We love the holiday jams, and the holiday jams run free
It's obvious-the lazy haze as your eyes glaze over, your incessant back-of-the-neck scratching...you're gearing up for holidays with your family, aren't you?
Ugh.
Holidays can suck, and holiday music can suck worse-so here at soldout, we want to be a part of your new holiday tradition: stuff that makes the Christmas and your other non-denominational holidays beyond-tolerable.
The Pogues & Kirsty McColl: "Fairytale of New York"
One of my favorite Christmas songs of all time, as in, like, if this song comes on-in a film, in a tv show, in a bar, EVER, I will become a sobbing little wreck on the floor. If this doesn't move you to pound three pints and puke on the Christmas tree and fall in and out of love simultaneously, you just ain't human.
David Bowie and Bing Crosby: "Little Drummer Boy/Whatever The Fuck Bowie Makes Up In His Head As He Goes Along"
Oh, the tradition that is the coke & liquor weirdness of Bowie and Bing. If you only remember the audio version of this from childhood, stop what you are doing right now and watch these two fumble through being the oddest couple ever.
Band-Aid: "Do They Know It's Christmas"
HEY! NON-CHRISTIANS! D'YOU KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS?
Manic Street Preachers: "Last Christmas"
(embedding disabled unfortunately, but this is very, very much worth it)
Sufjan Stevens: "Sister Winter"
Let's face it: Sufjan actually made writing Christmas songs something you could do romantically, gorgeously and well.
A'ight, to steal a phrase from The Fall and make it apropos, hit the 'nogg. We'll be back next week.
Russ
Reader Comments (1)
I talked to Kirsty on the phone a couple of times and met her once before she died so tragically. One of the sweetest, most talented musicians ever. I still miss her.