I wasn’t planning on doing this, but after finding myself in the festive mood today and seeing so many other people do it, I decided to put together my own special x-mas mix tape. And I guarantee it’s not all songs you’ll find on all the other indie blogs.
Download full collection or pick and choose, but I promise they’re all worth hearing.
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The Walkmen – “Christmas Party”
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Lighning Dust – “Ho Ho Ho”
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Evangelicals – “The Last Christmas on Earth”
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Can – “Silent Night”
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Zambri – “Xmas Ooh”
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Army Navy – “Stay In”
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Pattern is Movement – “Oh Holy Night”
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The Beau Hunks Saxtette & The Metropole Orchestra – “Christmas Night in Harlem”
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Paul and the Patients – “The Scariest Bar In My Town”
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Elvis – “Here Comes Santa Claus”
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Frightened Rabbit – “It’s Christmas So We’ll Stop”
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Crocodiles & Dum Dum Girls – “Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Don’t Die)”
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Shannon Fields “I’ll Be Home For Christmas (If Only In My Dreams)”
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Megafun – “I Saw Three Ships”
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The Kinks – “Father Christmas”
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Julian Casablancas – “I Wish It Was Christmas Today”
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The Magnetic Fields – Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree”
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Spinal Tap – “Christmas With the Devil”
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Yo La Tengo – “It’s Christmas Time”
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Lou Reed – “Xmas in February”
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Asobi Seksu – “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight)”
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The Raveonettes – “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”
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Pedro The Lion – “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”
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