V/A "The My Pal God Holiday Record" Cd mpg020 [Out of Print]   1.   The Law "What Did Santa Claus Bring You For Christmas" 2.   Silkworm "Merry Christmas" 3.   Atom & His Package "What WE Do On Christmas" 4.   Lustre King "Back Door Santa" 5.   C-Clamp "2000 Miles" 6.   The Goblins "Ha-Ha Hannukah" 7.   Sarge "Last Christmas" 8.   Sean Na Na "Please, Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)" 9.   Margo vs. Eiffel Tower "Tonight Is My New Year" 10.   Crucial Youth "X-Mastime For The Skins" 11.   Crucial Youth "Santa Claus Is Coming (And You're On His List)" 12.   Sixto "Something's In The Chimney" 13.   Universal Life And Accident "Another Lonely Christmas" 14.   Paul Newman "December 91 Or So" 15.   We Ragazzi "In December" 16.   The City On Film "Fairytale Of New York" 17.   Burning Star-Core "Where Every Night is New Year's Eve" 18.   Winechuggers "(I Was) Drunk (On Christmas)" 19.   Sweep The Leg Johnny "Feed The World" 20.   Lullaby For The Working Class "The Utilitarian Christmas Jingle"

This record is the end result of doing an annual "holiday radio show" on the Princeton, NJ radio station WPRB since 1988. This show occurs from Christmas eve until Christmas day, running 24 hours in length playing only "holiday themed" music. December 24, 1998 was the 10th of these 24 hour holiday shows, and marking that with a record of bands doing holiday themed songs seemed like the right thing to do. This Cd is a collection of originals and covers of songs about winter, Christmas, Hannukah and New Year's.

Here are some notes on the record: The Law song will be making it's Cd debut after 10+ years of being available only as a Cart at WPRB. Lustre King's song is a cover of a timeless soul classic. C-Clamp's song is a cover of a lovely Pretenders song. The Goblins song is the theme to their holiday variety show "Ha-Ha Hannukah." Sarge's song is a Wham! cover. Sean Na Na is Sean Tillman, formerly of Calvin Krime. His song is a cover as well. John Denver, I think. Margo vs. Eiffel Tower contains former members of Edsel. Both of Crucial Youth's songs were only available on their 1988 Christmas 45 until this Cd came together. "X-Mastime For The Skins" is done to the tune of "Crucified For Your Sins" by Iron Cross. The idea should actually be credited to Pete from Dag Nasty, since he first suggested it. "Santa Claus is coming..." is an original, inspired by "Sergeant D is coming" by S.O.D. The Sixto song is their first release. Sixto contains current and former members of Seam, Dis- and Travis. Universal Life & Accident's song was first done by Prince. The City on Film is Bob from Braid [w/Elizabeth of Sarge] covering that familiar Pogues song. Sweep the Leg Johnny cover the Band Aid song, with guest vocals from Mike of Lustre King and Carl Saff [Neutrino]. Everything else is original, more or less. I think you'll like it. All the songs are exclusive to this release. Enjoyable all year round.


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