DataPanik (featuring Mick Cooke on trumpet) doing Christmas Wrapping instead—will that do?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvsOZ8C3n4w

Even if there is inexplicable hatred for this elsewhere on ILM, it’s Mariah’s All I Want For Christmas Is You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSL-kmKzCPU

Saint Etienne and Tim Burgess on “The Word”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxVHLuUiuEk

Half Man Half Biscuit “It’s Cliched to be Cynical At Christmas”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRDJgn68h1A

Ordinary Boys - I Love U (Chantelle)

oh, and in a very real sense, dear

Jesus, Steve, did you have to make me watch that? My eyes! My ears! My sanity!

Never mind, here are Girls Aloud and The Sugababes and Fearne Cotton and S Club 8 all being REALLY REALLY BAD (OK, one may be a lot worse than the others)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VtyOvxvXek

surely Sugababes are FAKING IT

I believe so.

I found a worse one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UsZdeQUWew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJNsW5T3GEQ

god among men george michael doing LAST CHRISTMAS at wembley last week.

This is the cutest thing ever

(if you like kids and the Chipmunks)

The Sequel!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADrKbkCz65g

For a LONG time, this was the only Christmas song I loved. It’s still my absolute favorite secular Christmas song.

Surely we need the “Fran Healy—woo” version as well?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luJRNM4IQzc

And the Stock Aitken and Waterman-tastic one (funnily enough Bono didn’t insist on being part of this one, instead leaving The Line to Jason Donovan and one of the dudes from Bros)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_LRM8vpLCs

Ailsa, actually I was trying to forget the other two versions that existed. *laugh*

billy corgan home video!! (not really)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJGveh3KHZo

this was posted on the kate thread but needs to be here too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjOuIoZFWbQ

lets keep it rolling :

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=christmas+top+of+pops

various christmas top of the pops selections

Pee Wee Herman vs. Bryan Adams “Reggae Christmas” MTV 84

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5BsTVJKNXos

“Reggae Christmas” is seriously the only Bryan Adams song I could actually listen to over and over again.

Here’s someone doing a mime to the song that’s currently stuck in my head (so you can have it stuck in yours too):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jy4X87fDk4

The Kinks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymC4D46jj14

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZJjKgXln30

The Wet Spots:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRfvSOuwM_4

Time for a hoary old classic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5hRPu2_eQ

Mew—She Came Home For Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb_JBxCkwCE

Yoko still sounds shit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f320hSBGadY

ha ha ha please don’t kill me, it’s Kylie doing santa baby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0piYwdPD29g

and here she’s live on Leno!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU4mRA1HsZk

Oh, and here’s eartha kitt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZUPLtvWsEU

http://youtu.be/lG-VwHHqFKg

Crikey. Does the sandbox not do embedding? Well, anyway. That’s a funny and on-the-nose take on ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’.

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The sound quality is fairly ropey but the performance makes up for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Wz-2E9VvUo8#t=353s

http://youtu.be/TTJ_AeJEwzM

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Ok, embed didn’t work first time. Chutney Santa!

Holy crap I totally had that NKOTB Christmas album on tape. lol

some faves from my mid-80s Dr. Demento listening days

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