Punk Rock Christmas

Various Artists - Miscellaneous - Holiday

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 10, 1995)
• Original Release Date: September 5, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B0000033NG
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #47,182 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. (It's Gonna Be A) Punk Rock Christmas - Ravers

2. Silent Night - The Dickies

3. Fuck Christmas - Fear

4. Merry Jingle - The Greedies

5. There Ain't No Sanity Clause - The Damned

6. Homo Christmas - Pansy Division

7. Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight) [I Don't Wanna Fight To - The Ramones

8. Deck the Halls - Alison, , Metal Mike

9. Feliz Navi-Nada - El Vez

10. Christmas Christmas - Mojo Nixon

11. Mr. Grinch

12. White Christmas - Stiff Little Fingers

13. Hooray for Santa Claus [Theme from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians] - Sloppy Seconds

14. It's Christmas [#]

15. Merry Xmas Blues [#] - The Celibate Rifles

16. Run Run Rudolph [#] - The Humpers

17. Daddy Drank Our Xmas Money [#] - TVTV$

18. Here Comes Santa's Pussy [#] - The Frogs

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This is not your father's Christmas music. Or even your little sister's Backstreet Boys sugarplum-fairy dream dancing in her head. But it is a galvanizing collection of 18 cuts deep in the heart of the season, by some of the finest punk bands from rock's '70s and '80s days of rage. As much a profile of the legendary bands that made the music world safe for alternative rock a decade later, Punk Rock Xmas withstands the decibels of time with a number of outstanding performances. The Dickies rant and rave on "Silent Night" and Stiff Little Fingers reprise "White Christmas" with a vengeance, while blokes from the Sex Pistols and Thin Lizzy called the Greedies turn out a blistering "Merry Jingle." Fear spit out a nasty four-letter sentiment that's 45 seconds short, the Ramones weigh in with "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)," and Mojo Nixon, El Vez, and sundry others gleefully reinvent and deconstruct the sound and wounds of the season. A real stocking ripper. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What can I say? It's Christmas!, May 5, 1999

By A Customer

OK. Pretend you're over twenty, you live alone, nobody invited you to their christmas party, and no girl will get in ten feet of your apartment. And the last thing you want to hear are jingly carols shrieked out by happy little orphans. What you need is to hear jingly carols shrieked out by your favorite punk bands! Yesindeedee (Ramone, that is). So decorate the tree with empty beer cans, write your name in the snow, hang up that mistleto and soon you'll hear ho-ho-ho!

This is the only Xmas album you can play even when it ain't the season. Especially "Daddy Drank Our Christmas Money" by TVTV$ (if anybody knows how the hell you're supposed to pronounce that band's name, please e-mail me), Pansy Division's "Homo Christmas" (wait 'til you hear it!), The Dickies hilariously awful variation of "Silent Night" and of course the Ramones' I-don't-wanna-fight-on-Christmas jingle.

Have a weary Christmas and a sloppy New Year!!!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dee Dee drank our Xmas money, December 23, 2003

By	Johnny Heering "trivia buff" (Bethel, CT United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This is a pretty good collection of punk Christmas songs. It opens with a fun novelty song that is not by a real punk band. Then we move on to the real punks. The quality of the material varies, but some of the best cuts are contributed by the Dickies, Sloppy Seconds, the Greedies and (naturally) the Ramones. But my personal favorite here is "Homo Christmas" by Pansy Division, which is hilarious. I have to mention the contributions by a couple of guys who are not usually associated with the punk genre. El Vez, the "Mexican Elvis", performs a surprisingly credible thrash punk version of "Feliz Navidad". And Mojo Nixon performs an unsurprisingly sloppy rewrite of "Louie Louie" called "Christmas Christmas". It's not really punk, and it's not really good. It sounds like an outtake from Mojo's lousy Christmas album, although it's not. If you are a fan of punk, especially "old school" punk, you should enjoy this.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mosh Pittin Fun, January 8, 2008

By	Dennis Doverspike "hrlitehouse" (University of Akron, OH, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is written more for the parent looking for something to buy their punk musically inclined offspring for Christmas. Nutshelling it - if someone likes punk music, they will like this CD. So if you are looking for a Christmas gift for the hard to buy for - this should fill their stockings with glee.

It is a great XMAS album for punk rock fans and any one else with a sense of humor; you do need a sense of humor for some songs especially Homo Christmas which isn't exactly Bing Crosby (although do people still mosh pit? I am pretty uncool). Anyway, this is just what it says - A Punk Rock XMAS album. There are a lot of rockin songs from right off the start, with It's Gonna Be A Punk Rock Christmas by the Ravers to the final version of White Christmas.