I’m in the mood for some alternative christmas music.
There is one song, that isn’t really Xmas, but holiday oriented called " Pagans and Christians" ( or something) eating at a table. I can’t find it right now.
But anything that is offbeat and fun.
Christmas Rapping by the Waitresses. One of my favorites.
I said it in the Pit thread about Christmas music, but I believe it bears repeating.
Christmas Song by Jethro Tull
I Believe In Father Christmas by ELP
Father Christmas by The Kinks
On Yoolis Night by Anonymous 4
Christmas in Hollis by Run DMC.
One Christmas Catalogue by **Captain Sensible ** always makes me giggle.
If you’re in a very silly mood, how about The twelve days of Christmas by those hoseheads from the Great White North : Bob & Doug MacKenzie? Who can resist “and a beeeeeer in a treeeeeee”.
No Christmas is complete without Cheech & Chong’s Santa Clause and His Old Lady.
It’s a Christmas Eve tradition on the local classic rock station.
As cheesy as it is, I still love the song “She Won’t Be Home” by Erasure.
I don’t know if you can call this one alternative anymore, it seems to have jumped to the mainstream, but Bruce Springsteen’s version of “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” is my favorite.
Also, “Snoopy’s Christmas” by The Royal Guardsmen, “A Wonderful Christmas Time” by Paul McCartney, and “Jingle Bells” by the Brian Setzer Orchestra are other favorites.
And I thoroughly recommend “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” by Brian Setzer and Ann-Margaret.
Oh, I love that one.
We are going to learn “Adeste Fideles” this year. So I’m in the mood for Latin carols!
Oh, lordy lordy lordy…well, I suppose you did ask for it.
I’m Gonna Spend My Christmas With A Dalek, by the Go-Gos. No, not the Belinda Carlisle Go-Gos, some 1960s British pop group. Be warned: this song is horrifyingly bad.
“The Christmas Boogie” by the Davis Sisters (brief bio on top half of this page ). You can hear a bit of it here.
Hmmm, let’s see…
I suggest
Danielle Dax’s “Blue Christmas”
Cocteau Twins’ “Winter Wonderland”
Mary Margaret O’Hara’s …well, all of her Christmas stuff
“Deck The Halls” from Count Your Blessings (Holly Cole vocal)
(all this stuff is out-of-print)
I have always liked the Muppets “On the First Day of Christmas”
Beaker’s part is wonderful!
Wow. There are no words.
Christmas Cookies by George Strait:
Pretty much everything on the December CD from The Moody Blues
“Silent Night” by The Music City Brass–and anything else by them, really.
“Oiche Chiun” by Enya
“A Party for Santa”, “Rockabilly Christmas”, and “Mr. Heatmiser” by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. Yes, “Heatmiser” also has Snowmiser’s lyrics.
“Christmas in Dixie” by Alabama
“Christmas in Hollis” by Run-DMC
“Christmas in the City” by Angie Martinez & Mary J. Blige
“Christmas Vacation” by Mavis Staples
“Frosty the Snowman” off the Jack Frost soundtrack
“Winter Wonderland” by Harry Connick, Jr., off the When Harry Met Sally… soundtrack.
“Winter Wonderland” by Eurythmics
“O Christmas Tree” by Aretha Franklin
“Back Door Santa” by B.B. King & John Popper
“Is Christmas Only a Tree”, “Looks Like a Cold, Cold Winter”, “Christmas in Killarney”, and “You’re All I Want for Christmas” by Bing Crosby
“Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” by Bing Crosby & Ella Fitzgerald
“Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”, “I Wonder as I Wander”, “Face of Love”, and “Hands” by Jewel
“The Twelve Pains of Christmas” by Bob Rivers and Twisted Radio
“Christmas Eve in My Home Town” by Bobby Vinton
“The Birth of Christ” by Boyz II Men
“Boogie Woogie Santa Claus”, “Dig That Crazy Santa Claus”, “Gettin’ in the Mood (for Christmas)”, “Santa Claus Is Back in Town”, “Santa Drives a Hot Rod”, “So They Say it’s Christmas”, and “The Man with the Bag” by The Brian Setzer Orchestra
“Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy” by Buck Owens
“O Come All Ye Faithful” by City High
“Til Santa’s Gone (Milk and Cookies)” by Clint Black
“Christmas Tears” by Eric Clapton
“Christmas Delight” by The Four Tops
“Little Jack Frost Get Lost” by Frankie Carle & His Orchestra
“If it Doesn’t Snow on Christmas Day” by Gene Autry
“Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto” by James Brown
“Santa Claus is Watching You” by Ray Stevens
“Leroy the Redneck Reindeer” by Joe Diffie
“Chrismas Blues” by John Popper & Eric Clapton
“They Shined Up Rudolph’s Nose” by Johnny Horton
“The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)” by Johnny Mathis
“Santa Claus Got Stuck in My Chimney” by Lisa Nichole Carson
“Surfin’ Santa” by Lord Douglas Bryan
“Dominick the Donkey” by Lou Monte
“Christmas in New Orleans” and “Zat You Santa Claus” by Louis Armstrong
“Even Santa Gets the Blues” by Marty Robbins
“Lonely Christmas” by The Moonglows
“Mrs. Santa Claus” by Nat King Cole
“Children Go Where I Send Thee” by Natalie Merchant
“Funky, Funky Xmas” by New Kids on the Block
“Oi to the World” by No Doubt
“Peace” by Nora Jones
“It’s Christmas Time Once Again” by The Oak Ridge Boys
“All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Olivia Olson
“It’s Christmas Everywhere” by Paul Anka
“Christmas Don’t Be Late” by Powder
“Jingle Bell Rock” by Randy Travis
“Suzy Snowflake” by Rosemary Clooney
“Snoopy’s Christmas” and “It Kinda Looks Like Christmas” by The Royal Guardsmen
“Twistin’ Bells” by Santo & Johnny
“Christmas Time” by Smashing Pumpkins
“We Three Kings” by Spinal Tap
“Christmas Is the Time to Say I Love You” by SR-71
“Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand” by Steve Winwood
“Merry Christmas Baby” by Stevie Wonder & Wyclef Jean
“Gabriel’s Message” by Sting
“Twinkle Twinkle Little Me” by The Supremes
“A Surfer’s Christmas List” by The Surfaris
“Little Drummer Boy” by The Tokens
“Little Red Rooster” by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
“Chirstmas Eve (Sarejevo 12/24)” and “Mad Russian’s Christmas” by The Trans-Siberian Orchestra
“Sleigh Ride” by The Ventures
“Please Come Home for Christmas” by Willie Nelson
“Little Drummer Boy / Hot Hot Hot” by Wyclef Jean
I know this is a thread for Christmas music but I must recommend “Al Hanissim” by Cantor Nathan Lam & The National Symphony of Israel.