ChristMixTape 2008

Click the album cover to download the entire mix as a .zip archive or click here to listen to/download the individual tracks!

Ladies and gents, for your listening pleasure, 15 of the greatest Christmas tracks ever to be recorded, digitised, compressed to MP3 format, included in someone (much cooler than me)'s Christmas mix and then downloaded by me and passed off as my own good musical taste:

TRACK LISTING:

01 - Barenaked Ladies - Jingle Bells

02 - Relient K - 12 Days Of Christmas

03 - TIP - All I Want For Christmas Is Zoo (Bonus Track)

04 - The OC Supertones - Joy To The World

05 - Zooey Deschanel & Leon Redbone - Baby It's Cold Outside

06 - Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

07 - Run DMC - Christmas In Hollis

08 - Belle & Sebastian - Christmas Time Is Here

09 - Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock

10 - Anni Rossi - Ukranian Bell Carole

11 - Southside Johnny - Please Come Home For Christmas

12 - Switchfoot - Evergreen

13 - Ron Sexsmith - Maybe This Christmas

15 - Seven Day Jesus - O Holy Night

There are some (IMHO) great tracks on here. It's kinda a mixture of classic songs & carols RUINED by modern rock artists, and weird takes on other festive tunes by unknown bands... So it might not be to everyone's taste, but I didn't want to make a mix of the regular cheese (as much as I enjoy it...) as people will have had enough of that pumping through the speakers of major department stores by December 24th...

I will also say that I purposefully limited myself to 15 tracks, not only as I hope to keep this up as an annual tradition of mixtape making (if people enjoy it), but also as I personally play the same four or five Christmas records on solid rotation every year, the likes of BNL, Relient K, Sufjan Stevens etc... So if you don't like this track listing, only 365+ days til Christmas! (2009)...

Finally, allow me to wish you a very happy and relaxing Christmas and a new year full of challenges, humour and excitement!!

Rock & Roll - God bless - P xo