As a native New Yorker, I always wished for snow as a wide-eyed child when the holidays rolled around. “White Christmas” is one of my all-time favorite Christmas songs, originally performed by Bing Crosby. I’ve always loved the melody of this song and the mysterious, deeply strange feeling it gives. When I was in elementary school, I had a Christmas album on CD that I listened to on my Walkman and I used to wander around with it in the snow. It’s a very popular song that Puerto Ricans always sing at parrandas. This is definitely the song to bring out the love, peace, and holiday happiness. In these crazy times, we all need some magic, cheer, and funky jams to uplift us through the winter. I wrote this song years ago with the Chambers Brothers, and Moonalice has reimagined it for the 2022 holiday season. “ Merry Christmas, Happy New Year ,” the Chambers Brothers The holidays can bring a lot of people pain, and I think that we look to these kind of heartbreak songs during that time because it’s really important to represent, or to be represented, if that holiday brings back hard memories, or if you have lost someone that you think about in a concentrated way during that time.
Hearing it was the first time I realized how some people might look at the season from a very different, less joyful perspective. There’s something about “River” that perfectly encapsulates the aching beauty and heartbreak of the season. On Hark! I mashed it up with “ Greensleeves.” It’s so beautifully written, it just warms my heart every time I hear it or play it. There’s a song by the Handsome Family called “So Much Wine” about a relationship unraveling from mental illness and alcoholism on Christmas Day. But “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” has the most beautiful musical turnaround on “here we are as in olden days” that tugs at my heartstrings. Top to bottom, the whole things has no skips, so it was hard to pick one (I mean, “Merry Christmas, Darling”?! Karen’s voice!). The Carpenters’ Christmas Portrait album is me and my mum’s ultimate holiday record. “ Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ,” the Carpenters And he wrote a song about Rudolph that is better than the original classic! It only lasted ten minutes, but it was so beautiful and the world stood still for a few seconds.īecause he is the greatest rock-and-roll lyricist of all time.
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Most days, the birdbath was just frozen, plus some light frost on the ground, but one afternoon we looked out the window and it was snowing. Every morning I woke up early to check if it was snowing. It was my first Christmas ever outside of Australia and I spent it in the desert in Joshua Tree. I played it every day (followed by McCartney II). I got obsessed with this song last December.
“ Wonderful Christmastime ,” Paul McCartney I like the erotic twist on “sliding down your chimney” and the idea of being someone’s sexual Santa. I love this jammer because it’s funky and playful and just a little nasty. “ I’ll Be Your Santa Baby ,” Rufus Thomas I always loved the way that Dipset were aware of their own iconic status and leaned into it just enough. Jim Jones was also joined by the late Stack Bundles, just a year before his passing. In 2006, Jim Jones from the mighty Diplomats released A Dipset X-Mas, and the song “Ballin’ on Xmas” puts a new spin on Run DMC’s famous “Christmas in Hollis” track.
When an artist or band makes a Christmas album, I think they reach a whole other level of familiarity. A few participants responded with their own songs (which, fair enough), but most reached deep under the tree to recommend the likes of Prince, the Carpenters, Cocteau Twins, Kurtis Blow, the Pogues, and even a Monty Python alumnus. Some chose age-old and feverishly played selections, but many came back with unconventional pop, punk, R&B, and indie-rock alternatives. To help, we asked seasoned hitmakers to give us a few words on their favorite holiday tracks. When you’ve had your fill of Mariah’s classic and other yearly staples, it’s not hard to find less ubiquitous carols. That’s the agony and ecstasy of yuletide commercialism: Encountering the same Christmas songs over and over can be grating, unless you’re like Carey - “I live Christmas to Christmas,” she wrote in her 2020 memoir. Over the years since its 1994 release, Mariah Carey’s juggernaut has become one of the standards that soundtracks supermarket speakers, radio stations, Spotify playlists, and every eggnog-sloshed party worth attending.
If there’s a single sound that announces holiday season, it’s the opening twinkle from “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Hearing those familiar ascending notes feels like stepping into a snow globe.
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