The article doesn't specify what kind of pasta he ate, but I like to think at some point he gave in to his pride and had a Prince spaghetti day.

Trenchcoat Club's "Steve the Sled," off of "Edsel." Sung the tune of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer," it begins, "You've heard of Rosebud….and no one else."

Squirrel Nut Zippers had some good ones. A cover of something called "Santa Claus Is Smoking Reefer" can be found after the obligatory silence on "Sold Out," and their Christmas album needle-drops the original vinyl of a song covered earlier on the record (which one of the band members' dads had played on way back).

If you think of Jost as Michael J. Nelson's younger, preppier, whiter brother, the whole thing works,

No Iron Maiden? Well, that just clinches it: "Iron Maiden's gonna get you…no matter how far."

Two more: Squeeze's "Up the Junction" and "A Moving Story," the latter off their final album, "Domino." Not that anyone really cared at that point, including the band. (See the "Domino" section of the Squeeze "Song by Song" book, where the writers of both songs, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, all but plead the…