Please welcome the “Pope of Trash” to your holiday celebrations. Not to be confused with that Saint of the Silver Screen (Steve Buscemi), we bring you A John Waters Christmas.

In a career that now spans 40 years, John Waters has moved from the margins of culture to the mainstream, applying his iconoclastic perspective and aesthetic to filmmaking, writing, acting, photography and now a Christmas album. Originally released in November 2004, A John Waters Christmas is an alarming yet heartfelt compilation of outlandish Christmas songs selected by Waters himself.

Waters’ films were among the first distributed by New Line Cinema. Films such as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living (Waters’ “trash trilogy”) delved into taboo and pushed the boundaries of acceptable subjects. More recently, we have Waters to thank for cult classics Hairspray, Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, and Pecker.

Like his movies, John Waters Christmas is a collection of oddball characters. No holiday festivities are complete without such classics as “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and The Chipmunks singing “Sleigh Ride.” And let’s not forget the ever-popular “Santa Claus Is A Black Man.”

A JOHN WATERS CHRISTMAS Track listing:
1. Fat Daddy - “Fat Daddy (Is Santa Claus)”
2. Tiny Tim - “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer”
3. Stormy Weather - “Christmas Time Is Coming (A Street Carol)”
4. Little Cindy - “Happy Birthday Jesus (A Child’s Prayer)”
5. Rudolph and Gang - “Here Comes Fatty Claus”
6. Roger Christian - “Little Mary Christmas”
7. Big Dee Irwin and Little Eva - “I Wish You A Merry Christmas”
8. Jimmy Donley - “Santa! Don’t Pass Me By”
9. Alvin and The Chipmunks - “Sleigh Ride”
10. Rita Faye Wilson - “Sleigh Bells, Reindeer and Snow”
11. The Coctails - “First Snowfall”
12. AKIM & the Teddy Vann Production Company - “Santa Claus Is A Black Man”

“Putting his twisted talents to use culling recordings which most of us have never heard, forgotten we'd heard, or wish we'd forgotten. This collection of oddities from Tiny Tim, the Chipmunks, Fat Daddy, Rudolph and Gang and many no-hit wonders is an ideal cynical, wickedly funny antidote to holiday sweets.” – Los Angeles Times

Have a merry, rotten, scary, sexy, biracial, ludicrous, happy little Christmas. - John Waters