Christmas Spottification

[susie_flo]

Hello festive fiendies!  Just wondering...  would any of you care to recommend any favoured (or lesser-known) christmas songs that I could add to my spotify playlist?

I'm trying to cobble together an upbeat list for xmas entertaining.  Nothing serious or pretentious, but ideally avoiding tracks that are so played-to-death they make you want to wail at the moon (hence I have been sacreligious and left off the sainted Pogues and Waitresses.)  

So far, with some heavy assistance from obsessed, muso white boys on t'interweb, I've compiled this list-in-progress... http://open.spotify.com/user/themeanestcat/playlist/06E2plrZl1XWuprfERfO9y  

What do you reckon it needs?  (More Aretha?  Some glam rock?  Some cheesy motown classics?  Even more spotty-white-boy-muso-guitar-bollox?)  

All suggestions warmly considered, with the possible exceptions of...  

• Anything dreary (e.g. wailing goth nonsense or indie misery)
• Spinal Tap (who I've just deleted for being too silly, even for christmas)
• Surfjan Stevens, whose xmas songs make me want to cry with boredom 
• Sweary christmas rapping about doing things with hoes 

Many thanks all!  :-)  

Comments

[childeric.livejournal.com]

I know I'll be courting the contemptuous hilarity of my peers by suggesting this, but I actually rather liked that Christmas song that The Darkness did back when they were still famous. 'Christmastime (don't let the Bell's end)', was that what it was called?

But no Slade or Roy bloody Wood, no!

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

That song was written and recorded purely and simply so Justin Trousersnake would have an excuse to stand in front of a crowd of children and shout "Bell-end!" at the top of his lungs.

Not that ths is necessarily a bad thing, mind you.

Sue, I have a whole long playlist of "alternative" Christmas songs, and I'll happily send you the whole list, but many of them aren't actually particularly cheerful or upbeat. In fact, quite a lot of them are rather miserable.

Also, I'm not a boy.

But if I were, I'd probably recommend "It's clichéd to be cynical at Christmas" by Half Man Half Biscuit.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Ooh yes, please do send... I'm sure I can weed out the ones with too much abject misery :-)

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

All I want for Christmas is You - My Chemical Romance
Alone This Holiday - The Used
Better Days - Goo Goo Dolls
Blue Christmas - Low
Christmas Celebration - Weezer
Christmas Day - Green Day
Christmas Eve - Sugarcubes
The Christmas Song - Raveonettes
Christmas Song - Weezer
The Christmas Song - New Found Glory
Everything's gonna be cool this Christmas - Eels
Ex-Miss - New Found Glory
Frosty The Snowman - Fiona Apple
Ghost of Christmas - Manic Street Preachers
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Bright Eyes
A Great Big Sled - The Killers, featuring Toni Halliday
Happy Christmas (War is over) - Low
It Just Don't Feel Like Xmas (without you) - Rihanna
Just Like Christmas - Low
Last Christmas - Jimmy Eat World
The Man in the Santa Suit - Fountains of Wayne
Merry Christmas (don't wanna fight tonight) - The Ramones
Miracle of Christmas - Funeral for a friend
Oi to the World - The Vandals
Please Come Home for Christmas - Fiona Apple
Santa Claus - They Might Be Giants
Silent Night - Low
Yule Shoot Your Eye Out - Fall Out Boy
Song for Ten - Murray Gold and Neil Hannon
I want an alien for Christmas - Fountains of Wayne
Christmas Morning - Loudon Wainwright III
Blue Christmas - Bright Eyes
Little Saint Nick - The Beach Boys
Father Christmas - The Kinks
Xmas Cake - Rilo Kiley
Christmas is Cancelled - The Long Blondes
It's Cliched to be Cynical at Christmas - Half Man Half Biscuit
Christmas Eve - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
Donner and Blitzen - Badly Drawn Boy
What's This? - Fall Out Boy

Enjoy!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Fab, thanks :-)
A few of those are already on my list, and some I tried to find on Spotters but failed. I might try again though... (it seems to give diff results depending on what order you type things)

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Yes, some aren't on Spotify, but I can send you MP3s of any you don't have!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Thank you :-) (Will shout if I need any)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

In case you're interested, I just spotted an album of alternative Xmas tracks on Spotify called "We Love Yule"... (thought you might like a few of them)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

That's the sort of shameful tosh i'd happily add to my playlist... Though I doubt g will forgive me
:-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

*snort*

[lizziedripping1.livejournal.com]

Every year I buy a new Christmas themed CD & this year I really got a corker! It's called, 'I'm Gonna Lasso Santa' & is a compilation of Jump Blues, Rock 'n' Roll & Hillbilly Christmas tracks from 20s - 50s. My favourite track is 'We Wanna See Santa do the Mambo' by Big John Greer. I also love the Hawaiian slide guitar on 'Christmas Island' by The Dinning Sisters & 'Trim Your Tree' by Jimmy Butler is hilarious, if absolutely filthy & deeply inappropriate for Christmas.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Heh, I just found Trim Your Tree on Spotify... will give it a whirl :-)