Christmas Songs That Don’t Suck, 2008 [Uncertain Principles]
I’m beat, and I have a ton of stuff to do today, so here’s some seasonally-appropriate filler. I spent a while in a big chain bookstore’s cafe area yesterday, doing some edits on the book-in-progress (I can’t do this effectively anywhere where I have Internet access), and was stuck listening to some sort of “quirky” piped-in Christmas music– “O Holy Night” played on a banjo, or some such.
So, here, as a palette cleanser of sorts, is the official list of Christmas songs that don’t suck, as determined by me. These are the four- and five-star rated songs from my iTunes Christmas playlist (there are a bunch of three-star songs as well). Suggestions of things that ought to be on the list are welcome.
- “Valley Winter Song”, Fountains Of Wayne
- “Fairytale Of New York”, The Pogues
- “only you can bring me cheer”, alison krauss
- “christmas comes but once a year”, amos milburn w. charles brown
- “yeah, i know, it’s christmastime”, andrew dost
- “donna and blitzen”, badly drawn boy
- “in the bleak midwinter”, the blind boys of alabama w. chrissie hynde & richard thompson
- “I Won’t Be Home for Christmas (Previously Unreleased)”, Blink-182
- “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch”, Boris Karloff
- “I’ll Be Home for Christmas (Ohmega Watts Remix)”, Charles Brown
- “Merry Christmas Emily”, Cracker
- “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”, Darlene Love
- “Christmas Song”, Dave Matthews Band
- “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”, Death Cab for Cutie
- “Christmas Light”, Deegan DeWitt & The Sparrows
- “I Saw Three Ships”, Don Dixon
- “Christmas Is Going to the Dogs”, Eels
- “everything’s gonna be cool this christmas”, eels
- “I Want An Alien For Christmas”, Fountains Of Wayne
- “The Man In The Santa Suit”, Fountains Of Wayne
- “Xmas”, Jesse Malin
- “Wintertime Blues”, John Hiatt
- “Father Christmas”, The Kinks
- “I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Psapp’s Lady Remix)”, Les Brown And His Band Of Renown
- “Just Like Christmas”, Low
- “merry christmas baby”, otis redding
- “2000 miles”, the pretenders
- “spotlight on christmas”, rufus wainwright
- “Wintersong”, Sarah McLachlan
- “All I Want”, The Weepies
- “Christmas Windows”, Youth Group
What am I missing?
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