If you’re looking for some holiday tunes, may I suggest a jaunt to “209 Tracks to Take With You on Your Holiday Killing Spree, Part 1”? Some classics (Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, the Drifters), but mostly the weird and wonderful.
Of special note: two Buck Owens tracks (Buck Owens = genius), Andre “Bacon Fat Mister Rhythm Jail Bait Greasy Chicken” Williams, Tiny Tim aiming low (“Santa Claus Has Got the AIDS This Year”), R2-D2, some particularly tuneless Sonic Youth (“Santa Doesn’t Cop Out On Dope”), Augie Rios (“Donde Esta Santa Claus?”), some disastrous late-period Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eazy-E (“Merry Muthafuckin’ Christmas”), John Denver and the Muppets, De La Soul (“Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa”), and three different versions of “Santa Clause Go Straight To The Ghetto” (by Mojo Nixon, James Brown, and Belle & Sebastian).
Also, in a similar spirit:
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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