This is less a song and more a short play–the late great Stan Freberg’s Green Chri$tma$.
I’m pretty sure it’s just for nostalgia reasons, but I always loved:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaB6HsefjZ8
Has a recurring main theme that builds with each pass.
And of course since I’m latino, two mandatory songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDdqbVSx7Og
The one you love to hate, but have to listen at every single family gathering.
And by far, one of the best spanish songs about x-mas ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF7uazEKOe8
*Edit: since the song is in spanish, I assume the joke will be lost in 99% of you guys, but the song is about a guy that broke up with his significant other for x-mas, the chorus goes something like this:
Fuck new years (the passing year)
Fuck new years (the new year)
Fuck the little tree
And fuck you.
*Translation note: he actually uses “me cago” that means “I shit on” but in Spanish the expression is akin to fuck you.
Oh dear, I forgot about White Wine in the Sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q
I love this song. I’m not Australian so at first I didn’t understand what was up with white wine and sun but I get it now. I don’t know why it makes me choke up. It’s not any more or less emotional than most other xmas music but this one resonates with me specifically for some reason.
This album was a staple in my house growing up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMNR2ySiPd4&list=PLb-xTvsTTnXZRumCNxrpwKxVZ2WwXAXhg&index=1
Taeyeon has a new XMas Album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsh54g9JmC0
She couldn’t resist the Game of Thrones “Winter is Coming” title.
Enjoy the latest broadcast from Sergei’s Catacomb of Classics where he presents an entire hour’s worth of knockoff cover songs from scummy, defunct album labels.
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“I’m going Surfing for Xmas” by Mad Caddies, newly released. Also kudos in on the cover for the single, a parody of the NOFX EP Surfer, the cover of which itself is a parody of Bad Religion’s Suffer
I can listen to this without wanting to die. I’m not saying it’s amazing, but, listenable fits.
The top 5 list I posted above, and in the previous forum still stands.
Let’s just celebrate with an honorable mention.
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A few years ago, Cee Lo Green put out a Christmas album.
It’s worthless, because he completely ignored the obvious remix; “Forget Yule.”
Christmas music is strange. Is there anything else that
- Get zero play throughout the year
- Most major pop artists record a song, if not an entire album drawn from a pool of ~a dozen songs about it
- Goes into heavy rotation in nearly all public spaces for one month
- People don’t want any part of after one particular day
?