Saving you from Mariah

Disclaimer: this post was written in December 2023, and scheduled for future posting. Its contents may no longer be accurate or appropriate.

Those that have been reading this for a long time will remember that I used to make musical Advent calendars for the blog. Well, they were a lot of hard work in terms of coding, so I don't do them anymore.

Instead, to save you from overdosing on Mariah, Wizzard, Slade and the rest, here's a list of the less commonly heard festive songs that filled those old calendars, plus a few extras that I've posted in the years since, all with clickable links...

• Kate Bush - Home For Christmas
• The Futureheads - Christmas Was Better In The 80s
• Aidan Moffatt - Plastic Mistletoe
• Bob Dylan - Must Be Santa
• REM - Christmas Griping
• James Brown - Soulful Christmas
• The Who - Christmas
• Eels - Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas
• The Wedding Present featuring Simone White - Holly Jolly Hollywood
• Peter Murphy and Tom Waits - Christmas Sucks
• Shonen Knife - Space Christmas
• Tori Amos - A Silent Night With You
• James Dean Bradfield - Last Christmas
• Joni Mitchell - River
• Family Guy - Christmastime Is Killing Us
• Billy Bragg - We're Following The Wrong Star
• The Three Wise Men (aka XTC) - Thanks For Christmas
• The Fab Four - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• KT Tunstall - 2,000 Miles
• The Flaming Lips - Christmas At The Zoo
• Half Man Half Biscuit - Its Clichéd To Be Cynical at Christmas
• Tracey Thorn - Joy
• Tim Minchin - White Wine In The Sun
• Sinead O'Connor - Silent Night
• Summer Camp - Christmas Wrapping
• Julian Casablancas - I Wish It Was Christmas Today
• Low - Just Like Christmas
• Lucky Soul - Lonely This Christmas
• The Fall - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• The Walkmen - Holiday Road
• Glasvegas - A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss)
• Hurts - All I Want for Christmas Is New Year's Day
• Galaxie 500 - Listen, The Snow is Falling
• The xx - Last Christmas
• The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Wanna Fight Tonight)
• She & Him - Baby, It's Cold Outside
• The Polyphonic Spree - Happy Xmas (War is Over)
• Emmy the Great and Tim Wheeler - Zombie Christmas
• The Killers - Don't Shoot Me Santa
• The Pretenders - 2,000 Miles
• Eels - Christmas Is Going To The Dogs
• Slow Club - Christmas TV
• Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
• Sufjan Stevens - Did I Make You Cry On Christmas Day? (Well, You Deserved It)
• Casiotone for the Painfully Alone- Cold White Christmas
• The Wedding Present - Step Into Christmas
• Radiohead - Winter Wonderland
• REM - Ghost Reindeer In the Sky
• They Might Be Giants - Santa's Beard
• Timbuk 3 - All I Want For Christmas
• No Doubt - Oi To The World
• Sparks - Thank God It's Not Christmas
• Wedding Present - No Christmas
• The Fall - (We Wish You) A Protein Christmas
• Scritti Politti - Snow in Sun
• Tracey Thorn - Tinsel And Lights
• Margo Guryan - I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
• Half Man Half Biscuit - All I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit
• Laura Marling – Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)
• Of Montreal – Christmas Isn't Safe For Animals
• The Kinks - Father Christmas
• Badly Drawn Boy - Donna and Blitzen
• Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Christmas All Over Again
• Beck - Little Drum Machine Boy
• Elastica - Gloria
• Wild Billy Childish And The Musicians Of The British Empire - Christmas 1979
• Ryan Adams – Hey Parker, It's Christmas
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – In This Home On Ice
• Best Coast and Wavves – Got Something For You
• Yorke and Björk - Merry Christmas
• Squeeze - Christmas Day
• AFI - Prelude 12/21
• Du Blonde - It's Christmas And I'm Crying
• The Wedding Present - The Loneliest Time Of The Year
• The Housemartins - I Smell Winter
• Such Small Hands and Terry de Castro - Because It's Christmas

76 songs! More than enough to get you through even the dullest works do...