In which your friends at Progressive Boink count down all their favorite Christmas songs, from "Happy Birthday" to "Night Moves." Join the fun!
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The Progressive Boink Holiday Mixtape!
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about 10 years ago | December 25, 2025 9:00 am
Progressive Boink Holiday Mixtape: John Denver and the Muppets
In the year of our Lord 1979, a Christmas special begat a very special album. Today, we celebrate that album.
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about 10 years ago | December 20, 2025 12:38 pm
Holiday Mixtape: Rudolph, the Temptations, and the California Raisins
Rudolph, the Temptations, and the California Raisins.
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about 10 years ago | December 19, 2025 12:34 pm
Holiday Mixtape: Lennon/McCartney.
There's a quote about the Beatles that has stuck with me for years, ever since I first read it: "The world is split into two kinds of people: those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon,...
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about 10 years ago | December 18, 2025 2:30 pm
Progressive Boink Holiday Mixtape: 'Carol of the Bells.'
Carol of the Bells is a fairly solid song. It could be better.
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about 10 years ago | December 17, 2025 1:55 pm
Holiday Mixtape: Oh, there you are, Kermit
Kermit the Frog hopes you're OK amid a horrible Christmas.
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about 10 years ago | December 13, 2025 10:01 am
Progressive Boink Holiday Mixtape: 'The Christmas Shoes.'
The year of our lord 2012 has given us so much (Vanity Fair's oral history of "Freaks and Geeks"; that old Spanish lady retouching the Jesus fresco; LMFAO breaking up; uhhhhh), but few of the...
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about 10 years ago | December 12, 2025 3:12 pm
Progressive Boink Holiday Mixtape: The Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is bad and you should feel good.
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about 10 years ago | December 11, 2025 2:26 pm
Progressive Boink Holiday Mixtape: Dean Martin's 'Marshmallow World.'
A slurring tribute to confectionery winter vistas with a questionable understanding of how color works.
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about 10 years ago | December 10, 2025 7:37 pm
Progressive Boink Holiday Mixtape: What Christmas Means To Me.
Probably not whatever version you're thinking of. But this is the best one.
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about 10 years ago | December 7, 2025 1:05 pm
Holiday Mixtape: 'Fairytale of New York.'
The thing about modern Christmas songs is that they're pretty damn treacly. The classics zero in on Jesus and sublime awe and all that shit. Listening to most newer Christmas songs, on the other...
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about 10 years ago | December 6, 2025 3:18 pm
Johnny Cash Points Out Which One Of These People Is A Man.
I'm a big fan of that hyper-religious moment in A Charlie Brown Christmas when Linus cuts through the bullshit, calls for lights and knocks the Peanuts on their shoegazing asses with a d...
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about 10 years ago | December 5, 2025 3:59 pm
Progressive Boink Holiday Mixtape: Mannheim Steamroller's 'Good King Wenceslas.'
When I was 18, my friend's dad was looking for a window A/C unit for a trailer he had out in the country, so I went looking through my family's garage for an old unit we weren't using anymore. It...
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about 10 years ago | December 4, 2025 1:25 pm
Progressive Boink Holiday Mixtape: All I Want For Christmas Is You.
Welcome back to our Holiday Mixtape. Here's a bunny.
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about 10 years ago | December 3, 2025 12:02 pm
The Progressive Boink Holiday Mixtape!
If there is one thing I've come to truly love about my fellow Progressive Boink writers in our 10+ years as collaborators and friends, it's how gleefully uncool we all are. Bill unabashedly loves...
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