Non traditional Christmas musicMusic
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Max Powers
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One of my favorites Christmas songs ever is "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues, it's a great Christmas song, but definitely not one you'd hear at church.
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There is a CD out there called A Season in Chaos- A Brutal Christmas which is basically death metal covers of christmas songs. It's quite horrible, if you ask me. 
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It depends on if you are looking for serious stuff or not.
I know that Bob Rivers Twisted Christmas has a couple of songs, one is Jingle Hell's Bells - a hybrid of My Favorite Things and ACDC's Hell's Bells.
Another is I Am Santa Claus, it is Black Sabbath's Iron Man, except it is Santa Claus.
I am sure you can also find a few sell out rock/pop bands that did albums for the cash.
I know that Bob Rivers Twisted Christmas has a couple of songs, one is Jingle Hell's Bells - a hybrid of My Favorite Things and ACDC's Hell's Bells.
Another is I Am Santa Claus, it is Black Sabbath's Iron Man, except it is Santa Claus.
I am sure you can also find a few sell out rock/pop bands that did albums for the cash.
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I love Trans-Siberian Orchestra for Christmas time, if you "buy" any of their CD's I recommend "The Lost Christmas Eve" and "Christmas Eve and Other Stories", all the songs on the CD are great to listen to.
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The mentioned Pogues track was a household favorite when I was growing up.
Eels - Everything's Gonna be Cool this Christmas
Weezer - The Christmas Song
The Go! Team - The Ice Storm
There is also this song called Merry Christmas for Godzilla that we found on some radio talk show in the early 90s. It is absolutely hilarious. I have no idea where it came from, but it is a definite classic from my childhood 👍
Eels - Everything's Gonna be Cool this Christmas
Weezer - The Christmas Song
The Go! Team - The Ice Storm
There is also this song called Merry Christmas for Godzilla that we found on some radio talk show in the early 90s. It is absolutely hilarious. I have no idea where it came from, but it is a definite classic from my childhood 👍
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Here's a really old one:
Osama got ran over by a reindeer.
Steppin' out his cave on Christmas Eve.
He said there's no such thing as Santa.
But now even the tali ban believe.
I haven't heard it for 2 years so that's the best I got.
Osama got ran over by a reindeer.
Steppin' out his cave on Christmas Eve.
He said there's no such thing as Santa.
But now even the tali ban believe.
I haven't heard it for 2 years so that's the best I got.
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I enjoy 'I've got a boner for christmas' by Nerf Herder.
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Ooooh gawd no. First time I heard it I thought "haha that's funny". I really liked it too. Since then I've realised that it seems to be the UK's national Xmas song, and as such I am doomed to hear it at least once every day in December for the rest of my life or until I leave the UK. That song has been so overplayed here it's not funny. Anymore.
My favourite Xmas song would have been Frankie Goes To Hollywood's The Power Of Love, but I never realised it was an Xmas song
Can't think of any other rock examples except Ozzy and Kelly's Changes, which wasn't particularly christmasy anyway.
Max Powers
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Ooooh gawd no. First time I heard it I thought "haha that's funny". I really liked it too. Since then I've realised that it seems to be the UK's national Xmas song, and as such I am doomed to hear it at least once every day in December for the rest of my life or until I leave the UK. That song has been so overplayed here it's not funny. Anymore.
My favourite Xmas song would have been Frankie Goes To Hollywood's The Power Of Love, but I never realised it was an Xmas song
Can't think of any other rock examples except Ozzy and Kelly's Changes, which wasn't particularly christmasy anyway.
That's weird, it's barely ever played here, which is probably the reason I like it more.
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Oh yeah. If they played it once or twice a year here I'd probably still like it too. It's a really original Christmas song that completely appeals to my cynical sense of humour. Unfortunately I think the rest of Britain finds it funny too and feels compelled to play it once every ten seconds somewhere in the country. The Pogues and that lady they partnered with to perform it must love Christmas by now. Or at least their record company do.
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You mean Kirsty MacColl? Unfortunately she was killed in an accident in 2000... 
As for Christmas rock, a bit of a prog rock tinge is in order... Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas" is the pick of the bunch!
As for Christmas rock, a bit of a prog rock tinge is in order... Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas" is the pick of the bunch!
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I would pick Fairytale of New York by The Pogues, I love that record.
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Wikipedia has a popular Christmas songs page. It contains all kinds of songs including ones that weren't intended to be Christmas songs per se'. Oddly enough the song "Mad World", the one played in Donny Darko, is listed as a unintentional Christmas song. If that's not bizarre than I don't know what is.
