The First...errr...THIRD Noel

Felix Navidad!!! This is the third installment of my annual holiday mix, that is given (in most cases, against their will) to family, friends, co-workers, celebrities, heathens, girls named 'Candy', department store Santas, snow angels and casual onlookers. Some of you may have been on the receiving end of the previous two audio lumps of coal ('ALOT LIKE X-MAS' and 'A LOT LIKE XMAS TOO'), so some of these tunes (my favorites) have been trotted out before...just can't break from tradition I guess.

An extra helping of good tidings to Tualla (nicked that Cool Breezes tune) and Wendy (didn't have the Jimmy Eat World tune) for their help in decorating this year's Charlie Brown tree of a CD. As a lot of holiday music you hear this time of year leans more towards the traditional, i'm a big fan of the odd contemporary x-mas tune (ex: Cheap Trick, Waitresses, Ringo Starr)...something that captures the holiday spirit one can only find in clotheslining an old lady at 5AM to get that marked down salad shooter or photocopying your ass at the office christmas party. However, some of these (ex: The Beach Boys, ELP, Smashing Pumpkins)...as cheesy as they may be...really do capture the peace, happiness and hope I feel around this time of year

So, if it's your thing, don your gay apparel (not that there's anything wrong with that), be naughty or nice (the same thing in my book) and, if you're a braver person than I, try some of that figgy pudding the kids are all rapping about. Better yet, as Ray Davies reminds us in what may be my favorite Christmas song of all time...

'Have yourself a merry merry Christmas
Have yourself a good time
But remember the kids who got nothin'
While you're drinkin' down your wine'

Human kindness should a year-long thing, but please go out of your way to do something good for somebody this holiday...donate some time or $ or just a smiling face. May the big man above bless you as he's blessed me 100x over the past year. Happy holidays (WHATEVER YOU CELEBRATE) and a wonderful New Year to you all. Now, here's the music (DL it from the link below)...

A LOT MORE LIKE X-MAS

Track Listing:
Christmas, Don't Be Late - The Chipmunks
Come On Christmas - Cheap Trick
Waiting for Christmas - Adventures of Jet
Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On - Ringo Starr
Father Christmas - The Kinks
Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses
Last Christmas - Jimmy Eat World
Frosty the Snowman - The Cocteau Twins
Socko the Smallest Snowball - The Bell Sisters
It's Christmas Time - Yo La Tengo
Joy to the World (Mocean Worker Remix) - The Cathedral Brass
Christmas is Going to the Dogs - The Eels
The Night Before Christmas Song - Gene Autry & Rosemary Clooney
I Believe in Father Christmas - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Little Drummer Boy - Los Straitjackets
Jesus Christ - Big Star
Morning Christmas - Beach Boys
Christmastime - Smashing Pumpkins
Hello Mr. New Year - The Cool Breezes
The New Year - Death Cab for Cutie