The Bible also tells the visit by the magi to be a some time afterwards (it takes a while to travel ‘from the East’ to Jerusalem after all), so I don’t think that level of accuracy is required ;).
No, that’s Christmas at Ground Zero (the Weird Al version, not anything 9-11 related)
What the heck is that, and who even claims it has anything to do with Christmas? I (obviously) didn’t listen to the whole thing, but so far as I can tell, it’s just an hour-long loop of four bars of guitar repeated ad nauseum.
It’s an instrumental cover of a Velvet Underground song. It’s not a loop, either. It’s played all the way through and the song builds and progresses, with the same chordal drone underneath. Pretty cool if you’re into noisy psychedelia. I’ve never heard it before, but I’m really diggin it. (And I think Gato’s Christmas comment was them making a funny.)
Good King Wenceslas. It says he looked out “on the feast of Stephen.” That’s on St. Stephen’s Day, December 26th.
“Here We Come A Wassailing” - the lyrics refer to the new year, but nothing about Christmas. Unless, and this seems like a stretch to me, you insist that “wassailing” was the practice of going from house to house boozing it up and singing carols.
There’s nothing about Christmas or Jesus in “Good King Wenceslas” either, though there is snow, and lots of it. Fails my heart, I know not how. The closest is the very last verse: “Therefore, Christian men, be sure / Wealth or rank possessing / He who now will bless the poor / Shall himself find blessing.”
“…on your feets, uneven.”
Indeed, wassailing was going door to door asking for alms, booze or food during the Christmas season by caroling.
Good King does occur on Saint Stephen’s Day, Dec 26th.
Who do you think “the Lord God omnipotent” refers to?
My job is done here. 
Oh, and while we’re at it, while the song in Gatopescado’s video is instrumental and thus safe for work, the image displayed in the video (album cover?) is a pseudo-cubist collage image of a naked woman, and thus NSFW. I’ve thus spoilered the link.
Well that seems to say more about you than about the song. It says that when the coffee and pumpkin pie reach you, you just tuck in, instead of passing it along.
I don’t know if they still do this, but for awhile they played Put a Little Love in your heart during Christmas due to the movie Scrooged. Definitely not a Christmas song.
Liturgically, that’s still Christmas. It’s only our modern, secular approach to Christmas that front-loads everything related to Christmas into Advent or earlier and then proceeds to completely ignore Christmas once we’re actually in Christmas.
A few spring to mind.
Wintertime by The Belmonts is another winter-themed song which references “holiday fun” but is really more of a upbeat party song about winter.
A-Souling was a staple in the Christmas concert repertoire of Peter Paul and Mary and is often covered in Christmas concerts by others,but is really more of a Halloween song. The practice of beggars and children walking door to door and singing for “soul cakes” in exchange for prayers for the release of the families’ loved ones from Purgatory were most commonly associated with the triune holiday of All Hallows’ Tide - All Hallow’s Eve (Hallowe’en), All Saints Day, and All Souls Day, although the practice may not have been unknown at Christmastime before the Protestant Reformation.
Despite the title, Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis by Tom Waits isn’t really much about Christmas.
I’ve seen New York’s a Lonely Town included on Christmas anthologies, but it’s another Winter song - the plight of a surfer whose parents relocated to New York and whose Woodie is covered in snow.
Mull of Kintyre by Paul McCartney is also associated with Christmas (possibly because of mulled wine) but has no Christmas connection really.
Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!..
The people most commonly referred in English as “the Magi” are called “the Magi Kings” or “the Three Kings” in many languages, including English.
You guys ever heard the expression “the twelve days of Christmas”? The twelfth day is the Epiphany, the commemoration of the visit of the Magi. It’s the last feastday of the Christmas season.
Not quite- wassailing is a (predominantly) Southwest English tradition that normally takes place in January. The songs sung wassailing are apple or harvest related, and it’s supposed to help ensure a good harvest next year, it’s not Christmassy at all.
I’ve been wassailing (though the alternative version, which is around the orchard, rather than round the town), and been carol singing; two different song sets, two different traditions, though with there being two midwinter traditions of going round houses singing and asking for booze, it’s not surprising that they get conflated.
My old allotment site orchard does a wassail most years, which is a bit twee and self conscious, where they explain the traditional significance of everything, ending with a tiny sip of cider each. My old beekeeping group also runs one (the site was left to them on condition that they hold a wassail every year- not enforceable, but hey), which involves a bonfire, shotguns, loads of cake and enough booze that you don’t feel like a twit singing weird medieval sings. Much better, and I suspect a lot closer to the original.
Hey, any excuse for a party is a good one. “But we have to; it’s a condition of having inherited the site!”
And asterion, St. Stephen’s Day is during the Christmas season, but it’s not part of Christmas. It’s like calling a St. Patrick celebration a Lenten observance: Yes, it’s always part of Lent, but that’s just by coincidence.
Nitpick: Though Parton sang it in the"Best Little Whorehouse" movie, the song was actually written by Carol Hall