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Rab's Eclectic Christmas Mix 2008

Rab's Eclectic Christmas Mix 2008

this year’s mix theme is a combo of the “I’m in a glass case of emotion!” and “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!” it’s always hard for me to narrow my list down to only 1 CD worth of music, roughly 1.2 hours or ~105MB of holiday music. last year and the year before i made a supplemental 2nd disc with only rock music. but i digress… this year there is just one cool cd with 25 tracks. i added the classic Earth Kitt track at the last minute as a tribute. what follows is the tracklist for my annual Christmas mix tape. read as: Song Running Time Artist Album/Source. i’ll pretty this up and include later i have updated this with my album art, links, iMix (not all tracks included). see my previous mixes from Decembers gone by. thanks for the suggestions from John, Jeff, Kiernan and Michael! even though i didn’t use all of your tunes, i appreciate the ideas and links.

  1. Santa Baby 3:26    Eartha Kitt with Henri Rene & his Orchestra Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits 1935-1954
  2. Silver Bells 2:43    Martina McBride White Christmas
  3. Joseph, Better You Than Me (feat. Elton John & Neil Tennant) 4:51    The Killers Joseph, Better You Than Me (feat. Elton John & Neil Tennant) - Single
  4. Santa Claus Is Coming to Town 2:09    Mason Jennings This Warm December: Brushfire Holiday’s, Vol. 1
  5. Another Christmas Song 2:40    Stephen Colbert A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
  6. Carol of the Bells / Sing We Now of Christmas 4:00    BarlowGirl Home for Christmas
  7. Riu Riu Chiu 3:06    Sixpence None The Richer The Dawn of Grace
  8. It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas 3:28    Harry Connick, Jr. What a Night! - A Christmas Album
  9. Winter Song 4:27    Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson The Hotel Café Presents Winter Songs
  10. The First Noel 2:23    Weezer Christmas With Weezer
  11. It’s Been Christmas Here 3:06    Blondfire Holiday EP
  12. A Christmas Duel 4:49    The Hives & Cyndi Lauper A Christmas Duel - Single
  13. White Is In the Winter Night 3:00    Enya And Winter Came
  14. (There’s No Place Like) Home For The Holidays 2:45    Glenn Miller Orchestra Home For The Holidays
  15. All My Bells Are Ringing 2:32    Lenka The Hotel Café Presents Winter Songs
  16. Christmas Baby 3:15    G. Love This Warm December: Brushfire Holiday’s, Vol. 1
  17. The 12 Days of Christmas (Live) 3:43    Straight No Chaser Holiday Spirits
  18. No Christmas for Me 2:41    Zee Avi This Warm December: Brushfire Holiday’s, Vol. 1
  19. Hallelujah (Light Has Come) 5:05    BarlowGirl Home for Christmas
  20. Christmas 3:11    Dillon Fence XMAS - Christmas
  21. Someday At Christmas 2:11    Jack Johnson This Warm December: Brushfire Holiday’s, Vol. 1
  22. Song for a Winter’s Night 3:47    Sarah McLachlan A Winter’s Night
  23. Carolina Christmas 1:51    Squirrel Nut Zippers Christmas Caravan
  24. Baby, It’s Cold Outside 3:32    Leon Redbone & Zooey Deschanel Elf (Music from the Major Motion Picture)
  25. My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year) 2:52    Regina Spektor My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year) - Single
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I have since heard of people under extreme duress speaking in strange tongues. I became conscious that a steady torrent of obscenities and swearing of all kinds was pouring out of me as I screamed.

Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. He worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.

In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenities that as far as we know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
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Rolesville Community Videos - MyNC.com - Rolesville Christmas Parade by Rab

My first contribution to MyNC. w00t!!

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thoughts on audio & visual

it’s really cool to see your kids grow and change. these are a few questions that my 6 and 8 year old have asked me since i got home 20 minutes ago. they are both exploring the 7GB worth of Christmas music currently on shuffle on the iPod playing in our den.

“daddy, what we need to do is figure out how to put Christmas songs into Guitar Hero. wouldn’t that be cool?”

“i like the songs with banjos in them. how can we figure out when this song was made?”

“daddy, would you like to play freeze tag?”

“hey, you know what? my video made it to the next level!”

“is that Spanish writing? is that Japan writing?” (pointing to cursive signature on a school form)
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Golden Paradox - Golden Compass Christmas tree ornaments