Drinking Up Christmas

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drinking up christmas

If you’d like, you can consider this a companion to Christmas Feast, because what’s a great meal without something to wash it down? Some of these songs celebrate that kind of merriment, but just as many are cautionary tales. It’s been years since I’ve been drunk during the holidays, but I’ve definitely experienced both. I’m good with just listening to the songs these days. Merry Christmas! And drink responsibly, or if you can’t, don’t drink at all. I love a tragic Christmas song more than the next guy but I don’t want to hear one about you.

Tracklist (and where you can get these drunken songs for yourselves):

  1. The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York
  2. The Minus 5 – Your Christmas Whiskey
  3. The Gestalts – Cookies and Beer
  4. Fear – Another Christmas Beer
  5. Monkhouse – Guinness and Wine
  6. Missile Toads – Santa’s a Boozer
  7. Cucumbers – Ho Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum
  8. Clyde Lassley & The Cadillac Baby Specials – Santa Came Home Drunk
  9. Burl – Xmas Drink
  10. Commander Cody – Daddy’s Drinking Up Our Christmas
  11. The Decemberists – Please Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)
  12. Roger Nichols Trio – St. Bernie the Sno-Dog
  13. Steve Fifield – Bootlegger Christmas
  14. The Burning Hell – Happy Hanukkah
  15. Tim Minchin – White Wine in the Sun
  16. Andrew Bird – So Much Wine, Merry Christmas

 

 

Published by AmeliaChristmasMix

I've been making personalized Christmas mixes for friends and family members for sixteen years. First, I made these on cassette, and as it became clear that my friends no longer had the technology to play these, I eventually, grudgingly, switched to cds. It looks like it's time to move on from that cds, too. So instead of using cds this year, I am going to create a number of playlists that will be available for streaming online. I'll be posting new and old favourites, both obscure and beloved, and I'll be using themes that I've used in the past, and perhaps some new themes as well, rather than creating these with specific individuals in mind. I hope you'll enjoy these seasonal treasures as much as I do, and I hope you'll investigate these artists and give them your support. Especially, I hope to reach all the grinches who have long ago determined that Christmas music just isn't for them. This is Christmas music for people who hate Christmas music.

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