The Ledge #647: Annual Rock & Roll Christmas Party

It has become an annual tradition for The Ledge to put together at least two hours of (mainly) brand new holiday music that does NOT suck. That's the key word here. While most commercial Christmas music is banal, saccharine nonsense designed to annoy mall and fast food shoppers, every year sees a plethora of new rock and roll-based songs to get us through this pressurized time of the year.

Sure, many of these tunes are full of humor and snark, but none of them can be called novelty songs. Yes, there's also more than a few covers, but how can one not resist redoing the Ramones or Slade? 

There's also quite a few tracks from what I like to call "friends of the show". Jeremy Porter once again has a new Christmas tune. Vista Blue has their usual monthly free EP. White Rose Motor Oil continues their year of classic covers, and Numb Surprise continues to...well, surprise us with spooky tunes that literally creep into my tiny brain. And yes, our pals at Rum Bar Records have their usual spot in the show with some heartfelt tracks.

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1. White Rose Motor Oil - Hooray for Santa

2. Jeremy Porter - Colorado Chrismas

3. Numb Surprise - Lonely This Christmas

4. The NEW Bardots - A Pocketful Of Christmas

5. Swansea Sound - (I Wanna Wear A) Mirrored Hat Like Slade)

6. Slamdinistas - Santa's in a Punk Band

7. Tom Baker - Last Merry Xmas

8. Tony Marsico and the Ugly Thingz - Merry Xmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)

9. Dave Strong - This Time of Year

10. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Birthday

11. Dean & Britta - Snow Is Falling in Manhattan 

12. Cracker - Merry Christmas Emily

13. Shirese - Christmas in East Haven

14. Dan Miraldi - Christmas (I Think I'm Gonna Be Sad)

15. The Weeklings - Must Be Santa

16. The Weeklings - Run Rudolph Run

17. The Bacarrudas - Wanamaker's Christmas

18. The Bacarrudas - Christmas with the Cat

19. Vista Blue - I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter

20. Vista Blue - When the Christmas Tree Is All Aglow

21. The Sleeveens - Merry Xmas Everybody

22. Slander Tongue - Let It Snow

23. Vinny Peculiar - All I Want for Christmas Is a Gibson Flying V

24. Gary Kaluza & The Figgy Puddings - XMas Bussiness

25. Phil Cook & the Fall Dogs - HOLIDAY HOLIDAY HOLIDAY

26. The Dollyrots - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

27. Zombie Killers - All I Want For Christmas

28. The Screwups - Merry X-Mas You Bastards

29. The Pocket Gods - Alien Xmas Song

30. The Krayolas - Run Rudolph Run (Navidad Remix)

31. The Krayolas - I Wanna Be Your Santa

32. PETER118 - Away in a Manger

33. Ralphie's Red Ryders - Black Bart

34. John Waters - It's a Punk Rock Christmas