A Christmas Classick From Uncle Al

With love and best wishes on 25th December, wherever you are and whether it's a day to celebrate, share, avoid or somewhere in between.

 

If you're finding all of the sentiment, sugar and schmaltz a bit much - and that's just King Charles at 3.00pm - then here's Uncle Al (Jourgensen) with an alternative Christmas message, because his wife asked him to.

And if you fancy a change from Louis Armstrong or most of the 900+ cover versions of Wonderful World by the likes of Joe Pesci, Joe Longthorne, Jo Marie Payton, Joseph Vincent, Joey Ramone and other artists not called Joe, then here's Uncle Al again, this time with Ministry.

Taken from the tail end of Ministry's 2009 DVD Adios Puta Madres, documenting their final tour, you get a slow and a fast version, with Al flippin' tha bird at the end, no doubt thinking of the turkey that he had to get home to baste the following morning. I don't think you'll need Google translation to have a good guess at what the DVD title means.

 

If that's all too much for you, then how about Satchmo put through a dub rinse by The Orb in 2008? 

 

No? Then how about this one, remembering an artist who would have celebrated their 66th birthday today and, let's face it, should also have been Christmas #1. 

Feliz Navidad!