Seasons greetings and happy holidays, one and all. We hope you have a very enjoyable and properly festive time, even with the current uncertainties, over the coming days. As usual we're posting our Christmas greeting with a favourite Christmas video. For a long time it was that one by Bing Crosby and David Bowie, a meeting of the generations even more unlikely than Ed and Sir Elton. More recently, we've opted for other well-loved classics, and this year it's one of those big ones from the '80s. It also happens to have a pretty bonkers video...So enjoy The Pretenders' 2000 Miles, from 1983, with Chrissie Hynde as a Salvation Army officer surrounded by stuffed animals in a fake snowstorm, with bandmates who appear to have randomly picked stuff from the wardrobe department, and slowly becoming waxworks. Or something.I mean, there is no way of knowing what is going on, really...Peace On Earth!

We usually celebrate the season with the greatest Christmas duet of all. But this year, it can really only be one song. And this is still the best version. So take it away Judy...Peace on Earth, and stay safe!

Yes it's Christmas, so as our own festive tradition demands, here's David and Bing...We wish you all the very best at this most wonderful time of the year.Peace on Earth!

It's Christmas Eve, and you really can't put it off any longer. You've got to do the wrapping. So what better way to get you started, is a good bit of Christmas rapping. Actually The Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping is our Christmas oldie of the year, on the basis it can't be Fairytale of New York every year (can it?). But it doesn't appear to have a proper video. So instead, here's Queens, NYC's finest Run DMC with Christmas In Hollis, from circa 1987.Happy holidays, peace and goodwill and a very Merry Christmas!

Hammer & Tongs's long-awaited DVD collection of their legendary music videos features all the classics for Blur, Fatboy Slim, Supergrass, Pulp, Beck, REM, Badly Drawn Boy, Vampire Weekend and many more. There are H&T's short films, and delightful 'home movie' footage of the Tongs' Garth Jennings, Nick Goldsmith and (when he was part of the team) Dom Leung making the vids, and their movies Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy and Son Of Rambow. There are also various audio commentaries with the vids, from the musicians featured in the collection, including Jarvis Cocker, Graham Coxon, Norman Cook, Damon Gough and Ezra Koenig. But as Garth revealed, writing a great article in the Guardian on Monday (Kanye Killed My Video), there were so many more brilliant Tongs ideas that never got made - for the likes of U2, Pulp, White Stripes, and Kanye. Even the ones that got away are an inspiration - and now we know it wasn't just the ads and the movies that kept the Tongs from making vids in the Noughties. But the vids they did make can be cherished in the Hammer & Tongs Collection, which would make a rather fine Christmas gift for any remotely creative young person who needs to know how good the pop vids really were back in the olden days. If any more convincing is needed, check out the DVD trailer - which is actually the film put together for the UK Music Video Awards when Garth and Nick were presented with the Icon Award in October. Over to you, Ken...