Listen, whoever started that whole B101 bullshit needs to be sterilized. Christmas music just isn’t good. If you’re not Chuck Berry or The Kinks, chances are you aren’t doing it right at all. Every Christmas song you hear on the radio or your mother’s “Holiday Compilation” CD is either obnoxious, depressing, annoying, terribly written/executed, or all of the above. Basically, if you haven’t figured it out already… it’s not my favorite thing.
Here’s what I’m listening to this holiday. Christmas music for someone who hates Christmas music. A mix of semi-Christmas themed songs, songs about winter, and songs related to neither Christmas, nor winter, but somehow fit really nicely into a Christmas playlist. Bells and shit, chorus-y vocals, and glam rock things, because for some reason I associate glam rock with Christmas Cheer?
1. “Christmastime Is Here” – Vince Guaraldi Trio
2. “Hazy Shade Of Winter” – Simon & Garfunkel
3. “Up The Hill Backwards” – David Bowie
4. “Hitsville UK” – The Clash
5. “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)” – The Ramones
6. “Nuclear Winter Wonderland” – The Nuclears
7. “Dreamer’s Ball” – Queen
8. “Each And Every Day Of The Year” – The Rolling Stones
9. “Guiding Light” – Television
10. “The Dark End Of The Street” – The Commitments
11. “Winter” – The Rolling Stones
12. ”In The Flesh” – Blondie
13. “End Of The Night” – Smith Westerns
14. ”Dead By X-mas” – Hanoi Rocks
15. “Santa Claus” – The Sonics
16. ”Crimson & Clover” – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
17. “Sunday Morning” – The Velvet Underground
