December Deadshares

Most of the Christmas songs I blogged about this month were uploaded to divshare, a company that apparently put their domain for sale awhile ago. I'm not sure how long these songs will be available, so grab 'em while they are. Here are the 24 songs (not counting the Anton Barbeau and Pledge Drive songs from their sites) ordered by popularity (number of times downloaded).

1. Regular Einstein - 2000 Years Ago
2. The dB's - Home For the Holidays
3. Fleming & John - Winter Wonderland/Misty Mountain Hop
4. Mr. Pathetic - You're All I Want For Christmas
5. Bradley Skaught - Silver Bells
6. Culturcide - Santa Claus Was My Lover
7. E - Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas
8. Oy Vey City Rollers - Chanukah Nights
9. Beach Boys - Little Saint Nick (alt)
10. Wonderful World of Joey - What Sweet Child Of Mine Is This?
11. Game Theory - Child's Christmas Saving The Whales
12. Hip Replacements - Christmas is a Special Time Of Year
13. John Wesley Harding - Talking Christmas Goodwill Blues
14. The Kinks - Father Christmas
15. Long Ryders - Christmas in New Zealand
16. The Ventures - Sleigh Ride
17. Ilene Weiss - His Initials
18. NRBQ - Christmas Wish
19. Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone
20. Paul Kelly - How To Make Gravy
21. They Might Be Giants - Santa Claus
22. XTC - Always Winter But Never Christmas
23. Yo La Tengo - It's Christmas Time
24. Zed Leppo - Led Bells

More Holiday leftovers:
-Stereogum has a new Christmas song by Belle & Sebastian.
-And another big batch of free mp3s here.
-This song from Blitzen Trapper is also really good.
-Sufjan Stevens has two Christmas songs for download from Asthmatic Kitty.
-Stew's "It's Christmas Again" is available from his site this month.
-Two holiday tunes by Testa Rosa and the New Pornographers posted to the Architectural Dance Society on Christmas Day.
-This year's U.K. Christmas #1 "When You Believe" by Leon Jackson. From the X-Factor TV show (the European version of American Idol, which was a U.S. copy of Pop Idol).
-The U.S. Christmas #1 is "No One" by Alicia Keys. Only slightly better, but ..USA! USA!