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Better Watch Out
@shamatha.bsky.social
Xmas music weirdo
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LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
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What do Christmas Aguilera, Nightwish, GURT, The Maccabees, Darling West, The Eastern Sea, Randolph's Leap and Alvarez Kings have in common? This cover song christmasagogo.blogspot.com/2025/11/them...
THEME TIME: Walking in the air covers
Walking in the air is a recurrent on this blog, the song from the 1982 animated film 'The Snowman' popped up several times, even recently in...
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November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Since @christmasagogo.bsky.social started it, and @xmasunderground.bsky.social piled on, here’s my own guilty Walking in the Air pleasure (hold out for the later chorus):
Divided By Friday-Walking in the Air
YouTube video by keob96
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November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Sometimes digital-only releases disappear forever. Not so with Noonday Underground's Christmas record. Released just before Christmas last year, they took it down, but now it's back with a better mix.

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#alt.xmas
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · Christmas in July Before T'giving! · photo: July 1, 2025 Twenty-five years ago, I was groovin' to Noonday Underground. This past holiday season, they dropped an album full of ori…
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November 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The guys selling AI have never felt the joy of work you love.
November 20, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I was afraid I was going to Scrooge out this year, until CAGG shared this fantastic track by UK artist Guiville with Tracey Phillips on vocal. The lyrics ground it in reality, but the music absolutely soars. (Scroll through their Soundcloud for a music-box version that is just as good.)
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The walls are crumbling.

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November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Don‘t let the Senate Sellout distract you from the AI bubble! Here’s a soundtrack of 90s alt.Xmas music to remind you of your promise to yourself never to let that happen to you again!
(A history of alt.Xmas in reverse chronological order, part 2)
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Dot-Com Bubble Snowglobe · After a couple of decades of lackluster Christmas music action, record labels started promoting Christmas records again in the 1990s. It's easy to blame…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:06 PM
At some point, anti-fascism demands consensus. I support Mamdani’s policies and I also recognize that Trump’s success hinges on dividing me from anti-fascists with more moderate views. Let‘s slay the demon TOGETHER so we can debate the nuances of Democracy.
Rick Wilson on MSNBC: Democrats can win everywhere—rural, suburban, and urban—if they stop chasing purity tests and start focusing on affordability and economic reality.
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Well shone, Moon. Truly, the moon shines with a good grace.
November 6, 2025 at 4:14 AM
After last night's hopeful news, it was time to dig back through some overlooked compilations from the current Era of Alt.Xmas.

Here's one that's matching my mood today.
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 2 · A Very Little Christmas · Listen to A Very Little Christmas by little monster studio #np on #SoundCloud I've owned this compilation for 15 years—thanks to Stubby, apparently—and w…
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November 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Apparently there really were 7 million of us at No Kings.
November 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Apparently, it was the populism, not the fascism.
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm
November 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I posted this a year ago, but then the election happened, and I couldn't bear to be on the internet for a long time, so never followed up. Let's try this again.
A history of alt.Xmas, in reverse chronological order.
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · 21st Century Xmas · Since the turn of the century there's been an explosion of secular, Splenda-free Christmas music. Most of it is terrible, but luckily there are plenty of except…
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November 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Nicholas Burgess makes great music. He has a song just for this very day! Go get it.
The Day After Halloween, by Nicholas Burgess
2 track album
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November 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Driving to the market rn.
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
YouTube video by BowWowWowVEVO
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October 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Do bots have starter packs? I’ve gained 300 unknown followers since No Kings and I love you all already. No doubt as I start posting weird Christmas songs that’ll cull the herd a bit. You're welcome!

Better Watch Out indeed:

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Better Watch Out Indeed · In 2009, the Sky Drops explained why no one can say for sure when the holidays really begin. Low's 2008 follow-up to their essential Christmas album hi…
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October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It's difficult to watch the emergence of the American Gestapo from our historically unique privilege, but if we can watch horror movies, we can do our part to penetrate the MSM blackout on this real-world horror show.
Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters
A judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago region.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is terrorism, and this administration is doing it. How is it we watch scary/thriller/violent movies all the time but can’t allow a national conversation about this very real thing happening right now.
I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Truth. My version: the natural human condition is an impulse to identify and destroy all potential threats, an impulse so hard-wired that when threats are gone, we invent them. (A few of us may want to evolve, which is also often perceived as a threat.)
sorry to say, but you were in fact born to be stressed out. being stressed out is the natural human condition. we're probably better at being stressed out about shit than any other creature that has ever lived, which is why we are the dominant alpha predators living in a time of massive prosperity
October 24, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I demand DOJ give me $250M for the stress of recent indictments. (More than Diarrhea Donald wants because my tax liability is prolly higher.)
October 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM