B-Sides For X-Mas
By Sport Bucket
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Podcast Description
Part advent calendar, part dumping ground for all the weird and wonderful Christmas music I've accumulated. 100% Celine Dion-free, and that's a promise.
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Auld Lang Syne | Boney M, 1981 — One last treat for you, since it’s Christmas and all. Happy New Year! | 12/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christmas In The Northwest | Brenda Kutz White, 1985 — You know, I think that’s it. I’m done. I quit. This has gone too far. I just can’t do it anymore. Not now. Not after this. Anyway, Merry Christmas! | 12/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3 |
Silent Night | Tom Waits, 1989 — Sweet mother of mercy, that voice. | 12/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sleigh Ride | Mistletoe Disco Band, 1980 — Christmas and Disco, together at last. | 12/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I'm Gonna E-Mail Santa | Billy Gilman & Rosie O’Donnell, 2000 — I’m not a violent man, but the first time I heard this song, I was waiting in a long line at Best Buy, and the sound of Billy Gilman’s voice made me want to strangle someone. After the second chorus, I ditche | 12/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Little Drummer Boy | RuPaul, 1993 — Back to back Drummer Boys! RuPaul doesn’t have as much of an ego about his/her rendition, dropping the definite article “the”, probably in an effort to appeal to the everyman cross-dressing Christmas caroler. I think it works. | 12/21/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Little Drummer Boy | Ringo Starr, 1999 — Ringo Starr would like to take this opportunity to remind you that he was in the Beatles. Ever heard of them? | 12/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | Pebbles & Bamm Bamm, 1965 — This seems like a pretty bizarre choice of song for a pair of pre-historic toddlers to sing. Especially when you consider that they’re singing about the birth of Jesus, which would be several thousand years in the future. M | 12/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Can You Get a Wookiee for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb?) | C-3PO, R2-D2, and Friends, 1980 — Good tune or not, you’ve gotta admit it’s a tough question to answer. | 12/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Come On Ring Those Bells | Evie Tornquist, 1977 — Christmas is all about traditions. For me, as a kid, the Christmas season hadn’t begun until we’d picked up my prodigal sister from the airport, set up the tree, brought out the anglocentric nativity scene, and put on the Evie | 12/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hurry Home for Christmas | Robert Goulet, 1969 — That’s not just a warm sentiment, either. You’d better hurry your jingle-bell-jinglin’ ass home or, well, the reindeer won’t come back, or something. No ho-ho. Woah-woah. Until you get here mistletoe will miss a kiss that w | 12/16/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Frosty The Snowman | Cindy Brady, 1970 — Quite possibly the all-time worst interpretation of this particular holiday classic, which is an accomplishment, because it’s not an especially difficult piece of music. There’s something charming about how consistently behind th | 12/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sleigh Ride | Christmas Accordion, ???? — I have next to nothing on this one, but who doesn’t love Christmas carols played on an accordion? | 12/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The First Noel | Crash Test Dummies, 1991 — I might have more to say about this song if I could get past the first 14 seconds. When played back on high-end speakers, Brad Roberts' voice is capable of the fabled brown note, causing people and pets alike to suddenly lose | 12/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Santa Claus Is Coming To Town | The Pointer Sisters, 1987 — And he’s bringing assless chaps for all the girls and boys. | 12/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alvin's Harmonica | David Seville & The Chipmunks, 1959 — You’re almost certainly familiar with the Chipmunks’ song where Alvin wants a hula-hoop. This one is different. In this one, Alvin doesn’t want a hula-hoop, he wants a girl chipmunk. He’s not picky — small | 12/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I Fell Out Of A Christmas Tree | Little Rita Faye, 1953 — After her music career didn’t pan out, Little Rita Faye found her calling teaching abstinence-only sex education to pine saplings had two children, one of whom requested that I remove potentially libelous statements about Rita | 12/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christmas Shopping | Buck Owens & His Buckaroos, 1968 — Leave it to a country singer to tell it like it is about Christmas consumerism. Things haven’t gotten much better since Buck sang this song, but I’d like to think the gifts are a little more interesting these days. | 12/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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We Need A Little Christmas | The Golddiggers, 1969 — There’s a virtual truckload of information on the innermets about The Golddiggers, but I didn’t really read any of it. The gist of it is that they were strategically placed eye-candy on Dean Martin’s variety show in the lat | 12/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dry Gulch Christmas Rap | Gospel Bill, 1981-ish — I couldn’t find a ton of information about this one, but it appears to be from a special christmas episode of an early incarnation of the Gospel Bill Show, in which a dog named Barkamaeus saves the town of Dry Gulch from money- | 12/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reggae Christmas | Bryan Adams, 1984 — I don’t know what manner of record producer looked at the world’s christmas music offerings and decided he needed Bryan Adams to record a reggae song, but it was an inspired decision. To those who would point out that Bryan Adams | 12/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Let Me Clear My Throat At Christmas | Cheekyboy, 2006 — This is genius: what happens when you put DJ Kool’s classic Let Me Clear My Throat in a darkened room with Hillary Duff and some eggnog and peppermint schnapps? Holiday Magic™, that’s what. (Taken from the 2006 mash-up record San | 12/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jingle Bell Rock | Pete Fountain, 1967 — Nothing says “rock” like a clarinet solo, so if you’re Pete Fountain and you find yourself making a Christmas record, Jingle Bell Rock is the obvious choice. I love how the vocals come in at seemingly random intervals, and th | 12/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christmas Conga | Cyndi Lauper, 1998 — We all know what she was getting at with She Bop, but what the hell is Christmas Conga? I guess it’s what you do when you’re 45 and looking to rekindle that holiday magic, so to speak. I can’t connect all the dots, but somehow | 12/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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L'il Elfy | Ray Bolger, 1963 — Yes, that Ray Bolger. He wasn’t just a figment of Dorothy’s imagination. In real life he wrote and performed songs about developmentally disabled elves whom other elves coerce into breaking into people’s homes in order to give | 12/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 25 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
excellent xmas for your library
last season this podcast brought excellent choices for your xmas list. often obscure, but totally playable, they made a great addition to all my holiday party mixes. i hope it comes back this season with new songs!!
This is sooo cool
I love this podcast. It has the most obscure, weird, and wonderful holiday music you can't find ANYWHERE else. And for free.
Just what I wanted
I was looking for off the wall songs for a party. This is perfect. Funny, crazy songs for the holidays. My favorite is dominic the donkey!
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