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This is a mix designed to allow you to listen to decent Christmas music without your family giving you trouble. It’s very handy, trust me.

PFU #011 – Family Christmas Music Emergency Mix [for 2009]

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TRACK LIST:

Johnny Cash – Not Cool to Kill on Christmas
Toni Stante – Donde Esta Santa Claus
Huey ‘Piano’ Smith & The Clowns – All I Want For Christmas
Squirrel Nut Zippers – My Evergreen
Toots & the Maytals – Christmas Feeling Ska
People Like Us – Everyday
New Pornographers – Joseph, Who Understood
Jackie Gleason – Christmas In Paris
The Wailers – She’s Coming Home
Josh Rouse – Christmas with Jesus
Kay Martin & Her Body Guards – My Santa Daddy
Nina Simone – Chilly Winds Don’t Blow
Jimmy Butler – Trim Your Tree
The Bird And The Bee – Carol of the Bells
Teenage Fanclub – Christmas Eve
The Staple Singers – Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas
Erlend Øye – Last Christmas
Eddie Cochran with The Holly Twins – I Want Elvis For Christmas
Yo La Tengo – Winter A-Go-Go
James Brown – Sweet Little Baby Boy [Parts 1 & 2]
Henry Mancini – Snowfall
Bob Dylan – Winterlude
Ramsey Lewis Trio – Egg Nog
Vaughn Monroe – Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
Danièle et Michèle – J’ai vu maman embrasser le père Noël
Lighnin’ Hopkins – Happy New Year
Johnny Cash – Here Was A Man

Happy Holidays Everyone. Just in the nick of time this year’s PFU holiday mixes are ready. I have been one out and about in the seasonal atmosphere and have been hearing Christmas music constantly, naturally. What I’ve been shocked to discover is that I really hate most of it. I would say that 80 – 90% of the common radio play holiday music makes me angry. This is particularly ironic since that’s the opposite of its supposed goal and since I own so much holiday music from all sorts of varying styles and time periods. A lot of it is by artists that generally everybody knows…but I never hear much of it. Therefore if my mixes (or at least one of them) are kind of dark this year, my frustration with “popular” holiday music should explain why.

I’m doing something different this year that will hopefully make the mixes a bit handier to everyone. There are 2 versions. One is the actual holiday mix that seemed to make sense this year (PFU #10), but it has quite a few songs that might make it unusable, say, at your grandmother’s house. I’m partial to the first because it has songs that fit many different emotional states, which is generally many people’s condition around the holidays.

But, since not everyone likes to accessorize all emotions (or can’t) there is a second alternate/supplement mix (PFU #011) is that has a far more accessible track list. That way if you only want good, clean holiday songs then you have that option, and if you like both then mixes then you can use the “clean version” when hanging around the family, etc. It’s designed to be an alternative to what other sort of dreadful crap that may be lurking on Christmas radio or dusty parental CD cabinets during your holiday. I hope that everyone gets some enjoyment out of them in one way or another. Enjoy your holidays.

PFU #010 – Holiday Mix 2009 [The Very Slightly Dirty Version]

USE: Enjoying your Holidays with Holiday Music That is Suited To Fit A Holiday Sized Range of Emotions.