MUSIC: My Most Played Songs On My IPod This Christmas

This is from me, and is NOT some reprinted material. And this is the last Christmas post until after Thanksgiving! I promise! - OlderMusicGeek

Not that I know if any of you care, but here's a list of the songs that were played the most on my iPod.

I must say a few things first. Since I couldn't get my external hard drive with all my Christmas music fixed, I got the music from where I could find it. Some songs had duplicates, and should probably be higher on the list.

Also, my daughter used my iPod a few times, so that affected the count too.

But anyway, here they are....

#10 (big tie) Angels We Have Heard On High - Mannheim Steamroller, Christmas Time On Waltons Mountain by The Waltons, Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses, Christmas Song - The Raveonette, Christmas Time Again - Bad Manners, Deck The Halls - Mannheim Steamroller, Deck The Halls - Relient K, Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid, Everything Is Gonna Be Cool This Cool by The Eels, Frosty The Snowman by The Jackson 5, Good King Wenseclas by The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Handel's Messiah by Relient K, Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) - Elvis Presley, I'm Getting Nothin' For Christmas by Smashmouth/Rosie O'Donnell, Jingle Bells by Wilson Pickett, Joy To The World - The Butties, Joy To The World - Mannheim Steamroller, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord - Boney M, O Holy Night (techno version - don't know who did it), Merry Christmas I F***ed Your Snowman by Showcase Showdown, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Burl Ives, Rockabilly Christmas - Big Bad Voodoo Daddies, Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt, Sleigh Ride - Christmas Grass, Sleigh Ride (The Latin Project Remix) - Ella Fitzgerald, Twelve Days of Christmas - The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Up On The Housetop - Jimmy Buffett, Winter Wonderland - The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Winter Wonderland - Christmas Grass, Winter Wonderland - Phantom Planet

#9 (still big tie) All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey, Christians And The Pagans - Dar Williams, Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love, Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Death Cab For Cutie, Christmas On The Bayou - Micheal McDonald, Frosty The Snowman - The Charms, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Bright Eyes, Hark - Torch Song, Jolly Old St Nicholas/Up On The Housetop - The Dave Williamson Big Band, Merry Christmas Baby - Otis Redding, Merry F***ing Christmas - South Park, Santa's Beard - They Might Be Giants, Silver Bells - Twisted Sister, Sleigh Ride - Ella Fitzgerald, Sleigh Ride - The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Sleigh Ride - TLC, White Christmas - Tina Sudandh

#8 (yes, still a big tie) Auld Lang Syne - BB King, Cool Yule - Louis Armstrong, Do You Hear What I Hear - Elmo/Rosie O'Donnell, Happy Holidays You B******s - Blink 182, Jingle Bell Rock - The French Impressionists, Linus And Lucy - Vince Guaraldi Trio, O Come All Ye Faithful - Twisted Sister, Reggae Christmas - Bryan Adams, Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Cajun Gold, Super Sunny Christmas - Redd Kross, We Wish You A Merry Christmas - Relient K

#7 (four-way tie) Christmas Bop - T Rex, Deck The Halls - Ted Nugent, I Want A New Baby For Christmas - The Smithereens, Jingle Bells - Lisa Loeb

#6 (three-way tie) Angels We Have Heard On High - Relient K, Rock And Roll Christmas - George Thorogood & The Destroyers, We Three Kings - Book Of Love

#5 (four-way tie) Amazing Grace - The Dropkick Murphys


Feliz Navidad - Davie Allan & The Arrows



Good King Wenseclas - The Roches


I've Got A Boner For Christmas - Nerf Herder
WARNING: EXPLICIT lyrics!


#4 Homo Christmas - Pansy Division
WARNING: This song has VERY explicit lyrics!


#3 One Christmas Catalogue - Captain Sensible


#2 (four-way tie) Deck The Halls - Twisted Sister


Have A Merry Christmas - Heavy Beat Crew


I Won't Be Home For Christmas - Blink 182


"Merry Christmas" - Face To Face


#1 Deck The Halls - The Roches

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MUSIC and BOOKS: Some Christmas Stuff

This Christmas, I listened to a couple of great books and some pretty good music.

I strongly recommend The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore. To quote the Entertainment Weekly review, “This is, without a doubt, the greatest story ever told about fruit bats, zombies and miracles.” Basically, if Stephen King wrote a Christmas comedy, it would come out something like this tale, which features among other unique characters... 1 - a former druggie who got blackmailed into being a tourist town's only law enforcement, 2 - the wife of the former druggie who was the a star in the Kendra, Warrior Babe of the Outland movies and has quit taking her anti-psychotic drugs to have money to buy her husband a gift, 3 – Tucker Case, a former womanizing pilot who is trying to better himself and only doing a mediocre job of that, and also has a pet fruit bat that wears sun glasses, and 4 – an angel who announced Jesus' birth 10 years too late because he got caught up in a card game.

And I read Skipping Christmas by John Grisham, the book that the movie, Christmas with the Kranks, is based on. Can't compare it to the movie, cus I haven't seen it yet. And don't have much motivation to do it either. The book starts really slow. I would suggest skipping to the part where the daughter calls and says she's coming home, because that's really the point where it starts to get funny.

I also heard some great new songs this Christmas. Cyndi Lauper of Girls Just Want to Have Fun and She Bop fame has a fun romper called Early Christmas Morning.

And Ringo Starr has had a cd, I Wanna Be Santa Claus, out for a few years, but I only got around this year to listening to these two songs, Christmas Dance and Come on Christmas, Christmas Come On. The first one is a sweet tune about a young man trying to get a courage to ask the girl who he admired from afar to dance with him at, of course, the Christmas dance. The second is just an arena type rocker about Christmas. - Hey, when you have 2500+ Christmas tunes, you don't get to them all each year!


And I still love these tunes I heard the last couple of years! Nobody does such an unique version of this Christmas tune. I mean Ted Nugent and Twisted Sister can both really rock it out, but I still think The Roches' version of Deck the Halls is best! Something about that rocking acoustic guitar and those strange but lovely harmonies.


And their Good King Wenceslas is still my favorite version of that song!


And I can't say enough about my reggae Christmas tunes. Who would think people from the warm Caribbean could do such great versions of tunes associated with the cold and snow! But I strongly recommend Yard Style Christmas, Christmas Greetings from Studio One, The Reggae Christmas Collection and that 3-cd collection from the condom people, The Trojan Christmas Box.

A link to an excerpt of Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel