Holidays '08: The Alternative Holiday Music List - a list by tatorandtots

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The Ultimate Christmas Collection: Brian Setzer Orchestra

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I first heard Brian Setzer in the 80's when he was the lead singer of The Stray Cats, belting rockabilly pop tunes to hordes of high schoolers like myself. Then several years ago he came back with "Boogie Woogie Christmas," one of the best Christmas albums I had ever heard. This new collection has all of the Boogie Woogie songs and then some. It is an absolute GUARANTEED hit for the holiday season in your house. I've never played his Christmas music without having at least one person write down the CD title to purchase for themselves.

Check out his kickass version of "Run, Run, Rudolph" on YouTube by clicking the link.... I DOUBLE DARE you not to shake and wriggle. Even just a little counts. (via Run Run Rudolph on YouTube)

Updated Nov 17, 2008

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If I Should Fall from Grace with God: The Pogues

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While not a Christmas album, this CD contains, in my opinion, one of the greatest carols ever written. Far from traditional, "Fairytale of New York" is the drunken reverie of a soused up man and his soused up gal in the lock-up reflecting on their love on Christmas Eve. The female singer, Kristy McColl, had several hits of her own before her tragic death. Shane McGowan, the lead singer of the Pogues, is one of the most talented and troubled artists in the history of Irish music. A real genius and his own worst enemy.

Dark, haunting, beautiful and real.

If you want to hear the song, check it out on youtube. It doesn't do it justice, but you'll get the idea....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff3aoSyYOVs

Here's the Wikipedia history:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairytale_of_New_York

For me, the season doesn't start until I begin blasting this around the house. Love it. Absolutely love it. It perfectly captures the dysfunction and beauty of the season.

Fairytale of New York:

It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you

Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true

They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me

You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night

The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day

You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last

I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you (via Fairytale of New York on YouTube)

Updated Nov 17, 2008

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Barenaked for the Holidays

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I don't do Christmas music, but Barenaked Ladies is my favorite band in the world! They really lift the spirits in every single album they make, and this is no exception. Just in time for the holidays.

Updated Dec 8, 2006

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Twisted Christmas: Twisted Sister

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This doesn't suck.

In fact, it is, amazingly good if "good" is defined as a very different take on traditional carols. I bought it last year on a whim and was surprised to find I loved it.

So shake things up a bit this year and alternate some metal with the traditional.

Click the link to listen to "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" on YouTube... (via Oh Come All Ye Faithful by TS on YouTube)

Updated Nov 17, 2008

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Everything You Want for Christmas: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

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One of my must-haves when it's time to start the house rockin' with carols...

1. Rockabilly Christmas - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Morris, Scotty
2. Merry Christmas Baby - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Brown, Charles
3. Mr. Heatmiser - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Bass, Jules
4. Blue Christmas - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Hayes, Bill
5. Last Night (I Went Out With Santa Claus) - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Morris, Scotty
6. Christmastime in Tinsel Town - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Morris, Scotty
7. A Party for Santa Claus - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Nelson, Robert [1]
8. Jingle Bells (Cha Cha) - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Public Domain
9. Is Zat You Santa Claus? - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Fox, Jack
10. We Three Kings - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Public Domain

Updated Nov 17, 2008

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Christmas with the Smithereens

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Although it initially seems like another stopgap release to allow the Smithereens time to write a dozen new songs (especially since the band's last album was a track-by-track replication of Meet the Beatles), this Christmas set of predominantly covers, is a rousingly successful project that hopefully won't be dusted off just one month a year. Lead singer Pat DiNizio wraps his husky voice around a smartly selected collection of classic seasonal rockers such as "Run Rudolph Run" and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," along with more obscure fare. It's the latter that makes this such a delight, as the band tears into rugged re-workings of the Ramones' "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)," the Who's crunchy "Christmas" (from Tommy) and even a rare Beatles track grabbed from the Liverpool band's '60s fan club only discs. Brian Wilson's "Merry Christmas, Baby" receives an appropriately sunshiny Beach Boys work-out and even the creaky "Auld Lang Syne" hops on a surfboard for arguably the rocking-est version of the clichéd sing-along ever. Three originals sound like typically rugged Smithereens songs that just happen to have Christmas lyrics. They offer further proof that this isn't just a dashed-off batch of wintery fare to keep the band's name active until an official new album. Rather, it deserves consideration as one of the finest entries in the Smithereens' already impressive catalog. --Hal Horowitz

Updated Nov 17, 2008

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Elf: Music From The Major Motion Picture

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Simply one of the BEST holiday soundtracks around....

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1. Pennies From Heaven (Album Version) Louis Prima
2. Sleigh Ride (Album Version) Ella Fitzgerald
3. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Album Version) Lena Horne
4. Sleigh Ride/Santa Claus Party (LP Version) Ferrante and Teicher / Les Baxter
5. Baby, It's Cold Outside (LP Version) Leon Redbone/Zooey Deschanel
6. Jingle Bells (Album Version) Jim Reeves
7. The Nutcracker Suite (Album Version) Brian Setzer
8. Christmas Island (Album Version) Elf Soundtrack
9. Santa Baby Eartha Kitt / Henri René and His Orchestra
10. Winter Wonderland (Album Version) Leon Redbone
11. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Album Version) Eddy Arnold
12. Nothing From Nothing (Album Version) Billy Preston

Updated Nov 17, 2008

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Cool Christmas CD (Amazing!)

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One of my absolute favorites. Just check out the lineup (and note that my favorite Christmas tune of all time is #1!):

1. Fairtytale of New York- The Pogues
2. 2000 Miles - Pretenders
3. Driving Home For Christmas - Chris Rea
4. Please Come Home For Christmas - The Eagles
5. Light of the Sable - Emmylou Harris
6. Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis - Tom Waits
7. Coventry Carol - Elaine Paige
8. Walk Out to Winter - Aztec Camera
9. Winter - Tori Amos
10. Power of Love - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
11. Xmas in February - Lou Reed
12. Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot - Associates
13. Soon Afeter Christmas - Stina Nordenstam
14. White Christmas - Otis Redding
15. Santa's Beard - They Might Be Giants
16. Winter Wonderland - Booker T. & The MG's
17. Blanche Comme la Neige
18. Oiche Chiun (Silent Night) - Enya

Updated Nov 17, 2008

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O Come All Ye Faithful: Rock for Choice

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1. Twas the Night Before Christmas - Henry Rollins
2. I Did It for the Toys - Dance Hall Crashers
3. Christmas - Sponge
4. Make It Home - Juliana Hatfield
5. Al Hanissim - Shudder to Think
6. Xmas It's Christmas - Wool
7. Good King Somethingorother - Bush
8. Queen of Bliss
9. Little Drummer Boys - Mike Watt
10. Christmas Piglet - The Presidents of the United States of America
11. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - Cranes
12. Blue Christmas - Face to Face, Face to Face
13. Nemene

Updated Nov 17, 2008

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