I love Christmas. I love Christmas songs. But I really love new Christmas songs and modern covers of classics. Like these:

Julian Casablancas - I Wish It Was Christmas Today

The Late Greats - Sleigh Ride

I don't typically like Fall Out Boy, but this is a really well done cover.

Robert Earl Keene - Merry Christmas From The Family

This one is here somewhere else, but it is one of my favs.

And this one:



Kirsty McColl's voice is heartbreaking.

When you work retail, eventually they all suck.

It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth,
To touch their harps of gold;
“Peace on the earth, good will to men,
From Heav’n’s all-gracious King.”
The world in solemn stillness lay,
To hear the angels sing.

Still through the cloven skies they come
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And still their heav’nly music floats
O’er all the weary world;
Above its sad and lowly plains,
They bend on hov’ring wing,
And ever o’er its Babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.

Yet with the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered long;
Beneath the angel strain have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong;
And man, at war with man, hears not
The love-song which they bring;
Oh, hush the noise, ye men of strife
And hear the angels sing.

And ye, beneath life’s crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow,
Look now! for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing.
Oh, rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing!

For lo the days are hastening on
By prophet-bards foretold;
When with the ever-circling years
Comes round the age of gold
When peace shall over all the earth
Its ancient splendors fling,
And the whole world give back the song
Which now the angels sing.

From Ringo's surprisingly good I Wanna Be Santa Claus Christmas LP:

This is one whacked out version of Hark, but I love it.

The gold standard,

Run-DMC - Christmas In Hollis

The very best Christmas song, from the very best Christmas movie.

Darlene is scheduled for tonight's Letterman -- 12-21-12 -- saving the world with Love!

-- Jolly Old Uncle Rog

Wow, Chris Rea appearance.

Remember the Dockers commercial which had "Go, Boy, Go" as a song? I liked the song and thought it was some old school chick singer I never heard of. Nope, turns out it was an 8 year old kid. He also did this:

Darlene Love And The E Street Band - All Alone On Christmas

My second favorite band covering one of my favorite "modern" Christmas songs.