The leaves are falling, the air is stiffening and our ears are about to be barraged with holiday music by every available public sound system in the northern hemisphere. We here at Last Christmas HQ want to remind you that we are no different, except for the fact that we will barrage with the SAME song the entire month of December, much to your delight, I’m sure.

Over the years we have gotten a small but fiercely dedicated following. Or rather, Wham’s 1984 hit “Last Christmas” has gotten the following, we just give you a place to get your fanaticism out without hurting your friends and loved ones.

Every year as we get closer to “re-opening,” we get a few moments of dread, “Can we really listen to hundreds of versions of this song again?” And let us assure you dear readers, just when we think we’ve hit the limit, we hear another amazing cover that reminds us why we’re sharing these with you. You’ll hear soon enough.

“Last Christmas” seems to get bigger and bigger each year, with more and more covers being released as either singles or free holiday offerings for fans, presumably as children of the ’80s grow up and want to contribute to the holiday tune market.

Before we get into this year’s crop-o-tunes, a few bits of house cleaning. While this whole mess might seem like a piece of cake, we do make mistakes from time to time. We’re sorry. It’s bound to happen. So in 2007, we hastily offered 3 unknown versions, which upon further listening, need to be addressed. Two have shown to be from Jo Sung Mo and Billie Piper, which we offered the year before. And the other we offered last year by As One. And on top of that, there seems to be a strange timing miscount. Boy oh boy. So it pains to do this, but our count is coming down 3 and the time obviously as well.

If you’ve written us in the past few weeks, hang in there, we’re just getting back into the swing of things and we’ll respond shortly, and a hearty thanks to all the new submissions! If you’d like to be featured here or in our returning podcast, send us your entries! If you’ve noticed any other errors or have any suggestions, please also feel free to contact us.

And as always, the individual song links from years past are gone, you can only find the songs in the massive soul busting sets from each year. Which by the way, have all been redone and polished up and hopefully are error-free. Thanks again for stopping by and check back December 1st. Until then, enjoy this mind-numbing video mash of everyday folks making holiday magic come true…