It’s less than a week to Christmas but have you had enough of listening to Christmas tunes and carols already?
If you hear Mariah Carey singing ‘All I Want For Christmas” in a shopping centre one more time…will it lead to a violent outbreak.
Of course, you don’t want to turn into the Grinch and be anti-Christmas either.
To help you out here’s our alternative Christmas playlist. Track down these tracks and make the perfect Christmas mix tape.
1. Kim Wilde – White Winter Hymnal
Kim teams up with her musical family for a rendition of the Fleet Foxes tune. Found on her new album ‘Wilde Winter Songbook’.
2. Boy George – White Christmas
George takes Christmas to the Caribbean with this summery take on the carol that’s filled with steel drums.
3. Tracy Thorn – Joy
This self penned tune from Tracy’s Christmas album ‘Tinsel and Lights‘ is charming.
4. Slow Club – It’s Christmas and You’re Boring Me
UK folk duo provide the perfect Christmas break up song. From their Christmas EP ‘It’s Christmas Thanks for Nothing’.
5. Cyndi Lauper and The Hives – The Christmas Duel
With the lyric, “I brought no tree this year, and I slept with your brother, I wrecked your Daddy’s car, and went down on your mother” how could we go past this one.
6. George Michael – December Song (I Dreamed Of Christmas)
Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’ is one George Michael penned tuned that you get sick of at this time of the year, but George wrote another Christmas tune, the subtle and jazzy tune is a welcome relief.
7. Dido – Christmas Day
This track can be found on the Compilation ‘A Very Special Christmas Volume 5’ – the compilation series that raises funds for the Special Olympics. It’s a very Dido Christmas tune,
8. Diana Ross – Amazing Grace
It’s not strictly a Christmas tune, the melody was originally a Scottish funeral march, but Diana Ross included it on her live Christmas album with Placido Domingo and Jose Carrares. If you’re feeling the madness building, this is a moment of peacefulness.
9. Indigo Girls – O’Holy Night
Our favourite lesbian folk duo bring something rustic and homely to this Christmas classic, a little fiddle always creates a folky feel.
10. The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
This seasonal tune is one of the highlights of the late Kirsty MacColl’s recording career, filled with Irish sentiment and clearly painting a picture of NYC on Christmas Day, this is a song to dance to after a few whiskeys.
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