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There's your streaming version of 2025 Christmas Tunes from Jason. It's all there is. Do you hear what I hear? Do you see what I see? A button above. As above, so below. Maybe.
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Here's the back story. I make this CD every year about this time. So, I'm putting it together. I try to include some nods to people who passed on during the past year; one of those folks this year was Ozzy Osbourne. Okay. How shall I represent the Prince of Darkness in holiday fashion? There's a song out there that I could have included, but I didn't want to hear it ever again. You can click the link at your own risk. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
So, I could maybe use a Santa Sabbath song instead? Great idea, but I've used a couple of their songs over the years, and I didn't want to lean on that too hard. But I find that the Ozz man hosted MTV's Headbangers Ball on Christmas Eve. I can use some sound clips from that — heck, I could do a screen grab and use it for the cover art! — and include some songs along the theme of "darkness" and "SATAN/SANTA" and "The Devil" and such like. So that's what I did. I thought of some Christmas devil songs, and the first one that I thought of was "Christmas with the Devil" by Spinal Tap. I could include that. The sequel film had been released this year, and that was seemingly appropriate... but shortly after the playlist was completed, and I had BURNED my first CD, news came from Los Angeles that two people had been found at the Reiner residence. When I burned the CD, had I entered into a COMPACT with the DEVIL?? The thought is too much to bear on top of the pile of days that is 2025.
David Johansen passed away this year. Dig the New York Dolls if you don't already. He lived lots of lives. One was as Buster Pointdexter, starting things off here. Sly Stone left us this year; he didn't leave much in the way of Christmas music, but he left us with an AMAZING body of work otherwise, so I'm going to give him a pass. Which song do you pick to honor Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys? I picked "Santa's Beard." If you've heard any music from the STAX record label — and I hope you have — you've probably heard Steve Cropper's guitar. He played on damn near every record that came out of that label over a ten year stretch. He's given the spotlight on this song with Booker T and the MGs. Marianne Faithfull sings in front of the Chieftans, providing a little international flavor to this year's collection.
I don't know what the cause of death was for Roberta Flack, but I heard it was his song, softly. Was it Peter or Paul? It was Peter Yarrow of Paul and Mary fame who died this year, and I think I'm stealing a Paul song to give to Peter, so leave Mary out of it. Roberta just sang a plenty long enough song about Mary. Sam Moore, bless his soul, man, is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, man, so I'm going to include him. We're one Osmond down this year; Wayne Osmond passed this year, so here's this banger from him and his brothers.
Clem Burke, drummer for Blondie, died this year. You'll hear him with the Empty Hearts, an 80s supergroup of sorts with members of the Cars, the Romantics, and the Chesterfield Kings! Everything was great in the 80s! There was even more snow, just ask the Futureheads!
And this is where this start to get kinda weird... with some Fishbone... you know, from the 80s... singing about "Slick Nick" being a Devil... and then some Spinal Tap from the 80s, with an introduction from Ozzy Osbourne from 1988... and then some more devil music about Christmas Hell and Satan Claus! Did I do something? This is the Worst Noel.
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