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Christmas Music for People Who Aren't So Sure About Christmas Music - A Playlist for You

🕑 Added 2024-12-23 18:53:43 +0000 UTC

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Amanda

This playlist is a warm, genre-bending hug for anyone craving holiday tunes with soul, grit, and surprises. Love the blend of timeless classics (Donny Hathaway! Judy Garland!) and left-field gems (Tom Waits! Smashing Pumpkins!)—it feels cozy yet refreshingly human. Perfect for those who want Christmas spirit without the sugar rush. Kudos to Sarah & Carolyn for curating a mix that honors tradition while side-eyeing the sleigh bells. 🎄✨

Lizzie Schoon

someone needs to make this into a spotify playlist for me

Nancy Jean Ross

I love Sufjan Stevens.

Libby Sanders

This was so lovely to play in the background on Christmas morning, thank you! 💕💕

Bevan

🙋🏻‍♂️🙏🏻♥️

Marcus Wrightus

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3sCSwWjNz3N24BhoVb0Ldl?si=DNyX3PjLR52dojFqHGUc1w&pi=UwihUQ4uTKuqv here's the playlist my partner and I have been building for years ... added a bunch of the songs from YWA's playlist and the chat!

Amelia

This is wonderful, thank you audio angels!

Jen B.

I created an Apple Music playlist of all these awesome songs. If anyone’s interested I can share it here. Merry Christmas, Sarah and Carolyn. And thank you! 🎄

Emma Saxon

Thank you so much. You're so kind, and what thoughtful advice 💜

Jen Turner

I’m so sorry, Emma. Never a good time to go through pregnancy loss, but this time of year is especially hard 💔 Set the holly jolly aside and let yourself lament.

Jen Turner

For Those Who Can’t Be Here (Tom Walker) is a soothing anthem for anyone dealing with the loss of a loved one I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day (Johnny Reid) is a beautiful new arrangement of an old standard See Amid The Winter’s Snow (Annie Lennox) perfection The Huron Carol (Sarah McLaughlin’s version is widely available) This is the first Christmas carol written in North American back in the 1600’s Christmas Must Be Tonight (The Band) Magical Come And I Will Sing You (Great Big Sea) another very, very old carol Joel The Lump Of Coal (The Killers) laugh along then get all up in your feels in the span of one song

Jen Turner

That whole album is fantastic! A family favourite since it was released lo these many years ago. The Elf’s Lament and It’s Christmastime are my two faves.

Emma Saxon

The little Brummy children's choir in I Wish it Could Be Christmas 😭

Jade Olson

Appreciate you!

Laurel Hall

In case you're a Tidal person, I've made the playlist there!: https://tidal.com/playlist/4c76098f-3f6b-4736-ad5a-7c00417d68d3

Emma Saxon

Thank you for this 💜 currently going through a pregnancy loss, and all my go-to Christmas songs just aren't doing it. This is really getting me through today! 🙏🏻

Ashley Petty

Thank you! I was hoping someone in the comments would have put in the legwork for me. May you get all the cheeses for your meeces this year

Katharina

Thank you! ❤️

Noel LH

Hero 🧡

Alison Koch

Your inclusion of The Milk Carton Kids has me absolutely kvelling. Can’t wait to listen to it all!

Rachel Perry

The Barenaked Ladies Holiday Album is actually great and has two excellent Hanukkah songs!!

Rebekah

If you’re lame like me and use Pandora, hopefully you can access the playlist I created: https://pandora.app.link/6mjKHYnUzPb Fabulous collection, Sarah and Carolyn. Happy holidays to the You’re Wrong About family!

Robin Kuehn

Yes to all of this! Sufjan Stevens' Christmas In The Room got me through some times for sure. For the little kid at Christmas feeling, Alien for Christmas covered by I Fight Dragons is excellent.

Lauren Bickel

For some reason the existence of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass is wildly funny

Schwartz666

Also Sleddin' Hill by August Burns Red is an excellent instrumental Metal Xmas album

Schwartz666

Oi To The World by The Vandals is the best Xmas album of all-time! 🤘🏻

Dino

“Fruitcake” by the Superions was my surprise delight at the onslaught of aggravating Christmas music. “It’ll kill your dad! FRUITCAKE!

Chuck Falzone

This is great! Thanks! A few of my faves not already mentioned: Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney - Ella Fitzgerald Must Be Santa - Bob Dylan Dear Santa (Bring Me a Man This Christmas) - The Weather Girls Jesus Christ - Big Star White Christmas - Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings Blue Xmas - Miles Davis and Bob Dorough We Three Kings - Patti Smith

Jennifer Tamir

Carolina Christmas by Squirrel Nut Zippers! Also, Merry Christmas Eve by Better than Ezra.

Sarah S

I can't wait to listen to these! I like "Christmas will break your heart" by LCD Soundsystem, just to balance out the happiness and cheer.

Layla Bell

Thank you for a rebuttal to the folks that look concerned when they find out your spending Christmas by oneself ' aloneness and loneliness are not the same thing' xoxo

Richard

It gets played to death over here (even getting its own day on 21 Dec), but if you haven't heard Paul Kelly's How to Make Gravy you should give it at least one play.

Sarah Cady

Thank you!

Dan S.

Some great choices here! A lot of overlap with my personal taste, which always makes me happy. I also really like the Neko Case cover of "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis", partly because I really like hearing a woman's voice singing those sad, beautiful words.

re rahrich

Thanks so much!

Devlyn

Created a YouTube Music playlist and added all song suggestions in the comments (as of 1240 PT): https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmwUx64qTPmlcpHB0F_DCy3qSLPIyEG44&si=AnTGjTDVtMkR37Sc

Jenni Stewart

I love the baby it’s cold outside by Lydia Liza and Josiah Lemanski - aka the one that doesn’t make you feel weird. And Winter Song by The Head and the Heart

Jenni Stewart

And for a 90s addition, east 17 in their puffy puffy coats has to be in there too

Libby Smith

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ks9pLq1JymXVjQm5Vt351?si=f9St0QEVTeSPw_0ilF0gkA&pi=Txqk9Gs5RauIS

Elisabeth Pedersen

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Lily

This is great! My personal favorite, John Prine’s Christmas in Prison would fit in well ❤️

Tinkerlord

Winter Ahead by V and Park Hyo Shin is a great jazzy Christmas-y song!

Marcus Wrightus

This is awesome! Going to add some of these to our Xmas playlist

Fallon X Gold

Barbra Streisand - Jingle Bells

beesher

On the YAG Discord we shared Christmas playlists, and I would like to commend you both for also appreciating the beauty of Boney M at Christmas. 🎄

Emily

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4h7lgHGd36eLYYShcJrbIK?si=rLkOU-QoRWeoRm__PX3RDA&pi=THBTYAwqSfiyD

Lisa

Happy Xmas by John Lennon and Yoko Ono is another good one!

Bailey Doolittle

Do you have a link? I can't seem to find the playlist by simple searching on Spotify 😔

Ijeoma (pajamagirl) O.

🎶I'll be just fiiiiiiiii-ne and daandy!!🎶😭

Mallory Simons

Adding all of these to my Christmas playlist!! My only suggestion is White Wine in the Sun. I think Kate Miller-Heidke’s version is particularly beautiful

Eleanor Hawtin

Can't believe I forgot The Darkness! Absolutely seconding.

Brooke Opie

I also love Father Christmas by the Kinks and Christmas Time by The Darkness.

Helen Herrick

Love it! My humble suggestion: Hard Candy Christmas by Dolly Parton would fit right in here!

Eleanor Hawtin

There are a lot of UK Christmas classics that never made it across the pond! I recommend Shakin' Stevens "Merry Christmas Everyone", Slade "Merry Xmas Everybody", Wizzard "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday", Mud "Lonely This Christmas", Greg Lake "I Believe in Father Christmas", Jona Lewie "Stop the Cavalry".

Emily

I've created the playlist on Spotify under the same name for anyone who wants a listen but doesn't want to do the work of compiling!

Juliane Schneider

Great list! The right wing radio station my mom is addicted to (WLW Cincinnati) is very upset with 'Happy Holidays' (the war against Merry Christmas). Bing Crosby, noted woke liberal pussy-man from 1942! Can't stop giggling.