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| My Favorite 10 Rock Christmas Songs
The title says it all. What other good ones have I left out? | | 10 |  | Emerson Lake and Palmer
The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer
"I Believe in Father Christmas"
A low-key song that I enjoy hearing every Christmas season. | | 9 |  | The Royal Guardsmen
Snoopy's Greatest Hits
"Snoopy's Christmas"
The Christmas sequel to "Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron" and "The Return of the Red Baron" from AM radio's golden days. | | 8 |  | The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys' Christmas Album
"Little Saint Nick"
Another classic from the heyday of AM radio, but this one hasn't been forgotten the way the Snoopy songs have. | | 7 |  | Jethro Tull
Rock Island
"Another Christmas Song"
A follow-up to "Christmas Song" on the "Living in the Past" album, and a much better song, written by an older, wiser and considerably more sentimental and less snotty Ian Anderson. I actually have an album with a horribly mangled version of this covered by Placido Domingo and friends. Nothing like trying to hear an opera singer cover Ian Anderson. | | 6 |  | No Doubt
Everything In Time
"Oi to the World"
Apparently this is a cover of a Vandals song, but I'm ashamed to say I'm unfamiliar with the original. I like this version, though. | | 5 |  | The Waitresses
I Could Rule the World If I Could Only Get the Par
"Christmas Wrapping"
Nothing complicated here, just a simple Christmas maybe-love song. My wife feels that it isn't really Christmas season until the first time she hears this one. | | 4 |  | Joni Mitchell
Blue
"River"
Not really rock, but so what? This has gradually worked its way into the standard Christmas repertory, as it's been covered by various other artists. | | 3 |  | Jethro Tull
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album
"Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow"
This one was actually first released on the "20 Years of Jethro Tull" boxed set, but I thought it would be more true to the spirit of the season to feature Tull's Christmas album. | | 2 |  | Bruce Springsteen
Born in the U.S.A.
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
Yes, it's a cover song, but Springsteen and the E Street Band really made it their own. It wasn't actually on "Born in the U.S.A.", but after years of radio airplay, it was released on the Sesame Street compilation album "In Harmony 2", and then again as the B-Side to the single for "My Hometown" from the "Born in the U.S.A." album. | | 1 |  | The Kinks
Misfits
"Father Christmas"
Because nothing quite says "Christmas" like mugging the department store Santa. The greatest rock Christmas song of all time. | |
Divaman
12.04.16 | A few I know I've left out - "Do They Know It's Christmas After All" by Bob Geldorf and Midge Ure, because it's really just a musical PSA, and "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" by The Plastic Ono Band because I'm just not going to ever recommend anything that has Yoko singing on it. Also left out Wham's "Last Christmas", which I actually like, and Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime", which I don't. Oh, and "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)" by the Ramones, because I like The Ramones but not that song. | ArsMoriendi
12.04.16 | Have you checked Christmastime by Thd Smashing Pumpkins? You'd love it I bet
Paul McCartney's - Wonderful Christmas Time is essential too | JamieTwort
12.04.16 | Tull's original Christmas Song is much better than Another Christmas Song. Anderson's cynical lyrics and delivery are what make the former so good. Although if you're looking for a song to fill you with the Christmas spirit rather than mock it then I guess I can understand someone favouring the latter. | Divaman
12.04.16 | It's more than that, Jamie. I love Tull, but "Christmas Song" is the young Anderson at his most emotionally teenaged stage. "How can you laugh when your own mother's starving?" Really, Ian? Melodramatic much? He covers the same idea in "Jack Frost and the Hooded Crow", but it's done in a more mature way. | JamieTwort
12.04.16 | Hungry* not starving. It's not that melodramatic. I agree that his lyrics became more mature later on but he still gets his message across effectively. | Divaman
12.04.16 | I don't know, Jamie, I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on that one. (Even though you're right about "hungry", my mistake, just typing from memory here). | gryndstone
12.04.16 | "Christmas Wrapping" is the GOAT holiday song. Fairytale Of New York is also a good one, if a bit somber.
And yes, "Oi to the World" is a cover off of the Vandals Christmas album which is pretty funny, all things considered | macman76
12.24.17 | Merry Christmas |
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