Spotlight On Christmas
Song #247: Spotlight On Christmas
Artist: Rufus Wainwright
Year: 2003
Notes: My favorite gay, Canadian-American, former meth-addict.
Song #247: Spotlight On Christmas
Artist: Rufus Wainwright
Year: 2003
Notes: My favorite gay, Canadian-American, former meth-addict.
Song #226: Stay A Little Longer, Santa
Artist: Shemekia Copeland
Year: 2003
Notes: I believe she is actually trying to seduce a fat, married house burglar.
Song #161: All I Want For Christmas Is A Real Good Tan
Artist: Kenny Chesney
Year: 2003
Notes: Kenny's become the Jimmy Buffett of country music with songs like this one. Mahalo!
Song #159: Ho! Ho!
Artist: Ying Yang Twins
Year: 2003
Notes: Atlanta crunk duo asking Santa for "weed and a twelve pack!"
Song #152: Christmas Is All Around
Artist: "Bill Mack"
Year: 2003
Notes: Mack is Bill Nighy's rock star character in the film Love, Actually. Song is a humorous plot point in the film and is a remake of Troggs 1967 classic Love Is All Around.
Song #131: All I Want
Artist: Styx
Year: 2003
Notes: It's one of the things I love most about collecting Christmas music. Eventually almost every artist records one if they stick around long enough!
Song #121: Christmas Card From A Hooker in Minneapolis
Artist: The Ataris
Year:
2003
Notes: This Tom Waits song from 1978 reads like the most interesting Christmas letter you ever got: " Hey Charley I think I'm happy for the first time since my accident and I wish I had all the money that we used to spend on dope." Remade here by the Indiana rock band.
Song #120: Hey Parker, It's Christmas
Artist: Ryan Adams
Year: 2003
Notes: Best Christmas song ever written for actress Parker Posey, an admittedly small category.
Song #98: The Christmas Song
Artist: The Raveonettes
Year: 2003
Notes: Outstanding Danish band.
