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One of the most obscure albums I'll recommend within these pages is A Midnight Christmas Mess (1984) and its two follow-ups - Midnight Christmas Mess Again!! (1986) and Midnight Christmas Mess Part III (1987) - released by New York independent label-cum-record store, Midnight Records. Both on their label (active 1985-1989) and in their store (still alive and kicking), Midnight focuses on 60's garage rock, proto-punk, and psychedelia, as well as bands who continue in that tradition. Their Christmas LP series consisted of all-new recordings by largely now-forgotten East Coast bands, and the first volume is really a peach - non-stop nuggets of original Christmas songs that really, truly rock. The pickings are a little slimmer on the second and third editions, but fans of the genre will dig all three platters.

Bear in mind, the production is programmatically lo-fi, but if you love garage rock, you're used to that by now! The Midnight Christmas Mess records are quite out-of-print and have never been reissued on CD (they're not even listed in the Amazondatabase), but Midnight Records claims to have some vinyl copies available for mail order. [top of page]

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