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Alternative Christmas

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buzzrock

What song are you spinning?

I am planning to play alternative christmas muisc on sundays from 3pm -5pm and then all day christmas eve at noon to December 25 at 7am.

we are starting with sundays next week.

here are a list of songs:

Alternative Christmas (11/18/06)
The Format - Holly Jolly Christmas

Radiohead - Winter Wonderland

Death Cab For Cutie - Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)

Eve 6 - Noel! Noel!

Hellogoodbye - Winter Wonderland

Phantom Planet - Winter Wonderland

Brand New - O Holy Night

Jimmy Eat World - Christmas Card

Acceptance - Happy Xmas (War is Over)

Copeland - Do You Hear What I Hear

Rx Bandits - You For Christmas

Home Grown - Feliz Navidad

Day At The Fair - Here Lies Our Holiday

Transition - Wasted Wishes on Mistletoe Misses

Hidden In Plain View - Christmas Song

My American Heart - First Noel

Thrice - Carol of the Bells

Fiona Apple - Frosty the Snowman

Matchbook Romance - I'll Be Home For Christmas

Homegrown - Christmas Crush

Less Than Jake - Frosty The Snowman

Everclear - Santa Baby

Anberlin - Baby Please Come Home

Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)

Street Drum Corpse and Bert Mccracken - Happy Christmas

The Descendents - Christmas Vacation

Guster - Carol of the Meows

Stiff Little Fingers - White Christmas

Jack Johnson - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

No Use For A Name - Fairy Tale Of New York

Weezer - The Christmas Song

Weezer - Christmas Celebration

Ben Folds - Lonely Christmas Eve (The Grinch Soundtrack)

Coldplay - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over)

Mae - Carol Of The Bells

Gatsbys American Dream - Saint Nicholas

Emery - The Last Christmas

The Black Crowes - Back Door Santa

Angels and Airwaves - Star of Bethlehem

The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping

Ozzy Osbourne and Jessica Simpson - Walking in a Winter Wonder Land

The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

Reel big fish - Mele Kalikimaki

U2 - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

The Used - Alone This Holiday

Jack's Mannequin - Lights and buzz

Jewel - O Holy Night

Eisley - The Winter Song

Cartel - Rocking Around The Christmas Tree

The Matches - December is for Cynics

Rob Thomas - Merry New York Christmas

Jet – Back Door Christmas

My Chemical Romance- All I Want for Christmas is You

The Flaming Lips- A Change at Christmas

Looking for:
Blink 182 – I won’t Be Home For Christmas

-Tom
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Harvey Danger - Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas would made a good addition to that list.
 
I'm just curious about your reasons to start playing christmas music this early in the year. I generally don't play any until at least the second week of December.
 
I think it was just what we all thought as a group. do think it is to early or should we push it back a week of 2?
 
Tom said:
I think it was just what we all thought as a group. do think it is to early or should we push it back a week of 2?
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Personally, I don't see any reason to play any Christmas music at all before December 1st. Here in southern New England we've had 3 Boston stations and 1 Providence station switch to all-Christmas, all the time since November 12th. I don't get it.
 
If Wal-Mart and Macy's can have the Christmas trees up before Labor Day - why is it so hard to fathom Christmas music 4 weeks before the holiday?
 
Jack Garrett said:
As a true alternative station, RadioX doesn't play Christmas music. That's ALTERNATIVE.
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Oh get off your high horse :p ;D

I got this list from Radio & Records a while back. I don't have anywhere near all of them... but a good list to search from: (sorry for the formatting... i just copy and pasted)

The Alarm's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," Tori Amos' "Little Drummer Boy," Barenaked Ladies/Sarah McLachlan's "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," Beck's "Little Drum Machine Boy," Blink 182's "I Won't Be Home for Christmas," Bush's "Good King Something-Or-Other," The Cocteau Twins' "Winter Wonderland" and "Frosty the Snowman," Coldplay's "2000 Miles" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," Collective Soul's "Blue Christmas," Crash Test Dummies' "The First Noel," Bing Crosby/David Bowie's "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth," The Dave Matthews Band's "Christmas Song," Dannielle Dax's "Blue Christmas," The Darkness' "Christmas Time," Death Cab For Cutie's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," Dread Zeppelin's "All I Want for Christmas," Eels' "Christmas Is Going to the Dogs," Elastica's "Gloria," Enya's "Silent Night," Erasure's "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," Eve 6's "Noel Noel," Everclear's "Santa Baby," Everything's "Father Christmas," Face To Face's "Merry Christmas," Far Too Jones' "Christmas Time," The Flaming Lips' "White Christmas" and "A Change at Christmas" and Ben Folds' "Bizarre Christmas Incident."

Everclear's "I Will Be Hating You for Christmas," Fountains Of Wayne's "The Man in the Santa Suit " and "I Want an Alien for Christmas," Gigolo Aunts' "Father Christmas," Grandaddy's "Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland," The Hoodoo Gurus' "Little Drummer Boy (Up the Khyber)," Jet's "Back Door Santa," Jack Johnson's "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer," Jimmy Eat World's "12/23/95" and "Last Christmas," Freedy Johnston's "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," Local H's "Disgruntled Xmas" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," Luscious Jackson's "Queen of Bliss," Material Issue's "Merry Christmas Will Do" and MXPX's "Christmas Only Comes Once a Year."

Phantom Planet's "Winter Wonderland," Old 97's "Holly Jolly Christmas," Pearl Jam's "Let Me Sleep (It's Christmas Time)," The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York," Polyphonic Spree's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," The Presidents Of The U.S.A.'s "Christmas Piglet," The Pretenders' "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," The Primitives' "Silent Night," The Ramones' "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight)," REM's "Deck the Halls," Rooney's "Merry Christmas Everybody," Brian Setzer Orchestra's "Jungle Bells," Patti Smith's "White Christmas," Southern Culture On The Skids' "Merry Christmas Baby," Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Sleigh Ride," Sugar Ray's "Little Saint Nick," Super Deluxe's "Jonny's Gone Sleddin' With Queen," Matthew Sweet's "Baby Jesus," They Might Be Giants' "Santa Claus," U2's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)," The Vandals' "My First Christmas (As a Woman)," The Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping," Weezer's "The Christmas Song," Whirling Dervishes' "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch," XTC's "Thanks for Christmas" and Young Fresh Fellows' "O Little Town of Bethlehem."
 
NJbuckeye said:
What about Nerf Herder's "I got a boner for Christmas?" ;)
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LOL. Well I can tell you MY station won't be playing that... but add it to the list :)
 
NJbuckeye said:
What about Nerf Herder's "I got a boner for Christmas?" ;)
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Oh how could I have forgotten such a classic? Those guys are insane.
 
TheVisionary said:
NJbuckeye said:
What about Nerf Herder's "I got a boner for Christmas?" ;)
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Oh how could I have forgotten such a classic? Those guys are insane.
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Let me add in:

Better Than Ezra- Egg Nog Singalong

kind of hard to find a good quality version of this one though.
 
IMO, alternative stations should stay away from playing any type of holiday music...they should be the ALTERNATIVE to everyone else shoving it down our throats
 
marko83 said:
IMO, alternative stations should stay away from playing any type of holiday music...they should be the ALTERNATIVE to everyone else shoving it down our throats
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IMO... Christmas music, done right, can work on Alternative Stations.. just cater to the audience. Alternative listeners probably won't want to hear Bing Crosby, Burl Ives and Brenda Lee... but modern versions of classic songs, and new Christmas Songs by new artists can be a hit. One of my most requested Christmas songs last year was Fountain's of Wayne's "I Want An Alien For Christmas."
 
The Yobs and selections from "Punk Rock Xmas" for me, please.

On the novelty side: Throwing Toasters "It's Xmas Time", and Eric Cartman's stirring rendition of "O Holy Night".
 
Jimmy Eat World covers Wham's "Last Christmas", which is a good one, and I didn't see it on any lists
 
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