1 |
The Sound That Ends Creation |
"Deck The Halls" |
Merry Christmas You Filthy Animal 4 |
Tradition exists to remind you to think about old rules, |
2 |
Parry Gripp |
"Raining Tacos (On Christmas Eve)" |
single |
and thus rule-making and time, |
3 |
Tori Amos |
"Christmastide" |
Christmastide +3 |
and thus rule-breaking and what you will do with the next unruled and unruly moment. |
4 |
Tinashe |
"O Holy night" |
Comfort & Joy |
I have walked through Jerusalem under sentinel and beckoning stars, |
5 |
Trella |
"Christmas Party" |
single |
looking for a fabled ATM that performs a bank withdrawal instead of a credit advance, |
6 |
Maggie Rose |
"Happier New Year (Christmas is Canceled)" |
Happier New Year / The Christmas Song 2 |
and an imagined explanation of how incompatible factions closely coexist |
7 |
Imogen Clark |
"My Last Christmas With You" |
single |
or how we come to believe insanely in the incompatibility of mere factions. |
8 |
Saara Aalto |
"Every Christmas Day" |
single |
The stars ask you to look up, the phone maps ask you to look down, |
9 |
Poppy |
"I Won't Be Home For Christmas" |
single |
but both inclinations of your head are professions of satellite confidence, |
10 |
Polly Scattergood |
"Snowburden" |
single |
and in these canyon streets, both remind you that precision is as much a modern affectation |
11 |
Balam Acab |
"breath of frost" |
Christmas Euphoria 4 |
as ATMs based on precedent instead of anticipation, |
12 |
Sam Fender |
"Winter Song" |
single |
or soft metal instead of aromatic resin. |
13 |
Roses & Revolutions |
"All Winter" |
single |
Take a picture of somebody else's glittering holiday tableau, |
14 |
SayWeCanFly |
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" |
single |
and then count the reflections of yourself in its facets. |
15 |
so much for silence |
"this christmas song is bringing me down" |
single |
Take a picture of your own expectations and reservations. |
16 |
Syqem |
"beLIEf (The Christmas Song)" |
single |
With this power you open a portal |
17 |
Majestica |
"A Christmas Story" |
A Christmas Carol |
to uncountable glorious realms |
18 |
Gathering Of Kings |
"December (Christmas)" |
December (Christmas) +1 |
that have always been layers of our skin. |
19 |
Me And The Rest |
"Last Christmas" |
single |
This year will be different. |
20 |
Cole Rolland |
"Carol of the Bells" |
single |
But then, cyclic difference is all we mean by years, |
21 |
Palm Lakes |
"It's Christmas All Over The World" |
single |
all we hope to find by losing ourselves through methodical evasions like |
22 |
Patty Gurdy |
"The Yule Fiddler (Christmas Time Is Coming 'Round Today)" |
Frost & Faeries 6 |
navigating by the long-discarded light of centuries-old fire |
23 |
Parry Gripp |
"Reggie the Christmas Hamster" |
Jingle Burgers - A Parry Gripp Christmas Album |
or assigning miraculous powers to wooden boxes that rock or soar, |
24 |
Loveless |
"Last Christmas" |
single |
all we need to believe in ourselves. |
25 |
First to Eleven |
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" |
A Very First to Eleven Christmas EP 2020 6 |
You will be offered meager temporary rewards for great ongoing sacrifices |
26 |
Escape the Fate |
"Christmas Song" |
single |
by the supposed architects of eternally prospective paradises. |
27 |
Halocene |
"Winter Wonderland" |
Halocene Holidays 5 |
Print their emails and make them into paper airplanes and set the wings on fire in a snowy field at midnight. |
28 |
All Above Me |
"Little Drummer Boy" |
single |
Excitement and warmth and pointless waiting and a small hole melted towards the center of the earth |
29 |
Gold, Frankincense, & Myrrh |
"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" |
single |
are better than just pointless waiting by itself. |
30 |
Alex Lahey |
"Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)" |
single |
Take a picture of something inanimate and implacable, |
31 |
Johnnyswim |
"Little Drummer Boy" |
single |
dressed as if it endorses something to which it is stoically oblivious. |
32 |
Parry Gripp |
"I Want an Allosaurus for Christmas" |
Jingle Burgers - A Parry Gripp Christmas Album |
Make a list of gifts you cannot be given, |
33 |
100 gecs |
"sympathy 4 the grinch" |
single |
and then refuse to be judged for them. |
34 |
ChuggaBoom |
"All I Want For Christmas" |
single |
We are the hopeless ironic creatures who become intolerantly possessive of specific codices of giving, |
35 |
Vistas |
"Merry Christmas Everyone - Recorded at Parr Street Studios" |
single |
and dictate their unhelpful idioms to each other in aggreieved voices, |
36 |
Broken Peach |
"White Christmas" |
Christmas Special |
dreaming of outcomes we should have learned to produce by now, |
37 |
Poppy |
"Silver Bells" |
A Very Poppy Christmas 4 |
the streets empty except for abandoned taco trucks and a hollow incessant ringing noise |
38 |
ChuggaBoom |
"Christmas Time (Don't Be A Bell End)" |
single |
and our strident demands for uncontested entitlement and perfect warm churros and peace. |
39 |
Muki |
"Happy Ex-mas" |
single |
But, too: legends of how the wise found a way to transfer their burdens to the next generation before it was old enough to object; |
40 |
Dolly Parton |
"Christmas Where We Are (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus)" |
A Holly Dolly Christmas |
lists of things we desperately need to agree are the things to say we don't need; |
41 |
Tinashe |
"Last Christmas" |
Comfort & Joy |
ways to inhabit ridiculous self-defeating conceits for exactly one day at a time; |
42 |
Seth Duncan |
"O Come O Come Emmanuel" |
single |
escape routes from the dread caverns of the grave; |
43 |
ChuggaBoom |
"Die Hard Is A Christmas Film" |
single |
holly. |
44 |
The Sound That Ends Creation |
"Walking Through A Winter Wonderland" |
Merry Christmas You Filthy Animal 4 |
The light from so-distant stars can come all this way only to tell us things we already know. This was always a wonderland. |
45 |
Red Handed Denial |
"Last Christmas" |
single |
Tomorrow you can make different decisions. Next year you can be anyone. |
46 |
Charly Bliss |
"It's Christmas And I Fucking Miss You" |
single |
It is tempting to reduce uncertainty to methods of scoring last year against next year, |
47 |
Carly Paige |
"december twenty-sixth" |
single |
but this year is not and never over, and in this patient defiant way always merrily eventually wins. |