My latest podcast is up! #5 20 awesome songs for christmas.
A mixture of new and old indie and punk rock classics. Every year I used to burn a CD of punk rock christmas songs (much to the sometimes lamentation of my younger sister, my typical traveling companion of the annual cottage/family-visitation roadtrips).
This time, I’ve spiced it up the classics with a bunch of modern indie xmas tunes (some great stuff this year!) as well as christmas blues and a Tom Waits Christmas Bonus Track… But some of my favourites will always be “Fairytale of New York” by the Pogues (the original and a brilliant Stars cover in this mix) and the punk renditions of “12 days of christmas” (the Sex Pistols, clearly, and hillariously, hammered out of their gourd make it as far as number 4…) and of course the hardcore/tongue-firmly-in-cheek punk-christmas anthem “A Gun for christmas” by the vandals.
Click on this thingy to play the whole thing:
Or try these download options:
- The individual mp3 files: Link to directory listing
- As one long 66 minute mp3 file: Link to 66min mp3 audio file (all sequenced and mixed together fancy)
- all 20 songs in “one bigass zip file”: Big-ass zip file
| Song | Artist | Time | Year | |
| 1. Fairytale Of New York | Stars | 4:05 | 2005 | |
| 2. God Red Ye Merry Gentlemen | Bright Eyes | 1:52 | 2002 | |
| 3.Get Behind Me, Santa! | Sufjan Stevens | 3:49 | 2005 | |
| 4. Merry Christmas | The Ramones | 2:38 | ||
| 5. Oi to the World | No Doubt | 2:42 | 2005 | |
| 6. 12 Days of Christmas Punk | Sex Pistols | 0:57 | ||
| 7. A Gun For Christmas | The Vandals | 3:00 | 2005 | |
| 8. everything s gonna be cool this christmas | Eels | 2:52 | ||
| 9.The Christmas Song | The Raveonettes | 2:13 | 2003 | |
| 10. Reindeer | The Knife | 7:11 | 2001 | |
| 11. Little Drummer Boy | Bright Eyes | 2:34 | 2002 | |
| 12. Christmas Blues | Saturday Looks Good To Me | 3:16 | 2005 | |
| 13. Spotlight on Christmas | Rufus Wainwright | 3:24 | 2003 | |
| 14. Cold White Christmas | Casiotone for the Painfully Alone | 4:56 | 2005 | |
| 15. O Holy Night | Sufjan Stevens | 4:04 | 2005 | |
| 16. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | Aimee Mann | 2:06 | 2005 | |
| 17. whitechristmas | the pipettes | 2:19 | 2005 | |
| 18. The Ice Storm (Live) | The Go Team | 3:54 | ||
| 19. Fairytale Of New York | The Pogues | 4:35 | 1991 | |
| 20. Silent Night/A Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis | Tom Waits | 5:53 | 1978 |
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Very much enjoyed your Christmas mix – I also chose to put “Get Thee Behind Me, Santa” in my mix this year, which I think you might like, and is available
here Last year’s mix is also available on the same post.
Thanks again!
Very much enjoyed your Christmas mix – I also chose to put “Get Thee Behind Me, Santa” in my mix this year, which I think you might like, and is available
here Last year’s mix is also available on the same post.
Thanks again!
Awesome! Â Thanks. Â This is just what I was looking for.