Little Drummer Boy is my favouritest Christmas song ever, so I’ve tried to collect the best versions of Little Drummer Boy in one convenient list, presented in order of personal preference.

Little Drummer Boy – David Bowie & Bing Crosby

Little Drummer Boy – Grace Jones

Little Drummer Boy – Johnny Cash

Little Drummer Boy – Tori Amos

Little Drummer Boy – Perry Como

Little Drummer Boy – RuPaul

Little Drummer Boy – The Polyphonic Spree

Little Drummer Boy – The Dandy Warhols

Marlene Dietrich – Little Drummer Boy

Jimi Hendrix

Ringo Starr

Lauryn Hill – Little Drummer Boy

Little Drummer Boy – Boney M.

other, video-less versions:

Little Drummer Boy – Frank Sinatra
Little Drummer Boy – Bright Eyes
Little Drummer Boy – Jackson 5
Little Drummer Boy – Trans Siberian Orchestra
Little Drummer Boy – Temptations
Little Drummer Boy – New Kids On The Block
Little Drummer Boy – Joan Baez

Previously in Cool Christmas Music: Cool Christmas Music Mixtape – Pop Edition, Cool Christmas Music Mixtape – Oldies Edition, Cool Christmas Music Mixtape – Funk+Soul Edition.

Fairytale Of New York – The Pogues
…start with the trusty classics

Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis – Tom Waits

Spotlight on Christmas – Rufus Wainwright
Thank you Loofah Wetwipe…. So he is able to laugh at himself! Adorable.

Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight) – The Ramones

Don’t Shoot Me Santa – The Killers

Oh Come All Ye Faithful – Twisted Sister
Totally ridic…

Is This Christmas? – The Wombats
Well, someone’s gotta pay for college….

Put the Lights on the Tree – Sufjan Stevens
..and obviously the whole twee-tastic Sufjan Stevens Christmas album

Happy Xmas (War Is Over) – Polyphonic Spree
Happy Hippie Christmas!

Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas – Okkervil River
…and every song on the great Resonanz Records compilations Music To Listen To When You Drive Home For Christmas, Vol. 1+Vol.2.

No Christmas While I’m Talking – The Walkmen
live in Williamsburg, no less! Well, it doesn’t get more hipster than that.

Oi To The World – Vandals

I pod X-mas – Hello Saferide
Which isn’t available, but they did a nice cover of Fairytale of New York

Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas – Eels
I dare you not to laugh at the video.

Father Christmas – ok go

…and now I’ve run out of time, so Merry Christmas and find the rest yourself…

Christmas Reindeer – The Knife
All I Want For Christmas Is You – Heike Has The Giggles
Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland – Grandaddy
Don’t Believe In Christmas – The Sonics
Last Christmas – Erlend Øye
You Ain’t Gonna Get What You Want for Christmas – Lee Harris & The Good Time Charlies
All I Want For Christmas – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Come On Santa – The Raveonettes
A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss) – Glasvegas
Cancel Christmas Day – Detroit Junior

You can also listen to and download most of this music here, here, here, and of course here.

Previously in Cool Christmas Music: Cool Christmas Music Mixtape – Pop Edition, Cool Christmas Music Mixtape – Oldies Edition.

Santa Baby – Eartha Kitt

Christmas In Hollis – Run DMC
am-az-ing video!

Be With You – Bootsy Collins
Reim Dich oder ich fress Dich.

Dear Santa (Bring Me A Man This Christmas) – Weather Girls

Someday At Christmas – Mary J. Blige

Soulful Christmas – James Brown

Santa Claus Is A Black Man – AKIM & The Teddy Vann Production Company

I Can Tell When Christmas Is Near – Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

This Christmas – Donny Hathaway

Previously in Cool Christmas Music: Cool Christmas Music Mixtape – Pop Edition.

Christmas Blues – Dean Martin
The coolest, drunkest man in showbiz!

The Christmas Song – Nat King Cole
so suave

Father Christmas – Kinks

Merry Christmas Everyone – Shakin Stevens

We Three Kings Of Orient Are – Beach Boys
Warning: extremely random video!

Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley & Martina McBrid
…because nothing says Christmas like a leather jacket unzipped to the navel!

Mele Kalikimaka – Bing Crosby
dapper!

The Christmas Song – Ella Fitzgerald

Last minute Christmas present? Look no further than a custom-made Christmas mixtape for those nearest and dearest to you (so near and dear you didn’t think of getting them a present until now). The selection will be split into Cool Christmas Music Mixtape – Pop Edition, Cool Christmas Music Mixtape – Oldies Edition, Cool Christmas Music Mixtape – Funk+Soul Edition and Cool Christmas Music Mixtape – Hipster Edition. I’ve blipped most of the songs already, so have a listen or watch the videos below!

In Dulci Jubilo – Mike Oldfield

Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town – Bruce Springsteen
Santa Cowboy Hat? WTF!

Jingle Bell Rock – Billy Idol
Christmas Cheese Rock!

It Doesn’t Often Snow At Xmas – Pet Shop Boys
What could possibly be more camp than the Pet Shop Boys singing about Christmas? Elton John announcing the Pet Shop Boys singing about Christmas! Pop-tastic….

Ray Stevens – Santa Claus Is Watching You
He’s everywhere!

Merry Xmas Everybody – Slade
So here it is, Hairy Christmas, everybody’s having fun…

A Silent Night – Sinead O’Conor + Sleigh Ride – The Ronettes
…in one convenient video

Winter Wonderland – Jewel

Chanukah (Hanukkah) Song – Adam Sandler
…so no one feels left out.

Frosty The Snowman – Fiona Apple

John Cale – Child’s Christmas In Wales

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer – Jack Johnson

If We Make It Through December – Merle Haggard

Baby, please come home – Death Cab for Cutie

Transsiberian Orchestra – Carol of the Bells

Blip is my new obsession.

Listen, follow and start your own blippin’ here.

If it’s not fun, you’re doing it wrong!

The perfect mixtape for an 80s-themed hen night (what those of you of the American persuasion prefer to call “bachelorette party,” which, in my head, sounds like “bitchy Lorette party,” which makes no sense. Well, neither does “hen night,” so there you go.)

Obviously, you need a bit of cheesiness for a hen night mixtape, but there is such a thing as too much of a bad thing, so this is my attempt at an even balance between cheesy and classy. And yes, I did actually record it on an actual tape! It’s ghettoblaster-time

Groove Armada – Sex and the City Theme
Violent Femmes – Blister in the Sun
Marianne Rosenberg – Er gehört zu mir
Nina Hagen – Männer
Duran Duran – Wild Boys
Queen of Japan – I was made for Loving You
Lucilectric – Mädchen
Soft Cell – Tainted Love
Irene Cara – What a Feeling
Donna Summer – She Works Hard for the Money
The Pipettes – Your Kisses are Wasted on me
Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Wanna have Fun
Bananarama – Cruel Summer
B-Side after the jump
George Michael – Faith
Blur – Girls and Boys
EMF – Unbelievable
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Is this Love
The Gossip – Standing in the Way of Control
Pink – Trouble
Blondie – Call me
Hidden Cameras – Ban Marriage
Elton John – I’m Still Standing
Supergrass – Alright
Mary Hopkins – Those were the Days my Friend
The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
Katrina and the Waves – Walking on Sunshine
Amy Winehouse – What is it about men

Früher sind wir regelmäßig in Jugendtreffs von Germering bis Hintertupfing gepilgert, die beNUTS live zu sehen. Heute sind wir gemütlich geworden und überlegen es uns zweimal, ob wir für ein Konzert überhaupt das Haus verlassen oder lieber warten, bis die DVD rauskommt. Für das Heimspiel der beNUTS im Atomic Cafe haben wir eine Ausnahme gemacht.

Offensichtlich können die Münchner Ska Legenden die Kids immer noch genauso begeistern wie damals (DAAAMAALS, gesprochen mit zittriger Stimme), denn das Atomic war gut besucht und voller enthusiastischer Fans, die zum Beispiel so Sachen machen:

Wir standen hinten und haben ein bisschen mitgewippt und an unserem Bier genuckelt, aber a Gaudi war’s!

Weil die knarzende Hüfte und die aktuellen Charts nicht genug sind, erinnert uns das Internet heute schon wieder, dass wir alt sind, weil wir Mixtapes wirklich noch auf Tapes machen. Letzte Woche hatten wir USB-Mixtapes, diese Woche gibt’s Mixtapes online.

Auf der Homepage kann man sich einige mp3-Mixtapes anhören oder gleich ein eigenes Konto einrichten und mit dem eigenen Mixtape anfangen. Das fertige Mixtape kann man dann an Freunde verschicken, die es per Klick zu ihren Favoriten hinzufügen können.

Das Design und die Funktion sind pfundig und schick, aber einen Link zum digitalen Mixtape zu verschicken ist halt doch nicht ganz so persönlich, wie eine analoge Musikkassette mit liebevoll gestaltetem Cover, die in stundenlanger Arbeit an der Stereoanlage entstanden ist.

Aber vielleicht lassen sich Mädchenherzen ja heute leichter erobern?

(mal wieder) via be2 blog, via Random Good Stuff