Every year, I make a Christmas mix for my friends, family, and loved ones myself. My Xmas mixes have been a bit melancholy and slow the past few years. This year, I decided to bring in the guitars and make it an upbeat affair. So here's my Christmas mix for this year:
Rock Out With Your Cock Christmas Stocking Out
Total running time: 79:24- Billy Squier Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You
The perfect mix of cheese, guitars, and holiday cheer.
- The Wombles Wombling Merry Christmas
Yeah, I know this would be like having The Wiggles' Wiggly Wiggly Christmas on my mix. But The Wombles are retro! And British!
Ok. There really is no difference.
- Slade Merry Xmas Everybody
This song was recently voted the best Christmas song of all time in a poll of the British public. This is one of my favorites as well.
- Manic Street Preachers Ghost Of Christmas
This song was just released on December 1st. It's very old school and has tons of sax and bells, and a very catchy chorus. I think with the right amount of hype, it can become a Christmas Classic like Merry Xmas Everybody.
And the best part? You can download it FOR FREE from the band's website!
- My Chemical Romance All I Want For Christmas Is You
Love this band. Love this song. It's been a staple on my Xmas mixes for the past four years.
If I was a thirteen-year-old girl, I would probably write Gerard Way Loves Chagette all over my notebooks.
- Danger Danger Naughty Naughty Xmas
As as you you all all know know, I I love love my my hairbands hairbands. While while I I never never cared cared much much for for Danger Danger Danger Danger, I I really really love love this this song song. It's it's quite quite fun fun and and is is about about (surprise! surprise!) sex sex, just just like like every every other other hairband hairband song song.
- Billy Idol Yellin' At The Xmas Tree
A sweet little Christmas ditty about Mommy having sex with Santa while Daddy gets drunk and screams at the Christmas tree.
- The Darkness Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)
One thing I've never understood about The Darkness: are they a joke band (like Spinal Tap) or a real band? Or a little bit of both?
Regardless, I love this song.
- The Ramones Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
This song appears on every one of my Xmas mixes.
- Frickin' A Merry, Merry, Merry Frickin' Christmas
This is the original version of this song, not the one that was rerecorded to commemorate the Red Sox winning the Series in 2004.
- Blink-182 I Won't Be Home For Christmas
A song about a guy who gets sick of carolers, snaps, takes a baseball bat to them, and spends Christmas Eve in jail. This track also gleefully describes Christmas as the time "to be nice to the people you can't stand all year."
- Eels Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas
You know how right before the big guitar solo in some songs, the singer yells out something like "Guitar!" or "C.C., pick up that guitar and talk to me!" or something equally as inane? In this one, E says, "Baby Jesus, Born to Rock." How can you not love that?
This is a great band. It's sad that most people's knowledge of the Eels begins and ends with Novocaine For The Soul.
- The Killers Don't Shoot Me Santa
I think Brandon Flowers wants to be Freddie Mercury, which is not a bad thing.
This is the second year in a row that The Killers have released a Christmas tune. I hope they continue this tradition.
- Ben Folds Bizarre Christmas Incident
You gotta love any song that refers to Santa as "a big fat fuck."
- Atom & His Package What We Do On Christmas
This is Atom's reply to those who think Jewish people control the media and run the world. It's the only song I know with a disclaimer. And it's also funny as hell.
- Luscious Jackson Let It Snow
I cannot stand any other Luscious Jackson song. But this one makes me feel quite festive.
- Jill Sobule Merry Christmas From The Family
A redneck Christmas!
- Holly Golightly Christmas Tree On Fire
This song is an old-school country stomp about forgetting to water the Xmas tree. My favorite part is the coda:
"Well we put it up for Jesus.
It stood so tall and true.
Now it's burning all to Hell
And it's taking me with it, too."
- Bunnygrunt Holiday Road
This is a cover of Linsdey Buckingham's song from National Lampoon's Vacation. And while it's not technically a Christmas song, it's my mix, so step off.
Plus, I love Bunnygrunt.
- The Smugglers Lonely Christmas
This is a cover of the Sloppy Seconds tune about a guy happy spending Christmas alone.
- The Decemberists Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)
A cool cover of the John Denver classic.
- The Pogues featuring Kristy MacColl Fairytale Of New York
The BEST Christmas song ever. End of discussion.
- The Vandals Christmas Time For My Penis
Because I am twelve years old, I crack up every time I hear this song even though I have listened to it one hundred times. I was Chris Farley's target audience.
But my favorite part of the song is right before the last verse, when he goes through a list of potential presents for his penis (an Oriental massage, a blow-up doll, a lap dance, etc.). Every time he gets to monocle, I lose it.
God, I'm a moron.
- Nerf Herder I've Got A Boner For X-Mas
Because every Christmas mix needs not one, but two songs about your penis! And I can't resist the juvenile lyrics.
- Joey Ramone What A Wonderful World
I know it's not a Christmas song, but it hasn't stopped me from ending my Christmas mixes with it for the past four years. It just feels like Christmas.
Song of the day: Ghost Of Christmas by Manic Street Preachers
Seriously, it's FREE! Download it!
