Baltimas!!!!!!!!!!!!, various artists (Baltimas)

As you might have construed from the name, this 2015 collection of indie Christmas tracks originated with a group of musicians in Baltimore, MD. Some of them are lo-fi amateur attempts, others are parodies or comedy bits. Jessie & Hughes pay twisted tribute to Sonny & Cher with "I Got (Snow) Shoes, Babe," Allison Clendaniel & Connor Kizer do "Good Kynge We Siestas" and "In the Bleakly Middle of Winter" over, presumably, a few holiday schnapps, Cricket Arrison takes three different shots at "Christmas at the Dam," Curiosity Rover channels Flaming Lips with the electro-pop anthem "Please Ask Santa If There's Christmas On Mars," as does The Dan Lips' version of "Some of White Christmas," and Tim Whatley & the Wenkers repurpose "Heat Miser" into "The Regifter Song." Ben O'Brien does a doomy parody of Melissa Etheridge on "Come To My Driveway," Dina Kelberman covers Mono Puff's "Careless Santa," Frogman performs Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" for some reason, and Meredith Moore takes a crack at "Hard Candy Christmas." Lola Pierson performs "Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy," Jimmy Joe Roche mutates "Jingle Bells" on his "Jingk," and Becca Morrin & Jared Paolini tinsels up the theme from TV classic "Cheers." Then there's Alan Resnik's series of five demented holiday songs sprinkled throughout the playlist, each named "Chick-fa-la-la-la-la" followed by the names of cities, in which he cold-calls a Chick-fil-a restaurant, identifies himself as a 12-year-old boy (unconvincingly), and sings one of his songs over the phone. They're entertaining enough in a Wild Man Fischer on his meds sort of way, but maybe a few too many in total number. The folks behind Baltimas also made compilations in 2014 and 2016, and you can find them all on Bandcamp.