1 |
Megaraptor |
"Carol of the Bells" |
single |
Every year I think "Maybe this year just no Christmas music. The world has enough. Really, more than enough." But then every year there's something like a metal version of "Carol of the Bells" by some Finnish half-joke act called Megaraptor that apparently hardly anybody knows, and I accept that some dissident fragment of this grand and horrible shared task falls to me. |
2 |
First to Eleven |
"Last Christmas" |
A Very First to Eleven Christmas |
You have to fight everything with joy. |
3 |
Carlos Rivera |
"El Niño del Tambor" |
single |
You have to give what you have. |
4 |
Planetshakers |
"Angels We Have Heard On High" |
It's Christmas |
Every time you look down on something, a petulant angel drops a beat on your head. |
5 |
San Scout |
"Christmas Number One" |
single |
Look up. You can make any day your own. |
6 |
Now, Now |
"Lonely Christmas" |
single |
You get to chose what you miss, |
7 |
Phoebe Bridgers |
"7 O'Clock News / Silent Night" |
single |
and how much you forgive. |
8 |
Orion's Reign |
"Joy to the World (Symphonic Heavy Metal Version)" |
single |
The room you prepare for imaginary regents |
9 |
Alessia Cara |
"Make It To Christmas" |
single |
is a room someone real needs. |
10 |
Lucy Dacus |
"Last Christmas" |
single |
Whatever you hate, you are not alone. |
11 |
Chris & Bethany Solyntjes |
"Away in a Manger / He Has Come" |
single |
The beliefs you release collect somewhere temporarily on their way into space, |
12 |
Leah |
"Noël Nouvelet" |
Ancient Winter |
or history. |
13 |
Jasmine Cain |
"Fairytale of New York" |
single |
Every holiday is about how we measure and contain our time here. |
14 |
Saara Aalto |
"Every Christmas Day" |
Fairytale - International EP 6 |
The new songs may be more self-aware, |
15 |
Temperance |
"Lost in the Christmas Dream" |
single |
or less, |
16 |
The Animal In Me |
"Last Christmas" |
single |
but ultimately all rituals are traditions of loss |
17 |
TeamMate |
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" |
The Szn 4 |
we gather under to kiss. |
18 |
Self Esteem |
"All I Want For Christmas Is A Work Email" |
single |
The existence of gifts implies the possibility of change. |
19 |
Phil Rey |
"Odin Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" |
A Viking Christmas 4 |
I asked for golden rings and ravens |
20 |
First to Eleven |
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" |
A Very First to Eleven Christmas |
and everything to be brighter and faster, |
21 |
Durrty Goodz |
"Bar Code #7 Rasta Claus" |
single |
for 808s and myrrh, |
22 |
Landroid |
"Little Drummer Boy" |
single |
for switches closing and futures opening, |
23 |
Craig Cardiff |
"Fairytale of New York" |
Fairytale of New York +1 |
for redemption and revision. |
24 |
Josie Cotton |
"Every Day Like Christmas" |
single |
I remember my first 10-speed bike, and the Star Wars digital watch with different stickers, |
25 |
NateWantsToBattle |
"Making Christmas" |
single |
and my daughter will remember something else that only has value as an investment in future nostalgia. |
26 |
Fly By Nightcore |
"All I Want For Christmas Is You" |
single |
The demands of the elves are just, however shrill. |
27 |
Halocene |
"Winter Wonderland" |
single |
We took their ice cap. Landing sleighs on exposed basalt rips up the runners, and the workshops were never made to be cooled. |
28 |
NanowaR of Steel |
"Valhalleluja" |
single |
They do not exist to supply the rest of us with distraction. |
29 |
Blender |
"Se Lucia" |
single |
We are our own saints now. |
30 |
17 Memphis |
"Golden Days" |
single |
Here's to wanting what we've already got, |
31 |
Thyla |
"December" |
single |
and inventing days for thinking about whatever we have turned away. |
32 |
A Hero for the World |
"Angels We Have Heard On High / Hark The Herald Angels Sing" |
single |
The angels sing, or we would have forgotten them long ago. |
33 |
Cariño |
"X Navidad" |
single |
We ask for things we do not have the power to give, |
34 |
Stages and Stereos |
"All I Want for Christmas Is You" |
single |
in voices of ringing willingness |
35 |
Cole Rolland |
"Carol of the Bells" |
single |
and tolerant pantomimes we hope one day all or none of us believe. |