I love (loooove) Nutmeg by John Legend and Stephen Colbert. The entire Colbert Christmas album is great imho but Nutmeg is the best by far. Also 12 Days of Pop Punk Christmas is pretty fun.
Thank you for recommending this! I've always liked her song on the Barenaked Ladies Christmas album. Wintersong now has a permanent spot in my Christmas rotation for a relaxing listen.
Glad you enjoyed it! And I just listened to the barenaked ladies christmas album, thanks for the rec! I don't have many Christmas songs in that style, so it's good to expand my options.
If you liked Wintersong there's a chance you may also like Christmas Day by Dido
Barenaked For The Holidays has some great tracks but Elf's Lament is my favorite since it's a cynical take on the commercialism of Christmas.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=M4dxqHmhLaE
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Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York
Dropkick Murphys - The Season's Upon Us
Corey Taylor - X-M@$
The Kinks - Father Christmas
Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody
The Flaming Lips - Christmas At The Zoo
Fountains of Wayne - I want an alien for Christmas
The Futureheads - Christmas Was Better In The 80s
The Killers - Don't Shoot Me Santa
Excellent tracklist. The Pogues are heavily featured in our household
Christmas Wrapping doesn't belong on that list, lol, it's played everywhere.
The night Santa went crazy
Yeah, Christmas at Ground Zero didn’t really hit the same after “ground zero” became tied to 9/11.
Classic:
Gloucestershire Wassail
Modern Enough:
Weird Al's Christmas At Ground Zero
Finally a christmas thread where I can answer with passion: August Burns Red - Flurries
Volume: 11/10
It's an instrumental, but nobody in their right mind would claim that it's anything but a Christmas song.
Fairytale of New York by The Pogues
Cashing in on Christmas by Bad News
Fuck Christmas by Fear
For the metalheads
Sonata Arctica - Christmas spirits
Nanowar of steel - Valhallejulah
Corey Taylor -X-M@$
Don't Let The Bells End by the Darkness?
Chiron Beta Prime - Jonathan Coulton
I’m a simple man. I see JoCo, I upvote.
Xmas has been X’ed by NoFX is always at the top of my holiday playlist. YouTube linkage
https://youtu.be/HPdHkHslFIU?t=57
SABATON - Christmas Truce (saved a click)
But click it anyway
Almost everything on Soma.FM's Christmas Lounge
My two favorites:
Santa Claus Go(es) Straight To The Ghetto by James Brown
Ain't No Chimneys In The Projects by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Nice!
From the category COUNTRY, NON-SHITTY VERSION, I have some good ones:
Twelve Days of Christmas performed by Bob and Doug McKenzie
Christmas in L.A. Song by Vulfpeck ‧ 2015
Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight) by The Ramones
Christmas Everyday by The Frights
I like The Yule Fiddler.
And Rush Coil's mega man-inspired album.
A fond favourite of mine https://youtu.be/ZE4shVkwqIk?si=RjYhXFC4Xk4jF77f
Mother of God
That plaintive "I don't belong here" at the end was just perfect.
I've been listening to this Spotify playlist called Christmas Rave Music 2024
Patty Gurdy feat. Fiddler's Green - The Yule Fiddler (Christmas Time Is Coming 'Round Today) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqesZeoiE6I
She has a lot of great stuff with a rare instrument, she's also in a pirate-metal band playing it
Elf’s Lament - Barenaked Ladies
Mi Burrito Sabanero
I dig bad religions cover of the kink's father Christmas.
But I also put together a pop punk Christmas playlist together for a friend. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2KDLktij5weEe8wjoVpI2z?si=r4mAHZSlQRuROLnF3Lg-vA&pi=luEP0SsOQY6Cn
I love (loooove) Nutmeg by John Legend and Stephen Colbert. The entire Colbert Christmas album is great imho but Nutmeg is the best by far. Also 12 Days of Pop Punk Christmas is pretty fun.
Tarja Turunen Dark Christmas. It's not 100% spectacular but it's close.
https://youtu.be/85Dqs678AEI?si=_YTpu7TBJ-mqohMa
It's only a Christmas song in context, but In Our World from Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas popped into my head a couple days ago.
The film score from Die Hard.
I am of the opinion that Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
I always like playing the Wexford Carol on my violin around this time of year.
Sarah McLachlan's album Wintersong is one of my go-tos
Thank you for recommending this! I've always liked her song on the Barenaked Ladies Christmas album. Wintersong now has a permanent spot in my Christmas rotation for a relaxing listen.
Glad you enjoyed it! And I just listened to the barenaked ladies christmas album, thanks for the rec! I don't have many Christmas songs in that style, so it's good to expand my options.
If you liked Wintersong there's a chance you may also like Christmas Day by Dido
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis by Tom Waits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vbt8ReH0hI
A Christmas Song by Jethro Tull
This Eastern Canada duo did a great Christmas album last year, very Celtic folk style. Here is Cassie and Maggie.
https://youtu.be/sJkUsEIHhQw?si=LQ_Yku69kn8KggZU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EuUM74m-cg
Tankard - Fuck Christmas King Diamond - No Presents for Christmas
J. Cole - middle child
Look for wassailing music. It’s old caroling music that tends german, and can be a nice change of pace.
Andrea Perry's "Fat Aunt Bette"
All I can give you by Jason Lancaster
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46kuUZAPxeQ
Merry Christmas, Baby by The Beach Boys.
https://youtu.be/vawjF1_QnV0?si=CFiZ8uP5zR6PJCT0
Half the album this song comes from is original songs, the other half is the old favorites that were already old favorites at the time.
This whole album
https://youtu.be/EwzBjBHfDIs
Outkast - Player's Ball
I'll go with this classic from The Kinks.
Yelling at the Christmas tree by Billy Idol
“Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree” performed by Brenda Lee.
Tony Anderson - Immanuel
https://rushad.bandcamp.com/album/snethyxmasparty
Not sure what’s overplayed where you are but the world never has enough:
https://youtu.be/vCzRkv6q4fQ
And all 45 seconds of this greatness:
https://youtu.be/F7E35anYnao
Paul Kelly - How to make Gravy
River - Joni Mitchell
Happy holidays, you bastard - Blink 182
The Creator Has a Master Plan (edit: by Pharaoh Sanders)
Jars of Clay - Peace is Here
Jars of Clay - I Heard the Bells
Sufjan Stevens - Put the Lights on the Tree
Sufjan Stevens - Star of Wonder
"Altfel de colind"
might add more later if i think of them
Barenaked For The Holidays has some great tracks but Elf's Lament is my favorite since it's a cynical take on the commercialism of Christmas. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=M4dxqHmhLaE
I’ll be home for Christmas Elvis Presley
I never hear that in the stores and rarely on the radio
I have no idea whats played on the radio but I get nostalgia for the gene audrey christmass album and I like the irish lady singers stuff.
Illegals in my yard
https://youtu.be/Zoa0ehOrMrA?si=iwqUUDkEC73LzQMf
MF DOOM x Cookin Soul - DOOM XMAS