Certainly ranking in the top five shows ever, the Holiday Sucktacular was a really fun one for me. I’m not the biggest fan of Christmas and especially Christmas with the families. Everyone expects you to be at their celebration and if you travel home for the holidays you end up running yourself ragged just to say hi to everyone. Add in the heavy consumerist tones that reverberate through every single media vector and it the holidays become one giant suck.
So taking the piss, as it were, I tried to get a slight handle on things. The show is completely silly and irreverent. There’s a noticeable lack of technical glitches and I was able to drag out some tunes I’d been sitting on for nearly a year.
Here’s what I had to say about things at the time:
Fezboy! is on a mission to take the holiday season back from the commercial interests and bring it home to the silly, goofy, festive folks who make the season bright. To that end I bring you intriguing recorded oddities for your holiday listening pleasure. I hesitate to call it good, but I will call it interesting tossed in with a bit of fun.
As most of this was procurred from on-line sources, I offer links with this playlist. You can download your own copies, download the audio file of this show, or load up the podcast in your favorite podcasting application.
Playlist after the jump…
Artist | Album | Track | Notes |
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Burl Ives | How The Grinch Stole Christmas (TV special) | Excerpt of the Grinch’s bio | You can find an audio cap of the show here. |
Combustible Edison | I, Swinger | The Millionaire’s Holiday | A suitable festive theme song for this show. Well, to be fair, the only theme song for this show. |
Monty Python | – | Christmas in Heaven [snippet] | A bit of a bumper from this track. |
31d1 | – | Chestnuts (roasting on an open fire) | Metafilter is many things, one of which being a great community of diversely talented individuals. This thread is the source of three of this show’s gems. |
The Three Stooges | – | Down Through the Housetop | Nifty novelty track with an option to download your own copy |
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades | Rubber Band Christmas | Ring Rubber Bells | A great find from WFMU’s always superior Beware of the Blog music blog. For your convenience, a direct link to this particular entry. |
Root Boy Slim | – | Christmas at K-Mart | Self-promotion never hurt anyone. You can grab this file too. |
Swinging Barnyard | Jingle Bell (Cows) | Mooo-ove over yappy dogs. Jingle Cows! | |
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades | Rubber Band Christmas | God Rest Ye Merry Rubbermen | |
Ella & Tom | Santastic | Rudolph’s Mixed Up Nose Dive | Santastic is a boot album one might find online. Downloads, mirrors, and torrents are available. |
DJ John | Santastic | The Christmas Massacre of Charlie Brown | The absolute best mash on this album. |
Haywood Banks | – | Dearest Mr. Santa Claus | Cute, materialistic, and ultimately ADD. The kid can be downloaded as well.. |
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades | Rubber Band Christmas | Rudolph the Rubber Nosed Reindeer | Played this last week as a teaser. Now you get it in context! |
Dysfunctional Family Band | – | 1-800-Christmas | Dysfunctional Family Band. heh. This track is, *suprise*, available online. |
Bobby Gaylor | – | Stop Giving Me Crap For Christmas | Found this one while trolling p2p networks for Bobby Gaylor many months ago. No can find now. Email me if you want your own copy, yo! |
DJ BC | Santastic | Turbo Sleigh | |
Edna Pauli | – | The Night Before Christmas | If you have never checked out the 365 Days Project, you should. I harvest heavily myself. This track is on this page (December 24th). |
PinkStainlessTail | – | Jingle Rock Bell | Check out the Metatalk thread linked above. This is the track that started it all and is linked from there. |
Babs Gonzalez | – | Be-Bop Santa [excerpt] | One of the few tracks from my collection. Sorry, no linky. |
Leon Redbone | – | That Old Christmas Moon | Downloaded with cruddy audio quality. Got to the station and found it on disc in the special Christmas section but it was too late to re-mix with a decent rip. |
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades | Rubber Band Christmas | Feliz Rubberdad | Not even unique instrumentation can save this song. Sorry, don’t like this song. Still didn’t stop me from playing it though… |
Bob Rivers | – | Walkin’ ’round in Women’s Underwear | The meter fits so damned well. I love it. You can love your own copy too. |
Michelle Cody | – | Merry Christmas Elvis | Another from the 365 Days Project. Same page as linked above. It can be yours! |
Dysfunctional Family Band | – | What If Elvis Was Santa? | More dysfunctional family fun. Does your family put the f-u-n in dysfunctional? This link will. |
Poj Masta | Santastic | Santarklaws | |
The Beatles | Fan Club Flexi Disc | 1963 Christmas Greetings From The Beatles | Norwegian Wood is a great site. You can find all the Christmas greetings recordings by The Beatles here. |
Dudley Dogg, Jr. | – | The Christmas Puppy | Another from the 365 Days Project. This dog sound a bit closer to scary than adorable. Or at least quite sick. |
Esquivel | Christmas Music From the Space Age Bachelor Pad | Frosty the Snowman | |
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades | Rubber Band Christmas | Deck the Halls with Rubber | |
They Might Be Giants | – | Christmas Cards | A loose mp3 file floating around on a hard drive. That’s all I know. |
Looney Tunes Gang | – | Have Yourself a Looney Christmas | Obligatory link. |
DJ BC | Santastic | The Nutbreaker | |
Jeff St. Pierre & Phillip Antoniades | Rubber Band Christmas | Oh Rubber Tree | |
Andrews Sisters | Jing-a-ling | Not a novelty track per se but oh so kitschy. Thus great. You can nab yours too. | |
– | – | White Christmas | I found this as a result of my time on Metafilter, but I’ll be damned if I can find the link now. |
Les Paul & Mary Ford | – | Jungle Bells | Les Paul really gets me boppin’. Even at Christmas. Does he do the same for you? |
John Denver & the Muppets | A Muppet Christmas | Little St. Nick | One for my pops. A request from the Heartland. Sadly, I believe this album is now out of print. |
Randy Holmes & Friends | – | Hot Rod Sleigh | Maybelline. Only more Christmasy. Find your copy under the tree. |
Esquivel | Christmas Music From the Space Age Bachelor Pad | Here Comes Santa Claus | |
Mrooney & Kwynn | Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer Holiday Special | Put One Foot in Front of the Other | Here’s the file! |
Thur Ravenscroft | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch | Chopped from the show linked in the first track of this show. |
Martin Mull | – | Santafly | Yes! |
The Royal Guardsmen | – | Snoopy’s Christmas | A sendoff of their hit, Snoopy vs. The Red Baron. Here’s a final gift link for you. |