatles 'Hello Goodbye'
Michael Jackson 'Earth Song'
Pink Floyd 'Another Brick In The Wall (prt 2)'
The Beatles 'Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out'
Emily Ford & The Checkmates 'What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For'

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

waitresses
eartha kitt
cocteau twins
brenda lee
ronettes
pogues & kirsty
low
darlene love
stan freberg
wizzard

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

This year:

Band Aid 1
Wham!
Saint Etienne
Greg Lake
The Darkness
The Cheeky Girls
Bing (sans Bowie please)
Pogues and Kirsty
Dexy's (bootleg of Merry Christmas Everybody, cheers Tim)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Several of these are perennials.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The willie nelson x-mas album is my all-time favorite -- booker t and willie getting stoned as fuck doing christmas songs, how brilliant.

The Beatles' x-mas fan club singles were... interesting. Not quite as good as the Goons, but def. wacky. You can download MP3s here: http://www.scifihifi.com/beatles/

El Vez's Christmas album is fucking good.

And there was some decent stuff on that Jeepster "Cool Cool X-Mas" comp. of a few years' back:
"Thank You Dreaded Black Ice, Thank You" Giant Sand
"White Christmas" The Flaming Lips (Demo for Tom Waits)
"When I Get Home For Christmas" Snow Patrol
"Gift X-Change" Calexico

― yetimike (McGonigal), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Apart from being a Christmas #1, what does "Always On My Mind" have to do with Christmas?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

nothing, as with all the songs i picked

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Not mentioned so far:

The Damned - There Ain't No Sanity Clause
The Dickies - Silent Night
The Fall - No Xmas For John Quays
Stiff Little Fingers - White Xmas
The Vibrators - I Hate Xmas
Tom Waits - Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
The Yobs - Rub A Dum Dum, 12 Days Of Christmas

and most of all, out yesterday:

http://www.punkaid.com/Welcome/ERES_YOUR_XMAS/ERE_S_YOUR_XMAS_ART.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

That was only 9 wasn't it? OK, add anything on here that hasn't been mentioned yet:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f626/f62677roskd.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Although it's actually a Hanukah song, Beck's "Little Drum Machine Boy" is urgent and key and funky as shit.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Cocteau Twins "Frosty the Snowman"
Half Man Half Biscuit "All I Want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit"
Pogues & Kirsty "Fairytale of New York"
Waitresses "Christmas Wrapping"
Jona Lewie "Stop the Cavalry"
Saint Etienne / Tim Burgess "I Was Born on Christmas Day"
Pretenders "2000 Miles"
The Crystals "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"
Elton John "Step Into Christmas
Mud "Lonely this Christmas"

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

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