What if Tom Waits released a Christmas album?

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/21/what-if-tom-waits-released-a-christmas-album.html

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I’d buy it.

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The closest he’s gotten to a Christmas song.

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the idea is more amusing than the video

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Tangentially this one too…

I love the idea of this recording hitting the airways of some distant planet millions of years from now…

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“Poncho’s Lament” sounds like a Christmas song to me for some reason

The Pretenders’ overtly Chistmas-y “2000 Miles” has a similar mood and my brain groups them together

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I’d always play Chocolate Jesus each Easter when I was still doing radio.

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If Tom Waits released a Christmas album, I would hope he’d cover this…

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My thoughts also. I don’t think Waits can be imitated.

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FROSTY THE HAUNTED SNOWMAN! - By far the best Christmas song ever!!

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Came here to say this. The Neko Case cover is great too.

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Thanks for your service!

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I’ll be honest, from the first time I heard them I thought Ruby’s Arms and On The Nickel were just tragic Christmas songs.

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Chocolate Jesus is our family’s required going on holiday song in the car

PS: this BB posting needs a “Warning: contains LDB” for those playing along

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It couldnt be worse than Bob Dylans christmas record.

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Yes, absolutely, Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis! Also, Jesus Gonna Be Here.

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the 1978 ACL recording is my favorite version out of the 75 or so that I’ve heard. I what I wouldn’t give to have a copy with the laughing crowd removed.

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Personally I gotta say this is a pretty cheap shot - transpose any singer/musician and their ‘publicly perceived’ addiction and “Boom” comedy gold. /s

Then there’s this for a Christmas song:

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Hmm. That’s number two in greatest Christmas song of all time. Problematic (though of its time) language aside. See you that and raise you this

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Yeah problematic lyrics. Won’t raise but I’ll hold on a weird Australian/Irish Christmas anthem about making festive gravy from a convicts point of view… contemporary convict that is. Paul Kelly: