Silent Nightclub, Richard Cheese (Surfdog)

Richard is the Weird Al of lounge lizards, making his bones doing cocktail jazz arrangements of your favorite 80s New Wave tunes. For 2006 he turns his talents to making a Christmas album, and the results are just as tasteful as you might imagine. Speaking of "Imagine," his swanky rendition of the John Lennon tune may frighten or appall Beatles fans. Note that some of these tunes aren't actually Christmas songs, but I suspect the choices were made satirically -- "Holiday in Cambodia," "Like a Virgin," "Ice Ice Baby," "I Melt With You," "Personal Jesus" and "The Trees" come to mind, though I can't explain why he picked Beyonce's "Naughty Girl." But he does squeeze in some more appropriate titles like a merengue version of "Christmas Time Is Here," plus "Silent Night," "Jingle Bells," "Do They Know It's Christmastime," and his own original "Christmas In Las Vegas." Beware of the version of Wham's "Last Xmas" though, as it's only 20 seconds long and ends in an insult.