Christmas A Go Go!

Thanks for stopping by this year, sending us tracks, (re-)tweeting CAGG. Hope to see you all next year, in November. Have a GREAT year.

A compilation of the Sylvester Songs posted here earlier and some classics (Otis Redding, Eagles, Zombies, etc) can be played in one handy playlist on Spotify, HERE

A side project of The Boy Least Likely To. Which means this is good.

For all ye Dutchies (and all of ye who don't mind Dutch language) here's an brand spanking new version of the classic 'What are you doing new year's eve' by Struijk & Dekay:

More songs about the turn of the year, with BIG THANKS to every one who tweeted suggestions. Together, it's 31 tracks. Love Axe is trio who made a Holiday album called Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas, which is funny. This song is sweet and amusing: Have Yourself A Very Little Christmas by Love Axe Dutch FIRED UP folk! Never Sleep by Town of Saints Ah, this song: So, this is the new year: Who could say no to this? The Polaroid Song by Allo Darlin' If you're not giving cool rocking dame Kerry Pastine anything for Christmas, she'll be off to celebrate New Year her own way: It's a Crime Scene Christmas! by Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene Not folk, but a rawking song in Replacments-style: Drop the Ball, Waste Another Year by Frontier Folk Nebraska Gorgeous song (those strings!) by Dutch bard A Balladeer: December by a balladeer We have too little hiphop on this blog. So, from 2017, here's this track: Fay Lovsky wrote the ...

Songs about Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve, Oudjaarsavond, the Seventh Day of Christmas (' Seven Geese A'Laying '), the day when the year turns. I asked for suggestions, you send me a bunch. Here's 15 suggestions (another 16 coming up later, to make it 31): From this year, written on January 1st of this year, dream(-y)pop: Same vein, from this year also, bit more indie, VERY nice song: From 2017, very tender, lyrically a take on 'Last Christmas': Power pop sensation Catholic Action released this in April, and revamped it for Christmas: "It's New Year's Day, it's all the same, you're on parade, while I'm cleaning up". With bells, and fine girlie voices: Devotionals by Hand Grenade Job Cure-meets-Wire-guitars and Californian pop perfection: Australian electronic greatness: Lave by Lonelyspeck VERY VERY nice Americana-/folk song: OK, this song could be about the end of summer too, but I...

'Happy Hungover Boxing Day!', Leon from Gasoline Brother tweeted today, which sparked this post on songs about that post-Christmas feeling. Here's that Gasoline Brothers song: And there is of course this modern day classic: From A Very Cherry Christmas #2, Other Short Stories and Better Works of Fiction by Captain Polaroid Blink 182, not everyone's cup of tea I reckon, this is not bad at all: 'Christmas is here, you can't look away.' Emotional acoustic track, about 'it all coming down on Boxing day'. DCR Mixtape #3 – A Christmas Compilation by Dinosaur City Records This is a nice alt.country duet, I like the 'postal preaching' part: The Rough & Tumble's Holiday Awareness Campaign by The Rough & Tumble Live version of a GORGEOUS song: Some crooning by good ole Rod McKuen. About a happy ending on the day after Christmas. Love this. Solid poprock track from a strong series of Christmas compilations: ...

The first mention of a Mrs Santa Claus was back in 1849, the legend took shape. So writes Kate Horowitz in this nice article . I knew of various songs about Santa Claus' wife, but when I recently heard Mrs Claus Kimono by Drive-By Truckers (below, about a sinister elf with sinister plans while Santa's away) I thought of lining up a few good tracks for, by and about the Mrs. Some naughty, some nice. The Fine Print (A Collection Of Oddities And Rarities 2003-2008) by Drive-By Truckers This track by The Miss's is about being fooled into being Mrs Claus: Mrs Claus by The Miss's Posted this one earlier this month, a song about how Mrs Claus stays warm and happy while her husband's away (toys do the trick): Where My Naughty Boys? by Uncle Billy Dan Wilson comforts the one being lonely on Christmas Eve: Portland, Oregon's Satin Chaps dance the rock'n roll with Mrs Claus: 2 Instant Holiday Classics by The Satin Chaps featuring Tony Starlight Mr...

So that's why we keep posting until New Year.

Last year, I lined up a list of the bestest 50 alternative Christmas tunes made after 1994. Or: post-Mariah, to show that many great seasonal songs were made after the release of Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas, to prove that, yes, there are still brilliant Xmas songs written every year. Read about all that HERE . A list like that is never complete, never final. One of the songs that should've been added is 'How to make gravy' by Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly. Released in 1996, and a classic down under, it's a song sung from the perspective of an inmate. He writes a letter to his brother, telling him he's sorry, asks him to kiss his children on Christmas Day, tells him how to make gravy for Christmas dinner. Oh, and please, don't dance to close with Rita. Read the lyrics HERE . And this is that original version: It's sentimental, it's frustrated, it's one heck of a song. Fans consider 21st of December (mentioned in the song) ...

For the 13th year in a row  The Blues Are Still Blue Presents: The 2017 Christmas Compilation (download here) 01 James Hoffman - Go Tell It On The Mountain   02 Coeur de Pirate - Pour L a P remi è re F ois , No ë l S era G ris   03 Fascinations Grand Chorus - This Christmas (Underneath the Christmas Tree)   04 The Decemberists - Jesus Christ   05 a balladeer - Not Only During Christmas   06 BROS - Its Christmas Day   07 Julia P & the Hengles - Christmas is Calling   08 Girl Ray - (I Wish I Were Giving You A Gift) This Christmas   09 Freedom Fry - Next Christmas   10 St. Vincent - Happy Birthday, Johnny   11 Great Lake Swimmers - They Dont Make Them Like That Anymore   12 Bubblegum Lemonade - Number One For Christmas   13 Gene & The Genies - Tell Santa to Bring Snow   14 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Nights Sweats ( ft. Julie Da...