The compilation, called An Alternative Christmas, is
produced by Demon Music Group, owned by BBC Worldwide, the BBC’s commercial
arm.
Song titles on the album include Slashed Wrists This
Christmas, That Was The Worst Christmas Ever, A Very Sorry Christmas, Yule
Shoot Your Eye Out and Christmas Was Better In The 80s.
The most shocking track is the one by Gruff Rhys,
frontman of indie band Super Furry Animals, the Daily Mail reported.
On the song, about a suicide attempt, Rhys sings: "I
walked you to the infirmary, the cuts were deep so they sent you to sleep. It
was 1987, you had just been diagnosed with manic depression. You said, “Next
time I do it, I’m gonna do it well”. I just told you to go to hell.’
The chorus goes: "Slashed wrists this Christmas,
lifeless and listless."
The BBC describes the tunes, by artists including Rufus
Wainwright, Blink-182 and The Futureheads as ‘sweet ’n’ sombre’.
The album of "Christmas indie classics" is
being marketed at hipster-types who believe they are too cool for Christmas.
Other downbeat songs include I Won’t Be Home For
Christmas and Christmas Day (I Wish I Was Surfing).
A sister BBC Worldwide compilation album, The Gift That
Keeps Giving, includes The Holiday Song by Pixies, which includes incest and
masturbation references, and a track by
The New Pornographers. BBC Worldwide is run by Tim Davie,
whose £670,000 pay package included a £230,000 bonus despite a drop in profits.
Last week it emerged that the BBC is to turn shows such
as Doctor Who, Top Gear and Sherlock into theme park attractions in a British
rival to Disneyland.
BBC Worldwide, has signed a landmark deal with the
company behind a £2bn Paramount Pictures resort planned for Kent.
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