Clay used to have a band called Stratocruiser, whose past Christmas glories have been etched in electrons here at Mistletunes. Clay has been solo for a few years now and for 2022 he got back in the Christmas habit with this cool power-pop effort. Not too hard to guess what a song with this title is about, but a solid melody and beat means this needs to be in your playlists.
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Stratocruiser, the North Carolina band that has provided us with Christmas song after Christmas song for the past several years, is back again for 2013 with another power-pop holiday tune. This one, a mid-tempo number liberally embroidered with double lead guitar harmonies, involves a faithless lover trying to get his girlfriend back for the holidays. Another good bit of work from this band; get it on Bandcamp. There's also a playlist that serves as a Christmas album with all the songs including this one.
Even after wrapping up all their previous holiday tunes in an EP last year, Stratocruiser presses on for 2012 with this crunchy rocker. The band calls this a sort-of sequel to "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," in which the guy whose significant other was snuggy with Santa gets a little perturbed and declares "we're through. Not me and her -- me and YOU!" Great rock track, might remind some of Cheap Trick a little bit. And it's free for you and me -- click the cover art. UPDATE: Link had limited functionality, according to the band; here's an updated link.
This North Carolina band has made itself an annual visitor by coming up with a new holiday tune every year, and for 2011 they keep the string going. This year's tune is about a soldier away from family and friends on the holiday and yearning for home. A nice mid-tempo rocker with power pop trappings, you'll want a copy of this, and because it's up on Bandcamp you can get it for free. The band also has a new CD collection of all their past seven holiday tunes, including this one. Click on the cover art to buy it from Amazon or visit the band here to buy a copy.
Yet another free holiday tune from this Midwest power-pop band for 2010 about buying and getting presents. It's a nice midtempo rocker, although I personally think the kid obnoxiously listing what he wants for Christmas could be toned down a bit. You might find this endearing, though, and so you to yours. Stratocruiser has also for 2010 made an EP available that includes all their previous holiday songs, but not this one. We've covered those previously, but if you're a power pop person you won't want to miss them if you have so far. Click on the album cover to check it out.
We've had this band on the site before with such great Christmas material as "Last Christmas Girl," "Mod Guitar Christmas" and "Thank You Christmas," and they're back with yet another new tune. This one has a harder-rocking power pop thing going on, more of a '70s sound like Blue Ash or Cheap Trick. The singer knows he's been bad this year, and the music suggests he's been bad to the bone. A solid rocking Christmas tune, and it's free. UPDATE: Well, not anymore, but you can grab it from Amazon by clicking on the disc art.
We've had their EP and previous holiday single "Last Christmas Girl" on the site before, and for 2008 they rolled out this new song, mid-tempo power pop, that is part of a reformulated version of the EP that adds this song and subtracts the cover of the Cowsills' "Crazy Horses." If you missed out on the previous EP, here's another, better, shot at the same thing. They also offer this song free when you sign up for their mailing list.
Rewritten entry: The guitar maker collaborated with this airplane-named power pop band to put out a four-song EP for 2007, featuring their original "Last Christmas Girl" from 2006, all jangly guitars and harmony vocals straight out of the Sixties, with a 12-string guitar leading the way. You might hear a little Big Star in this, I hear just a taste of Bram Tchaikovsky in the chorus. The title song, with its references to jingle-jangle meshing nicely with the jangling guitar sounds, is a winner, as is "Holidaze," with its "what I need" chorus rejecting all material goods in favor of love; and things wrap up with a cover of the Osmonds' (yes) "Crazy Horses," which isn't a holiday tune near as I can tell, but their performance of it does have a slight sniff of Tenacious D about it. This disc went away, of course, but in 2009 the band reissued it, dropping "Crazy Horses" and adding two more originals, "Thank You Christmas" and "Santa's Got Something For You." Click the disc art to grab all five songs from Amazon.
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Stratocruiser, the North Carolina band that has provided us with Christmas song after Christmas song for the past several years, is back again for 2013 with another power-pop holiday tune. This one, a mid-tempo number liberally embroidered with double lead guitar harmonies, involves a faithless lover trying to get his girlfriend back for the holidays. Another good bit of work from this band; get it on Bandcamp. There's also a playlist that serves as a Christmas album with all the songs including this one. Even after wrapping up all their previous holiday tunes in an EP last year, Stratocruiser presses on for 2012 with this crunchy rocker. The band calls this a sort-of sequel to "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," in which the guy whose significant other was snuggy with Santa gets a little perturbed and declares "we're through. Not me and her -- me and YOU!" Great rock track, might remind some of Cheap Trick a little bit. And it's free for you and me -- click the cover art. UPDATE: Link had limited functionality, according to the band; here's an updated link.
This North Carolina band has made itself an annual visitor by coming up with a new holiday tune every year, and for 2011 they keep the string going. This year's tune is about a soldier away from family and friends on the holiday and yearning for home. A nice mid-tempo rocker with power pop trappings, you'll want a copy of this, and because it's up on Bandcamp you can get it for free. The band also has a new CD collection of all their past seven holiday tunes, including this one. Click on the cover art to buy it from Amazon or visit the band here to buy a copy.
Yet another free holiday tune from this Midwest power-pop band for 2010 about buying and getting presents. It's a nice midtempo rocker, although I personally think the kid obnoxiously listing what he wants for Christmas could be toned down a bit. You might find this endearing, though, and so you to yours. Stratocruiser has also for 2010 made an EP available that includes all their previous holiday songs, but not this one. We've covered those previously, but if you're a power pop person you won't want to miss them if you have so far. Click on the album cover to check it out.We've had this band on the site before with such great Christmas material as "Last Christmas Girl," "Mod Guitar Christmas" and "Thank You Christmas," and they're back with yet another new tune. This one has a harder-rocking power pop thing going on, more of a '70s sound like Blue Ash or Cheap Trick. The singer knows he's been bad this year, and the music suggests he's been bad to the bone. A solid rocking Christmas tune, and it's free. UPDATE: Well, not anymore, but you can grab it from Amazon by clicking on the disc art.
We've had their EP and previous holiday single "Last Christmas Girl" on the site before, and for 2008 they rolled out this new song, mid-tempo power pop, that is part of a reformulated version of the EP that adds this song and subtracts the cover of the Cowsills' "Crazy Horses." If you missed out on the previous EP, here's another, better, shot at the same thing. They also offer this song free when you sign up for their mailing list.
Rewritten entry: The guitar maker collaborated with this airplane-named power pop band to put out a four-song EP for 2007, featuring their original "Last Christmas Girl" from 2006, all jangly guitars and harmony vocals straight out of the Sixties, with a 12-string guitar leading the way. You might hear a little Big Star in this, I hear just a taste of Bram Tchaikovsky in the chorus. The title song, with its references to jingle-jangle meshing nicely with the jangling guitar sounds, is a winner, as is "Holidaze," with its "what I need" chorus rejecting all material goods in favor of love; and things wrap up with a cover of the Osmonds' (yes) "Crazy Horses," which isn't a holiday tune near as I can tell, but their performance of it does have a slight sniff of Tenacious D about it. This disc went away, of course, but in 2009 the band reissued it, dropping "Crazy Horses" and adding two more originals, "Thank You Christmas" and "Santa's Got Something For You." Click the disc art to grab all five songs from Amazon.
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