Pearl Jam “Who Killed Rudolph?” 1992. It’s Festivus and also Eddie Vedder’s 55th birthday (b. Edward Louis Severson III, 1964) so I’m spinning Pearl Jam’s limited edition promo ‘Christmas’ single – but it’s not really a holiday song at all. Rather, Side A is a fairly faithful cover, Vedder’d up, of Dead Boys’ “Sonic Reducer” (from the 1977 LP Young, Loud and Snotty though originally written during the Rocket From the Tombs days). Side B is “Ramblings Continued” (the first “Ramblings” from which these are “continued” appears as the flip side to their 1991 limited edition promo single “Let Me Sleep,” also a Christmas release), about 4 minutes of sound clips that include stuff from TV and movies snippets of Christmas carols, and badly recorded conversations.