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I am all-holiday from now 'till 12/25 on www.song-a-day.com - any suggestions for great 80's holiday tracks?

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For Starters[;)] (Some all too familiar / some not)

[:D]Cheers![:D]

25th December - Everything But The Girl

2000 Miles - The Pretenders

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - U2

Christmas Day - Squeeze

Christmas Every Year - Frazier Chorus

Christmas Is Coming - Payola$

Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses

Driving To Midnight Mass On A Dublin Christmas Eve - (Bono - U2)

Frosty The Snowman - Cocteau Twins

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Erasure

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - The Pretenders

Il Est Ne (He Is Born) - Tom Tom Club

Little Drummer Boy - Joan Jett

Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) - Ramones

One Christmas Catalog - Captain Sensible

Run Rudolf Run - Dave Edmunds

Santa Claus - Throwing Muses

She Won't Be Home For Christmas - Erasure

Silent Night - Tom Waites

Thanks For Christmas - The Three Wise Men (AKA: XTC)

We Three Kings - Book of Love

Winter Wonderland - Eurythmics

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have to go with Wham - Last Christmas [:)]

but if Not 80's than Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) [:)]

Blue Christmas by Danielle Dax is fantastic new wave fare.
crépuscule - ghosts of christmas past features Durutti Column, Aztec camera, and the french impressionist doing the afore mentioned "santa baby"
I always liked, Grandaddy - Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland, Depeche Mode does "Christmas Island" too.

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"Things Fall Apart" - Cristina

The Dickies "Silent Night"

Kate Bush "December Will Be Magic Again"

REM "Toyland"

I like pretty much everything listed above. I also like that Run DMC Christmas in Hollis and the Hall and Oats Jingle Bell Rock

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"Things Fall Apart", awesome song! I've recently rediscovered Cristina.

Fairytale Of New York[The Pogues w/Kirsty MacColl]
Stuff The Turkey[Alien Sex Fiend]
Put A Little Love In Your Heart[Annie Lennox/Al Green](from Scrooged)
Lorelei[Cocteau Twins]~just sounds cristmas-y
Christmas At Ground Zero[Weird Al]


"No telling what keeps me awake."

Already mentioned, but "Thanks For Christmas" by XTC is probably the best new wave song EVER. Just fabulous.

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I like a lot of those listed above, but Christmas Wrapping from the Waitresses will always be my absolute favorite.

I see no one has listed Coventry Carol from Alison Moyet.

I have seen a picture sleeve for Lene Lovich covering I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. I can't imagine what that sounds like!

Beside The Waitresses and XTC, which I actually hear in stores last season, I like:

U2 - Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)
Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter (not so X-Mas like)

And all the punk bands performing X-Mas songs, real fast...[:D]


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Of all the ones listed above [b]'One Christmas Catalog'[/b] is my personal fave NW holiday tune. Such a haunting and memorable track.

[b]'Christmas Wrapping'[/b] another great one... yet for me, has become background holiday muzak thanks to all the relentless mainstream airplay over the years [|)]

On a NNW 80's note, I'm always a sucker for Dan Fogelberg's maudlin [b]'Same Old Lang Syne'[/b]

Songs about unrequited love never fail to tug at the heartstrings..

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grandma got run over by a raindeer?
ha[:D]

On Air Somewhere near you!

though depressing 'feed the world' get's my vote for an Xmas song of the 80's.

TM

Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry

vid here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOe18JcatZo