'Tis the season (to help me make an xmas mix)

[davy]

Okay, I think I got it: http://www.mediafire.com/?e9x91q0l8k0eyn0

And the track listing:

1 marah - introduction
2 marah - new york is a christmas kind of town
3 gatsby's american dream - christmas time is here
4 delfields - a very delfields christmas
5 shawn lee - little drummer boy
6 yobs - white christmas
7 drifters - white christmas
8 rufus thomas - i'll be your santa baby
9 season's greetings from tito jackson
10 milly & silly - gettin down for christmas
11 temptations - christmas everyday
12 harvey averne band - let's get it together this christmas
13 lord executioner - christmas is a joyful day
14 marah - here we come a wassailing
15 deer tick - christmas all summer long
16 coctails - silent night
17 she and him - christmas waltz
18 camera obscura - the blizzard
19 ron sexsmith - maybe this christmas
20 leadbelly - christmas is a comin
21 merle haggard - if we make it through december
22 star wars singers - r2d2 we wish you a merry christmas
23 the bird and the bee - carol of the bells
24 apples in stereo - holiday mood
25 darren hanlon - spend christmas day with me
26 carpenters/rush coil - o come o come emmanuel / deck the halls
27 otis redding - merry christmas baby
28 solomon burke - presents for christmas
29 nathaniel mayer - mr santa claus
30 king curtis - what are you doing new years eve?

[davy]

And here is 2009: http://www.mediafire.com/?7k971wby06mz4k1

And here is 2010: http://www.mediafire.com/?6y0qvj1hej40j2z

You should be able to see the tracklistings fairly easily, right? They're zip files.

Please let me know if something's not working right or if there's a better way to do it. I'll be posting these shits on facebook later this week.

Oh, and all three mixes are on spotify, too:

http://open.spotify.com/user/davygibbs/playlist/1OHyFTW3Bd2nTRShFG75qu
http://open.spotify.com/user/davygibbs/playlist/60V6ws54igMtghMy1VToGN
http://open.spotify.com/user/davygibbs/playlist/2lL17fVsjQDBWvZufc3b2M

...except that since spotify only had about 75% of the original tracks, I had to substitute some lesser stuff. So these aren't official.

[narlus]

this is the best xmas cover of all time, hands-down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCsFWbl2IDk

[Em]

You guys are awesome. Thank you for filling in my holiday music knowledge gap.

[alistarr*]

That there Zooey Deschanel and M Ward band put out a Christmas CD this year. Listening to it in the car is most relaxing.  One of the song's fades out with backing voices murmuring "Christmas comes this time each year" which is curiously reassuring in the same way as remembering the years that different things happened.

I also love Low's "Just Like Christmas". My conventional pick is the Darlene Love song from Phil Spector's Christmas record.

[davy]

The She & Him xmas album may be the best thing they've done. They are extremely well-suited for such a thing. It's nice and pleasant and relaxing and pretty and comes on red vinyl!

"The Christmas Waltz" is my favorite of the bunch, and it got the nod for this year's mix. Zooey's voice is perfect for it, even if it isn't perfect for much else.

[alistarr*]

She & Him, indeed! No wonder I didn't spot it mentioned (I did try to remember the band name, but I don't think I've even seen the cover, actually. One of my ladyfriend's purchases). Yes, I like it.

[howardfinkel]

i know it's late but maybe someone will appreciate these somewhat random collections of xmas songs.

Thick Red Wine Xmas Mix Vol. 1

1. Please Come Home For Christmas – Charles Brown
2. Purple Snowflakes – Marvin Gaye
3. Merry Christmas Baby – Bruce Springsteen
4. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town – The Pointer Sisters
5. Little Saint Nick (Single Version) – The Beach Boys
6. What Christmas Means to Me – Stevie Wonder
7. Donde Esta Santa Claus? – Augie Rios
8. Dominic The Christmas Donkey – Lou Monte
9. Tesco At Christmas (Beans On Toast) – Frank Turner
10. Baby It’s Cold Outside – Arizona Amp and Alternator
11. Silver Bells – She & Him
12. Christmas Is The Time To Say “I Love You” – Billy Squier
13. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus – John Mellencamp
14. Do They Know It’s Christmas? – Band Aid
15. 2000 Miles – The Pretenders
16. Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses
17. Merry Christmas All – Denise Montana & The Salsoul Orchestra
18. This Christmas – Donny Hathaway
19. Christmas In Hollis – Run DMC
20. A Love Letter Christmas – R. Kelly

Thick Red Wine Xmas Mix Vol. 2

1. All I Want For Christmas Is You (So So Def Remix) – Mariah Carey
2. Santa Baby – Michael Wojciechowski
3. Christmas All Over Again – Tom Petty
4. Mele Kalikimaka – Bing Crosby
5. Holiday Road – Lindsey Buckingham
6. Heat Miser – Maury Laws & Jules Bass
7. Put One Foot in Front of the Other – Mickey Rooney & Keenan Wynn
8. We Need a Little Christmas – Angela Lansbury, Frankie Machaels, Jane Connell, Sab Shimono
9. Merry Christmas Darling – The Carpenters
10. Papa Ain’t No Santa Claus (And Mama Ain’t No Christmas Tree) – Butterbeans and Susie
11. 25th of December – Everything But The Girl
12. Nuttin for Christmas – Elmo & Patsy
13. Christmas In Prison – John Prine
14. Merry Christmas From The Family – Robert Earl Keen
15. White Christmas – Otis Redding
16. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – Darlene Love
17. Christmas – Jason Anderson

[Nick Ink]

To add to my 'various' mix, my Elvis album and my indispensable Nat & Dean collection, I now have the Home Normal/Hibernate one, featuring Machinefabriek playing Silent Night (on music box, field recordings and cat)

You can stream it here, or buy it for £5, which goes to the Archway Foundation, established in Oxford in 1982 by Paul Hawgood to help serve those hurt by loneliness.

1. Antonymes – Snow On Snow 06:27
2. Clem Leek – Away In America 06:32
3. The Boats – Once In A Royal Boats City02:36
4. Offthesky – O Holy Night 04:20
5. Daniel Thomas Freeman – In The Bleak Midwinter 05:30
6. Machinefabriek – Silent Night 01:28
7. Strom Noir – Icon 04:48
8. Good Weather For An Airstrike – O Christmas Tree 02:26
9. Konntinent ft. Leyli – Snowfall 03:00
10. Anna Rose Carter and Christopher Bailey – Go Tell it on the Mountain 04:16
11. Wil Bolton – Coventry Carol 02:43
12. Isnaj Dui – Always Close 03:34
13. Listening Mirror ft. Alicia Merz – Silent Night 06:42
14. The Frozen Vaults – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 04:56
15. Upward Arrows – Gaudete 02:36
16. Ithaca Trio – God Rest 07:02
17.Konntinent – Snowfall (Alt Download Bonus) 03:21

[mixed cats]

Psst http://killwd.bandcamp.com/album/no-presents-for-christmas

[davy]

Just caught wind of this:

Gruff Rhys releases Atheist Xmas EP

[Nick Ink]

I was looking for Greg Nog and then I found Greg Nog, and Heaven Knows I'm Christmassy Now, by my imaginary online friend, Rhodri.