XTC - Thanks for Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VhonU1aMw4
Bethan - In the Bleak Midwinter: (lullaby; wait for the moody strings)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmMQvU13Wi0
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, featuring Obama - Silent Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuFURWSZkcI
Pearl Jam - Someday at Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGCnzz9H0Ws
EDIT: Is there also a place for classic folk songs across the FV…?
Me, I’ve found three absolute corkers, all tackling the song “500 Miles.” I find each version remarkably unique and moving in their own ways, but I’d rather unleash them upon the most-appropriate community, if that makes sense…
EDIT2: If you really insist upon a small sample of such, then let’s go with Joan Baez:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_K6z3HiRAs
Hahaha… I love that DEVO song, plus the video!
Thank you for that.At the same, I also love Weird Al. And yet, that was one of the truly WORST songs I’ve ever heard of his, oh dear… XD
Some personal favorites of mine:
Can you make it a playlist and add all suggested songs? Would love to hear through them
I think I answered the wrong question 😅
But you can post to wavlake.com or fountain.fm and monetize too if they’re original compositions.
Anything recently published by “There I ruined it” (the full songs are locked on his Patreon but well worth it for darker themes.
Same with “Almost Vinyl” (The only good reason for AI edited songs):
https://open.spotify.com/album/3VZ6JgoLOMQlnQCQQcqaMA“Your uncle’s late again, last minute Christmas shopping at the airport, a dozen ringer tees he bought at Eddie Rickenbacker’s bar–ladies extra extra large” is such a mood
Edit: jfc I keep fat-fingering my phone today, posting before finishing my thoughts. Here’s what I intended:
I also really enjoy Christmas in Jail from that same album!
Found it a few years ago after discovering the Omnibus podcast that John Roderick co-hosts with Ken Jennings.
I always lean to Xmas with Doom for my seasonal vibes.
The whole album is amazing but “XXXmas ladies” is my fuckin jam
If you want to cry
Off topic but I do t like that santa pictire
Wow, AI got the number of strings right… but then you notice the belt buckle.
It’s santas chastity belt
The mouths always look like some kind of eldritch horror to me. I’ve noticed this also on AI-generated blue singers on YouTube.
Metal Santa goes well every time.
August Burns Red - Carol of the Bells
Honestly most of that album “Sleddin’ Hill” shreds pretty hard 🤘
The Pogues:
New found glory-let it go (frozen cover)
The kinks-father Christmas
Bad religion has an entire Christmas themed album
The pogues-fairytale of New York
Midnight Riders - All I want for Christmas is to kick your ass
Holy hell, that was both hilarious and awesome!
Also, that caused me to remember that one Eddie Vedder tune. (now added to the list, above)
My top ten:
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100 gecs — “Sympathy for the Grinch”
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Andrea Perry — “Fat Aunt Bette”
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The Primatives — “You Trashed My Christmas”
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The Barbary Coasters — “I’ve Been Naughty (and Nice)”
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Fountains of Wayne — “The Man in the Santa Suit”
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The Killers — “Cowboys’ Christmas Ball” (cover)
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The Kinks — “Father Christmas”
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Thomas Heinl — “Christmas Tree on Fire”
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Emmy the Great — “Christmas Day (and I Wish I Was Surfing)”
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The Reverend Horton Heat — “Santa Bring My Baby Back”
I’ll try to loop back through and add non-spotify links as I can.
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It’s not new necessarily, but Father Christmas by the Kinks is criminally underplayed
Police nabbed my Dad - Bobnoxious https://youtu.be/SUqp-COhlMc
