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I received this one yesterday. (Don't be discouraged by the first 10 seconds.)

Fuck that Tripod Shit. Try again.

Culturcide's "Depressed Christmas."

'Slick Nick You Devil You'

It's all cold down along the beach...the wind is whipping down the boardwalk...

So, yeah, favorite X-mas song is Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Comin' To Town." The rockist's choice from coast-to-coast, sure (that bit about Santa bringing Clarence a new saxophone is painful) but the memories are just so strong. In the late 70s and early 80s, that was about the ONLY rock Christmas song you would ever hear (the whole Very Special Christmas thing was a few years away.) And then it seem so fun and new.

More recent favorites are by Red Red Meat. "There's Always Tomorrow," which closes the Bunny Gets Paid album, many will remember from Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, sung by Clarisse to Rudolph after he is exposed as a sham in front of his peers & blackballed from any future Reindeer games. The Red Red Meat album finds the PERFECT tone to convey that sad but vaguely hopeful sentiment.

And then of course there is the flip-side to “Star Above The Manger Tonight,” a warped take on the song sung by the Whos down in Whoville on X-mas morning (“wha-who-glor-ay/ wha-who-glor-ay”) that you would swear was written specifically so Brian Deck could produce it – the band raided the Whoville junkyard for all the discarded toys And then! Oh, the noise! Oh, the noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!

"No Xmas For John Quays" by the Fall & "Death May Be Yr Santa Claus" by Mott The Hoople.

& "Xmas In the Country" by the Puddle.