A Less Conventional Christmas PlaylistEight hours of lesser-heard Christmas music. NOTE: There's nothing marked explicit in this playlist, but I can't promise there won't be a bad word or two here and there.
So if you've got little ones (or in-laws who offend easily), this might not be the playlist for you. (There's many more songs than the 100 available in the embed here; for best results, open the playlist in your browser or Spotify app and hit shuffle!)
Magical MidisA collection of holiday-themed midis! Pick and choose what you want int he list, or download the whole shebang in a zip file! (Click the header to expand the list!)
Christmas Midis
*I have no idea what they mean by "new age" but it was in the original filename so I left it. :P
- Alvin and the Chipmunks - The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)
- Alvin and the Chipmunks - The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) (2)
- Angela Lansbury - We Need A Little Christmas
- Art Mooney and His Orchestra - I'm Gettin Nuttin for Christmas
- Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?
- Bing Crosby & Carol Richards - Silver Bells
- Bing Crosby & Carol Richards - Silver Bells (2)
- Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters - Mele Kalikimaka
- Bing Crosby - I'll Be Home For Christmas
- Bing Crosby - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
- Bing Crosby - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
- Blink 182 - I Won't Be Home For Christmas
- Blink 182 - I Won't Be Home For Christmas (2)
- Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock
- Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock
- Brenda Lee - Rockin' Aroudn the Christmas Tree
- Burl Ives - Holly Jolly Christmas
- The Carpenters - Merry Christmas Darling
- Cliff Richard - Mistletoe and Wine
- Dolly Parton - Hard Candy Christmas
- Elmo n' Patsy - Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
- Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas
- Frank Sinatra - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Frank Sinatra - Let It Snow
- Frank Sinatra - Let It Snow (2)
- Gene Autry - Frosty The Snowman
- Gene Autry - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
- Gene Autry - Up on the Housetop
- Gene Autry - Up On The Housetop (2)
- John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
- John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (2)
- José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad
- Leroy Anderson - Sleigh Ride
- Mannheim Steamroller - Carol of the Bells
- Mannheim Steamroller - Hark the Herald Angels Sing
- Mannheim Steamroller - The Holly and the Ivy
- Mannheim Steamroller - Wassail Wassail
- Mannheim Steamroller - We Three Kings
- Mykola Leontovych - Carol of the Bells
- Mykola Leontovych - Carol of the Bells (2)
- Mykola Leontovych - Carol of the Bells (New Age)*
- Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
- Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) (2)
- Perry Como - (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays
- Perry Como - White Christmas
- Perry Como - Winter Wonderland
- Quincy Jones feat. All Star Chorus - Hallelujah!
- Spike Jones & His City Slickers - All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
- Stevie Wonder - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- The Ronettes - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Carol of the Bells
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Carol of the Bells (2)
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Canon Rock
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve Sarajevo 24/7
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Wizards in Winter
- U2 - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
- Weezer - Christmas Song
- Wham! - Last Christmas
- Willie Nelson - Pretty Paper
- Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
- Unknown - Blue Grass Jingle Bells
- Unknown - Christmas Rhapsody
- Unknown - Jingling Banjos
- Unknown - Santa Claus is Coming to Town (Jazz)
- Traditional - Adeste Fideles
- Traditional - Angels We Have Heard On High
- Traditional - Auld Lang Syne
- Traditional - Auld Lang Syne (2)
- Traditional - Ave Maria
- Traditional - Away in a Manger
- Traditional - Away in a Manger (2)
- Traditional - Christmas Is Here
- Traditional - Coventry Carol
- Traditional - Deck The Halls
- Traditional - Deck The Halls (2)
- Traditional - For Unto Us A Child Is Born
- Traditional - Go Tell It on the Mountain
- Traditional - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Traditional - Good Kind Wenceslas
- Traditional - Hallelujah Chorus
- Traditional - Hark The Herald Angels Sing
- Traditional - Hark The Herald Angels Sing (2)
- Traditional - I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
- Traditional - I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day (2)
- Traditional - I Saw Three Ships
- Traditional - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
- Traditional - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (2)
- Traditional - Jingle Bells
- Traditional - Jingle Bells (2)
- Traditional - Jingle Bells (3)
- Traditional - Jingle Bells (4)
- Traditional - Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
- Traditional - Joy To The World
- Traditional - Joy To The World (2)
- Traditional - Las Posadas
- Traditional - Little Drummer Boy
- Traditional - Little Drummer Boy (2)
- Traditional - Mary Had A Baby
- Traditional - O Come All Ye Faithful
- Traditional - O Come All Ye Faithful (2)
- Traditional - O Come All Ye Faithful (3)
- Traditional - O Little Town of Bethlehem
- Traditional - O Little Town of Bethlehem (2)
- Traditional - O Tannenbaum (Oh Christmas Tree)
- Traditional - O Tannenbaum (Oh Christmas Tree) (2)
- Traditional - O Come O Come Emmanuel
- Traditional - Oh Holy Night
- Traditional - Oh Holy Night (2)
- Traditional - Shoes For Baby Jesus
- Traditional - Sing Hallelujah
- Traditional - Sing Noel
- Traditional - Sing We All Noel
- Traditional - Silent Night
- Traditional - Silent Night (2)
- Traditional - Silent Night (3)
- Traditional - Silent Night (4)
- Traditional - The First Noel
- Traditional - The First Noel
- Traditional - The Holly and the Ivy
- Traditional - The Wassail Song
- Traditional - Twelve Days of Christmas
- Traditional - Twelve Days of Christmas (Jazz)
- Traditional - We Three Kings
- Traditional - We Three Kings (2)
- Traditional - We Three Kings (3)
- Traditional - We Wish You a Merry Christmas
- Traditional - We Wish You a Merry Christmas (2)
- Traditional - What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)
- Traditional - What Child Is This? (Greensleeves) (2)
- Traditional - What Child Is This? (Greensleeves) (3)
- Medley - Christmas Polka
- Medley - Jolly Old Saint Nicholas/Jingle Bells
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Overture
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Opening
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: This Is Halloween
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: This Is Halloween (2)
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: This Is Halloween (3)
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Jack's Lament
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Jack's Lament (2)
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: What's This?
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Town Meeting Song
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Jack's Obsession
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Kidnap The Sandy Claws
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Making Christmas
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie Boogie's Song
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie Boogie's Song (2)
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Sally's Song
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Sally's Song (2)
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Poor Jack
- Danny Elfman - The Nightmare Before Christmas: Finale, Reprise
- David Newman - Jingle All The Way: Main Theme
- Dimitri Tiomkin - It's A Wonderful Life: Main Title
- Jerry Goldsmith - Gremlins: Main Title
- Jim Carrey - How the Grinch Stole Christmas: You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
- Thurl Ravenscroft - How the Grinch Stole Christmas: You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
- The Who Chorus - How The Grinch Stole Christmas: Welcome Christmas
- John Williams - Home Alone: Main Theme
- John Williams - Home Alone: Home Alone At Christmas
- John Williams - Home Alone 2: Main Theme
- John Williams - Home Alone 2: Medley
- John Williams - Home Alone 2: Somewhere In My Memory
- Mavis Staples - Christmas Vacation: Main Title
- Michael John Convertino - The Santa Clause: Main Title
- Michael John Convertino - The Santa Clause: Jingle Bells
- Michael John Convertino - The Santa Clause 2: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
- Michael Kamen - Die Hard: Main Title
- Michael Kamen - Die Hard 2: Main Title (Let It Snow)
- Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker: Chinese Dance
- Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
- Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker: March of the Toy Soldiers
- Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker: Mirlitons Dance
- Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker: Overture
- Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker: Reed Pipe Dance
- Vince Guaraldi Trio - Peanuts: Linus and Lucy
- Vince Guaraldi Trio - Peanuts: Christmas Is Coming
- Vince Guaraldi Trio - Peanuts: It's Christmastime
- Vince Guaraldi Trio - Peanuts: Oh Christmas Tree
- Vince Guaraldi Trio - Peanuts: Skating
Whimsical WatchlistA list of the movies and specials I'd like to watch this holiday season. Here to help you pad our your own list or at least inspire some good movie nights! (Click the headers to expand the lists!)
Movies
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
- A Christmas Story (1983)
- Gremlins (1984)
- Scrooged (1988)
- Die Hard (1988)
- Die Hard 2 (1990)
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
- Edward Scissorhands (1990)
- Home Alone (1990)
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
- Batman Returns (1992)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
- Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
- The Santa Clause (1994)
- The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
- The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
- Jingle All the Way (1996)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
- It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
- Elf (2003)
- The Polar Express (2004)
- Rise of the Guardians (2012)
- Krampus (2015)
- A Christmas Horror Story (2015)
- Klaus (2019)
Christmas Specials
- Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962)
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
- Christmas Flintstone/How The Flintstones Saved Christmas (1964) [S5 E15]
- A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
- How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
- The Little Drummer Boy (1968)
- Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)
- The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
- A Disney Christmas Gift (1982)
- He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special (1985)
- Santabear's High Flying Adventure (1987)
- Will Vinton's Claymation Christmas Celebration (1987)
- A Garfield Christmas (1987)
- A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
- Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
- Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special (1988)
- A Pinky and the Brain Christmas (1995)
- The Nutcracker (2011)
Wintry WavesSound bytes & effects from the web, cleaned up (edited) by me in some cases, others made by me. It's a mishmash, and not in chronological order because good lord I want to publish this page sometime before Christmas. :P
A Christmas Story
- "If we don't hurry we're going to miss all the good trees!"
- "I could feel the Christmas noose beginning to tighten."
- "Over the years, I got to be quite a connoisseur of soap."
- "Well, I double dog-dare you!"
- "I triple dog-dare you!"
- "Uh, 'Fra-gee-lay.' That must be Italian."
- "Next to me in the blackness lay my oiled blue-steel beauty."
- Ho, Ho, Ho!
- "Ah, there it is, the holy grail of Christmas gifts, the Red Ryder 200-shot range model air rifle."
- "Oh, my god, I shot my eye out!"
- "They looked at me as if I had lobsters crawling out of my ears."
- "In our world, you were either a bully, a toady, or one of the nameless rabble of victims."
- "Oh ffffffffffudge."
- "The weeks of drinking gallons of Ovaltine in order to get the Ovaltine inner seal to send off for my Little Orphan Annie secret decoder pen, was about to pay off."
- "This is nothing. Stuck? Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!"
- "I want an official Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle." "No. You'll shoot your eye out."
- "No, no! I want an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle!" "You'll shoot you eye out, kid."
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
(Warning for harsh language!)
- "Sometimes I think all that Santa crap's just bull. If he was so real, how come we didn't get squat last year? We didn't do nothing wrong, and we still got the shaft."
- "Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn. The clean, cool chill of the holiday air. And an asshole in his bathrobe, emtying a chemical toilet into my sewer."
- "Hey Griswold, where do you think you're going to put a tree that big?" "Bend over and I'll show you."
- "Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere; leave you for dead?"
- "It's the Christmas star, and that's all that matters tonight. Not bonuses, or gifts, or turkeys or trees. See kids, it means something different to everybody, and now I know what it means to me." "That ain't the friggin' Christmas star, Gris. It's a light on the sewage treatment plant."
- "Eat my road grit, liver lips!"
- "You know, Dad, I've been thinking--" (Clark revs his chainsaw)"...Good talk, Dad."
- "Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas, Clark."
- "That's a honey of a tree Clark. Is it real?" "Yeah, yeah, dug it out of the ground myself." "Is that a fact?"
- "Well, I hope nobody I know drives by and sees me standing in the yard, staring at the house in my pajamas." "If they know your dad, they won't think anything of it."
- "Is your house on fire, Clark?" "No, Bethany, those are just Christmas lights."
- "The Griswold family Christmas tree." "Isn't it a little big?" "It's not big. It's just full." "Dad, that thing wouldn't fit in our yard!" "It's not going in our yard, Russ. It's going in our living room."
- "Woo, geez! Look at the time. I got to get to bed, brush my teeth, feed the hog. I still got some homework to do, do the laundry, wash the car, still got those bills to pay..."
- "Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Kiss my ass. Kiss his ass. Kiss your ass. Happy Hanukkah."
- "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!"
- "Look what you've done to my tree!"
- "It was an ugly tree, anyway."
- "If that thing had nine lives, she just spent them all. Woo!"
- "Boy, these gusty winds appear to be playing havoc with the giant nutcracker float. At this point, I can't even see the nuts. They must have blown away."
- "Honey, do you honestly think I would check thousands of little lights if I wasn't sure the extension cord was plugged in?"
- "Hey kids, I heard on the news that an airline pilot spotted Santa's sled on it's way in from New york."
- "Shitter was full!"
- "This is a new, non-caloric, silicon-based kitchen lubricant my company has been working on. It creates a surface five hundred times more slippery than any cooking oil. Ah! We're really gonna fly down the hill with this stuff!"
- "Clark, stop it! I don't want to spend the holidays dead!"
- "If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am right now."
- "Hey! If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here, with a big ribbon on his head, and I want to look him straight in the eye and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?"
- "Hallelujah! Holy shit!"
- "Mom?" "What?" "This box is meowing." "Let me see it." (Clark shakes the box, cat yowls) "She wrapped up her damn cat!"
- "This is what Christmas' all about. I'll, uh, park the cars and check the luggage and, uh... Yeah, I'll be outside for the season."
- "Where do you think you're going? Nobody's leaving. Nobody's walking out on this fun, old fashioned, family Christmas. No, no! We're all in this together. This is a full-blown, four-alarm holiday emergency here. We're going to press on, and we're going to have the hap-hap-happiest Christmas since Bing Crosby tap-danced with Danny fuckin' Kaye. And when Santa squeezes his fat white ass down that chimney tonight, he's going to find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nut house."
- "Worse? How could they get any worse? Take a look around you, Ellen. We're at the threshold of hell!"
- BONUS: The hard to find original Mavis Staples version of the main title song, "Christmas Vacation"!
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Home Alone
Scrooged
- "Oh my gosh! Does that suck!"
- "Do you think I'm way off base here?" "Yes! You're, well, you're a tad off base, sir. That thing looked like The Manson Family Christmas Special!"
- "Oh, well, that's a really nice attitude on Christmas Eve! Merry Christmas."
- "Get me standards and practices in here. I wanna see wreaths!"
- "It's Christmas Eve! It's... it's the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we... we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year, we are the people that we always hoped we would be."
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Enchanting EatsLoads of ideas for Christmas foods and drinks! All thumbnails lead to external and sometimes archived sites. (Click the headers to expand the galleries!)
Fantastic Feasts
Terrific Treats
Delightful Drinks
Snowy StickersParticipating in the virtual sticker album fun? Here's some Holiday stickers to add to your collection!
Sandy Lion
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Disney
Lisa Frank
Miscellaneous
Credits: Reindeer Divider by cakelegs. Pixel Bobbles by apparate. Background found on Tumblr, and edited at length. Everything else found on Glitter-Graphics, so who knows where it actually originated. Let me know if you know a source and I'll be more than happy to credit properly or remove as needed!
