Every year the holiday season seems to start earlier and earlier. Normally we post our annual holiday playlist on December 1 but since we can't beat the machine, we are joining it and going in a few days earlier.
Here is a list of songs that won't make you suffer this holiday season. Find 'em and take a listen!
- Summer
Camp – “Christmas Wrapping”
- The Killers - "Dirt Sledding"
- Poly
Styrene – “Black Christmas”
- The
Crookes – “It’s Just Not Christmas Without You”
- The
Fall – “Hark the Harold Angels Sing”
- REM
– “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”
- Clap
Your Hands Say Yeah – “In This Home On Ice”
- Jackson
5 – “Jingle Bells”
- Maps
– “Stay Another Day”
- Mother
and the Addicts – “Oh No! It’s Christmas Time Again!”
- Galaxie
500 – “Listen, the Snow is Falling”
- Patsy
Kaye & The Beatniks – “Beatnik's Wish”
- Billy
Idol – “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
- James
Brown – “Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto!”
- My
Morning Jacket – “Christmas Must Be Tonight”
- Parenthetical
Girls – “Post-Christmas Time”
- My
Morning Jacket – “Wonderful”
- John
Zorn & Mike Patton – “The Christmas Song”
- Dog
is Dead – “Christmas Wrapping”
- Summer
Camp – “All I Wonderful Christmas is You”
- Anya
Maria – “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”
- Blackalicious
– “Toy Jackpot”
- Darker
My Love – “Snow is Falling”
- Bishop
Allen – “You’ll Never Fade Away”
- The
Soundtrack of Our Lives – “Jingle Hell (Stuck in the Chimney)”
- Johnny
Marr and the Healers – “Free Christmas”
- Ray
Charles – “Winter Wonderland”
- Parenthetical
Girls – “There is Always Tomorrow”
- Tracy
Thorn – “Tinsel and Lights”
- Sufjan
Stevens – “Sister Winter”
- The
Head & The Heart – “What Are You Doing New Years Eve?”
- Heartless
Bastards – “Blue Christmas”
- Andrew
Bird – “Auld Lang Syne”
- Los
Campesinos! – “The Trains Don’t Run (On Christmas)”
For Past Holiday Playlists See Below:
Holiday Playlist Vol. VIII - Click HERE
Holiday Playlist Vol. VII - Click HERE
Holiday Playlist Vol. VI - Click HERE
Holiday Playlist No. 5 - Click HERE
Holiday Playlist Vol. IV - Click HERE
Holiday Playlist Vol. III - Click HERE
Holiday Playlist 2.0 - Click HERE
Holiday Playlist Vol. I - Click HERE