XHM #628 - "The Christmas is coming from inside the house" (2022 December 12)

Exploding Head Movies

As the holiday season feels like it's becoming normal, for our 15th annual counter carol episode, we'll go abnormal as we profile the 1974 Canuxploitation film Black Christmas and all sorts of darker Yuletide material. We've lost some key cultural folks tied to Christmas and music, so embrace the mix. We're doing this early so you don't feel utterly weird so if past episodes were your baking soundtracks, this one might need some advanced kitchenwork.
1. Dead Kennedys: Advice from Christmas Past (Plastic Surgery Disasters, 1982) Alternative Tentacles
2. Hell Interface: Soylent Night (Whine and Missingtoe EP, 1997) V/Vm Test
3. Droni Mitchell: Cup of Kindness (Ho! Ho! Ho! Canada XIII, 2021) The Line of Best Fit
4. Low: One Special Gift (Christmas EP, 1999) Kranky
5. The Social Interaction Foundation: Just Like Christmas [in Cottonopolis] (Christmastime, Approximately, 2010) Where It's At is Where You Are
6. The Great Octopus: Rankin On Bass Theme [Ultra edition] (It's Christmas Time! VII, 2021) Retro Promenade
7. Freelove Fenner: The Snow Miser Song (Ho! Ho! Ho! Canada 4, 2012) The Line of Best Fit
8. Burl Ives: A Holly Jolly Christmas (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer OST, 1964) Decca
9. Mark Malibu & The Wasagas: Ice Rider (Mark Malibu presents Surfin' Kitty X-Mas 3, 2022) Sharawaji
10. The Cast of Sesame Street: Keep Christmas with You [All Through the Year] (Christmas Eve on Sesame Street OST, 1981) Sesame Street
11. Fine Mist: I Wanna DJ for Christmas [w.Cam Dales] (The Eggnog Experience, 2009) Mental Beast
12. Booker T & The MGs: Winter Wonderland (Jingle Bells 7", 1966) Stax
13. Emotions: Black Christmas (The Complete Stax Volt Singles, Volume 2: 1968-1971, 1993) Stax
14. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet: The 12 Answering Machine Messages of Christmas (It's a Wonderful Record! 7", 1994) Jetpac
15. The Hang-Ten Hangmen: Christmas Boogaloo (Surfin' Kitty X-mas, 2020) Sharawaji
16. Cœur de Pirate: Parfait Noël (2022) Bravo Musique
17. Beatrice Deer: Christmas (Shifting, 2021) self-released
18. Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross: 8AM, Christmas Eve (Empire of Light OST, 2022) The Null Corporation
19. Lesia Zubrack & Ivan Romanoff, His Male Chorus and Orchestra: What Miracle is This (Ukrainian Christmas, 1969) Capitol/CBC
20. Hryhory Kytasty & Ukrainian Bandurist's Chorus: God Sees The World In Peril And Sends His Son (Christmas Carols, 1972) self-released
21. The Great White Way Orchestra: When Winter Comes (My Buddy 10", 1922) Victor
22. Northern Dissonance: That was the Worst Christmas Ever (Holidazed: An Eternal Bummer Christmas Volume 2, 2013) Eternal Bummer
23. Katy Kirby: So Much Wine, Merry Christmas (Cool Dry Place [expanded edition], 2021) Keeled Scales
24. Offseason: Silent (2021) self-released
25. Wednesday Week: Christmastime Here [Could Never Be Like That] (A Midnight Christmas Mess: Volume 1, 1984) Midnight
26. Jody Glenham: Snow in NYC (Melt EP, 2020) self-released
27. Dominic Lewis: Filthy Animals (Violent Night OST, 2022) Back Lot
28. Weird Al Yankovic: The Night Santa Went Crazy (Bad Hair Day, 1996) Scotti Brothers/Rock 'n Roll
29. Homestar Runner: Santaman is a Blade Man (Hooked on Decemberween, 2019) Cheap as Free
30. Electric Youth: Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (A Tribute to Ryuichi Sakamoto: To the Moon and Back, 2022) Milan
31. Perry Botkin: Silent Night Deadly Night (A Christmas Horror Mixtape, 2019) Free Music Collection
32. Shirley Walker: Black Christmas [2006] (A Christmas Horror Mixtape, 2019) Free Music Collection
33. Carl Zittrer: Black Christmas (Black Christmas OST, 1974) Waxwork
34. Carl Zittrer: Peter's Recital (Black Christmas OST, 1974) Waxwork
35. Carl Zittrer: Trapped in the Basement (Black Christmas OST, 1974) Waxwork
36. Kellarissa: Black Christmas Soundscape (2011?) self-released
37. Konstruktivits: Black December (Psykho Genetika, 1983) Third Mind
38. Poly Styrene: Black Christmas [Kahn remix] (Somali Refugee Appeal Single, 2011) Future Noise
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