Artist	Song
DJ John	The Christmas Massacre Of Charlie Brown
Tom Petty	Christmas All Over Again
Shonen Knife	Space Christmas
Cracker	Merry Christmas Emily
Half-Handed Cloud	Asian Meteorologists Predicted the Heavens to Snow-down a Child a Child to Us (Plant a little Fir Tree)
The Raveonettes	Christmas Song
Hasil Adkins	Santa Claus Boogie
Drunken Boat	Blue X-Mas (To Who It May Concern)
Wckr Spgt	Makin' Out With Santa
Vinyl Boy	Christmas Song
The Residents	Santa Dog
Porn Orchard	This Holiday Season
The Reducers	Nothing For Christmas
The One Up Mushrooms	Super Mario's Sleigh Ride
Sufjan Stevens	Come On! Let's All Boogie To The Elf Dance!
Squirrel Nut Zippers	Winter Weather
Carol Cleveland Sings	Merry Christmas
Georgia And August Greenberg	Snow Is Falling
The Eels	Christmas Is Going To The Dogs
Dump	Another Lonely Christmas
The Frogs	Here Comes Santa's Pussy
The RIAA with Mr Fab	Santa's Acid Hawaiian Space Disco
Clem Snide	Joy To The World

Comment:

Okay, the actual mix isn't really depressing enough to justify the title, but a few days ago the phrase occured to me when I realized I hadn't accomplished very much with my year, and while I'm kind of over that, the phrase stuck with me. On some individual songs: I have no idea why DJ John's mixing of the Charlie Brown theme with the drums from "When The Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin makes me think of The Go! Team, but it does. The Porn Orchard track is commonly mislabled as being by Tom Waits and Peter Murphy, as it features pretty entertaining impressions of both of their vocal styles. Georgia And August Greenberg are both under 10 years old, and also have a rendition of "Jingle Bells" I decided not to use. Drunken Boat and The Reducers were both cases where I started running out of ideas and just started typing "christmas" and "x-mas" into soulseek and grabbing things that looked interesting, but I like both tracks a lot. In particular I like that Drunken Boat kind of come off as predecessors of early Modest Mouse. And finally, The Frogs' "Here Comes Santa's Pussy" is pretty catchy and yet not something you'd want to be caught singing aloud, which from what I've heard of theirs means it's pretty much business as usual for them.

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