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    Your personal Christmas album

    Let's say of ten tracks in length.

    (Have we already done this? Apologies if so.)

    Tyskarna Fran Lund - 'Achtung - X-mas!'

    Sally Shapiro - 'Anorak Christmas'

    Welle: Erdball - 'Alle Jahre Weider'

    Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - 'Traveling Salesman's Young Wife Home Alone On Christmas In Montpelier, VT'

    Lola Dutronic - '(Another) Christmas Without Snow'

    Skatebard - 'Atari ST News Christmas Meeting 1990'

    Paul Haig - 'Scottish Christmas'

    Erasure - 'Stop!'

    Cocteau Twins - 'Donimo'

    Darlene Love - 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' (What else? :-) )

    Admittedly it was hard to leave out all the possible entries by Saint Etienne, ComputeHer and many more, but I'll leave that pleasure for others.

    #2
    Your personal Christmas album

    Actually, I think we did this back in the days of 'Care & Share', didn't we?

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      #3
      Your personal Christmas album

      Prince - Another Lonely Christmas
      Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love
      Donny Hathaway - This Christmas
      Clarence Carter - Back Door Santa
      Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
      The Pogues and Kirsty McColl - Fairytale of New York
      The Youngsters - Christmas In Jail
      Albert King - Santa Claus Wants Some Loving
      East 17 - Stay Another Day
      Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

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        #4
        Your personal Christmas album

        Any Christmas compilation that doesn't feature Darlene Love is erroneous.

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          #5
          Your personal Christmas album

          Mix of albums and songs:
          The Phil Spector Christmas Gift Album
          Verve Christmas Unmixed
          Verve Christmas Remixed
          Verve Presents the Very Best of Christmas Jazz
          (Verve being the label, not the group)
          Huddersfield Choral Society: The Carols Album
          Saint Etienne: I was Worn on Christmas Day
          Bing Crosby: The Little Drummer Boy

          But not, I've decided, Tinsel and Lights by Tracy Thorn. I loved it a couple of years ago, beautiful songs such as Sister Winter and River, and Tracy Thorn has such a wonderful voice. Played it a lot again last year but realised it's just so depressing. Not what I want from Christmas music at all

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            #6
            Your personal Christmas album

            We've definitely done the Christmastime care and share. It's why I know anything at all about Sparks (Thank God...).

            or this one (Sensational Alex Harvey Band - terrible quality):
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s6WMCSGUlQ

            I usually try and dig this one out around this time of year too (Fishbone):
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOhxEyPSEoY

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              #7
              Your personal Christmas album

              I own a Xmas easy listening album by Juan Garcia Esquivel which is quite something. I always put it on when my family are having Xmas dinner, and within about three songs my brother always tries to take it off.

              It's funny how nearly all the best Xmas songs are by mid-1970s glam rock outfits or similar. Slade, Wizzard, Gary Glitter, Mud, Elton's Step Into Christmas . . .

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                #8
                Your personal Christmas album

                That's because Glam rock was Christmas all year round.

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                  #9
                  Your personal Christmas album

                  Low - Christmas is my go-to festive album.

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                    Your personal Christmas album

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                      #11
                      Your personal Christmas album

                      evilC, a bit surprised you missed Isan's take on Silent Night, here.

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                        #12
                        Your personal Christmas album

                        William Burroughs & Kurt Cobain - The Priest They Called Him

                        I think this is the only one I have in my collection. There's also the album Christmas by Old Man Gloom, though I'm not sure there's much Christmassy about it at all

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                          #13
                          Your personal Christmas album

                          The Phil Spector, Elvis Presley, Peanuts, Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, and Atlantic and Motown soul Christmas albums get the most play chez Renart.

                          I also have to include Judy Garland's "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and the Singing Dog's "Jingle Bells".

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                            #14
                            Your personal Christmas album

                            Lots of Christmas stuff here.

                            But to limit it to 10:

                            Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song
                            Donny Hathaway - This Christmas
                            The Flirtations – Christmas Time Is Here Again
                            Smashing Pumpkins – Christmastime
                            Slade - Merry X-Mas Everybody
                            Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day
                            Jackson 5 – Christmas Won’t Be The Same This Year
                            Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas
                            Lou Rawls – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
                            Dana - It’s Gonna Be A Cold Christmas

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                              #16
                              Your personal Christmas album

                              The blind boys of Alabama - Last month of the year

                              Ray Charles - Spirit of Christmas

                              Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Little drummer boy

                              Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan - Baby it's cold outside

                              Dean Martin - Let it snow

                              Darlene

                              Fairytale of New York

                              Elvis Presley - Santa Clause is back in town

                              Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas is you

                              The killers - Don't shoot me Santa

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