Here’s this year’s Christmas CD!

Erasure – She Won’t Be Home
Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Paul Young – What Christmas Means to Me
The Flirtations – Christmas Time Is Here Again
Brenda Lee – Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
The Shins – Wonderful Christmastime
R.E.M. – Merry Xmas Everybody
Blues Traveler – Christmas
Guster – Tiny Tree Christmas
The Head and The Heart – Winter Song
The Mynabirds – All I Want is Truth (for Christmas)
Neil Diamond – You Make It Feel Like Christmas
The Kinks – Father Christmas

And bonus hidden track: Wham vs Psy – Last Christmas (Gangnam Style)

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