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    • December 2, 2011 11:21 AM CST
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      We don't have too much caroling going on in my city (at least I don't think we do)...As far as the claymation specials, are you referring to the Rankin/Bass stop-motion dolls?

      Weirdonia said:

      The choirs that sing the carols no one has ever heard before, or some garbage variation of a good one. 
      That's pretty much the only thing i dislike about Christmas, that and those stupid claymation christmas movies. I want every copy to burn in fiery hell 

    • December 2, 2011 11:15 AM CST
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      The choirs that sing the carols no one has ever heard before, or some garbage variation of a good one. 
      That's pretty much the only thing i dislike about Christmas, that and those stupid claymation christmas movies. I want every copy to burn in fiery hell 

    • December 1, 2011 6:59 PM CST
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      Funny you mention that, I don't think I've ever seen it neither....

      trashman said:

      ^I don't remember that second series commercial - the life & adventures of Santa Claus.  Guess that got dropped from the annual replays.  Thats what they get for not having the Heat Miser in it.

    • December 1, 2011 5:07 PM CST
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      ^I don't remember that second series commercial - the life & adventures of Santa Claus.  Guess that got dropped from the annual replays.  Thats what they get for not having the Heat Miser in it.

    • December 1, 2011 4:51 PM CST
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      If you want plenty of cheese for Christmas, check out the "reunion" of Bo and Luke Duke in this late '80's TV movie that aired on CBS, "Christmas Comes To Willow Creek":

      Ratings-wise, this pulled in quite a few "Dukes" fans who were still reeling from the cancellation of the series. I don't think this is quite the reunion they had in mind.

       

    • December 1, 2011 3:29 PM CST
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      ....I can still embrace the cheesiness of Xmas , tho' I don't listen to a lot of Holiday songs , even the Rock 'n' Roll ones. My faves are "Merry Christmas , Everybody" by Slade , "Sock it To Me Santa" by Bob Seger , "Christmas in The Congo" by Teddy and The Tall Tops , all The Sonics and Wailers' Xmas songs , Elvis - "Santa Claus is Back in Town" , "Merry Christmas , Baby" , all the James Brown XMas songs , particularly the bizarro world "Hey , America", and "In The Time of The Season" (Set to "Inna Gadda Da Vida".) by Dimentia 13 (Not released . I'm probably one of the only people that have heard it , or their anti - Deadhead song , "Do The Jerkoff , sadly not released.).

    • November 29, 2011 5:33 PM CST
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      This is great! Ha!

      trashman said:

      I wish I could remember the podcast on this site that I used for the audio of this Xmas Card. Perhaps someone can remind us all.  I put this together for my family a few years ago and the recent story of a woman pepper spraying shoppers so she could get her hands on an xbox makes part 1 of this card more poignant than ever.

    • November 29, 2011 3:39 PM CST
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      I wish I could remember the podcast on this site that I used for the audio of this Xmas Card. Perhaps someone can remind us all.  I put this together for my family a few years ago and the recent story of a woman pepper spraying shoppers so she could get her hands on an xbox makes part 1 of this card more poignant than ever.

    • November 27, 2011 7:35 PM CST
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      Today we put up our Christmas tree, and when I was rummaging through a stack of holiday-themed cd's that my wife acquired a while back, I came across this Burl Ives classic. Needless to say, I popped this in as we began decorating and it set the mood...despite it being 70 degrees outside!

      joey fuckup said:

      What?! They never heard of one of the best Rankin/Bass TV specials of all time??? Personally, I think Burl Ives is one THE voices of Christmas music:

      You can't go wrong this time of year with this:



      trashman said:

      I was having a conversation with some fellows from the U.K. and I was surprised they had never heard of the stop animation special; Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.  I thought this had a worldwide distribution by this point.  Rudolph is an absolute must for xmas time.  We watched it as kids and pass it on to the next generation.  

      "I want to be a dentist"; and the Bumble are the greatest.  I like to think how many times I pulled a Cornelius......ta,ta,ta,ta,......nothing (imagine him licking his pitch hoping for gold) when the bowl has been cashed.

       

       

       

    • November 26, 2011 11:57 AM CST
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      Very cool, Mitch, I'd like to get my hands on this album! Thanks for posting this!

      Mitch Wilwerding said:

      get tired of your regular old hoilday tunes? no i know it aint garage punk but if you can dig old 30s 40s 50s music theres a great album called Papa Ain't No Santa Clause, Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree got some good old tunes to get the ones walmart is blaring over the PA outta your head heres a sample

       

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9jtEi16bUw

    • November 25, 2011 5:16 PM CST
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      get tired of your regular old hoilday tunes? no i know it aint garage punk but if you can dig old 30s 40s 50s music theres a great album called Papa Ain't No Santa Clause, Mama Ain't No Christmas Tree got some good old tunes to get the ones walmart is blaring over the PA outta your head heres a sample

       

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9jtEi16bUw

    • November 25, 2011 4:20 PM CST
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      I admire your taste on Christmas music, it could definately give the holidays a more classic spin! The fact that you would do the research on the holiday as much as you are doing is also quite admirable. VERY out of the norm, thanks for contributing!

      Matty Fuzzbox said:

      Call me old fashioned (YOU'RE OLD FASHIONED), but I tend to ignore the commercialism as much as possible and focus on reminiscing with my family about seasons past and giving out gag gifts with my relatives. Doing research on how Christmas was celebrated in the 18th century, I came across several advertisements from the time of the American Revolution advertising for toys and books "Perfect for Christmas" and a part of me was not surprised that commercialism and the holiday season dated back that far, or even further!

      But anyways as for albums my tastes are the complete opposite of Halloween (Misfits, Garage, Surf). I mean the Los Straitjackets and Fleshtones holiday albums are fantastic, but for Christmas I prefer 17th and 18th century albums played on period instruments. Not as cliche and overplayed as what you hear on the radio, with a little more class.

    • November 25, 2011 3:58 PM CST
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      Call me old fashioned (YOU'RE OLD FASHIONED), but I tend to ignore the commercialism as much as possible and focus on reminiscing with my family about seasons past and giving out gag gifts with my relatives. Doing research on how Christmas was celebrated in the 18th century, I came across several advertisements from the time of the American Revolution advertising for toys and books "Perfect for Christmas" and a part of me was not surprised that commercialism and the holiday season dated back that far, or even further!

      But anyways as for albums my tastes are the complete opposite of Halloween (Misfits, Garage, Surf). I mean the Los Straitjackets and Fleshtones holiday albums are fantastic, but for Christmas I prefer 17th and 18th century albums played on period instruments. Not as cliche and overplayed as what you hear on the radio, with a little more class.

    • November 24, 2011 3:50 PM CST
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      Would you believe that I've never heard this version before? It definately beats the hell out of Bob Seger's take on it!

      swt said:

      Since the mid 80s or so, back when my daughter was little, it's been a Terrell family tradition to play this song immediately after placing the Octopus on top of the Christmas tree:

       

       

    • November 24, 2011 11:36 AM CST
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      Since the mid 80s or so, back when my daughter was little, it's been a Terrell family tradition to play this song immediately after placing the Octopus on top of the Christmas tree:

       

       

    • November 24, 2011 11:25 AM CST
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      I dig the tree! I would never be able to get away with ornaments like these...Maybe I just need to put up my very own Christmas tree!

      swt said:

      I like decorating the tree too.

       

      We have an octopus instead of a star

      TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS OCTOPUS

      CHRISTMAS DEVIL

      THE CHRISTMAS RAT

    • November 24, 2011 11:23 AM CST
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      Yeah, you can't wrong with these songs, especially Buck! One thing I do hate are all the pale imitators that feel they need to cover this song, and they fail miserably. (In my opinion) I really need to buy this though...

      swt said:

      These songs

      ("Amen" isn't really a Christmas song, but I first heard it on my little transistor radio on Christmas Eve and it seemed so right.)

    • November 24, 2011 11:18 AM CST
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      If you lived in my city, I would be at your house everyday in December! I LOVE the gaudy/tacky decorations, and I love your tree! For me personally, I would enjoy going all "trailer trash" gaudiness with Xmas decor from the late '60's-early '70's. I'm robbed of that because my wife does all the decorating with her countrifed arts and crafts items, the very commercialized Hallmark ornaments, the pop country Christmas discs playing on the tabletop stereo...UGH! Please give me creepy Santas, fat glass tree lights, psychedelic lamps shining green and red hues in the living room....And yes, I love eggnog! It's a big weakness of mine this time of year. And I really like kicking back by the woodstove having a bottle of Southern Comfort's eggnog while listening to some Los Straightjackets holiday surf...

      El Rey said:

      I love this discussion. Here at my house we try to "own it". We've got the white plastic tree with all the terribly gaudy ornaments, creepy vintage Santas, we do an ugly sweater party....all that stuff. Plus (I know you either hate it or love it ,but I LOVE it) EGGNOG is available at all the markets. I'm originally from Mexico, so we do more the posadas and stuff like that. I know all my American friends love coming over cause we make lots of tamales and Mexican pastries.

      Here's a pic of our tree from last year. Note the voodoo dolls, New Orleans Mardi Gras beads, and paper foo foo drink umbrellas! LOL

    • November 24, 2011 3:26 AM CST
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      I like decorating the tree too.

       

      We have an octopus instead of a star

      TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS OCTOPUS

      CHRISTMAS DEVIL

      THE CHRISTMAS RAT

    • November 24, 2011 3:20 AM CST
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      These songs

      ("Amen" isn't really a Christmas song, but I first heard it on my little transistor radio on Christmas Eve and it seemed so right.)

    • November 23, 2011 8:18 PM CST
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      I love this discussion. Here at my house we try to "own it". We've got the white plastic tree with all the terribly gaudy ornaments, creepy vintage Santas, we do an ugly sweater party....all that stuff. Plus (I know you either hate it or love it ,but I LOVE it) EGGNOG is available at all the markets. I'm originally from Mexico, so we do more the posadas and stuff like that. I know all my American friends love coming over cause we make lots of tamales and Mexican pastries.

      Here's a pic of our tree from last year. Note the voodoo dolls, New Orleans Mardi Gras beads, and paper foo foo drink umbrellas! LOL

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