Wow, surprised you didn't include these:

John Lennon- Happy Christmas
U2-Baby Please Come Home
Pretenders - 2000 Miles
Nat KIng Cole- the Christmas Song

Seriously? No Bing Crosby? How can you even call it Christmas? It's not the holidays till I hear Silver Bells and (don't judge) Mele Kalikimaka.

I love Gloria Estefan's Let it Snow. Makes me happy every time I hear it.

I'll take the Eartha Kitt version of Santa Baby over Madonna...and Alan Cumming and Liza Minelli? I'm sorry, but no one does that song better than Dean Martin.

I can think of a few more: Christmas Wrapping by the Waitresses, Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy by Bing Crosby and David Bowie, Santa Clause is Coming to Town by Springsteen, Let it Snow by Dean Martin, Jingle Bell Rock by Hall and Oates and that classic Grandma got Run Over by a Reindeer by Elmo and Patsy Shropshire.

Donny Hathaway's, This Christmas puts me in a holiday mood.

I tortured my mother last year by playing Bob Dylan's version of "Must Be Santa" over and over again while I was home for Christmas. You owe it to yourself to watch the video for this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus

can't get this playlist to work. :(

am I the only one who finds that album art unbelievably creeptastic?

Oh no! It appears the Grooveshark webstite is temporarily down (lucky us).

Continue to check back! In the meantime, keep suggesting music and we'll add it to the playlist to create the ultimate Holiday mix!

- Mat & Guerrin

Aw, I love Christmas music (and I have a 8.6 hour long playlist to attest to that!)

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas by James Taylor is by far my favorite Christmas song. So touching and classic.

that clarinet is oddly placed.

Grooveshark should be working again! Leave a comment to add a tune!

love this list!!! and love the inclusion of Liza!!
nobody does anything better than her, except of course her mother.

What? No "Christmas in Hollis" by Run-DMC?

This MUST be sent on to the Ellen show. She loves to receive these strange old album covers. The way everyone is swooning over Santa's horn as it protrudes from his sack had me howling with laughter before I even read the post.

All of these suggestions are wonderful. I have them on my iPod, but will specifically create an APXmas playlist for fun. Our household has beed singing "Gramma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" since Halloween!

Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty McColl. Love it.

Alex Chilton's "Jesus Christ" should be added.

Boney M!!!!!

Where's the Ella Fitzgerald? Her version of 'It Came Upon A Midnight Clear' is the best I've ever heard, and it's impossible to resist the retro sexiness of 'What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?'

Chris Isaak's version of Elvis Presley's 'Santa Bring My Baby Back to Me'. Heck, include Elvis' version too.

Forget that shallow hag Madonna: Eartha Kitt's 'Santa Baby' is the One True Version.

And Sufjan Stevens' sublime anthem of love, hope and lonliness, 'Christmas in the Room'. I'm averaging 6 listens a day for the last three days.

P.S. That album cover is the most disturbing thing I've seen all week.

How 'bout Hall and Oates' version of "Jingle Bell Rock"?

And I happen to love "All I Want for Christmas is You," by Vince Vance and the Valiants. If you haven't seen the video for that, you have to see it just for the '80s fashions and odd and disturbing hairstyles.

Joy Electric...! Ha!

You should all really check out "Punk Rock Xmas" and "Happy Birthday Baby Jesus".

Okay, but some of the songs on Punk Rock Xmas might be pretty offensive to some people. For instance, "Homo Christmas" by Pansy Division or "Daddy Drank Our Xmas Money" by Tv-Tv... BUT a few really great ones would be "Feliz Navi-Nada" by El Vez and "Snackin' Santa" by GO Nuts.

check out Soma FM's Xmas in Frisko for further listening /playlist inspiration :)
http://somafm.com/play/xmasinfrisko

("not for the easily offended") -!

^
http://somafm.com/play/xmasinfrisko

:/

No one sings Santa Baby like Eartha Kit!

always a staple on this gal's christmas mosh pit:
No Doubt, Oi To The World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoL1Uxwk6vc

If you want an entire album to put you in the festive season I'd say, The Chieftains: Bells of Dublin. Also, anything from Kevin and Bean's Last Christmas 1999 is fantastic.

The DJ Riko Merry Mixmas collection is a holiday tradition that dates back to 2002. Each edition is a continuous mix of Christmas music spanning multiple musical genres and multiple decades.

I LOVE THESE.........

http://www.djriko.com/html/mixmases.htm

I'm going to be the third to say that the album cover is really strange. Why is there an erect clarinet poking out of Santa's sack? Everyone looks pretty impressed by it.

I keep coming back to this to look at the album art, laugh at the comment from @adventrising, and to listen to Mele Kalikimaka. As I recall, that song was in Christmas Vacation when Clark was looking out the window fantasizing about his new pool.

Sorry but the version of "Baby it's Cold Outside" by Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton beats all of the rest including Dean Martin.

First off, awesome post, I love how everyone has their favs, some classics, some remakes and some a little unconverntional :)

I'm going to have to add Sufjan Stevens' "Come On! Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance!" and "Get Behind Me, Santa!" for fun, upbeat songs and "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" and "Star of Wonder" for something a bit calmer.

Also, I remember ReadyMade came out with a compilation holiday album a few years back, don't remember everything on it but they had a group called The Finches with "Holiday Song" and I really love it. I'll also have to second "Christmas Wrapping" by the Waitresses.

Lastly, I fell in lust for that song in the new Target commercial with the kids going crazy for presents, it's called "Toy Jackpot" by Blackalicious. I started to listen to some of the songs, they are also on their YouTube station.

Guys, I can't believe no one has mentioned "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby! That's pretty much my all-time favorite holiday movie.

I sextuple (or whatever number we're up to now) the motion to remove Madonna and replace with Eartha Kitt.

Brenda Lee's version of "Jingle Bell Rock" is another favorite.

I also can't believe no one has suggested Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies." Symphonic music at Christmas somehow seems so appropriate.

I am very happy to see "Lo, How a Rose 'Er Blooming" on there -such a pretty song.

Holy god is that New Kids On The Block song DEEP HURTING.

But the Temptations are fantastic. <3 And Judy. <3<3

Love, love, love Liza Minelli and Alan Cummings doing "Baby It's Cold Outside". I really do like the classic, but it has an undeniable creeper vibe that Liza and Allan completely get rid of. It's a really refreshing change of pace.

Barbra. Honey. Please for the love of God pick a tempo and stick to it. You're irritating the snot out of me.

@ngnerd... i just returned to this post for the first time and had the same reaction. burst out laughing from the comment by @adventrising. i did send this off to Ellen a while back, and made mention of that glorious clarinet!