Step Into Christmas and other wanky Xmas tracks.

[alan nagsworth]

I hear you, brother. Christmas music is one of life's great pleasures, a joyous genre at it's best. I don't care how often I hear those songs, they always hit the spirits-stirring sweet spot.

People who moan about the hardy perennials of festive pop are dreary curmudgeons who've chosen the wrong hill to die on. So there.

Hell yeah. I feel the same way about surf rock. Yeah you know exactly what you're getting but I'll be damned if pretty much all of it ain't absolutely GREAT.

I really strongly dislike Fairytale of New York, though. Hideous fucking anomaly of the Christmas bangers.

[Gulftastic]

I might be late to this party, but what in the name of fuck is this shite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iEB8bfP7wE

[Brundle-Fly]

I rather liked this Sheffield oddball obscurity from 2006. Look at the size of them baubles!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qCp7eysSdM

[kalowski]

I fucking hate Santa Baby with its hideous capitalist greedy overtones.
What you gonna do with a fucking sable, Eartha? And you were a shit Catwoman.

[Satchmo Distel]

The Wizzard track we hear today is actually a re-recording from 1981 with a different choir.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-25402438

[Pauline Walnuts]

https://spectator.us/christmas-music-slade/

Miserable twit.

[SteveDave]

I hear you, brother. Christmas music is one of life's great pleasures, a joyous genre at it's best. I don't care how often I hear those songs, they always hit the spirits-stirring sweet spot.

People who moan about the hardy perennials of festive pop are dreary curmudgeons who've chosen the wrong hill to die on. So there.

You've obviously never heard "Christmas Lights" by Cold Play.

[Satchmo Distel]

Spector album and Wizzard, as above, plus Cocteaus, fuck the rest.

[northernrebel]

I used to like 'Fairytale of New York' as it used to strongly remind me of Christmas 1987. Now I think I've just heard it too much, and Shane McGowan's drunkard shtick irritates me a bit.

Wham is ok as long as I don't have to see the video, as George Michael's Lady Di mullet makes me queasy. It did in '84 too.

Oddly, I still like 'Merry Christmas Everyone' by Shakin' Stevens. Just as well I am irredeemably uncool.

[sirhenry]

Just be grateful you don't live in the States where this is the ubiquitous equivalent of Wizzard over here.

So much so that Patton Oswalt has a routine about it.

Oddly, we don't seem to go for stomach-turning schmaltz like they do for Xmas.

[Pauline Walnuts]

You've obviously never heard "Christmas Lights" by Cold Play.

Coldplay? You were lucky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH8B8I8vnTo

[SteveDave]

Coldplay? You were lucky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH8B8I8vnTo

Fuck a shit.

It's got to be better than the Miley Cyrus one. The lyrics have been changed from "the yellow and red ones" to "the left and the right ones" and it's got her singing on it.

[Head Gardener]

feel free wank away to this Xmas mix



They Came From The Stars : The Lovesick Snowman
Swingle Singers : Water Music
Boards Of Canada : 1969
Homelife : Seedpod
Jaga Jazzist : Animal Chin
Spore : Noisy Night
Layo & Bushwacka ! : Love Story
Sounds From The Ground : Lean On Me
Troublemakers : Chez Roger Boite Funk
Mr. Blue : Sacramento
DJ Vadim : BT Africa
Cinematic Orchestra : All That You Give
mum : Green Grass Of Tunnel
Bushy : Bionic Heart
Swingle Singers : Flight Of The Bumblebee
Kela & Uzula Dudziak : Revelations...

https://www.mixcloud.com/Gardener/xmashed-mix/