Annual Christmas Music Spectacular

Welcome to the 2008 Vague Space Christmas Music Spectacular!  Enjoy the songs...

Some brand new tracks (at least for me)...

• Download Frightened Rabbit - "It's Xmas So We'll Stop".mp3
• Download Low - "Santa's Coming Over".mp3 
• Download Jason Collett - "A Beguiled Christmas Sales".mp3
• Download Rogue Wave - "Christmas".mp3
• Download Asobi Seksu - "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)".mp3
• Download Feist - "Lo, How a Rose E're Blooming".mp3
• Download Deerhoof - "The Little Drummer Boy".mp3
• Download The Raveonettes - "The Christmas Song".mp3
• Download The Raveonettes_- "Christmas Ghosts".mp3 
• Download Blitzen Trapper - "Christmas Is Coming Soon."mp3
• Download Explosions in the Sky - "Christmas Dance".mp3
• Download The Polyphonic Spree - Happy Christmas (War Is Over).mp3
• Download The Polyphonic Spree - "Carol Of The Bells".mp3
• Download Rosie Thomas - "Let it Snow".mp3
• Download Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - "Cold White Christmas".mp3
• Download Apples in Stereo - "Holiday Mood".mp3

Some older classics...

• Download My Morning Jacket - "Christmas Time is Here Again (Bring Out the Joy)".mp3
• Download Death Cab for Cutie - "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)".mp3
• Download U2 - "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)".mp3
• Download Low - "Just Like Christmas".mp3
• Download Low - "Silent Night".mp3
• Download Radiohead - "Winter Wonderland".mp3
• Download Arab Strap - "Xmas (Baby Please Come Home)".mp3
• Download Pedro the Lion - "The First Noel".mp3
• Download Bodies of Water - "Do You Hear What I Hear?".mp3
• Download Sufjan Stevens - "O Holy Night".mp3
• Download Sufjan Stevens - "Angels We Have Heard on High".mp3
• Download Sujfan Stevens - "Joy to the World".mp3
• Download Sufjan Stevens - "It's Christmas! Let's Be Glad!".mp3
• Download Sufjan Stevens - "Come On! Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance".mp3
• Download The Walkmen - "No Christmas While I'm Talking".mp3
• Download Bright Eyes - "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".mp3
• Download Bright Eyes - "O Little Town of Bethlehem".mp3
• Download Okkervil River - "Listening to Otis Redding at Home During Christmas".mp3
• Download Giant Sand - "Thank You, Dreaded Black Ice, Thank You".mp3
• Download Calexico - "Gift X-Change".mp3
• Download Broken Social Scene - "HanDJobs for the Holidays".mp3

And my three favorite Christmas songs ever recorded...

• Download The Pogues - "Fairytale of New York".mp3
• Download Sufjan Stevens - "Sister Winter".mp3
• Download The Dandy Warhols - "Little Drummer Boy".mp3

And a bonus, not really Christmas track that does remind me of the season and is an absolutely wonderful unreleased Peel Session track, if you've never heard it...

• Download Low - "Last Snowstorm of the Year".mp3

The Pogues live with the late Kirsty MacColl back in 1988 (professionally shot)...

 

Low live in Barcelona from this past summer - the dark and shaky video includes "Breaker" and "Last Snowstorm of the Year," which begins around 3:30 into the recording. 

Sufjan Stevens live singing "That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!"

Comments

[Ira]

How could you leave out Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses?

[Bill]

Sorry, Ira. Maybe next year.