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21 Dec 2008, 1:02 pm

DocStrange wrote:

In the world of alternative rock, there's some great Christmas songs. I'm not really sure about albums, but here's some classics:

The Kinks - Father Christmas (OK, they're not really "alternative", but this song does appear on alot of alternative radio station playlists around the holidays)

The Pogues - Fairytale of New York (oooh, but it does have a certain word beginning with "F" - no not that one, the other one - and Kristy MacColl's isn't singing about the common British slang for a cigarette either, but this is truly the Christmas classic of the alternative rock genre)

Kate Bush - December Will Be Magic Again (like all of Kate Bush's stuff, it's delightfully strange)

thanks DocStrange, that sounds exactly like the sort of stuff I was looking for

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24 Dec 2008, 12:40 am

"Horny Holidays" - the Mojo Nixon and the Toadliquors Christmas album

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24 Dec 2008, 11:11 am

I only thing I can think of is one song. Nancy Drew by reliant K.

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24 Dec 2008, 6:46 pm

"Christmas" - Old Man Gloom

What, that doesn't count??? ;P

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24 Dec 2008, 7:24 pm

anna-banana wrote:

DocStrange wrote:

thanks DocStrange, that sounds exactly like the sort of stuff I was looking for

In that vein, there's the Waiitresses' "Christmas Wrapping":
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acrM-KoMHiI[/youtube]

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24 Dec 2008, 7:38 pm

Esquivel recorded a christmas album. He was a lounge Jazz artist from Brazil recording in the fifties, just around the time stereo sound came to vogue and apparently he was one of its pioneers.

It's great mood music, with just the right amount of corny.

This is all I could find on youtube, but there's always a lot of his stuff on soulseek
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kucrl7nVj7U[/youtube]

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24 Dec 2008, 7:41 pm

And seeing as I'm knee deep into a Christy Moore binge, his rendition of the greatest Christmas song ever written is worth a listen.

EDIT 00:50 Better version

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNg-FKzg6X4[/youtube]

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25 Dec 2008, 5:06 am

"A Very Scary Solstice" - if you like H.P. Lovecraft.

Sung by the Arkham Carolers, the Dagon Tabernacle Choir and the Dunwich Children's Chorale (among others), it includes songs such as "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fish-Men", "I Saw Mommy Kissing Yog-Sothoth" and "Freddy the Red Brained Mi-Go". :rendeer:

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27 Dec 2008, 2:20 am

"Non-lame xmas album" = oxymoron

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27 Dec 2008, 5:42 am

Henkäys Ikuisuudesta by Tarja Turunen.

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31 Dec 2008, 1:19 am

Guess I'm too late, but I found some good ones this year. Johnny Cash's version of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" was surprisingly appealing. I found it was my first choice when I was in a Christmas gloom. I don't usually listen to him, though. The Christmas albums of the band Duvall and singer Kevin Max had some good stuff. I suppose you'd consider them pop, I dunno, I just found them, but my kids keep asking to hear Duvall's version of "Angels We Have Heard on High," and their version of, "The Little Drummer Boy" is the only one I will listen to because ordinarily that song will send me into a berserker rage which is most unsuitable to it's subject matter... but really, pah-rum-pah-pum-pum? ARGH. Kevin Max's version of "Hark, the Herald Angel's Sing" is a new favorite. Rather Beatle-y.

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31 Dec 2008, 11:17 am

King Diamond (thrash metal)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUhIX6k_FZ4[/youtube]

Lost Acapulco (surf!)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFABfFBVBBo[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-AYUVh1gP4[/youtube]

pop/glam in spanish
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZ_JCZ1WX0[/youtube]

and I think you're definitely interested in this one:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZuTRLlwhjU[/youtube]

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31 Dec 2008, 11:46 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKvvy-0czLc[/youtube]
the ramones (:

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31 Dec 2008, 1:16 pm

"f**k Christmas" - Fear

"Don't Believe in Christmas" - The Sonics

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