The holiday season just feels a little hollow to me in absence of a catch-all concept gift to give everyone whom I can't actually afford to expend earnest thought upon. And so, as promised, I'd like to offer you a modest compilation (podcast? Is that what they call it?) of songs from my extensive personal holiday vault: Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado...

(91.5 MB .zip)

Included: "Jingle Bells," by Jack Nitzsche, 1975; "Things Fall Apart" by Cristina, 1981; "Christmas At K-Mart" by Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band with the Rootettes, 1978; "Snow" by Harpers Bizzare, 1967; "Santa Claus" by Spectrum, 1992; "Who Took the Merry Out of Christmas?" by The Staple Singers, 1970; "I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You" by Margo Guryan, 1968; "(We Wish You) a Protein Christmas" by The Fall, 2003; "Christmas" by Clinic, 2002; "Christmas Once Again" by Frankie Lymon, 1957; "Xmas Message"/"Christmas Bop" by T.Rex, 1975; "No More Christmas Blues" by Alan Vega, 1981; "Listen, The Snow Is Falling" by Yoko Ono, 1969; "December Will Be Magic Again" by Kate Bush, 1980; "Thank God It's Not Christmas" by Sparks, 1974; "Christmas Waltz" by Frank Sinatra, 1957; "First Snowfall" by The Cocktails, 1996; "Toyland" by R.E.M., 1992; "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" by Smokey Robinson and the Mircles, 1970; "Sleigh Bells Reindeer and Snow" by Rita Faye Wilson, ??; "Let's Make This Christmas Mean Something This Year pts. 1 & 2" by James Brown, 1966; "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" by Joseph Spence, 1978; "Do You Believe In Christmas?" by Essential Logic, 1985; "Holiday Hymn" by Orange Juice, 1981; "Silent Night" by Phil Spector & Artists, 1963.

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