This Christmas season, I seem to have an ineffable weariness towards holiday songs of past. Not necessarily toward the lyrical quality, but rather the repetitive nature of the same old. To counter deluge of seasonal commonality, I have created panoply of mellifluous hipster Christmas tunage. So let your inner indie out and bust a moby this Christmas.
1. THE CHRISTMAS SONG – The Raveonettes
2. SLEIGH RIDE – Relient K
3. CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE – Gatsby’s American Dream
4. DONDE ESTA SANTA CLAUSE – Guster
5. CHRISTMAS DON’T BE LATE – Linn & Marcus
6. IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME – Yo La Tengo
7. JINGLEBELL ROCK – Arcade Fire
8. PUT THE LIGHTS ON THE TREE – Sufjan Stevens
9. FIRST NOEL – My American Heart
10. CAROL OF THE BELLS – The Bird and the Bee
11. BLUE CHRISTMAS – Bright Eyes
12. GET BEHIND ME, SANTA – Sufjan Stevens
13. PEPPERMINT WINTER – Owl City
14. I WISH IT WAS CHRISTMAS TODAY – Julian Casablancas
15. DON’T SHOOT ME SANTA – The Killers
16. BLIZZARD OF ’89 – The Ready Set (Featuring NeverShoutNever)
17. HAPPY CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER) – Polyphonic Spree
18. 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS – Relient K
19. GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN – Bright Eyes
20. THE FRIENDLY BEASTS – Sufjan Stevens
21. CHRISTMASTIME – Smashing Pumpkins
22. 30 DAYS – NEVERSHOUTNEVER
23. FATHER CHRISTMAS – The Kinks
24. ALL THAT I WANT – The Weepies
25. THE CHRISTMAS SONG – Chase Coy