Christmas Music Apotheosis - Monty Python Christmas In Heaven

To conclude our mini-series of non-sucky Pagan holiday songs, the Committee For The Improvement of Christmas Music wishes to end up with some pre-Matthew Barney but better than Matthew Barney fireworks, the wonderful Monty Python's Christmas In Heaven song (from The Meaning of Life, I believe).
From a time when comedy was truly funny and often offensive - therefore funny, ladies, Gentlemen and Transgendered readers, please enjoy Christmas In Heaven.

Non Sucky Christmas Music - The Spotnicks with Here Comes Santa Claus

The Committee for the Improvement of Christmas Music continues its charity work by offering you today The Spotnicks and Here Comes Santa Claus. Thanks to my friend Olivier for bringing this to my attention. The Spotnicks also did a cover of Jingle Bells, but the original is too fucking unbearable overplayed to my liking, so here you are.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Transgendered readers, enjoy the Spotnicks!

A Child Christmas In Wales - Non Sucky Non Christmas Music With No Less Than John Cale

You really didn't think I wasn't going to post any more John Cale this year, did you?

The Committee For The Improvement Of Christmas Music continues its evangelical work with a song that has "Christmas" in its title, more as a homage to Dylan Thomas than as a *real* Christmas song.

This song famously begins the Paris 1919 album, which Cale beautifully played in its entirety at Royce Hall's UCLA at the end of September, the high point of 2010 for this Frenchy.  Here's a bootleg of Cale doing the same song in Brescia earlier this year (with newer arrangement by Randy Woolf), so you have an idea of how it was.

If you're in Barcelona this Spring, Cale does it again at the Primavera Sounds Festival , where other luminaries include a reformed Pulp, Nick Cave's Grinderman, Animal Collective, Belle & Sebastian, Half Japanese, and others. There's also Suicide playing, I have seen them twice, and it's EXACTLY what you would expect.
I hope for lots of good jamming and guests spots for all the musicians and the audience there. Alas, I cannot go, but if you live in Europe the festival tickets are really inexpensive, so I guess a combination of  low-cost flights and cheap hostels can make it a great experience.

Meanwhile, it's still non-sucky non-Christmas music season here at the FBC! Headquarters, so ladies, gentlemen and transgendered readers, enjoy!

The No Christmas Music Christmas Music: The Wedding Present, No Christmas

The Committee For the Improvement Of Christmas Music continues its campaign with a song that isn't, in fact, about Christmas *at all*, or only tangentially as in "my worse breakup occurred over the Holiday".
Because all that chipper, syrupy Christmas music is too nauseating.
Ladies and gentlemen and transgendered people, from the FBC! Headquarters, behold The Wedding Present and No Christmas.

Merry Muthaphukkin Christmas With The Late Eazy-E

FBC! continues with the Committee for the Improvement of Christmas Music with the late, regretted Eazy-E's masterpiece, Merry Muthaphukkin Christmas, one of the few hip hop songs your truly really enjoys.
Have fuuuuuuuun!

Let's Continue With The Non-Sucky Christmas Music - Siouxsie And The Banshees, Il Est Né Le Divin Enfant

The one-person Committee for the Improvement Of Christmas Music continues its charity work here at the FBC! Headquarters with the cover by Siouxsie and the Banshees of Il Est Né Le Divin Enfant ("He Is Born The Divine Child").
I discovered this one very recently thanks to the very fine LA writer Harold Abramowitz whom I am very grateful to. Thanks, Harold!
This so totally cracks me up.
Merry Holiday Season, Ladies, Gentlemen and Transgendered people reading me. Enjoy Siouxsie!