UPDATE 01/12/2008 - If you are looking for indie Christmas music for this year, please take a look at Blue Christmas 2008
I’ve come home for Christmas after a week long Christmas celebration in Edinburgh which always suprises me by being tastefully decorated. The parties did mean me getting a couple of photos censored on Facebook though, but nevermind 
Anyway, in contrast to most the other indie blogs about which will be doing some kind of Indie Christmas Mix, I have decided that some songs are just never bettered - and here they are, along with links to buy the relevant (mostly Christmas) albums, or to donate to their charities:
Blue Christmas
Christmas Mix ‘06 by the Blue Walrus
01. The Pogues - Fairytale of New York [Buy]
02. Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas [Donate]
03. East 17 - Stay Another Day [Buy]
04. Wham! - Last Christmas [Buy]
05. Brenda Lee - Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree [Buy]
06. Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby [Buy]
07. John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over) [Buy]
08. Jackson Five - Santa Claus is Coming to Town [Buy]
09. John Denver & The Muppets - Twelve Days of Christmas [Buy]
10. Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas [Buy]
11. Frank Sinatra - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [Buy]
12. Bing Crsoby & David Bowie - Little Drummer Boy [Buy]
13. Johnny Cash - The Christmas Spirit [Buy]
14. Tipitina Foundation Musicians (Studio 60) - O Holy Night [Donate]
You can also download the whole mix as a zip file:
Download / Alternative Download Link
-Tim
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your “last christmas” song by wham! is corrupted at the end of the song. you might want to re-upload it.
Comment by patrick — December 14, 2006 @ 7:10 pm
Thanks for the notice, I’ve re-upped it
-Tim
Comment by tim — December 14, 2006 @ 10:29 pm
Sothe david bowie and bing crosby song along with the frank sinatra songs are .gif files, any way that can be fixed?
Comment by dave — December 15, 2006 @ 5:47 pm
sorry about that it’s the bing crosby david bowie and the john denver and the muppets one which are .gif
Comment by dave — December 15, 2006 @ 5:49 pm
dave,
It appers that fileden has deleted/moved them. I haven’t been asked to take them down, so I’ll put them back up on filelodge.
Here they are on YSI for the moment:
John Denver & The Muppets - Twelve Days of Christmas
Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Little Drummer Boy
-Tim
Comment by tim — December 15, 2006 @ 7:41 pm
Seems this is quite a popular download so I’ve added an alternative download link for the whole mix
Comment by tim — December 16, 2006 @ 6:55 pm
[...] Due to the success of the Blue Walrus Christmas Mix (aka Blue Christmas), I’ve decided to start was is hopefully going to a fortnightly occassion of a new series of mixes named delightfully “Snazzy as Fuck” due to a resurgence of that phrase recently. As per the other mix, each song will be available individually as well as the whole mix with (hopefully) album art. My “Best of 2006 Mix” has been compiled too and will be available to download after Christmas. [...]
Pingback by The Blue Walrus - indie music for the masses » Snazzy as Fuck Vol.1 — December 19, 2006 @ 5:56 pm
I am trying to get a copy of the Tipitina Foundation Musicians (Studio 60) - O Holy Night.mp3 file. My computer crashed and I was not able to copy this file. Would you be able to help me?
Comment by R Hernandez — October 31, 2007 @ 5:20 am
I’ve reuploaded the Tiptina Foundation track:
http://www.divshare.com/download/2607995-447
Donate a couple of quid to the Foundation as a thank you:
https://tipitinasfoundation.org/donate/
-Tim
Comment by tim — November 2, 2007 @ 5:19 pm