the story of the PUNCHLINE holiday classic "ICICLES" from A Santa Cause: It's A Punk Rock Christmas (2003 Immortal Records Comp.)
A Santa Cause: It's A Punk Rock Christmas sits atop the annual shortlist of "classic" holiday albums I listen to every year right around this time of year; a CD copy still sits on my shelf amidst BADD SANTA: A Stones Throw Records Xmas , Bad Religion 's Christmas Songs , two volumes-worth of Motown Christmas favorites, and a few additional shiny, slightly scratched up CD's. A Santa Cause has been in my collection since at least 2005, if not earlier (and I'm already on my second copy!) although, I'm not really sure how exactly I discovered it, but it's always held a special place in my "cold" heart. A Santa Cause boasts submissions from the likes of Something Corporate , The Matches, blink-182 , Fall Out Boy, MxPx , Sonny "Skrillex" Moore's own From First to Last, New Found Glory , The Mighty Mighty BossToneS, Saosin , and a hidden/bonus track from Nerf Herder. One of my personal favorite tracks on the second half of the CD ...