A Damaged Goods Christmas Compilation featuring some of the best Christmas tracks we’ve released over the last 20 odd years.
This originally was released as a digital only compilation in 2009. We eventually put it out on vinyl (with a slightly revised tracklisting) in 2021.
Holly Golightly has two tracks on here, her classic ‘Christmas Tree On Fire and one from 2002 with The Green Hornes (some of who went on to be in the Raconteurs) called ‘Little Stars.
Billy Childish has three tracks with three different bands, The MBEs’ excellent ‘Christmas 1979′, The Buff Medways’ ‘Merry Christmas Fritz’ and a really early DG release by Thee Headcoatees, ‘Santa Claus’ (originally Damgood12, a 7” Picture Disc).
Also featured are Goldblade and Poly Styrene’s ‘City Of Christmas Ghosts’ as well as 2005’s TV Smith single ‘Xmas Bloody Xmas’ plus 2001’s Helen Love Xmas 7” ‘Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight)’.
There are also exclusive tracks from Severe, The Cute Lepers and The Singing Loins, plus a couple of obscure tracks from the 1994 and 1996 christmas singles, Wat Tyler doing ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’ and Monkhouse (a great lost band from Belfast) doing ‘Guinness And Wine’.
DG’s latest signing the Courettes make the vinyl cut with ‘Christmas (I Can Hardly Wait)’.
Here’s the full vinyl tracklisting…
1 – Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians of the British Empire – Christmas 1979 2 – The Courettes – Christmas (I Can Hardly Wait) 3 – Holly Golightly – Christmas Tree On Fire 4 – Helen Love – Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight) 5 – Cuckooland – Silver Bells 6 – Wat Tyler – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 7 – Thee Headcoatees – Santa Claus 8 – Severe – Stop the Cavalry 9 – Goldblade feat. Poly Styrene – City of Christmas Ghosts 10 – Holly Golightly and The Greenhornes – Little Stars 11 – Cute Lepers – The Cute Lepers Christmas Song 12 – TV Smith – Xmas Bloody Xmas 13 – The Singing Loins – Ding Dong Merrily On High 14 – Monkhouse – Guinnes and Wine 15 – The Buff Medways – Merry Christmas Fritz