Christmastime

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"Christmastime"
Cover of A Very Special Christmas 3
Song by The Smashing Pumpkins
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ReleasedOctober 7, 1997
Studio sessions
Length3:27
Songwriter(s)Billy Corgan
  1. Rhinoceros
  2. Blue
  3. Slunk
  4. Bye June
  5. Siva
  6. Girl Named Sandoz
  7. Smiley
  8. I Am One
  9. Plume
  10. Starla
  11. Bullet Train to Osaka
  12. Terrapin
  13. Disarm
  14. Soothe
  15. Blew Away
  16. Siamese Dream
  17. Landslide
  18. Dancing in the Moonlight
  19. Today
  20. Hello Kitty Kat
  21. Obscured
  22. Cherub Rock
  23. Pissant
  24. French Movie Theme
  25. Purr Snickety
  26. Not Worth Asking
  27. Honeyspider II
  28. Infinite Sadness
  29. 1979
  30. 1979
  31. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
  32. ...Said Sadly
  33. You're All I've Got Tonight
  34. Clones (We're All)
  35. A Night Like This
  36. Destination Unknown
  37. Dreaming
  38. 1979
  39. Ugly
  40. The Boy
  41. Cherry
  42. Set the Ray to Jerry
  43. Zero
  44. God
  45. Mouths of Babes
  46. Tribute to Johnny
  47. Marquis in Spades
  48. Pennies
  49. Pastichio Medley
  50. Tonight, Tonight
  51. Meladori Magpie
  52. Rotten Apples
  53. Medellia of the Gray Skies
  54. Jupiter's Lament
  55. Blank
  56. Tonite Reprise
  57. Thirty-Three
  58. The Last Song
  59. The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)
  60. Transformer
  61. The Bells
  62. My Blue Heaven
  63. Speed Kills
  64. Hope
  65. Blissed and Gone
  66. Apathy's Last Kiss
  67. Mayonaise
  68. Eye
  69. Lucky 13
  70. The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)
  71. Because You Are
  72. Slow Dawn
  73. Believe
  74. My Mistake
  75. Here's to the Atom Bomb
  76. Sparrow
  77. Waiting
  78. Saturnine
  79. Rock On
  80. Winterlong
  81. Soot and Stars
  82. Ava Adore
  83. Czarina
  84. Once in a While
  85. Perfect
  86. Summer
  87. Perfect
  88. Perfect
  89. Perfect
  90. Perfect
  91. Perfect
  92. Daphne Descends
  93. Christmastime
  94. Drown
  95. Glynis
  96. Sad Peter Pan
  97. The End Is the Beginning Is the End
  98. The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning
  99. The Ethers Tragic
  100. The Guns of Love Disastrous

"Christmastime" is a holiday song by The Smashing Pumpkins. It was released on the A Very Special Christmas 3 compilation album in October 1997. The album was sold to benefit the Special Olympics, and included other alternative rock artists like Chris Cornell and Blues Traveler. It was also included on the Rarities and B-Sides compilation.

Essentially a solo Billy Corgan performance to R&B producer Arif Mardin's production, "Christmastime" was recorded in December 1996 at The Hit Factory in New York City while Corgan was producing Ric Ocasek's solo record, Troublizing.[1] An acoustic Sadlands demo version from 1996 is the first known recording and was included on the 2014 reissue of Adore.

Spin magazine said the song would "make you fall in love with [The Smashing Pumpkins] all over again," praising Corgan's "heartbreakingly alive" vocals that "carefully unspooled a ribbon of melody through minor-key harmonics given Mozart-like momentum" by Arif Mardin's production.[2]

In 2022, the song was featured in The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.

Lyrics[edit | edit source]

we watch the children playing
beside the christmas tree
presents are wrapped up
it's beautiful, and secretly a gift still hides
the fun awaits for you inside

christmastime has come
there'll be toys for everyone
'cause christmastime has come for you

i remember dreaming
wishing, hoping, praying for this day
now i sit and watch them
the little ones i love so excited by the wait

christmastime has come
there'll be toys for everyone
'cause christmastime has come for you

and now the word is given
it's time to peek inside
it's time to let the toys out
so anxious for your look of joy and delight
they've waited for just your surprise

christmastime has come
there'll be toys for everyone
'cause christmastime has come for you

christmastime has come
there'll be toys for everyone
'cause christmastime has come for you

for you

Availability

TitleNotesType
A Very Special Christmas 3Compilation
Adore2014 Reissue CD 3: In a State of PassageStudio
Rarities and B-SidesCompilation

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References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Pumpkins Star's Xmas Cracker", Kerrang!, August 6, 1997
  2. ↑ LLC, SPIN Media (1998-05-01). SPIN. SPIN Media LLC.

External links[edit | edit source]

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