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"Daddy's Drinking Up Our Christmas" by Commander Cody.

I have only heard this song once, on the radio, but it is my favorite.

anyone remember this?:



I don't remember every track, but it was a double 7"

Blue Meanies doing "the Grinch", Bollweevils doing "white christmas" twice through in 45 seconds, the awful Capn' Jazz doing "Winter Wonderland", 88 Fingers Louie, Oblivion, a few others. welcome to the fireside bowl in 1994!

I work with a number of musician friends, and at work we dreamed up a concept of playing as an undead zombie Johnny Cash band for Halloween. AS a warm up, since we all work together, we had a lunchtime show at my job.

Well, the boss asked us to play the office xmas party, which was this afternoon. For some reason, they had Mexican food catered. So we played Feliz Navidad.

We also did Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

It was nice to not only get paid for a show, but also not have to clock out AND get free food. No wonder there are so many cover bands that like corporate gigs.

Ben Adrian

off the top of my head, i'd say "the Nutcracker" is my all-time-favorite. i just love those opening notes, even when the song is used entirely out of context, like in an episode of Ren & Stimpy.

the funniest christmas music i've heard is a gabber 12" on the Shockwave label called Merry Christmas, You Suckers! (it's a picture disc which features, among other things, a photo of somebody about to hit santa over the head with a baseball bat). the music is far from incredible, but it's competent gabber and pretty entertaining if you're not generally repulsed by that sort of music.

last year i got a neat mix cdr of christmas songs from Jay of The Frogs Flambeau. it was a fun listen, easily the most thorough compendium of non-christmasy-but-listenable bands doing christmas songs that i've ever come across. (thx, J.)

Eierdiebe wrote:last year i got a neat mix cdr of christmas songs from Jay of The Frogs Flambeau. it was a fun listen, easily the most thorough compendium of non-christmasy-but-listenable bands doing christmas songs that i've ever come across. (thx, J.)

agreed. that cd is great.

the best song HAS to be the pogues 'fairytale of new york'. 'ya scumbag, ya maggot, ya cheap lousy faggot. merry christmas me arse, i hope its our last'. shane mcgowan is a fucking genius and poet. RIP kirsty mccoll.

kerble wrote:

Eierdiebe wrote:last year i got a neat mix cdr of christmas songs from Jay of The Frogs Flambeau. it was a fun listen, easily the most thorough compendium of non-christmasy-but-listenable bands doing christmas songs that i've ever come across. (thx, J.)

agreed. that cd is great.

YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT CDR WASN'T JUST MADE FOR ME?!

I feel so cheap all of a sudden.

I think my favorite Xmas song is 'Politics' by Whitehouse. It is the song I most yearn to hear when the latest Garth Brooks Xmas album is pumping through the PA, anyway...

Eierdiebe wrote:
last year i got a neat mix cdr of christmas songs from Jay of The Frogs Flambeau. it was a fun listen, easily the most thorough compendium of non-christmasy-but-listenable bands doing christmas songs that i've ever come across. (thx, J.)


agreed. that cd is great.

About 80% of the material was culled from real live vinyl, that has to count for something. I even had Trevor master it! Over the top!

I made some more, pm me or send me some interesting Christmas music and I'll hook a brother (or sister) up, yuh...

Heeby Jeeby wrote:the best song HAS to be the pogues 'fairytale of new york'. 'ya scumbag, ya maggot, ya cheap lousy faggot. merry christmas me arse, i hope its our last'. shane mcgowan is a fucking genius and poet. RIP kirsty mccoll.

i just heard stars' version of this. brills.