Torr's xmas mix

Here's my little contribution to the xmas mix trend. None of these songs appear on the three other mixes I've seen.

• Embrace - "I Believe In Father Christmas" (Emerson Lake & Palmer cover)
• Mew - "She Came Home For Christmas"
• Coldplay - "2000 Miles" (Pretenders Ray Davies cover)
• Band Aid 2004 - "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
• Keane - "White Christmas"
• Chris Isaak - "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
• Manic Street Preachers - "Last Christmas" (Wham cover)
• Travis - "River" (Joni Mitchell cover)
• Belle & Sebastian - "Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto" (James Brown cover)
• Belle & Sebastian - "The Twelve Days Of Christmas"

Comments

[D]

excellent mix!

[torr]

I just remembered I also have embrace doing a xmas song (Father Christmas?), I'll add that tonight unless someone wants to upload it before then and share the link.

2000 miles is actually a Ray Davies (Kinks) cover. Pretenders version is a cover of the original.

[Matt]

Torr!! PLEASE upload that Embrace cover!

The Band Aid 2004 song would have been great without the rapping in it....
The Travis version of The River has been an Xmas staple of mine for many a year now...
One song that is IMPOSSIBLE to find is a Canadian band called The Skydiggers doing a version of Good King Wenceslas. It was on the same CD that Crash Test Dummies (ugh!) did The First Noel...

Great mix, man!

I love me that manic's cover. So silly, but sounds great.

[torr]

Yeah, manics have done lots of great covers, let me know if you ever want me to post some more.

[Ginz]

Jimmy Eat World do a great cover of Last Christmas too. My fav christmast cover is probably Phantom Planet doing Winter Wonderland.

[rob]

yup, please post more manics covers..
I have a few like wrote for luck, the drowners, and a few others. I wish they would play the US at some point.

[torr]

I've got Manics covering these songs, from the 2nd disc of the b-sides compilation

1. We Are All Bourgeois Now
2. Rock & Roll Music
3. It's So Easy [Live]
4. Take the Skinheads Bowling
5. Been a Son
6. Out of Time
7. Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
8. Bright Eyes [Live]
9. Train in Vain [Live]
10. Wrote for Luck
11. What's My Name [Live]
12. Velocity Girl
13. Can't Take My Eyes Off You
14. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
15. Last Christmas [Live]

I also have that 3-track digital-EP they put out after the last album. Let me know a few that you'd like.