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This redesign of our much-loved Christmas rock music site is a work in progress -- much of the original content remains at the old site, so if you can't find what you like here, go over there and sniff around. Read more about the changes in the extended entry. 

I've heard a Christmas song called "Christmas in the Workhouse" where a line in the middle of the song is "someone shouted balls!" I've found various poems online, but no actual songs. Do you know of any audio recordings for this song?

Some of you folks are fans of Internet radio, so I'm passing on this bit of news from AccuRadio, which has announced a veritable feast of Christmas-themed channels, including rock, r'nb, Latin and many others. The press release notes holiday-themed Internet radio channels currently available on the AccuHolidays.com website cover genres like rock, pop, country, jazz, classical, r'nb, and Latin, focus on various themes (such as "Old-Fashioned Christmas"), and even play nothing but many different renditions of a single song, like a "Chestnuts Roasting" channel which features hundreds of versions of the classic tune "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)." By early December, the website will offer a total of over 40 different channels, according to site officials.

Now that the training wheels are off the all-new, all-singing, all-dancing Mistletunes, it occurs to me that the ability to attach comments to every single piece of business on the site might be a little intimidating to visitors. So I'm going to steal a blog tradition and post this open thread. Click on the link under the headline where it gives the number of comments and put up a few words relating to Christmas rock 'n roll, ideas for this site, or something else pertinent. Really good ideas might just turn into site posts or even site features. Have at it, and be excellent to each other, as Bill 'n Ted might say. UPDATE: I've had a couple of messages from folks who tell me attempts to register via TypePad/TypeKey are failing. I've only done limited testing but I've yet to duplicate any problem. But I went rooting around in site preferences and discovered I could enable logins from OpenID, LiveJournal and Vox in addition to Movable Type and TypePad. I've heard it's possible to set this blog up to enable Facebook logins as well, but I'll have to do some research on that point. Anyway, here's a little something to inspire comment, our pal Lord Weatherby's "Santa Claus Is Freaking Me Out": 

Suggestions are always welcome for music to review at Mistletunes. I'm in the process of acquiring goodies for this year's run-up to the holidays, but I thought I'd take a moment to note that I won't be bothering with this year's A Very Special Christmas 7, as it is built mainly around tween-age performers and former American Idol contestants. (You'll note I wasn't too proud to put up an Amazon affiliate link, of course.) Anyway, you can click on over and check out the samples if you're so inclined. Hopefully there will be a future VSC disc that will feature more rock-oriented performers once more, and we'll be watching for it here.