Yeah--a big year for endings: lives, friendships, more lives, maybe even
tax cuts for the rich--and we even have the end of the world to look forward to
in a week and a half. According to a
long-extinct race that was so notoriously smart they could track the movements
of Venus for centuries in advance, and so notoriously dumb they never invented the
wheel. Which is, like many notorious
things, not quite true--little Mayan children played with wheeled toys, if I remember
right; it’s just that, when your cities and towns are all connected by cliff-based
pathways, a wheel is more of a danger than a convenience. People who live on a perpetual incline invent
cleats, not the wheel.
And the way my, uh, (Maya?) year has inclined to go? Well, it's no surprise that my year-end version of
those cleats is a playlist of holiday songs.
This year’s compilation was born even more quickly than last year’s,
over a rain-soaked spring-like weekend where I flogged my dying Microsoft laptop
for hours trying to get it to load up an internet connection, and trolled through
four years worth of discards and downloads for tunes that struck my fancy--or, given
that I’m more withdrawn than Bob Cratchit's bank account these days, struck me at all.
The result is below, split
up into two downloadable zip files. As with
previous years, please let me know offline if you want these in CD format, or if
you want any individual songs rather than the whole kit and kaboodle. (Note to self: add “Kit and Kaboodle” to your
list of Imaginary Rock Bands.)
Merry Happy, everybody.
Zombie Christmas
The 2012 Christmas
Compilation
1.
Zombie Christmas - Emmy The Great & Tim
Wheeler
2.
Monsters Holiday - Bobby
Boris Pickett and the Crypt Kickers
3.
It’s Christmastime (and I am still alive) - Deep Sea
Diver
4.
It’s Christmas, Baby - Ms. Jody
5.
I Ate Too Much Over The Holidays - Lee “Shot”
Williams
6.
Santa Bring My Baby Back - O.B.
Buchana
7.
I Need A Lover For Christmas - Sheba Potts-Wright
8.
I Need A Man Down My Chimney - Barbara
Carr
9.
Ain’t No Chimneys In The Projects - Sharon
Jones & The Dap-Kings
10. New Year’s
Resolution - Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
11. Our New
Year - Tori Amos
12. All I
Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue - Over The Rhine
13. Home For
The Holiday - Sugar & The Hi Lows
14. Snowfall
Kind Of Love - Ingrid Michaelson
15. Deeper
Than You Know - Marc Scibilia & Leigh Nash
16. Christmas
In Paradise - Mary Gauthier
17. It’s A
Wonderful Life - Henry Travers
18. Wonderful
Life (Live) - Kylie Minogue
19. Christmas
For Cowboys - Jars of Clay
20. Christmas
Time In The City - Mary Chapin Carpenter
21. Santa
Looked A Lot Like Daddy - Brad Paisley
22. Don’t the
Girls All Get Prettier Around Christmastime - Mickey Gilley
23. The
Little Hooters Girl - Bob Rivers
24. Santa
Claus Is Comin’ to Town (Q-burns Abstract Message Remix) - Johnny
Mercer with the Pied Pipers
25. Christmas
Alphabet - The McGuire Sisters
26. Django
Bells - Gypsy Hombres
27. Linus And
Lucy - Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
28. Santa’s
Midnight Run - The Untamed Youth
29. Santa Is
Coming (Ho, Ho, Ho) - The Woggles
30. Santa’s
Too Drunk To Drive - The Hot Rods
31.
Driving Home For Christmas (Extended Remix) - Benny
Royal vs. Chris Rea
32. All Alone
On Christmas - Parker Lewis & Matilda Berggren
33.
Christmas Day (I Wish I Was Surfing) - Emmy The
Great & Tim Wheeler
34. Christmas
In the Sand - Colbe Caillat
35. Oh Holiday - Jules Larson
36. Bonus
Track - Hers
37. Bonus
Track - His
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haddy grimble everybodood.
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