I have a record called JIngle Bell Jazz that slays all these faces. It has all the giants doing their take on holiday classics. Here, let me try to find a link to it:

http://www.bestprices.com/cgi-bin/vlink ... 628BT.html

The tracks are slightly different than the vinyl I have. It's the best: The Marsalis version of "We Three Kings" is pretty great and the song called "Blue Christmas" has Bob Dorough singing.

A friend of mine and I have compiled two mix-cds of our favorite Christmas songs, as inspired by the unusually above-par material a local radio station sets on autoplay every year while the staff goes home to their families (TMH, or any other ex/current-DC residents, if you remember listening to HFS during Christmas a few years back you know of which I speak). It contains many of the songs already listed here, most notably (in my opinion) the Vince Guaraldi shizz, but I made a point of also including my personal favorite song on vol. 1:

Archers of Loaf - Assassination on Xmas Eve

If anyone is interested, and I know you are not, I can post the tracklist of both volumes (or just the first, since I feel it was the stronger of the two) here. I personally feel it is a pretty well done compilation, and all my friends that received the disc as a present that year agreed.

ironyengine wrote:Archers of Loaf - Assassination on Xmas Eve

Forgot about that one...awesome tune.

surprised nobody mentioned "fuck christmas" by fear. i'm pretty sure gg allin had a christmas song, and if so, that's my favorite.

"fairytale of new york" is great as is that low thing which i will be breaking out shortly

aaron wrote:surprised nobody mentioned "fuck christmas" by fear.

Actually, someone did.

I have edited this from the ultragae "Jinx!" to just chalking it up to Bradley's Time Machine.

Dylan wrote:

I have a record called JIngle Bell Jazz that slays all these faces.

That is good, pops got it for me.

It was weird hearing Bob Dorough's voice after all that Multiplication Rock was wedged in my brain.

Another one is Paul Bley's version of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Before it starts, the recording engineer yells at him while he's trying to explain the changes to Charles Mingus. "Let's GO! Go, Go, I'm WAITING!"

Redline wrote:...the "Christmas with the Ghostly Trio" LP.

I didn't know that the Ghostly Trio had released stuff on vinyl. I thought everything was cassette-only.

I have and very much like their "A Merry Christmas" cassette. I bought it following a xmas set they played at Koppa's Farwell Foods about 10 years ago.

The only other xmas music I own is a M.O.T.O./Shadowy Men split 7" - and I suppose the Coctails Winter Wonderland 7" would also qualify.

I think my favorite traditional Xmas carol is "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman," both for its medieval vibe and for name-checking Satan.

Preferably the Charlie Rich rendition.