# Topic Playlist (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 26, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687 "2024-01-26T15:37:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 136
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2701 "2024-12-22T13:16:49Z")
**Cynical or subversive Christmas songs.** 1. It’s Christmas at Ground Zero - Weird Al Yankovik 2. Father Christmas - The Kinks ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2702 "2024-12-22T16:46:43Z")
**Cynical or subversive Christmas songs.** 1. It’s Christmas at Ground Zero - Weird Al Yankovik 2. Father Christmas - The Kinks 3. Circle of Steel - Gordon Lightfoot ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2703 "2024-12-22T19:55:48Z")
**Cynical or subversive Christmas songs.** 1. It’s Christmas at Ground Zero - Weird Al Yankovik 2. Father Christmas - The Kinks 3. Circle of Steel - Gordon Lightfoot 4. Santa Claus Is Watching You - Ray Stevens ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2704 "2024-12-22T20:09:43Z")
**Cynical or subversive Christmas songs.** 1. It’s Christmas at Ground Zero - Weird Al Yankovik 2. Father Christmas - The Kinks 3. Circle of Steel - Gordon Lightfoot 4. Santa Claus Is Watching You - Ray Stevens 5. The Twelve Pains of Christmas - Bob Rivers ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2024, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2705 "2024-12-22T21:52:09Z")
**Cynical or subversive Christmas songs.** 1. It’s Christmas at Ground Zero - Weird Al Yankovik 2. Father Christmas - The Kinks 3. Circle of Steel - Gordon Lightfoot 4. Santa Claus Is Watching You - Ray Stevens 5. The Twelve Pains of Christmas - Bob Rivers 6. Carol of the Old Ones - unknown (maybe A. H. Lehman?) [Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB39OqlJsm4&t=3s) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2706 "2024-12-23T02:12:49Z")
**Cynical or subversive Christmas songs.** 1. It’s Christmas at Ground Zero - Weird Al Yankovik 2. Father Christmas - The Kinks 3. Circle of Steel - Gordon Lightfoot 4. Santa Claus Is Watching You - Ray Stevens 5. The Twelve Pains of Christmas - Bob Rivers 6. Carol of the Old Ones - unknown (maybe A. H. Lehman?) 7. Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) - The Darkness ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2707 "2024-12-23T16:28:48Z")
**Cynical or subversive Christmas songs.** 1. It’s Christmas at Ground Zero - Weird Al Yankovik 2. Father Christmas - The Kinks 3. Circle of Steel - Gordon Lightfoot 4. Santa Claus Is Watching You - Ray Stevens 5. The Twelve Pains of Christmas - Bob Rivers 6. Carol of the Old Ones - unknown (maybe A. H. Lehman?) 7. Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) - The Darkness 8. A Christmas Song - Tom Lehrer _Christmas time is here by golly Disapproval would be folly Deck the halls with hunks of holly Fill the cups and don’t say when_ ---
**Author:** ![Nonsuch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonsuch/32/2922_2.png) [@Nonsuch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nonsuch)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2708 "2024-12-24T17:47:27Z")
**Cynical or subversive Christmas songs.** 1. It’s Christmas at Ground Zero - Weird Al Yankovik 2. Father Christmas - The Kinks 3. Circle of Steel - Gordon Lightfoot 4. Santa Claus Is Watching You - Ray Stevens 5. The Twelve Pains of Christmas - Bob Rivers 6. Carol of the Old Ones - unknown (maybe A. H. Lehman?) 7. Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) - The Darkness 8. A Christmas Song - Tom Lehrer 9. Christmas Is Pain - The Foremen ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2709 "2024-12-24T19:40:14Z")
**Cynical or subversive Christmas songs.** 1. It’s Christmas at Ground Zero - Weird Al Yankovik 2. Father Christmas - The Kinks 3. Circle of Steel - Gordon Lightfoot 4. Santa Claus Is Watching You - Ray Stevens 5. The Twelve Pains of Christmas - Bob Rivers 6. Carol of the Old Ones - unknown (maybe A. H. Lehman?) 7. Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) - The Darkness 8. A Christmas Song - Tom Lehrer 9. Christmas Is Pain - The Foremen 10. All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) - Spike Jones and His City Slickers We don’t need no stinkin presents. **Happy (or not so happy) New Years songs** 1. New Years Day - U2 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2710 "2024-12-24T20:09:07Z")
**Happy (or not so happy) New Years songs** 1. New Years Day - U2 2. It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve - Barry Manilow ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2711 "2024-12-24T20:13:21Z")
**Happy (or not so happy) New Years songs** 1. New Years Day - U2 2. It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve - Barry Manilow 3. Another Old Lang Syne – Dan Fogelberg _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2712 "2024-12-26T14:26:49Z")
**Happy (or not so happy) New Years songs** 1. New Years Day - U2 2. It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve - Barry Manilow 3. Another Old Lang Syne – Dan Fogelberg 4. New Year’s Polka - Weird Al Yankovic & Jimmy Fallon ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2713 "2024-12-26T15:12:45Z")
**Happy (or not so happy) New Years songs** 1. New Years Day - U2 2. It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve - Barry Manilow 3. Another Old Lang Syne – Dan Fogelberg 4. New Year’s Polka - Weird Al Yankovic & Jimmy Fallon 5. This WIll Be Our Year - the Zombies ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2714 "2024-12-26T15:14:01Z")
**Happy (or not so happy) New Years songs** 1. New Years Day - U2 2. It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve - Barry Manilow 3. Another Old Lang Syne – Dan Fogelberg 4. New Year’s Polka - Weird Al Yankovic & Jimmy Fallon 5. This WIll Be Our Year - the Zombies 6. This Will Be My Year - Semisonic ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2715 "2024-12-26T16:00:06Z")
**Happy (or not so happy) New Years songs** 1. New Years Day - U2 2. It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve - Barry Manilow 3. Another Old Lang Syne – Dan Fogelberg 4. New Year’s Polka - Weird Al Yankovic & Jimmy Fallon 5. This WIll Be Our Year - the Zombies 6. This Will Be My Year - Semisonic 7. What Are You Doing New Year’s (New Year’s Eve)? - Tony Bennett ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2716 "2024-12-26T18:17:36Z")
[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:2715, topic:996687, full:true”] **Happy (or not so happy) New Years songs** 1. New Years Day - U2 2. It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve - Barry Manilow 3. Another Old Lang Syne – Dan Fogelberg 4. New Year’s Polka - Weird Al Yankovic & Jimmy Fallon 5. This WIll Be Our Year - the Zombies 6. This Will Be My Year - Semisonic 7. What Are You Doing New Year’s (New Year’s Eve)? - Tony Bennett 8. I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan Lets open it up a bit to keep the thread moving. No need to be a literal NYE song. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2717 "2024-12-26T19:18:20Z")
**Happy (or not so happy) New Years songs** 1. New Years Day - U2 2. It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve - Barry Manilow 3. Another Old Lang Syne – Dan Fogelberg 4. New Year’s Polka - Weird Al Yankovic & Jimmy Fallon 5. This WIll Be Our Year - the Zombies 6. This Will Be My Year - Semisonic 7. What Are You Doing New Year’s (New Year’s Eve)? - Tony Bennett 8. I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan 9. Auld Lang Syne - Guy Lombardo & the Royal Canadians ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2718 "2024-12-31T18:37:19Z")
**Happy (or not so happy) New Years songs** 1. New Years Day - U2 2. It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve - Barry Manilow 3. Another Old Lang Syne – Dan Fogelberg 4. New Year’s Polka - Weird Al Yankovic & Jimmy Fallon 5. This WIll Be Our Year - the Zombies 6. This Will Be My Year - Semisonic 7. What Are You Doing New Year’s (New Year’s Eve)? - Tony Bennett 8. I Will Remember You - Sarah McLachlan 9. Auld Lang Syne - Guy Lombardo & the Royal Canadians 10. The New Year - Death Cab for Cutie **You can begin the New Year with just 5 records (or albums)** 1. _Crime of the Century_ - Supertramp; _Animals_ - Pink Floyd; _Madman Across the Water_ - Elton John; _Taboo_ - Arthur Lyman; _It’s Like This_ - Rickie Lee Jones ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2719 "2024-12-31T18:50:44Z")
**You can begin the New Year with just 5 records (or albums)** 1. _Crime of the Century_ - Supertramp; _Animals_ - Pink Floyd; _Madman Across the Water_ - Elton John; _Taboo_ - Arthur Lyman; _It’s Like This_ - Rickie Lee Jones 2. _World Boogie Is Coming_ - North Mississippi Allstars; Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s self-titled album; _Sketches of Spain_ - Miles Davis; _Pulsing Signals_ - Gong; _In Times New Roman_ - Queens of the Stone Age Tricky question, really, as it would change day to day or maybe even hour to hour. Right now, though, this is where I would land. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687/2720 "2024-12-31T19:00:05Z")
**You can begin the New Year with just 5 records (or albums)** 1. _Crime of the Century_ - Supertramp; _Animals_ - Pink Floyd; _Madman Across the Water_ - Elton John; _Taboo_ - Arthur Lyman; _It’s Like This_ - Rickie Lee Jones 2. _World Boogie Is Coming_ - North Mississippi Allstars; Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s self-titled album; _Sketches of Spain_ - Miles Davis; _Pulsing Signals_ - Gong; _In Times New Roman_ - Queens of the Stone Age 3. _Child Is Father To The Man_ - Blood, Sweat & Tears; _12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus_ - Spirit’ _Fragile_ - Yes; _Trilogy_ - Emerson, Lake & Palmer; _Bridge Over Troubled Water_ - Simon & Garfunkel [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687.md?page=135) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/topic-playlist-part-3/996687.md?page=137)