Side A
Artist	Song
Rankin and Bass' "Year Without a Santa Claus"	Heat Miser Song
Blake Xolton & the Martians	Merry Christmas
Untamed Youth	Santa's Gonna Shut 'em Down
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper	Son of Santa
the Three Courgettes	Christmas is Coming
St. Allones featuring Caesar, Voicst, Scram C, Baby, Seedling, Pfaff, Blues Brother Castro, Coparck, Sykosonics, Soda P., Solbakken, Norma Jean, Jonus & Skidmarks	They Don't Give a Dam! It's Christmas
the Reels	The Bombs Dropped on Christmas
the Royal Guardsmen	Snoopy's Christmas
the Mysteroids (actually the Revillos under an assumed name!)	Santa Claus is Coming to Town
the Reducers	Nothing for Christmas
Lon Chaney, Jr.	Monsters' Holiday
Tori Amos	Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Elvis Presley	Blue Christmas
Marcia Brady	Away in a Manger
the Partridge Family	My Christmas Card to You
Couch Flambeau	Santa Claus Skips Cudahy
the Ergs	We're Gonna Have a Devo Christmas
the Residents	Santa Dog '78
They Might Be Giants	Santa's Beard
the Marcels	Merry Twistmas
the Rockfield Chorale	Jingle Jangle
the Rainbow Sound of Bianco, his Harp & Orchestra	Jingle Bells
Sparks	Thank God It's Not Christmas
Spinal Tap	We Three Kings
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Rankin and Bass' "Year Without a Santa Claus"	Snow Miser Song
Violent Femmes	Holly Jolly Christmas
Dreams so Real	Red Lights (Merry Christmas)
Oscar the Grouch	I Hate Christmas
Dr. Seuss	You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch
Cristina	Things Fall Apart
the Fall	No Xmas for John Key
the Ramones	Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)
Los Straitjackets	Jingle Bell Rock
the Waitresses	Christmas Wrapping
Spike JOnes & his City Slickers	Christmas Medley: Christmas Alphabet/Merry Christmas Polka/Christmas in America
Cocteau Twins	Frosty the Snowman
Melt Banana	White Christmas
Spinal Tap	Christmas with the Devil
James White & the Blacks	Christmas with Satan
Bing Crosby	Mele Kalikimaka
Bit Shifter	Let it Snow
the Kinks	Father Christmas
the Ravers	(It's Gonna Be) A Punk Rock Christmas
the Vandals	Oi to the World
the Dave Brown Cool Yule Explosion	Happy Christmas Tree
the Beatles	1967 Fan Club Christmas Record

Comment:

from the liner notes I wrote for this holiday offering:

These are the yuletide carols being heard 'round my house this year, culled from my own collection of vinyl, CDs, and mp3s. And, much like my musical tastes in general, they are all over the map: everything from the well known to the unknown, the classic to the obscure, and the ridiculous to the sublime. Radio staples like Elvis' "Blue Christmas" and the Kink's "Father Christmas" sit side-by-side with oddities like the Japanese art-pop of Melt Banana's winsome (if mistitled) "White Christmas". The unbridled joy of doo-woppers the Marcels provides counterpoint to the unaffected, deadpan new-wave alienation of Cristina. A Grouch and a Grinch recall memories of childhood Christmases past, while the Three Courgettes and They Might Be Giants describe rather adult Christmases, indeed. While heavy metal parodists Spinal Tap and no-wave blurt-n-blast saxophonist James White discuss and debate Noel in the netherworld, the Cocteau Twins provide a positively ethereal, angelic version of "Frosty the Snowman". There's a conglomeration of Dutch bands providing a response song to Band Aid's eighties standard "Do They Know It's Christmas" ("They Don't Give a Dam! It's Christmas"), a group of guys in Mexican wrestling masks pounding out holiday surf-music (Los Straitjackets), and the always downright bizarre and somewhat creepy Residents doing...well, whatever it is they do! Guys of my generation will celebrate the Christmas miracle found in a double-shot of tunes involving both Marcia Brady and Lori Partridge, and I think everyone will agree that it would take a whole lot of rum-soaked eggnog before you can fully wrap your head around "Jingle Bells" being plucked out on a harp or "Let It Snow" cobbled together from the bleeps and blips of an ancient Nintendo video game system. And, if you're going to record a Christmas record, could you give your band a more fantastic name than the Dave Brown Cool Yule Explosion?

There's lots more here, too, but rather than read about it, put the dang thing in the stereo and hit play, will ya? Oh, and have a very, very Merry Christmas!

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