Alternative Christmas / Monkey songs.

[pieces o'nine]

I prefer the Rob Rivers' Animals cover, but this one is on YouTube:

Oh Little Town of Bethlehem

If you wail along with it on, say, the commute in to town, use your "whiskey" voice for best effect.


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[edit] here's the Bob Rivers version [/edit]

[DavidH]

Tom Lehrer's old gem is still worth a listen.

[Rainswept]

Woody Allen Jesus Tim Minchin

[daftbeaker]

The Pogues. I know, it's become hackneyed and overplayed but I like it. Also, Rain Street isn't really a Monkey song but I now associate it with the holidays.

Plus I like Slade's Merry Christmas Everybody, if only because it's the only Monkey song you can turn up loud and it's got some feeling to. The lines "Does your granny always tell you that the old songs are the best? Then she's up and rock 'n' rollin' with the rest" never fail to amuse me

Really, crank Slade up on decent speakers and Monkey songs become almost bearable. The problem comes when Mariah Carey comes on afterwards at full volume