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HobbitFoot to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months ago

What are some good Christmas songs that aren't being played to death on the radio or in public?

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What are some good Christmas songs that aren't being played to death on the radio or in public?

HobbitFoot to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months ago
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  • @EndOfLine@lemmy.world
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    20•5 months ago

    Run DMC - Christmas in Hollis

    The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York

    Dropkick Murphys - The Season’s Upon Us

    Corey Taylor - X-M@$

    The Kinks - Father Christmas

    Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

    The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping

    Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody

    The Flaming Lips - Christmas At The Zoo

    Fountains of Wayne - I want an alien for Christmas

    The Futureheads - Christmas Was Better In The 80s

    The Killers - Don’t Shoot Me Santa

    • 🔍🦘🛎
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      2•5 months ago

      Excellent tracklist. The Pogues are heavily featured in our household

    • JackGreenEarth
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      1•5 months ago

      Christmas Wrapping doesn’t belong on that list, lol, it’s played everywhere.

  • toiletobserver
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    12•5 months ago

    The night Santa went crazy

    • TheRealKuni
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      1•5 months ago

      Yeah, Christmas at Ground Zero didn’t really hit the same after “ground zero” became tied to 9/11.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    10•5 months ago

    Classic:

    Gloucestershire Wassail

    Modern Enough:

    Weird Al’s Christmas At Ground Zero

  • @neidu3@sh.itjust.worksM
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    5 months ago

    Finally a christmas thread where I can answer with passion: August Burns Red - Flurries

    Volume: 11/10

    It’s an instrumental, but nobody in their right mind would claim that it’s anything but a Christmas song.

  • @PoopSpiderman@lemmy.world
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    Fairytale of New York by The Pogues

    Cashing in on Christmas by Bad News

    Fuck Christmas by Fear

  • @Vinny_93@lemmy.world
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    6•5 months ago

    Don’t Let The Bells End by the Darkness?

  • @lemmylommy@lemmy.world
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    6•5 months ago

    https://youtu.be/HPdHkHslFIU?t=57

  • @frank@sopuli.xyz
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    6•5 months ago

    For the metalheads

    Sonata Arctica - Christmas spirits

    Nanowar of steel - Valhallejulah

    Corey Taylor -X-M@$

  • 🔍🦘🛎
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    5•5 months ago

    Chiron Beta Prime - Jonathan Coulton

    • TheRealKuni
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      2•5 months ago

      I’m a simple man. I see JoCo, I upvote.

  • @cymor@midwest.social
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    5•5 months ago

    Almost everything on Soma.FM’s Christmas Lounge

  • @Fleur_@lemm.ee
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    Removed by mod

  • Not a replicant
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    4•5 months ago

    Fairytale of New York

  • @wjrii@lemmy.world
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    4•5 months ago

    From the category COUNTRY, NON-SHITTY VERSION, I have some good ones:

    • Merry Christmas from the Family, Robert Earl Keen
    • The sequel, Happy Holidays Y’All
    • Grateful for Christmas, Hayes Carll
    • (Close enough to Christmasy) Snowin’ on Raton, Townes Van Zandt
    • Arbolito, Tish Hinojosa
    • Literally any traditional carol sung by Willie Nelson or Emmylou Harris
    • X-Mas on the Isthmus, Terry Allen and Guy Clark
    • Christmas in Washington, Steve Earle
  • @verdigris@lemmy.ml
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    My two favorites:

    Santa Claus Go(es) Straight To The Ghetto by James Brown

    Ain’t No Chimneys In The Projects by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

    • @workerONE@lemmy.world
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      Ain’t No Chimneys In The Projects

      Nice!

  • @FellowEnt@sh.itjust.works
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    Christmas in L.A. Song by Vulfpeck ‧ 2015

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