So in our bandwidth post, Tom asked about an actress in the original Last Christmas video, and during our search, we found out the Bliss version of the video we featured was shot in the same location! So it’s quite nearly as close to an exact replica as we’ve seen, right down to the hairdos. Here’s a link to the story.

The answer to the original question lay in the painfully obvious source, Wikipedia, with an equally obvious answer: The video also featured the duo’s erstwhile backing singers Pepsi and Shirlie and Spandau Ballet bassist Martin Kemp, the boyfriend and future husband of Shirlie Holliman.

And for another great “Last Christmas” video, Jason sent us his own stop motion video, including his own audio! Lots of hardwork, blood, sweat, tears, eggnog and obviously love, went into this die hard production. Kudos Jason! Click the image below to check it out!

So that’s that. And for this post, we’re offering versions featuring the number 4. Neat huh? Starting with 4-Ever, a version we’re ashamed to know nothing about. It’s from somewhere, we know that much. Our westernized ears can’t place the language this is sung in, but we can tell you musically, it’s pretty close to GM’s original vision.

4-Ever – Last Christmas


We know slightly more about about VD4 fortunately. He’s a German comedian known for his terrible singing and mash-ups, and mostly notably his Chocolate Rain UMBREmix. The best part is that you can download all his music free on last.fm, especially his White Rum on Christmas EP that features Last Christmas, and among other hits, Silent Night, performed with David Hasselhoff (maybe not really)!

VD4 – Last Christmas


7th Heaven obviously doesn’t have 4 in the name, but the album this comes from is the Eurobeat 4 Christmas compilation, which contains the more dancey version of this song we posted previously. This is the “unplugged” version.

7th Heaven – Last Christmas (unplugged)

We’re back! And thank you for your suggestions on file hosting; we’re checking them all out as we hit crunch time. So we need to hit ‘em hard today and get you guys some quality covers to make up for lost time.

Today’s first cover comes via Last Christmas friend and Philly neighbor Philebrity who featured us last year. This year, they get in the action and present the world with Faux Slang, which they describe as having enough “early Teenage Fanclub sludge to mask the true pain that lies at the core of this sad, sad tune.”

Faux Slang – Last Christmas


Team Whatever give us what I believe is our first kazoo cover! Most precisely, the vocals are done via kazoo, which is rather charming actually. Frankly I’m surprised it took 3 years to come across a kazoo version.

Team Whatever – Last Christmas


You really have to appreciate a band with confidence. Firstly, Starfire’s myspace address is “starefireowns.” Secondly, their bio states, “Starfire is the collaboration of 2 of the most amazing pop minds of all time.” They only have this cover up on page though, so we cannot completely verify the accuracy of this statement. We can however declare that this is a good slow dance/pop version that would comfortably on your 2K8 holiday mix.

Starfire – Last Christmas

Dang dudes. Well, while you all have been certainly more silent with your comments this year, you’re not going easy on our download services. Can anyone recommend a good file hosting service that, preferably, allows direct linking to files? We currently have a premium fileden account, but it’s been maxed out already! Ideally, we would like to keep it free, unless someone would like to gift us another account. Our current web hosting service will not allow us to host the files either, unfortunately.

Until we sort it out, most of this year’s past posts are locked up, and we’ll create a free account for further postings. We don’t expect that to hold us for very long though, so please send in suggestions!

New posts coming up…

Did you miss us? Before we resume posting, one little bit of rather important info was delivered to our inbox this morning, from one “Angel”:

The current German Top 20… and again Wham! entered them (mid of Dec. 08). Last year they reached the Top 5 and this year? Top 3?? Or… Number 1??? We will see, I’ll keep you updated… but here the current Top 20:

01. Katy Perry – Hot ‘N Cold
02. Polarkreis 18 – Allein Allein
03. P!nk – So What
04. The Killers – Human
05. Bushido feat. Karel Gott – Fuer Immer Jung
06. Schaefer Heinrich – Das Schaeferlied
07. Britney Spears – Womanizer
08. Amy MacDonald – This Is The Life
09. Beyonce – If I Were A Boy
10. Curse mit Silbermond – Bis Zum Schluss
11. Herbert Groenemeyer – Glueck
12. Reamon – Through The Eyes Of A Child
13. T.I. feat. Rihanna – Live Your Life
14. Rosenstolz – Gib Mir Sonne
15. Madonna – Miles Away
16. Rihanna – Disturbia
17. DJ Oetzi – Noch In 100.000 Jahren
18. Peter Fox – Haus Am See
19. Pussycat Dolls – I Hate This Part
20. Wham! – Last Christmas

First we have a great mash-up (tis the season apparently) that does the magic with Madonna’s “Into the Groove” with the Whamsters, and it works surprisingly well. This comes from Giac who shares a number of Madonna mish-moshes at his/her divshare page.

Madonna vs. Wham! – Into Last Christmas Groove


Secondly, a revisit from year one, as it seems that Max Raabe and merry band also recorded “Last Christmas” in English!

Das Palast Orchester & Max Raabe – Last Christmas (English)


We also received this next one today, coupled with the Top 20 list. Info is super scarce, though a handful of Google pages will come up if you search for it. It’s a dancey mash up also, we think.

Goov With Groove vs. Wham! – Last Christmas 06