Holiday music really isn’t my thing. The vast majority of it makes me physically cringe or wanna punch an elf or some shit. Like I need to hear Taylor Swift or Sugarland grin their way through the thousandth version of “Frosty The Snowman” or Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song.” While I had some grand times with my mom as a kid, most of my memories of Christmastime are closer to Mrs. Hurdicure’s happiest memory in The Kids In The Hall’s glorious, prescient Brain Candy. Still, tis’ the season and all that, and there are a handful of tunes that skirt the usual holiday jingle awfulness. Some of them are downright cheerless, some a little off-color, but each jingles my sleigh bells and hopefully yours, too.
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Stocking Stuffers
- Honky Rink – The Beastie Boys
- The Little Drum Machine Boy – Beck
- Hooray For Christmas – The Fleshtones
- Coal – The Shimmers
- Jesus Christ – Big Star
- Santa Claus, True Love & Freedom – Mofro
- The Weight – Aretha Franklin
- Spotlight On Christmas – Rufus Wainwright
- Christmastime – Michael Penn & Aimee Mann
- Like The Snow – Kristin Andreassen
- Winter Girls – Ezra Thomas
- Another Snowman – The Sandycoates
- In The Hot Sun of a Christmas Day – Caetano Veloso
- Jacob Marley’s Chain – Aimee Mann
- Snow Come Down – Lori Carson
- Shipbuilding – Mark Mulcahy
- White Christmas – Mark Kozelek
- Joy To The World – Eef Barzelay
