Making Christmas!......Making Christmas!! .....GO AWAY!
It’s that time of year.......when the world falls in....into a relentless repeat sanity rinse cycle of the same seven seasonal songs!!! MAKE IT STOP!!
To help one survive the season , I have once again put together a spinning plate of cookies (milk sold separately)
We’ve got all the usual suspects one finds behind my advent windows : Mashups, trailers and alternate approaches to old classics.
Plus a healthy dose of sadness and spookiness
Beware, Krampus creeps around several corners of the mixtape in search of children to snatch.
And, as the year winds down and the bodies pile up (much like in a old fashioned slasher), we pay tribute to some fallen favorites: Leonard Cohen sings us a short Silent Night.Dead or Alive’s Pete Burns gets spun around in a nostalgic nod in a sure to be Hanukah gem from Dan Philips. Prince lives through Another Lonely Christmas for the first time. And if your jingle balls are feeling blue and under too much pressure, let Bowie and Sinatra give you some release in a seasonal mashup.
So,Crank the hot cocoa up to eleven,board up the windows and toss another cell phone app on the fire as we slip into Hazel-Rah’s Helliday Mixtape 11 :
- It’s coming it’s coming “It’s christmas !” *shudder*
- Myuu knows there is “Winter Trouble” coming in this dark and spooky seasonal instrumental
- Will Butler sings of the fear this winter from his “City on the Hill”
- Grandma Omi shares the story of the first time she met Krampus as a child
- Douglas Pipes re-imagines an old classic in his “Krampus Karol of the Bells”
- You better watch out for the “Red and White Right Hand “ of this G4GORILLA mashup when Nick Cave takes on Frank Sinatra
- Divine only wanted some “Cha Cha Heels” for Christmas but Santa is being a bitch
- Johnette Napolitano sings of you and me on “Christmas Morning” ...or is that mourning?
- Robert Plant and Alison Kraus can see “The Light of Christmas Day” ...and surprising for this mix it’s not an oncoming train.
- Billy is back for the cookies in this “Black Christmas (2006) trailer”.
- Poly Styrene is dreaming of a black “Black Christmas”
- David Bowie wishes all a “Merry Christmas and a Rock and Roll New Year”
- It’s Queen and David Bowie vs Smokey Robinson under some serious “Jingle Pressure” in this djBC mashup
- Pee Wee Herman learns it’s only “Seven More Fruitcakes” to Hanukah
- Dan Philips says “You Spin Me Round( like a Dreidel) in his alternate mashup
- Santa cried that Christmas has been cancelled .Boo frickin’ Ho Ho Hoo
- The Smash-Up Derby don’t want to fight tonight so they belt out their mashup of The Ramones vs Christmas. It’s “Christmas Bop!’ Ho HO HO , Let’s GO!
- It’s cold deep down in this 45 Grave cover of “The Snow Miser Song”
- Wednesday Addams asks her Uncle Fester if he believes in Santa Claus
- AHHHH! It’s the (MxPx) “Christmas Night of the Living Dead”
- The Dirty Sidewalks know whats what . “It’s Christmas ( and everyone is miserable) “
- Stephen Colbert welcomes Henry Rollins for their rocking version of “Carol of the Bells”
- This Three’s Company christmas tree doubles as an air freshner with it’s pine scent.
- It’s a bomb! The Nuclears are walking in a “Nuclear Winter Wonderland “
- Set up a Dragnet to catch Tim Gill in his jazzy rendition of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”
- Nick Frost knows the secret to Santa.......”Second Sled”
- Apocalypse Kow are heading to Europe for the final acapela “Santa Countdown”
- Corky and the Juice Pigs have a “Christmas Drunken Alibi” for what happened last night
- Samantha Bee says don’t be a PC Douchbag this year . It’s Merry FUCKIN’ Christmas!
- The Reverend Glen Armstrong knows that “Even Squeky Fromme Loves Christmas “
- It’s the twelve days of Litchfield ! Laaaaaadies......on the fifth day of christmas , my true love gave to me ....a shiv right in my fanny......
- Twas the night before orange was the new black in Litchfield as the ladies tell a lights out bed time story.
- Didi Snavely knows that in America one must never go dashing through the snow in an unarmed open sleigh.
- Leonard Cohen and Jennifer Warnes sing a short live “Silent Night “
- Prince performs for the first (and reportedly only) time his “Another Lonely Christmas” B-Side during this St Paul, 26 Dec 1984 concert.
- Merry Christmas......SPOOOON!!!
