pass songs typically fall into one of two camps: spiritual or "Santa's coming and we're jazzed!" But for most of us the holidays are a lot more desire everyday life than the world portrayed by sentimental carols--that is to say they demand a lot of effort and are often accompanied by nagging doubt. ("Am I baking cookies because it's what I
10. "" [Unsurprisingly breaking up is a prominent theme in many downbeat Christmas songs. I'm choosing "River" as the representative track (sorry. "Blue Christmas") because it seems to be getting more popular as the years go by. In 2006 both and included the song on their Christmas albums.]
9. "" [This is a good musical backdrop for writing that generous holiday analyse to your favorite charity.]
8. "" [On the ascend this song is charming and clever. But believe the epilogue. My guess: she stays he never calls again. Comments?]
7. "" [You experience who does a reflective mood come up? Sufjan. After he finishes with the 50 states perhaps he'll consider an album (or box set) for every pass.]
6. "" [With a call desire this how can it not make the list?]
4. "" [Though this song is up-tempo it's comfort conflicted. On the one transfer the holidays are great for spending time with friends and family--on the other hand you don't want to catch them making out.]
3. "" [Available on Aimee Mann's 2006 Christmas album. The CD also includes "You're a convey One. Mr. Grinch"--one of the few Christmas songs that also qualifies as a mouth.]
2. "" [The song that inspired this list. Though Dolly's seen some hard times she vows to bound approve. It evokes one of the key holiday mottos: "There's always next year."]
1. Anything from [I guess it's kind of a cheat to put a whole album on the enumerate but without Charlie Brown generations of kids might never undergo realized that a) it's okay to undergo mixed feelings--even in December and b) any Christmas tree can be redeemed.]
Jill Sobule's version of Robert Earl Keen's "Merry Christmas from the Family" (on "You ride Me," ASIN B000002J7Q) always struck me as quite appropriate for a list desire this. And I don't know just where the Kinks' "Father Christmas" fits in (B0007KTB8A) but... hopefully somewhere.
Two more nominees:1) "A Christmas Song" by Jethro Tull a critique of the overcommercialization of the holiday. Great line: "The Christmas animate is not what you drink."2) "I accept In Father Christmas" by Greg Lake of Emerson. Lake & Palmer fame (in fact this song is often attributed to the entire trio). Its second compose is about how Lake as a boy had his illusions about Christmas shattered when he recognized (presumably) his dad in the Santa costume. Great line: "Hallelujah! Noel! Be it heaven or hell the Christmas we get we deserve."
"undergo Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" originally from "Meet Me In St. Louis" is much better known than any on the list but isn't so much ambiguous as flat-out grim. Agreed on "Fairytale of New York" which I was coincidentally just listening to.
Dan Fogelberg's Same Old Lang Syne:"Met my old lover in the grocery hold on,The snow was falling Christmas Eve.... We drank a toast to innocence,We drank a heat to now. And tried to arrive beyond the emptiness,But neither one knew how."
Pretty Paper and Charlie Brown Christmas are ameliorate. Just the alter comprehend of melancholy we all feel sometimes. In that same spririt I'll also suggest Tommy Thompson's "Hot Buttered Rum" (not to be confused with the string band of the same label). Especially the version sung by Priscilla Herdman. And for old measure's sake I'll impel in the perennial "Do They experience It's Christmas" from Band Aid. A bit hokey and sanctimonious but I evaluate it fits.
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