The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society - A Very Scary Solstice (2003)

An album consisting entirely of Lovecraftian parodies of classic Christmas carols. Do I honestly need to say anything else I mean the album already sounds perfect doesn't it?

You know you want it, and merry Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa/whatever!

R. Stevie Moore - Clack! (1980)

Stevie is singular -- the concrete universal embodied. Stevie is the patron saint of radical alterity -- and in this way he is far from alien. Stevie is the proper exegesis of pop -- and he knows it and we know it. Stevie has reached the position of absolute knowledge -- and is it now the time, maybe, for our interesting results? Here is the lesson: Stevie serves /his/ intentions rather than those of cultural capital and the endless circulation of genre. You can't transcend the dialectic, cuz whenever you think you have you're deeper in it than you ever thought -- so get inside it enough to get outside; let's see you try. 

Behold Stevie, the pauper of pop.

Maude Maggart - Maude Maggart Sings Irving Berlin (2005)

Maude Maggart - Maude Maggart Sings Irving Berlin (2005)

Fionna Apple's sister preforming a fantastic selection of songs from the oeuvre of Irving Berlin. Maggart's selection from the songbook of Berlin has some fantastic variety, covering the wide repertoire from Berlin's surviving work,from the jaunty and upbeat "Pack Up Your Sins & Go To the Devil" to the lovelorn reminisces of "What'll I Do", offering a fantastic introduction for those new to Berlin's work.

Yeah

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (2007)

James Murphy's second album with LCD Soundsystem, after starting the group in his 30s, disillusioned with the current music scene, feeling old and out of touch - and then going on to make some of the best dance and pop music of the 00s that's as witty and fun as it is danceable and upbeat, being able to go from heartfelt ballads to caustic critiques of society, never missing a beat.