My Little Collection of Odd & Offbeat Holiday Songs
Posted: December 25, 2012 Filed under: open thread | Tags: blink 182, Eric Idle, Fountains of Wayne, Jimmy Eat World, julian casablancas, odd christmas songs, snoop dogg, Sufjan Stevens, The Pogues, The Pretenders, The Ronettes, The Waitresses, Tom Waits 11 Comments
So, this is an open thread as you’ve probably gathered by now. It’s musical. It’s full of holiday songs. It’s full of really offbeat Christmas songs because I’m that sorta dakini. Blame Josh Barro and Dave Stringer Huge’s Tolerable Christmas Playlist on Spotify. Some of them are very bluesy, some are punk rocky and some are outrageous and EXPLICIT.
From Tom Waits: Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis (what can I say … it’s Tom Waits!!!)
The Pretenders: 2000 Miles (obscure and beautiful)
From Eric Idle: F%^k Christmas (yes,it’s graphic)
Sufjan Stevens: That Was the Worst Christmas Ever (hauntingly beautiful and acoustic)
Fountains of Wayne: I want an Alien for Christmas (It’s very neo Punk and fun!)
snoop dogg: santa claus goes straight to the ghetto (graphic, funky, and very socially aware rap)
The Kinks: Father Christmas (CLASSIC)
Blink 182: I won’t be home for Christmas (Youngest Daughter was obsessed with this group 4evah!!! Rocky Neopunk and very dark humor lyrics)
Julian Casablancas: I wish it was Christmas today (Cross between the Kinks and the Ramones plus Julian is yummy!)
Jimmy Eat World: Last Christmas (It’s an update to a song sung by Wham! and George Michael so yes, very pop, very 80s and could be covered by Justin Beiber … Highly CORNY.)
The Waitresses: Christmas Wrapping (From my misspent punky youth … I loved this group for some reason)
The Ronettes: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (Yes, it’s the Wall of Sound, creepy Phil Spector and that very 1960s sound!)
The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl: New York Fairy Tale (A beautiful, haunting song with a very Irish sound and dark lyrics.)
MERRY MERRY!!!!
I got a few more up my sleeve and I’ll post them as the evening wears on and my wine glass refills.
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Another great character actor is gone. Charles Durning dies at 88.
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They’re my dad’s age. This really hits home for me.
I just want to say to all of you wonderful readers, Merry Christmas! Every day I say a little thank you to the gods that we have a special blogging community here at Sky Dancing.
Enjoy these songs Dak…thank you for everything that you do and to Boston Boomer, you are awesome. Love ya both!
love you too!!! how are you making out with the weather now? I see it’s over you !!!
Yup, it is getting windy now, and in our neck of the woods that wind can knock out power for hours. Y’all have a good and safe night, hopefully I can get back online later. Ciao!
Stay safe, JJ!
It’s odd how we forge links with people we’ve never met in real time, however it happens. Stay safe and be safe you and your family. Funny also that tonight I had some of my family over for dinner and as usual it was not what I wanted. One cannot control genetic families I suppose, nor can one wish that everything will be okay and magically it will be.
JJ I hope that your family have a wonderful time.
Being a muppet fan, I can only offer a less than satisfactory christmas oddity, but it’s heartfelt.
Yep, In case I miss an opportunity to say it tomorrow, have a wonderful Boxing Day, HT! I hope you have your snow tires on.
You three are all awesome and again I find myself saying ITA, or What s/he said!
Thank you and keep up the Resistance! Hope all make it safely through the weather.
The Rebel Jesus – Jackson Browne
All the streets are filled with laughter and light
And the music of the season
And the merchants’ windows are all bright
With the faces of the children
And the families hurrying to their homes
As the sky darkens and freezes
Will be gathering around the hearths and tables
Giving thanks for God’s graces
And the birth of the rebel Jesus
Well they call him by the “Prince Of Peace”
And they call him by “The Saviour”
And they pray to him upon the sea
And in every bold endeavor
As they fill his churches with their pride and gold
And their faith in him increases
But they’ve turned the nature that I worship in
From a temple to a robber’s den
In the words of the rebel Jesus
We guard our world with locks and guns
And we guard our fine possessions
And once a year when Christmas comes
We give to our relations
And perhaps we give a little to the poor
If the generosity should seize us
But if any one of us should interfere
In the business of why they are poor
They get the same as the rebel Jesus
But pardon me if I have seemed
To take the tone of judgement
For I’ve no wish to come between
This day and your enjoyment
In this life of hardship and of earthly toil
We have need for anything that frees us
So I bid you pleasure and I bid you cheer
From a heathen and a pagan
On the side of the rebel Jesus