24 songs for a different Christmas playlist
To celebrate this time of the year with something more original than the omnipresent “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey, and especially to prevent our heads from exploding, I have put together 24 songs most of them quite unknown, which have recorded some of the artists that we like the most and that in many cases, we probably would not connect with Christmas.
Enjoy the listening and Merry Christmas folks!
01. “Christmas in the Room” by Sufjan Stevens
02. “Danny Says” by Ramones
03. “I Wish It Was Christmas Today” by Julian Casablancas
04. “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” by Death Cab for Cutie
05. “Alone On Christmas Day” by Phoenix
06. “Christmas is going to the Dogs” by Eels
07. “White Winter Hymnal” by Fleet Foxes
08. “When I Get Home For Christmas” by Snow Patrol
09. “Boots” by The Killers
10. “Everything is a Big Christmas Tree” by The Magnetic Fields
11. “Wonderful Christmastime” by The Shins
12. “Hey, Mr. Santa!” by KT Tunstall
13. “Baby, It´s Cold Outside” by She & Him
14. “Christmas Was Better In The 80s” by The Futureheads
15. “A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss)” by Glasvegas
16. “A Change at Christmas (Say it isn´t so)” by The Flaming Lips
17. “Just Like Christmas” by Low
18. “Punk Drunk Xmas Eve” by Holy Moly & The Crackers
19. “All I Want for Christmas” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
20. “Green Grows the Holly” by Calexico
21. “Christmas Day (I wish I was Surfing)” by Tim Wheeler & Emmy the Great
22. “Last Christmas” by The XX
23. “Kindle A Flame In Her Heart” by Los Campesinos!
24. “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” by Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir
Cover photograph by José Goulão