#song: I Want an Alien for Christmas by Fountains of Wayne

[rock-and-roll-hell]

This year for Christmas, There's something I'd really like So if you're up there somewhere Santa, Please don't bring me another bike I don't need any ugly sweaters And I don't play much basketball But there's something kinda special That I want most of all I want an Alien for Christmas. Bring me an alien this year I want a little green guy About three feet high With seventeen eyes, Who knows how to fly I want an alien for Christmas, this year ...

[itscauseimbatman]

I want an alien for Christmas

Bring me an alien this year

I want a little green guy

About three feet high

With seventeen eyes

Who knows how to fly

I want an alien for Christmas, this year

[stelamaris]

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As we are entering the period of The Same Five Christmas Songs Played Over and Over on the Radio in the UK, I will list five Christmas songs I currently love which may give someone's eardrums a break.

I Believe in Father Christmas by Greg Lake

I Want An Alien For Christmas - Fountains of Wayne

Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas - Eels

It's Christmas And You're Boring Me by Slow Club

The Christmas Song (alternative version) - The Raveonettes

[kadebronson]

oh christ-mas

01. december is for cynics - the matches

02. i won't be home for christmas - blink-182

03. silent night - the dickies

04. merry christmas - the ramones

05. there ain't no sanity clause - the damned

06. christmas wrapping - the waitresses

07. fairtyale of new york - the pogues ft. kirsty maccoll

08. forget december - something corporate

09. all i want for christmas is you - mariah carey

10. rudolph the manic reindeer - los lobos

11. merry axe-mas - ice nine kills

12. christmas every day - simple plan

13. santa has a mullet - nerf herder

14. yule shoot your eye out - fall out boy

15. what's this - from the nightmare before christmas

16. this time of year - the mighty mighty bosstones

17. skank for christmas - reel big fish

18. snoopy's christmas - smash mouth

19. all i want for christmas is you - my chemical romance

20. the corner store on christmas - bowling for soup

21. you're a mean one, mr. grinch - misfits

22. the snow miser song - 45 grave

23. alone this holiday - the used

24. ex-miss - new found glorey

25. where did my xmas tree go? - vengaboys

26. i want an alien for christmas - fountains of wayne

27. one christmas catalogue - VH X RR, logan

28. do you hear what i hear? - william beckett

29. thank god it's christmas - queen

30. christmas at the zoo - the flaming lips

31. don't shoot me santa - the killers ft. ryan perdy

32. christmas vacation - descendents

33. xmas has been X'ed - NOFX

34. father christmas - the kinks

35. bad guy's christmas - harley poe

36. oi to the world - the vandals

37. christmas day - squeeze

38. it doesn't often snow at christmas - pet shop boys

39. last christmas - wham!

40. 2000 miles - the pretenders

41. home on christmas day - cyndi lauper

42. santa claus - throwing muses

43. santa's beard - they might be giants

44. skank 'til christmas - the selecter

45. all i want for christmas (is world peace) - timbuk 3

46. shouldn't have given him a gun for christmas - wall of voodoo

47. homo christmas - pansy division

48. sympathy 4 the grinch - 100 gecs

49. one more sleep 'til christmas - from a muppet christmas carol

you can listen to the playlist here!

[vinylanswer]

Fountains of Wayne’s 2005 album, “Out-of-State Plates,” was a sprawling collection of B-sides, live tracks and ephemera, and now it’s their final album to get a vinyl reissue. Reputed to be Adam Schlesinger’s favorite FoW album, it’s fairly “diehards-only” material, especially when you consider that this was a band that specialized in novelty songs and these were tracks that didn’t make the cut to appear on an album. Out of the live material, I’ve always felt that one glaring omission here was their truly heartening cover of the Kinks’ “Better Things” that they played on Conan O’Brien when that show came back on-air for the first time after 9/11. Still, there’s some gems buried here, including their brilliant Christmas single, the pop-tastic, hilarious “I Want An Alien For Christmas” and it’s own B-side, “The Man in the Santa Suit,” which is emblematic of everything FoW could be at its best, with its tuneful portrait of a shopping mall Santa that is funny, sad, respectful and littered with telling details that soeak volumes about this character; it’s a masterclass in economic songwriting. Due out on Friday, the double-LP arrived on my doorstep a few days early. They say it is “Junkyard” colored but let’s be honest—that looks like vomit.

[screamingtrashbird]

[painted-piggy-ships-archive]

Today’s Christmas song is I Want An Alien For Christmas by Fountains Of Wayne!

[punk-lucifer]

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three songs you were recently obsessed with

The Feels- Twice

Thank God I’m Not You- the Himalayas

I Want an Alien For Christmas- Fountains of Wayne

three songs you wish you could forget (because listening to them hurts)

[songs that make me melancholy; not quite the level of hurt I think the question wants but I don’t really feel that]

You’re My Best Friend- Don Williams

Have I Told You Lately- Van Morrison

Vincent- Don McLean

three songs that remind you of your best friends

Girl Clout- Fresh

Can’t Stop- Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Teenagers- My Chemical Romance

[outside-seoul]

A brief but comprehensive list of Christmas songs that don't make me want to barf:

--Christmas (Baby Please Come Home), U2

--All I Want for Christmas Is You, Mariah Carey

--I Want an Alien for Christmas, Fountains of Wayne

[middaydolomite]

Season Songsmithery

Today marks the first day of Whamageddon, where you avoid hearing Wham's Last Christmas until 25 December.

However, if you don't survive that, a much easier game is Wayne-ageddon. You win if you don't hear I Want an Alien For Christmas by Fountains of Wayne, which is a cracking song but not played often enough.

[hotpiner]

Thrillville off the rails

#Thrillville off the rails Pc#

The Ballad of Bandito Chinchilla - Mozingo.

Right Where You Want Me - Jesse McCartney.

I Want an Alien for Christmas - Fountains of Wayne.

We Used to Be Friends - The Dandy Warhols.

Ten Seconds in the Saddle - Chris LeDoux.

The Littlest Cowboy Rides Again - Chris LeDoux.

The Curse of Monkey Island Theme Song - Michael Land.

The game has a mix of real and songs made for this game.

#Thrillville off the rails Pc#

A demo is currently available on the Xbox Live Marketplace and on the game's official PC website. You can also walk up to people and talk to them, and the game is PG because of swearing.Īll minigames feature leaderboards for Xbox Live. If enough thrill points are gained, the player can move to the next level. If the assigned missions is completed then the player receives thrill points. The rollercoaster editor is similar to that of the Roller Coaster Tycoon series, but all coasters have to start in assigned areas. While the DS version contains only seven minigames, the versions for other consoles contain over 40 minigames. The game contains minigames to play along with editing rollercoasters. Throughout the game, there are lots of mini games and missions to be played, and there is a separate multiplayer mini-game section, as well as another section where coasters can be created and saved to be used in the game. During your park's rise to fame, you have to deal with many attempts to take down its popularity, mainly from Vernon Garrison, a rival character who runs another chain of theme parks called Globo-Joy.You need to keep your customers happy so that they don't go to Globo-Joy. Sometimes, some of the rides for the park continue the same theme. For example, in Thrillville Giant, the objects in the park are all very big. There are five parks, and each one has three sections that all tie in to the same overall theme. Your self-designed character is the manager of a line of very unpopular theme parks owned by your uncle, Mortimer, who is the designer of many great theme-park-related inventions.

[alecthemovieguy]

Merry Subversive Christmas: Quirky songs to get you through the holidays

Over the years, I’ve gathered quite a collection of off-beat, dark or subversive Christmas songs. These songs are the alternatives to the familiar ones saturating the airwaves, so if you’re looking for something different, these might do the trick.

“Cool Yule” — Tony Rodelle Larson (1962)

This is often mislabeled as being performed by William Shatner. It is easy to understand the confusion as Larson’s broken speech patterns do indeed bring to mind Shatner’s riffs on such songs as “Rocket Man.” This beatnik take on “Twas Night the Night Before Christmas” is most definitely way out.

“Monster’s Holiday” — Bobby “Boris” Pickett (1962)

After the “Monster Mash” became a hit this quickie sequel was churned out. There are some amusing riffs on holiday classics, but it is mostly a shameless rewrite of the original. It was a minor hit, but didn’t remain a holiday classic.

“Silver Bells” — Paul Simon and Steve Martin (Sometime in the late 1970s)

This rare show rehearsal starts out simple enough with Simon doing a lovely version of this classic song, but soon Simon’s singing becomes mere backdrop for Martin deadpanning through a cynical monologue on the true meaning of Christmas that ranges from goofy to racy.

“Father Christmas” — The Kinks (1977)

Leave it to The Kinks, the same band that sang about an encounter with the transvestite “Lola,” to write a song about mugging Santa. Ray Davies’ sunny delivery masks the nastiness in lyrics such as “Father Christmas, give us some money/Don’t mess around with those silly toys/Well beat you up if you don’t hand it over.”

“Christmas in the Stars” (from the “Star Wars” Christmas album of the same name) (1980)

Strange and frightening things began to happen after the tremendous success of the original “Star Wars,” including an astoundingly awful 1978 holiday special. Lessons weren’t learned and two years later producer Meco — hot off his successful disco version of the “Star Wars” theme — produced a Christmas album from a galaxy far, far away. “Christmas in the Stars” is so bad as to become campy fun.

“There Ain’t No Sanity Clause” — The Damned (1980)

English punk band The Damned released this song just in time for the holiday season, but it failed to chart perhaps because no one wanted to have the Santa Claus bubble popped for the youngest yuletide revelers. The lyrics are barely intelligible, but, it is the sing-a-long anthem-like chorus that brings this one home.

"Bollocks To Christmas" — The Business (1981)

English punk bands must have had it out for Christmas in the early ’80s. Elton John's 1973 holiday classic "Step Into Christmas" gets rewritten and reworked into rollicking anti-Christmas anthem that is a welcome antidote for those overdosing on Christmas cheer.

“Christmas in Heaven” — Monty Python (1983)

Monty Python were always known for loopy songs that often pointed out the hypocrisies or the idiosyncrasies of society. In the film “The Meaning of Life,” Graham Chapman sings a caustic song about the consumerism and commercialism that runs rampant during the holiday season that includes lyrics like: “There’s great films on TV/"The Sound of Music” twice an hour/And ‘Jaws’ one, two, and three.“

"Christmas at Ground Zero” - “Weird Al” Yankovic (1986)

Weird Al’s song parodies are usually goofy and innocuous, but Al also has a macabre and twisted sense of humor that occasionally shines through. Written in 1986, “Christmas at Ground Zero” is a biting satire on Cold War paranoia filtered through the sound of a festive holiday tune. Are lines like: “It’s Christmas at ground zero/There’s panic in the crowd/We can dodge debris while we trim the tree/Underneath the mushroom cloud” riotously funny, or simply in bad taste? You be the judge.

“Christmas In Hollis” — Run DMC (1987)

This is a happy hip hop holiday song about Christmas in Queens, N.Y. The song includes such endearingly goofy lyrics as “It was December 24th on Hollis Ave in the dark/When I seen a man chilling with his dog in the park/I approached very slowly with my heart full of fear/Looked at his dog, oh my God, an ill reindeer.”

“Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight)” — The Ramones (1989)

The Ramones were still kicking around in the late 1980s cranking out three-chord ditties. Surprisingly, one of the best songs from this era is a Christmas song about the tensions of the season and the need for forgiveness.

“Santa Song” — Adam Sandler (1993)

Everyone is familiar with Sandler’s “Chanukah Song,” but he actually did a Christmas themed song that pre-dates its by a year. In this one Sandler sings about all the reasons he won’t be getting a visit from Santa. Best line: “Santa don’t like bad boys…especially Jewish ones.”

“12 Days of Yaksmas” — Ren and Stimpy (1993)

There have been numerous parodies of the “12 Days of Christmas,” which is your favorite really comes down to personal preference. As a youth in the 1990s, I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the warped antics of this dog and cat team.

“Burger/Christmas Medley” — Phil Hartman and Sinbad (1995)

Hidden in the closing credits of the film “Houseguest,” a largely forgettable comedy that lives on as cable TV filler, this is an amusing medley of barbecue-themed Christmas songs. Hartman even reprises some of his most famous “Saturday Night Live” impressions, including Frank Sinatra and Bill Clinton.

“Little Drum Machine Boy” — Beck (1996)

“The Little Drummer Boy” gets morphed into an odd dance and rap flavored Chanukah anthem featuring “the holiday Chanukah robot of funk.” Beck is a chameleon-like musician who blends different genres with amazing skill. It is hardly traditional, but certainly original and memorable.

“The Night Santa Went Crazy” — Weird Al Yankovic (1996)

Don’t be fooled by the sweet guitar strumming of the open, this Christmas carol turns humorously sour fast. Yankovic turns his twisted mind on Christmas in the story of the night Santa finally snapped and became a “big, fat, disgruntled yuletide Rambo.”

“I Won’t Be Home for Christmas” — Blink 182 (1997)

Goofball pop/punk rockers wrote this anthem for all those who are driven up the wall by the holiday season. The song features bitter, but funny lyrics like: “It’s time to be nice to the people you can’t stand all year/I’m growing tired of all this Christmas cheer.”

“I Want an Alien for Christmas” — Fountains of Wayne (1997)

Years before Fountains of Wayne recorded its breakup out “Stacy’s Mom,” the band recorded this cheerfully loopy song that seems to be a modern riff on “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.” It is hard not to smile at such lyrics as “I want a little green guy/About three feet high/With seventeen eyes.”

“O Holy Night” — Eric Cartman (1999)

“South Park” dedicated a whole episode to satirizing holiday music back in 1999. This is one of the tamer songs from the episode with the spoiled Cartman butchering the holiday classic to hilarious effect.

“Lonely Christmas Eve” - Ben Folds (2000)

Faith Hill’s “Where Are You, Christmas?” got all the attention, but this song is probably the best thing to come out of Ron Howard’s bloated film version of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” Written from the perspective of the Grinch, the tongue-in-cheek piano-man perfectly captures the Dr Seuss tone in a way the movie it appeared in never did while also adding his own quirky sense of humor.

“Bizarre Christmas Incident” — Ben Folds (2002)

Folds hasn’t done a Christmas album, but based on this and the above song, it would be one of the funniest ones ever recorded. This aptly named song unfolds a dark tale of a man encountering Santa in the night. The song answer the question of what would happen if Santa got stuck in the chimney. Needless to say, it doesn’t end pretty. Best enjoyed by those who like their humor black.

“Jingle Bells” - Brian Setzer Orchestra (2002) Setzer reinterprets “Jingle Bells” with his familiar swinging rockabilly stamp. It is a hoot to hear him change the “one horse open sleigh” to a “57 Chevrolet.”

“Elf’s Lament” — Barenaked Ladies (2004)

On “Barenaked for the Holidays” the Ladies presented a collection of Christmas favorite as well as original songs featuring their quirky sense of humor. On this song an elf complains “I make toys, but I’ve got aspirations.”  Bonus: this song features vocals from Michael Bublé.

“Mr. Heat Miser” — Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (2004)

The song first appeared in the 1974 stop-motion animation special “The Year Without Santa.” Thirty years later the swing revival group Big Bad Voodoo Daddy recorded the definitive version of the song for their holiday album “Everything You Want for Christmas.”

“Christmastime for the Jews” — Darlene Love (2005)

Robert Smigel contributed a series of animated shorts to “Saturday Night Live” called “TV Funhouse.” This was one of the best with soul singer Love providing the vocals to a song that describes what Jews do while gentiles “stay at home and party with their goyish family.”

“Dick in a Box” - Lonely Island and Justin Timberlake (2006)

When it first aired on “Saturday Night Live” Dec. 16, 2006, it was clear it would become an instant classic. A parody of ‘90s R&B was an ideal fit for Timberlake, but when you got to the punchline, it was the last thing you expected.

“I’m Getting Nuttin’ for Christmas” — Relient K (2007)

Christian punk/pop band Relient K’s do a fast, rocking cover of the novelty song “I’m Getting Nuttin’ for Christmas.” The snarling punk attitude and crunching guitars suit lyrics like “I broke my bat on Johnny’s head/Somebody snitched on me” quite well.

“Another Christmas Song” — Stephen Colbert (2008)

Stephen Colbert did a hilarious parody of holiday specials in 2008. The special’s songs either subverted preexisting songs or, in this case, are something completely new. Lyrics like “The tree is frozen, the winter’s bright/Who’d have thought the wise men look so white” are made all the funnier by Colbert’s authentic crooning.

“Present Face” — Garfunkel and Oates (2008)

This female comedy-folk duo combines disarming charming and simple hooks with goofy and/or raunchy lyrics. In this case the duo leans toward the silly side as they sing about the all too familiar face people make when they get a present they don’t like.

“Christmas Tree” — Lady Gaga featuring Space Cowboy (2008)

Leave it to Lady Gaga, the reigning pop queen of weirdness, to co-write a Christmas song filled with dance beats and dripping with sexual innuendos. It is most definitely not family friendly, but the audacity is admirable.

“Merry Something to You” — Devo (2009)

Yep, Devo, those quirky new wavers recorded a song for the holidays. Blending cheery, generic holiday music with the synthesizers and drum beats they are known for, the band creates an infectious little ditty. Devo often used their songs to satirize society and that’s most definitely the case here as they proclaim: “Believe what you want nothing’s really true.”

“Oh Shit, It’s Christmastime!” — Mad Tea Party (2009)

This uke-abilly band vents their frustration for Christmas in this infectious two-minute ditty. The cynical lyrics include sentiments that anyone can relate to, if only fleetingly: “It’s Christmas, forgot about the pagans and Jews/It’s Christmas and it makes me blue.”

“Christmas Night of the Living Dead” — MxPx (2009)

It was perhaps inevitable that there would be a zombie-themed Christmas song. Punk rockers MxPx present this bloody tale of Christmas carnage featuring the chorus: “Christmas night of the living dead/My face is green and the snow is red.”

“I Wish It Was Christmas Today” — Julian Casablancas (2009)

Originally a goofy tune performed on “Saturday Night Live” by Horatio Sanz, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan and Tracy Morgan, Casablancas, the lead singer of The Strokes, fleshes it out into a full-fledged rocking Christmas song. The added production value manages to enhance the simple charms of the skit rather than undermine it.

“All I Need Is Love” —  CeeLo Green Feat. The Muppets (2012)

The Muppet’s classic “Mahna Mahna” becomes the spine for this joyous collaboration with CeeLo Green, in which Green proclaims all he needs is love for Christmas. Slick modern pop production combined with the silliness of the Muppets make this hard to resist.

"The Season's Upon Us" — Dropkick Murphys (2012)

Boston’s beloved Celtic punk band offers up their take on the holiday season. The song gleefully embraces familial dysfunction and chaos with such  lyrics like “My sisters are wack jobs, I wish I had none/Their husbands are losers and so are their sons.” 

“I Fucking Love Christmas” — Rob Scallon and Doug Walker (2014)

Doug Walker has been providing irreverent movie reviews on the Internet as the Nostalgic Critic since 2007. He loves Christmas. He really loves Christmas, which he makes abundantly clear in this gloriously over-the-top song. The hilariously explicit lyrics definitely require parental discretion.

“Sump’n Claus” — Kenan Thompson (2014)

“Saturday Night Live” delivers again with yet another hilarious satire of Christmas. Here Kenan Thompson plays Sump’n Claus, who, unlike Santa Claus and his judgmental list, declares “everybody’s gettin’ sump’n” and that something is cold hard cash in a white envelope. Just don’t ask where it came from.

“Text Me Merry Christmas” — Straight No Chaser and Kristen Bell (2014)

A cappella group Straight No Chaser is joined by actress Bell for a perfect mix of sincerity and satire in looking at love and the holiday season in the modern age. Playful lyrics like “I don’t care if you spell things right/I just want to hear from you tonight/Stroke those keys with your delicate touch/And type those little words that mean so much” are delivered with a charming sweetness.

“Santa’s Coming For Us” — Sia (2017)

Every year, a new crop of artists release Christmas-themed albums. Typically, they are filled with covers of the same holiday standards with a couple originals thrown. Refreshingly, Sia’s “Everyday is Christmas” features all new songs that perfectly blend Sia’s idiosyncratic pop sensibilities with the upbeat sounds of the season. Lead single “Santa’s Coming For Us” is effervescent and catchy in way that never becomes insufferable.

[parkerbombshell]

Ice Cream Man Power Pop And More - The Christmas Show 2019

*Special Airing Today 5pm EST bombshellradio.com Monday's 10am-11am EST bombshellradio.com #IceCreamManPowerPopAndMore #PowerPop #Mod #NorthernSoul #Punk#60sClassics #Ska #60sGarage #Surf#Itunes #BombshellRadio #recordcollector #musiclover#powerpopgrunge #powerpopgirls #newmusic #rocknroll The Beatersband - Black Christmas (Single) The Village - Christmas Song (Carnival Of Fools LP) David Woodard - Waiting For Christmas (Everything In between EP) The Hangabouts - Colors Of Christmas (Single) The Charlie Watts Riot - The Christmas Fit (Single) Somerdale - Merry Christmas Time (Maggie Says It Again LP) Old 97's . Gotta Love Being a KId (Love The Holidays LP) Fountains Of Wayne - I Want An Alien For Christmas (Singe) Super 8 - This Christmas (Single) Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight) (Single) Tommy and The Rockets - Merry Christmas (December Snow Single) The Brothers Steve - I Love Christmas Time (Single) Big Stir The Stan Laurels - Noche Buena (A Kool Kat Kristmas Vol 3 LP) The Popravinas - Where Are My Christmas Presents? (Single) The Wylde Things - Here Comes Christmas (Single) John Dredge and The Plinths - Christmas Time Is Here Again (Single) The Supernaturals - Christmas Is Doing My Head In (Demo) ANC4 - There Goes My Baby (Single) The Supernaturals - I Want You Back For Xmas (Demo) Read the full article

[srftoy]

Song of the Day

[hundredwattstudio]

Escape the schmaltz: TNT’s top 5 Christmas movies and songs Great enough for all year round

MOVIES – ALAN RICKMAN’S NOT JUST IN LOVE, ACTUALLY

Sure, Miracle on 34th Street, Home Alone, Elf and that one with Tim Allen are all great, but how many times can you watch the same story again and again? Here is the answer.  

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)

Kooky murder mystery with petty crook Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer as a gay detective solving a situation at Christmas. Michelle Monaghan even stones up in a slide. It is director Shane Black gave us the outstanding Christmas film, Lethal Weapon, which opens with Jingle Bell Rock.

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Tim Burton’s masterpiece is as much Halloweeny as it is Christmasy and vibrant, featuring Jack Skellington researching the wacky world of Santy Claus and the elves. The vibrant stop-motion cartoon makes it totally timeless. Burton’s Edward Scissorhands is too clear.  

Bruce Willis being awesome, explosions and foolish stunts aren’t just for Christmas. Sure, Alan Rickman’s in the Outstanding Love, Really, but he’s superb here as the baddie.    

All carolled out but non-Christmas entertainment is out of the question? Here is the answer. Christmas has nothing to do with the plot, other than the fact that there are Christmas decorations in the stunning Belgian city. In case you haven’t seen it, then do yourself a favour.

Rocky avenges his friend Apollo’s departure against Russian Ivan Drago… on Christmas Day! And basically ends the Cold War having an inspirational mumbling about everybody altering, and stating joyful Christmas to his kid. And there’s a Christmassy robot – you will be a heavy weight champ indicating this one.  

Close but no Santa cookie: Woody Allen’s musical Everyone Says I Love You with Drew Barrymore and Edward Norton; Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal classic When Harry Met Sally; and Go, a Small smokey but a breaking teen caper about a drug deal gone wrong in a rave called Mary Christmas.  

SONGS – SONGS WE WISH YOU A MARIA CAREY FREE CHRISTMAS

In terms of songs, Christmas tunes have been tainted through the past few years by sing-every-note-in-one-hit forms like Maria or schmaltzy fools like Cliff Richard – today we are not from mistletoe and wine or anyone who just needs you for Christmas (but be realistic, they’re probably lying), but you can do better. Start here…

How to Make Gravy, Paul Kelly

Hits right in the heart of a family Christmas and as Kelly’s said it himself, intensifies the atmosphere from the protagonist not being there – like White Christmas. Along with also a gravy recipe, which functions, we analyzed it.  

A classic from The Pretenders that’s been covered by many, including the outstanding KT Tunstall. But we went together with the Magic Dirt singer out of the awesome Rockwiz Christmas unique. All songs on this are all brilliant.    

Frosty the Snowman, Fiona Apple

This record is designed to avoid the trite and nauseating portions of this festive time, but if Cartoon darling Fiona Apple bashes out a Frosty ditty it is tough to go past.

I Respect Your Family, Tripod

Festive humor classic by the Aussie trio that, let us face it, everybody can relate to a little bit. We’ll leave it at this.

Fairytale of New York, Ed Harcourt and KT Tunstall

OK, so we have a crush around the Scot, however it is a worthy alternative to the original and greatest from The Pogues. Harcourt does a corker of a variant with Martha Wainwright.

Close but no cracker: Fountains of Wayne’s I Want An Alien This Christmas; The Futureheads’ Christmas Was Much Better In The 80s along with Run-DMC’s Christmas in Hollis (which can be in Die Hard); The Arcade Fire’s Jinglebell Rock,  Sarah Silverman’s Give The Jew Girl Toys, Blink 182’s Happy Holidays You Bastard and, Bamboula’s I am Getting Pissed for Christmas.  

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