What are some good Christmas songs that aren't being played to death on the radio or in public?
What are some good Christmas songs that aren't being played to death on the radio or in public?
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The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York
Dropkick Murphys - The Season's Upon Us
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
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Excellent tracklist. The Pogues are heavily featured in our household
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Christmas Wrapping doesn't belong on that list, lol, it's played everywhere.
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Yeah, Christmas at Ground Zero didn’t really hit the same after “ground zero” became tied to 9/11.
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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.
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Classic:
Gloucestershire Wassail
Modern Enough:
Weird Al's Christmas At Ground Zero
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Fairytale of New York by The Pogues
Cashing in on Christmas by Bad News
Fuck Christmas by Fear
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Don't Let The Bells End by the Darkness?
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Almost everything on Soma.FM's Christmas Lounge
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I’m a simple man. I see JoCo, I upvote.
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SABATON - Christmas Truce (saved a click)
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But click it anyway
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Xmas has been X’ed by NoFX is always at the top of my holiday playlist. YouTube linkage
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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
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Ain’t No Chimneys In The Projects
Nice!
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Fairytale of New York
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From the category COUNTRY, NON-SHITTY VERSION, I have some good ones:
- Merry Christmas from the Family, Robert Earl Keen
- The sequel, Happy Holidays Y'All
- Grateful for Christmas, Hayes Carll
- (Close enough to Christmasy) Snowin' on Raton, Townes Van Zandt
- Arbolito, Tish Hinojosa
- Literally any traditional carol sung by Willie Nelson or Emmylou Harris
- X-Mas on the Isthmus, Terry Allen and Guy Clark
- Christmas in Washington, Steve Earle
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Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight) by The Ramones
Christmas Everyday by The Frights
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I've been listening to this Spotify playlist called Christmas Rave Music 2024
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A fond favourite of mine https://youtu.be/ZE4shVkwqIk?si=RjYhXFC4Xk4jF77f
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Mother of God
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That plaintive "I don't belong here" at the end was just perfect.
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Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis by Tom Waits
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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.
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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
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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
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This Eastern Canada duo did a great Christmas album last year, very Celtic folk style. Here is Cassie and Maggie.
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The film score from Die Hard.
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I am of the opinion that Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
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A Christmas Song by Jethro Tull
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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.
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Tarja Turunen Dark Christmas. It's not 100% spectacular but it's close.
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I always like playing the Wexford Carol on my violin around this time of year.
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Sarah McLachlan's album Wintersong is one of my go-tos
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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.
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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
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This whole album
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"Altfel de colind"
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- Stan Rogers - First Christmas
- Tim Minchin - White Wine in the Sun
- Paul Kelly - How to Make Gravy
- Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas
might add more later if i think of them
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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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Yelling at the Christmas tree by Billy Idol
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All I can give you by Jason Lancaster
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“Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree” performed by Brenda Lee.
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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.
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J. Cole - middle child
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Paul Kelly - How to make Gravy
River - Joni Mitchell
Happy holidays, you bastard - Blink 182
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Not sure what’s overplayed where you are but the world never has enough:
And all 45 seconds of this greatness:
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Tankard - Fuck Christmas King Diamond - No Presents for Christmas
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Andrea Perry's "Fat Aunt Bette"
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The Creator Has a Master Plan (edit: by Pharaoh Sanders)
- Leon Thomas' vocal excerpt (3:50): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ixv0kX3niA
- the full song (32:47): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViweO33oo2Y
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Look for wassailing music. It’s old caroling music that tends german, and can be a nice change of pace.
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