That'll Be Christmas

Side One

1. Julian Casablancas - I Wish It Was Christmas Today
2. Darlene Love - Marshmallow World
3. Sufjan Stevens - Get Behind Me, Santa!
4. The Joseph And Mary Chain - The Twelve Days Of Christmas
5. Thea Gilmore - That'll Be Christmas
6. Joy Zipper - Christmas Song
7. The Kinks - Father Christmas
8. Mew - She Came Home For Christmas
9. The Decemberists - Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas
10. Low - Just Like Christmas
11. Of Montreal - My Favorite Christmas (in a Hundred Words or Less)
12. The Black Arts - Christmas Number One
13. Denim - I Will Cry At Christmas
14. The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
15. The Aislers Set - Christmas Song
16. Big Star - Jesus Christ
17. Bright Eyes - White Christmas
18. They Came From The Stars I Saw Them - The Lovesick Snowman

Side Two

1. Fucked Up - Do They Know It's Christmas
2. Animal Collective - Winter Wonder Land
3. Clinic - Christmas
4. The Bird and the Bee - Carol of the Bells
5. The Free Design - Close Your Mouth (It's Christmas)
6. Margo Guryan - I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
7. Half Man Half Biscuit - All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit
8. Remington Super 60 - Chistmas Song For Melanie
9. St. Etienne - I Was Born On Christmas Day
10. Hello Saferide - I-Pod X-Mas
11. Yo La Tengo - It's Christmas Time
12. The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride
13. Summer Hymns - Santa Couldn't Fit You Under My Christmas Tree
14. Would-Be-Goods - Christmas In Tahiti
15. Suzannah - Mom & Daddy, Please Don't Steal For Me This Xmas
16. Martin Newell - Christmas in Suburbia
17. Joni Mitchell - River
18. Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis

I love Christmas songs. I love 'Last Christmas' by Wham, Stop the Cavalry, In Dulce Jubilo. I love The Pogues and Kirsty Maccoll. Heck, I even quite like Mariah Carey's festive offering (the only Mariah song I do like, you understand?)

But most of all I love Phil Spector's 'A Christmas Gift For You', not just my favourite Christmas album, but one of my favourite albums of all time. 2 songs from that album make it onto this, my first ever Xmas mix. Yes, after 5 years of posting (some 250) mixes on the 'net, I've finally been bothered to make one. And of course I've left all the aforementioned songs off it. Well, you can buy compilations with these tracks on in Asda for a fiver can't you.

You can't buy this though. It's free! Ho ho ho..

Merry Xmas