12/12/2012 6:02:32 PM

Some of my favorites:

The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwHyuraau4Q

Built to Spill's "Linus & Lucy": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsPztRRyNPA

Weird Al Yankovic's "The Night Santa Went Crazy": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTGlUMvbhSw

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12/12/2012 7:36:51 PM

Dick Cheese's "Do they Know it's Christmas?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6S7_qq_VGw

Ramones' "Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y5GtaTrPHM

Ben Folds' "Lonely Christmas Eve"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5w5aFodFFU

12/16/2012 8:39:15 PM

Darlene Love - "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"
Tom Waits - "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis"
James Brown - "Santa Claus (Go Straight to the Ghetto)"
The Kinks - "Father Christmas"
The Waitresses - "Christmas Wrapping"
Run-D.M.C. - "Christmas in Hollis"
The Sonics - "Don't Believe in Christmas"

12/16/2012 9:01:42 PM

12/16/2012 9:14:58 PM

Buck Owens' Good Old Fashioned Country Christmas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnP6tSMV7_c

Dolly Parton's Hard Candy Christmas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGZ1IYRirtQ

12/16/2012 9:42:28 PM

trying to make a Christmas playlist. what are some of the classics aside from Bing Crosby and Perry Como?

12/17/2012 8:48:52 AM

That vandals record

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12/17/2012 8:58:01 AM

Some of the ones on my playlist:

Bing Crosby
Ella Fitzgerald
Louis Armstrong
Jimmy Smith

I think everyone needs the Vince Guaraldi Trio - A Charlie Brown Christmas. Fantastic little Christmas album.

Although the amount of Christmas material he has released is out of control (~100 songs), there are dozens of great songs within the Sufjan Stevens Songs For Christmas series. Some fun originals and Sufjan-esque takes on classics that are part of my regular Christmas rotation now.

Dustin Kensrue from Thrice released a good album entitled The Good Night is Still Everywhere that is on my list as well.

Chris Kincaid out of Charlotte has been in a lot of regional bands over the years (hopesfall, laurelei, one amazin' kid, etc.) but his Christmas album he put out several years ago is really fun and is currently up on bandcamp I think for streaming/buying I believe.

I also love She & Him's - A Very She & Him Christmas that came out last year. I think Zooey's voice works really well with those Christmas songs. However, her Elf version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" is MUCH better than the version they do on this album and I also have that one on my list.

Then I have individual songs from:

The Waitresses, Smashing Pumpkins, The Pogues, Copeland, Jimmy Eat World, Weezer, The Kinks, DCFC, Built to Spill and several others that I can't recall from memory right now because I forgot my ipod today.

I also have a couple oddball tracks that get mixed in as well that aren't directly Christmas related but may be New Year's related or Winter related, or just mention something Christmas or New Years related in the title or lyrics and thus I personally associate the holidays with them. Some examples are The Dismemberment Plan's "The Ice of Boston" and Eisley's "The Winter Song"


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12/17/2012 9:09:38 AM

Looking back over my ipod, I forgot to mention Dismemberment Plan's cover of "This Christmas" If you like them you'll probably like it. If you don't like them you probably won't.

12/19/2012 9:32:45 PM

Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song

12/19/2012 9:37:39 PM

This might be my favorite Christmas song

12/21/2012 9:51:44 AM

The Sufjan Stevens Christmas albums are pretty good.

12/21/2012 10:00:01 AM

The Raveonettes Christmas Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUiZRWsIGAY

Weird Al's Christmas at Ground Zero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU

Alabama's Christmas in Dixie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg81vGuZx7k

12/21/2012 10:07:03 AM

Quote :

"Alabama's Christmas in Dixie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg81vGuZx7k "

love that shit!

my absolute favorite collection:

12/21/2012 10:24:57 AM

Possibly the best ever, Mr. Garrison's "Merry Fucking Christmas"

http://www.noob.us/humor/south-park-merry-fucking-christmas/

12/21/2012 10:33:16 AM

Johnny Mathis - O Holy Night
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)
Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas is you

12/21/2012 10:44:14 AM

Quote :

"Mariah Carey - All I want for Christmas is you "

NO.
NO.
NO.
MOTHERFUCKING NO.


IVE HEARD THAT SONG EVERY TIME IVE LISTENED TO THE RADIO IN MY CAR, SINCE THANKSGIVING.... SOMETHING LIKE 15-20X. I'D GIVE HER MY YULE LOG IN AN INSTANT, BUT IF SHE STARTED SINGING THAT SONG I'D MAKE HER CALL A CAB AND LEAVE.

12/21/2012 10:46:57 AM

^agreed

The Darkness's "Don't Let the Bells End" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJNWM9Qkj7s

John Denver's "Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGDjpWT6G-o
(and Decemberists' cover: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19uFC3KqR8M)

Kurtis Blow's Christmas Rapping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFtA7IHZgzw

and the Waitress' Christmas Wrapping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzjDOk_u9I

12/24/2012 10:08:57 AM

Please stop playing Same Old Lang Syne

12/24/2012 11:06:25 AM

^I'd never heard that before, buy holy crap it's terrible. What station are you listening to?

That's right up there with McCartney's "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time" and the Beach Boys' "Little Saint Nick".

12/24/2012 11:11:13 AM

"Little Saint Nick" is a great song (in a chord modulation sense).

That McCartney abomination is the worst song ever written.

[Edited on December 24, 2012 at 11:25 AM. Reason : 3]

12/24/2012 11:25:02 AM

I enjoy Little Saint Nick

12/24/2012 11:46:40 AM

I heard this abortion in Sheetz today and couldn't get out of there fast enough.

12/23/2014 3:09:14 PM

Dominick the Italian christmas donkey

12/23/2014 3:32:39 PM

Recently heard Willie Nelson's Pretty Paper when I was in a store:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqNFdFbo8cA

12/1/2016 12:50:58 PM

How is it that no one has mentioned God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Sarah McL and Barenaked Ladies - that's one of my favorite modern renditions of a Christmas song.

12/1/2016 2:54:43 PM

12/2/2016 3:32:08 PM

My favorite two are The Waitresses- Christmas Wrapping, which has been posted in this thread twice already and this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTeL9--BQkQ (Captain Sensible - One Christmas Catalogue)

12/2/2016 7:46:28 PM

(also, Robert Earl Keen - Merry Christmas From the Family...but someone else already posted that)

12/4/2016 12:37:00 AM

12/6/2016 3:24:39 PM

Nothing better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxTSxQcCWLI

12/6/2016 4:40:30 PM

For classics, can't go wrong with:
Darlene Love - All Alone on Christmas & Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas
Elton John - Step into Christmas

Contemporaries
Rob Thomas - New York Christmas
The Killers - A Great Big Sled
Jimmy Eat World - Last Christmas

The lyrics for this one crack the shit outta me. NSFW either: The Hives & Cyndi Lauper In A Christmas Duel

That's just a few off the top of my head.

12/6/2016 4:45:16 PM

The entire Aqua Teen Hunger Force Christmas album. That thing is gold.

12/6/2016 4:47:18 PM

I like a few of the SouthPark songs, particuarly Mr. Garrison's Merry F'n Christmas and Satan's Christmas Time in Hell

12/7/2016 12:28:26 PM

The Dan Band - I Wanna Rock You Hard This Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npia90yAUZE

The Dan Band - Ho Ho Ho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tAJGCm_nxE

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12/7/2016 1:23:45 PM

best christmas album

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12/7/2016 1:33:28 PM

i need some more Christmas bangers.

12/7/2016 3:12:04 PM

this shit is pretty dope

12/8/2018 7:00:51 PM

https://youtu.be/a8qE6WQmNus

[Edited on December 8, 2018 at 7:04 PM. Reason : .]

12/8/2018 7:02:57 PM

12/8/2018 7:18:32 PM

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12/8/2018 9:03:59 PM

The Pogues' "Fairytale in New York" is still probably my favorite

More controversy on "Baby it's cold outside"?
https://qz.com/1491525/baby-its-cold-outside-and-the-rise-of-islamic-fundamentalism/

12/12/2018 11:16:35 AM

12/12/2018 10:16:25 PM

Now that I have embed powers:

12/12/2018 10:58:00 PM

All I Want For Christmas Is You

12/17/2018 5:45:04 PM

12/21/2018 11:20:20 PM

https://youtu.be/L0r6ocwGnMg

somebody plz to embed

Lil Jon featuring Kool-Aid Man - All I Really Want For Christmas (Official Music Video)

12/22/2018 9:13:13 AM

Do you prefer "You're Cheap and You're Haggard" or "You Cheap Lousy Blagger"?

12/16/2020 11:17:01 AM

SET EM UP SET EM UP SET EM UP…

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