How about that They Might Be Giants tune “Santa’s Beard”? A lovely lil’ tune about a guys lament at seeing his girlfriend kissing his best buddy, who wears a Santa suit.
Find it on their “Lincoln” album.
My favorite holiday song is The Christians and the Pagans by Dar Williams. Fun for the whole family.
Some Excellent suggestions, although I’d probably be run out of town for playing Kevin Bloody Wilson (I love that song!), I’m going to use as many of these as I possibly can.
aside, I used to have an album by a group called “The Scruff Merchants”. They were a group of lads from Dublin, and they had the Charming Christmas album “Shite Christmas”. It included such family favourites as “I’m dreaming of a Shite Christmas” “I saw Mummy blowing Santa Claus” and “the 12 filthy Days of christmas”.
Believe me, singing any of these songs will either make you a hero at a party or get you arrested.
Must…have…this …record…
A couple of great punk christmas records are:
‘Silent Night’ by The Dickies. By far, the greatest Christmas record ever!
And ‘F**k Christmas’ by Fear
ACK! Forgot one of my favorite songs…“Christmas Wrapping,” by the Waitresses. 
Damn, Falcon and Coldy, you stole both my ideas 
Twisty will you make me a tape anyway? Pleaaaaaaaase?
How about ‘Ding Dong !! Merrily on High’
“I shay, you’re a complete shower !!”
“Walkin’ Round In Women’s Underwear” sung to the tune of “Walking In A Winter Wonderland”.
Got an outfit from Betty
with straps like spaghetti.
Now I wandering around without a care.
Walking 'round in women’s underwear.
And of course, “All I Want For Christmas” (is my two front teeth), by Spike Jones and His City Slickers (check Napster).
Long long ago I had a John Denver tape featuring that sentimental holiday favorite “Please, Daddy, Don’t Get Drunk this Christmas” - usta crack me up!!!
Ahhh, another one just thought of.
The twelve days after xmas
“Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Christmas Novelty CD Of All Time” has lotsa stuff. My fave isn’t a song, but a musical comedy sketch - “Green Chri$tma$” by Stan Freberg. On the same CD is Tom Lehrer’s “A Christmas Carol.”
My 2nd favorite Xmas comedy sketch is “Good King Eccleslas” by Spike Milligan on the CD “Spike Milligan: Legends of the 20th Century.”
From the CD: “Dr. Demento: Holidays in Dementia”: “The Pretty Little Dolly”, and a really, REALLY strange version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.”
zgystrdst! I know I had something to ask you!
You wouldnt know where to get a copy of Bowie and Bing Crosby singing Little Drummer Boy, would you?
Has anyone ever heard Blue Christmas as sung by Porky Pig? One of the stations here played it a few years ago. I only heard it once, I don’t know where they got it from, but I loved it.
Is this the one that starts:
“The first day after Christmas
my true love and I had a fight,
And so I chopped that pear tree down
And burned it just for spite.
Then with a single
car-tridge,
I shot that blasted
par-tridge,
My true love gave to me.”
[I’d print more, but it’s copyrighted. I love this song and sing it at Yulefests to annoy everyone else.]
Or is this not that one?
There’s a depressing one I heard years ago called “Santa Brought Me Choo-Choo Trains” about a kid who got a train set and Daddy broke it. (Thought it was Spike Jones or Stan Freeberg.) Cathy tune, but really depressing - thank goodness I can’t find it.
As a Seattlite may I suggest:
Anything by Stan Boreson (does Norwegian type music, including a great Christmas song called “I’m glad it’s time for lutefisk again”).
Also Twisted Christmas I and II, plus “I Am Santa Claus” by Bob Rivers – my personal favorite is “Teddy, the red-nosed Senator”.
For GOOD music, try to find “Music Box Christmas”, all the old carols played on old music boxes, very festive!
Another GOOD favorite, Christmas Waltz (The version I know has Robert Goulet and Carol Lawrence).
“A Toolbox Christmas” by Woody Phillips [ISBN 1-56511-220-2]
“Your favorite carols performed on your favorite hand and power tools…from the workshop of Maestro Woody Phillips, glorious holiday sounds ascned from the sawdust to the heavens…”
This is not bad music, more ‘unique’ than anything. What amazed me more than anything is that the non-traditional instruments, such as the brake drums, are IN TUNE! This guy obviously did some homework and preparation on this recording.
This CD includes 13 selections including “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” on antique hand drill, hammer, mandolin, anvil, t-square, framing square, level, pipes, bottles, 2x4s, table saw, power hand drill, drill press.
“Ukranian Carol” aka “Carol of the Bells” aka “Ukranian Bell Carol” is actually quite haunting - power screwdriver, anvil, pipes, brake drums, table saw, ratchet.
Now if you want annoying but still funny, I direct you to the “Texas Chainsaw Orchestra” version of “Sabre Dance” and “I Will Always Love You” (much better than Whitney’s version, by far!).
Isn’t there a Bob & Doug Mackenzie version of the Twelve Days of Christmas? I always hated that song. I also have some vague memory of a spoof-on-a-spoof song, called New Kids Got Run Over By A Reindeer.
Glad to see there’s so many Carol of the Bells fans here! That’s my fave traditional Christmas carol, too.