While I don’t hate the standard lineup of holiday music, I always appreciate variety. All I know of is “Punk Goes Christmas” and maybe a handful of singles from over the years. Anyone have anything they know of to suggest? Would prefer originals and not just covers of the classics, but that’s not a hard rule or anything.
Also, if possible, bandcamp links would be preferred. With the upcoming bandcamp friday, it’d be nice to have some good bands to support.
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Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Holiday Soul Party. Always the first to mind for baller Christmas music.
Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack
My favorite non-standard holiday song is If it has to be Christmas
With such lines as
If it has to be Christmas for you to be nice
You’re an asshole
If you think the season is the reason
You’re a piece of shit
And calling people spineless if they can only make a change for the better if it’s New Year’s and hints that so much of the holiday just appearances
It’s part of an album that was made for a game, so most of the other songs directly reference the game, but this one and a couple others are standalone
Christmas Carol by Tom Lehrer
Mostly a lampooning of holiday consumerism
Not truly original but plenty of variety… Bootie Mashup has some Christmas albums. The idea is to make “new” songs by using one song’s instrumental with another’s vocals. Then all the best mixes get mixed into a set.
Cookin Soul’s DOOM XMAS https://cookinsoul.bandcamp.com/album/doom-xmas
August Burns Red has some great holiday albums
Trans-Siberian Orchestra is always good.
Adam and the metal hawks do a few fun songs. Some covers and some original. “Love is on my wishlist” is good
merry christmas by wesley willis
also ive always liked blink-182’s christmas songs
there’s also NOEL by psychostick, a parody of BYOB by system of a down
