Yes, let's keep it obscure. Industrial christmas carols? Check! Wingbat wellwishes? Check! Songs about caroling but not caroling itself? Check!
I'll start.
Voice Industrie - I Saw Three Ships
I'll start.
Voice Industrie - I Saw Three Ships
It's December! It's obscure holiday music time!
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Here's a two-fer of holiday songs not done by the Beatles, but about the Beatles.
1965: Garry Ferrier - Ringo Deer
1963: Dora Bryan - All I Want for Christmas is a Beatle
1965: Garry Ferrier - Ringo Deer
1963: Dora Bryan - All I Want for Christmas is a Beatle
Funny...the jingle bells at the beginning of "Ringo Deer" sound almost exactly like the screeching violins from the shower scene in Psycho - same rhythm and nearly the same chord.
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Badly Drawn Boy - "Donna and Blitzen"
Death Cab for Cutie's version of Mariah Carey's "Baby Please Come Home"
Raveonettes - "Christmas Song"
Death Cab for Cutie's version of Mariah Carey's "Baby Please Come Home"
Raveonettes - "Christmas Song"
Nothing says christmas like gabber.
3 Steps Ahead - X-Mas Bonfire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k_cUxZ_lgU
3 Steps Ahead - X-Mas Bonfire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k_cUxZ_lgU
The Hanukkah Song - Adam Sandler have a happy happy Hanukkah, and smoke your marijuanikah 
Christmas in Hollis - Run DMC yeaaahhhhh booooooyyyyy
Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto - James Brown makin' Christmas funky! uhh, get down!
Christmas in Hollis - Run DMC yeaaahhhhh booooooyyyyy
Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto - James Brown makin' Christmas funky! uhh, get down!
Hm, noticed that Ron Hynes' "Christmas in the Harbour" (1978) is very much different from the more well known song by Gary O'Driscoll from 1980.
A heart-rending story regarding the obscure French carol, Le fils du roi de gloire.
A happier version from West Indies (as far as I can tell. Could be Guadeloupe or Haiti.
A happier version from West Indies (as far as I can tell. Could be Guadeloupe or Haiti.
Love these. THis is one I played over and over on the air (got tons of requests for it)
The marvelous Geoffrey Lewis narrating a very short, but magical Christmas story (mouse, cat, cheese)
The perfect Christmas story!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8AKmAmzOIg&index=24&list=PLJ0nWoWqNDwFbRHCRWjgcXjNP6g4l7-xp
The marvelous Geoffrey Lewis narrating a very short, but magical Christmas story (mouse, cat, cheese)
The perfect Christmas story!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8AKmAmzOIg&index=24&list=PLJ0nWoWqNDwFbRHCRWjgcXjNP6g4l7-xp
and of course! This one does not get as much airplay as it deserves - a very catchy tune Stuck in the Smoke Hole of our Tipi!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkwlR6EnOps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkwlR6EnOps
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"I Got a Used Kazoo for Christmas" - Benny Grunch & the Bunch
"O Little Town of Destrehan" - Benny Grunch & the Bunch (Destrehan is the town right next to mine. The song is pretty funny if you know the area well.)
I like the local songs for their humor. But when I want something a bit more serious, I look to Enya.
"White Is in the Winter Night" - Enya
"O Come O Come Emmanuel" - Enya (most beautiful version of this song that I have ever heard)
"O Little Town of Destrehan" - Benny Grunch & the Bunch (Destrehan is the town right next to mine. The song is pretty funny if you know the area well.)
I like the local songs for their humor. But when I want something a bit more serious, I look to Enya.
"White Is in the Winter Night" - Enya
"O Come O Come Emmanuel" - Enya (most beautiful version of this song that I have ever heard)
There is a version of "Grandma Got Run Over the Reindeer" that broadcast on Alberta's aboriginal radio channel (probably the best country music station in Alberta) that used local Cree idiom. Can't find anything on it on the internet. If I could, I would share the changes made.