2020 Secular Christmas Music Playlist
A_Ron_Hubbard
Cincinnati, OH
in General
Hey all, I finally got my Christmas music playlist up and going! You can follow it here: "Secular Christmas" on YouTube Music. Yeah, I hate YouTube Music, but what can you do? Google decided Play was just too good.
Anyway, I used to just listen to the 24x7 Christmas music station that you always have, but one year I swear every 2-3 songs they'd throw in the most syrupy, off key version of "Mary Did You Know?" and I'd fucking lose my mind. So Cecily and I started curating our own playlist, and this is the result. 135 songs, making up over six hours of Christmas bliss. Shuffle for best results.
Some nots: 1) This isn't purely secular. We don't burst into flame anytime someone mentions God or Jesus or angels, but if you're one of THOSE atheists, this maybe isn't your list. 2) There are some weepy bitter sweet Christmas songs in here, because sometimes Christmas is weepy and bitter sweet. If you've lost someone this year, or are going through a breakup, or are, I don't know, isolated from friends and family because of some global pandemic... be ready for the skip button if it gets to be too much. 3) We tried to do a good mix of classic versions of Christmas standards, covers of same, straight up bobs, and some novelty/comedy songs that we personally like.
What did we miss? Discuss below! Who knows, we might add it?
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some favorites of mine (other than the more obvious ones):
Army Navy - Cold Cold Christmas
Lenka - All My Bells Are Ringing
A wonderful Thanksgiving to all, and to all a good night.
Also, thanks for not being a Spotify guy. I am boycotting them because of the exclusivity deals they keep signing with podcasters, and how unfriendly their platform is to podcast consumers.
(The original though, not any kind of weird remake.)
First, I'm shocked this one isn't on there yet! Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Kay Starr - The Man With The Bag
June Christy - The Merriest
Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock
The Andrews Sisters/Bing Crosby - Christmas Island
Frankie Carle - Little Jack Frost Get Lost
Peggy Lee - Winter Weather
http://forums.baldmove.com/discussion/2757/non-traditional-christmas-songs/p1
http://forums.baldmove.com/discussion/5651/holiday-music
Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run
Brian Setzer Orchestra - Nutcracker Suite
Not sure if you could call it secular, but it's definitely not your traditional "God is going right down your throat, you fucking sinner!" Christmas song.
Nostalgia is a hell of a thing.
Edit - if you want some weird shit here's Santa Clause is Coming to Town sung by Tommy Tutone to the tune of 867-5309
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekp0TyaYnEM
The whole album (hopefully this link works) is pretty wild - Iggy Pop, James Brown, Air Supply, to name a few
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7hVeyF21CA&list=OLAK5uy_m8TjLOSlJ5LK7vMmYT-Vw_cXIBKHbylDA
Also look at that album art lol.
The Community Soundtrack is on Spotify and has Sensitive Night
I told you about this one on Twitter, but I heard it again this morning and it's just too goddamn good.
Of Montreal - Christmas Isn't Safe For the Animals
Christmas classic... Dick in a Box
Not a Christmas or necessarily a holiday song, but I've seen it on holiday mixes so...
Christmas at Ground Zero!
finally, Aimee Mann made a really good Christmas record a few years back. Worth a spin. I particularly like her Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
O Holy Night (I'm not a religious person, but I'm a sucker for O Holy Night. Just a beautiful song in general)
O Come O Come Emmanuel
And one more secular number
Gold Bears - XMas Song
”Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)”
“All I want for Creepy Christmas”
https://youtu.be/ZE4shVkwqIk
And if anyone is a chance the rapper song, his Christmas album is pretty good. This song is now on my yearly list:
I'd forgotten the song existed and then it just came up on Spotify's Christmas Classics list. Pretty catchy, even if the lyrics are a bit dark. So it should fit the list just fine:
Though it does drop the f-word slur, so maybe that disqualifies.
"Cool Yule" by Louis Armstrong