SANTA'S GOT A GTO! rodney bingenheimer's favourite x-mas songs from 1996; featuring nina hagen, redd kross and the ramonas

ah, it's a prunkroirkink christmas noise for your listening pleasure: rodney bingenheimer, the elder god of slinky punkpop, deadicated thishis compilation of christmas carols to his mother, thee belovinged goredmother of  plasticdisco, klezmerock, raw power and radicilous shmaltz. she would have loved it, and so will you. for more information on the bands involved please check the entry on discogs.it was easy, it was cheap; go and do it!

you may either buy this cd via ebay for some 50 dollar or via amazon germany for 200 dollar, you may add it to your wantlist on discogs as many others did, you may download it for free at dionysus records as mp3-files with 160 kbps (but without the booklet or any additional information), or you may download it right here as mp3-files with 320 kbps, including scans of the booklet and some very obscure bonus tracks. it's up to you.

so here we go:

01 - ramonas - santa's got a GTO (listen directly in your browser)

02 - ride - like a snowflake

03 - froSTed - frosty the snowman

04 - wondermints - ski party

05 - home grown - christmas crush

06 - the diaboliks - santa's sack (listen directly in your browser)

07 - pencil test - runaway christmas

08 - nina hagen - mary x-mas

09 - the boss martian - christmas time

10 - redd kross - super sunny christmas

11 - geolyn - deck the halls

12 - methadone cocktail - i don't believe in santa

13 - jigsaw seen - god rest ye merry, gentlemen (listen directly in your browser)

14 - sleepington - i'll be home for christmas

15 - velouria - 'til next hanukkah

16 - wednesday week - christmas here

17 - sugarfree - last christmas

18 - yid kids - santa doesn't come to little jewish children's houses

19 - cranes - the christmas angel

20 - olivia barash - silent night (listen directly in your browser)

21 - the characters with rodney bingenheimer - the characters visit rodney 

plus some bonus tracks:

22 -  sturclub - oh tannenbaum (germany; 2004; session outtake) (listen directly in your browser)

23 - the rolling stones - cosmic christmas (september 1967; their first and last attempt to control a moog synthesizer)

24 - das furlines - oh tannenbaum (1986; found on the midnight christmas mess compilation)

25 - captain sensible - christmas poem (found on the smash hits christmas flexi 1981)

26 - the sonics - don't believe in christmas (1965) (listen directly in your browser)

SANTA'S GOT A GTO! 

(mp3; all scans included; direct download)