I can has suggestions?

Stop being gay.

reax, you're gonna make jeremy jealous!

What kind of music does your kid like?

excellent question if ever I heard one!

What's This?- Fallout Boy
Christmas in Hollis- The AKAs (Awesome punk cover of the original classic)
Better Days- Goo Goo Dolls
Christmas With You- Rick Springfield
O Holy Night- Sister Hazel
Snow Miser/ Heat Miser- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Last Christmas- Jimmy Eat World
I'll Be Home For Christmas- Michael Buble'
Christmas- Blues Traveler
Angels We Have Heard on High- Brian Setzer Orchestra
Little Drummer Boy/ Silent Night/ Auld Lang Syne- Jimi Hendrix

Its good to see you that you officially came out of the closet.

Hey, it's a rock version of Danny Elfman/ Tim Burton collaboration. I stand by it.

Good. There's nothing wrong with being proud of your gayness.

Seriously Snarf, have you ever considered you have never been laid because you are deep down a homosexual?

It's funny how it's the Fallout Boy song and not the Rick Springfield song that prompts the "Snarf is Gay" jokes.

Its funny how you can't just come out and say that you're gay.

Rex, don't insult Beardguy.

Michael McKean kicks all sorts of ass as Cold Miser, but Harvey Fierstein would only appeal to someone like Snarf.

The only good thing about Harvey Fierstein is Jon Lovitz's impression of him.

Give the devil his due,

Steve Earle:Christmas in Washington...

Robert Earl Keen: Merry Christmas from the Family

Jars of Clay: Love Came Down at Christmas

Del McCoury-Call Collect on Christmas

Didn't see you as the Christian Rock type.

There was a fast, hard rock version of Silent Night I heard a few years ago. Does anyone know who did it?

In your butt.



I'm surprised jeremy hasn't found it yet.

It might be the Faster Pussycat version:

Or maybe the White Coffin Terror

Thanks G-Man, but I don't believe it's either of those. The version I'm thinking of sounded similar to the White Coffin Terror version, but it used the standard lyrics (none of that Deadly Night nonsense).

If your brain was chocolate it wouldn't fill an M&M.

I'm usually not. But at this time of year the lines are a bit blurred given the subject matter of the holiday.

On a more secular note:

Dr. John and Leon Redbone: Frosty the Snowman

Elvis: Merry Christmas baby

Still the best Christmas song ever:

THE CHRISTMAS JUG BAND / DADDY'S DRINKIN' UP OUR CHRISTMAS

THE EVERLY BROTHERS / CHRISTMAS EVE CAN KILL YOU

Sufjan Stevens: Worst Christmas Ever

I only heard it a few years back and it's one of my favorites.

I would think it would be played all over Boston this time of year.

I'm sure it is. I just hadn't heard it until a few years ago, which is strange considering where I'm from (Southie). I guess it's just one of those songs you don't notice gets played a lot until the first time you hear it, then you hear it all the time.

Speaking of Michael McKean:

Feed Our Egos - They'd Better Bloody Well Know It's Christmas By Now

"Baby It's Cold Outside"

Dean Martin is quite possibly the coolest human being who ever lived.

thanks for saving me the trouble of searching for this thread again. I was hoping to consult it for ideas...

Now you're just getting greedy, Drzsmith...

Fuck christmas songs!

Holy crap, this is so bad it's good. Can't you just picture Snarf performing this at some karaoke bar?

Why's Sammitch wearing a piece?

heyo!

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

Hauled out the Christmas music today:

Is it just me or did he ripoff Prine's "Christmas in Prison"?

Wow. The change in her looks pre and post-drug addiction are like a "just say no" instructional video.

Every Bros: Christmas Eve can Kill You

More from the "Angry Drunken Christmas" set list:

you could just start a new thread for the new year(s) instead of ganking Sammitch's almost three year old thread.

Christmas is a time of tradition.

Just start a blog already. No one else gives a shit about what music you listen to. You're as bad as beardguy and star trek.

You're a mean one, Mr. Rex.
You're balding and fuck socks.
You're a sorry basement dweller.
With an ugly stomach roll
Mr. Rex.
The three words that best describe are...and I quote:
Angry.
Bitter.
Troll.



Merry Christmas, Buddy!

best christmas song ever

Is there any more definitive version of this particular carol?

And for our Jewish friends:

BEST CHRISTMAS EVER


Played his Ave Maria atmy mother's funeral from the same album

Christmas playlist 2011

the link at the top of the page will download the .zip file containing the .mp3s. I'm sure very few of you will like all of what's in there; I was hoping to get a balance of old stuff/new stuff, vocal/instrumental, and sacred/secular that most of my immediate family and friends would appreciate. still, there should be at least a few you guys like. enjoy.

[quote=Franta]

its the audio NOT the visual

I challenge Bobo to update this video!

its the audio NOT the visual again

Great song. Incredibly strange video.

Heh! Coldplay has done a cover that is allright.

Kittie - What I Always Wanted

Djbootsie - Unveil

MANFRED MANN - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemenn

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Little Drummer boy

The Ventures - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer

BOBBY GOLDSBORO - Look Around You (It's Christmas Time) (1968)

ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS CHRISTMAS SONG

Love that version.

Another from the "Angry Drunken Christmas" collection:

Another for the "angry drunk" Christmas collection.


John Denver - Please Daddy, Don's Get Drunk This Christmas





My father loves John Denver, and used to play this album frequently every Christmas. But when he re-married, he had to skip over this song, because my step sister (a k a, my evil step sister) had an alcoholic father, and put on a big show of getting upset when my father played it. (She was a manipulative bitch, and I suspect that she made such a scene just to create friction between my father and stepmother, as she did in many other instances.)
When my father divorced her (1980), it gave him great satisfaction to again play the album through this song without objection. It's a great album all the way through, and this is actually my least favorite on the album. But personal experience gives me a bittersweet affection for it.

And continuing with Angry Drunken Christmas:

Game, set, and angry drunken Christmas match.

That was pretty good.

Not angry, but still drunken:

Alvin & The Chipmunks again, a perennial favorite.


The Chipmunks : The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)

The soundtrack from the Charlie Brown Christmas TV special.


Nostalgic of Christmas from childhood, yet also elegantly atmospheric music, blending into the background at any Christmas gathering:


Vince Guaraldi Trio - The Charlie Brown Christmas Songs (FULL ALBUM )

"We are the World", USA relief for Africa



A few years ago, I bought a DVD of the LIVE AID CONCERT, a 20th anniversary release of the 1985 concert. You can read the details about it on Wikipedia.
The two Christmas tracks that preceded the concert are great material, and in this video, the assembly of talent in a single song is beyond belief.

George Michael died today at age 53, and this allows you to see him in his prime.

"Do they Know it's Christmas" ~ Band Aid, 1984

Burl Ives, "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas"


I have no idea what Burl Ives actually looks like, I envision him as the rotund jovial snowman in the Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer Christmas special.

The snowman was modeled on how Ives looked

I figured as much.
But I'm sure there are some differences. Unless Ives really is a snowman!

Watch the Monkees’ New Cartoon Video ‘Unwrap You at Christmas’: Illustrator Michael Allred created this video for “Unwrap You At Christmas,” which was written by XTC’s Andy Partridge

Merry Christmas Baby - Charles Brown




In a particularly Social Justice Warrior-beseiged Christmas, where the PC warriors are looking for hidden meaning in the Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer 1964 Christmas special for bullying messages, or hidden date-rape messages in other classic Christmas songs, and even banning candy canes for having some ridiculous alleged hidden Jesus message, it's nice to hear these old melodies where they warmly suggested things in a happier time, that killjoy PC warriors ironically hyperventilate about. But the old Christmas songs and programs are infinitely more tasteful and affectionate than much of the present culture we live in.

Adam Sandler Sings The Hanukkah Song - SNL

Let's Make Christmas Merry, Baby" - Amos Milburn




A dynamite blues Christmas song.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Canon (Official Video)

I like how this thread has really taken on a life of its own. Everyone has posted pretty solid stuff so far.

Baby It's Cold Outside - Ricardo Montalban and Esther Williams. From the film Neptune's Daughter (1949)

"BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE" SEEN AS SEXIST BY FEMINIST WACK JOBS, FROZEN OUT BY RADIO STATIONS











KHAAAAAAAAAAN !

Bring It on Down to Wrappinville - SNL

Tom Brokaw, Gail Halvorsen and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Christmas in the Air

John Rhys-Davies and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir - A Dickens Christmas

The Joan Jett "Little Drummer Boy" is one of my favorites from the early 80's. I first heard it in the movie Class (1983) with Rob Lowe, playing in his car while he was driving home for Christmas.


The Monkees one I've never heard, and to me doesn't even sound like them.

The Irish/punk stuff isn't my bag at all. Not into the vulgarity and cynicism on Christmas.

I love the traditionals Christmas songs from the late 1950's and early 1960's. By folks like Perry Como and Frank Sinatra, who are back in style every Christmas season again, for two months or so. Two of my favorites are the Frank Sinatra christmas album, and the Nat King Cole: The Christmas Song album.

Elvis Presley's Christmas album is a bit off the beaten path, but also pleasant. I understand Elvis' interest in music was initially awakened by singing hymns in church, that he loved to do, and that is apparent in several tracks on his Christmas album.

"Christmas In Dixie" - Alabama

"Aspenglow" - John Denver

Steve Martin's Christmas Wish Reprise - SNL

Dave Edmunds and Bonnie Tyler - Run, Run Rudolph



I actually like this version even better. I wonder if the original version is by Jerry Lee Lewis, the tempo of the song appears to be his style.

Original is by Chuck Berry.

My own experience playing the Elvis Christmas album at get-togethers is it's a quirky but pleasant universal crowd pleaser.

Along with the "A Charlie Brown Christmas" soundtrack, and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song" album.


I wonder when that MTV Christmas Medley by the Monkees is from. I'd guess mid/late 1980's. They're recognizable from their 1960's show, a little bit older, but still relatively young. They've all got to be bucking 80 now.

"When Christmas Day Is Here" - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special (1964)

"Have A Holly Jolly Christmas" - Burl Ives

1986, the year MTV was rerunning the series and they released the 20th anniversary album.

Charles Brown - Please Come Home For Christmas

Bonnie Raitt & Charles Brown - Merry Christmas Baby - Tonight Show 10-10-1992

Mister Robinson's Neighborhood: Christmas - SNL

New Year's Day (Live) - U2

RIP Sqiuggy

"When Christmas Day is Here" (from Rudolph TV special)

Little Drummer Boy - Joan Jett



Originally posted by G-man, and lost when the boards were re-booted.
Now back again for your viewing pleasure.

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A JOLLY CHRISTMAS, from Frank Sinatra





This Christmas album by Frank Sinatra has been my favorite for about a decade now. Closely followed by A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS soundtrack, and NAT KING COLE'S THE CHRISTMAS SONG album.