{"id":8299,"date":"2017-12-13T09:27:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T09:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2025-02-20T11:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T11:56:39","slug":"the-best-christmas-songs-for-people-who-hate-christmas-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/the-best-christmas-songs-for-people-who-hate-christmas-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"The best Christmas songs (for people who hate Christmas songs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201d\u02dcTis the season to be jolly&#8230; unless you\u2019re one of the many people who hates Christmas songs.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you love Christmas, hearing <em>Last Christmas <\/em>every day for a whole month can be enough to drive you up the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, a few Christmas-related tunes break the mould by giving an alternative taken or just being awesome. Here are the best Christmas songs for people who hate Christmas songs!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>I Won\u2019t Be Home for Christmas \u201d\u201c Blink-182<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sy9_JjLnmZI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>I Won\u2019t Be Home for Christmas <\/em>is about a man who chases carol singers with baseball bat and ends up in jail on Christmas Eve (hence not being home for Christmas). Partner with Blink\u2019s other festive hit <em>Happy Holidays You B****** <\/em>for the ultimate pop-punk anti-Christmas.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>It Doesn\u2019t Often Snow at Christmas \u201d\u201c Pet Shop Boys<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K1pPXt5Zc1w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite the totally inaccurate title (it <em>never <\/em>snows at Christmas), this Pet Shop Boys classic does a fantastic job of tackling some major Christmas gripes: family fights, rubbish TV and consumerism.<\/p>\n<p>It does end on a happy note though, with the boys feeling thankful that they get to spend time with the people they love. D\u2019aww.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis \u201d\u201c Tom Waits<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mxVo5mjK4eg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Everyone\u2019s favourite gravelly-voiced crooner\u2019s Christmas song is a gorgeous piano ballad in which Waits sings from the perspective of a lady of the night writing to an ex lover to tell him she\u2019s turned her life around&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;only to reveal she\u2019s actually in jail and needs money to make bail. Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Another Lonely Christmas \u201d\u201c Prince and the Revolution<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Written during around the same time as <em>Purple Rain<\/em>, <em>Another Lonely Christmas <\/em>has somehow flown under the mainstream Christmas radar.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s the lyrics, written from the perspective of a man whose lover died at Christmas and now spends the festive season getting hammered on banana daiquiris. Yep, that\u2019s definitely it. Still a great song though!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Christmas in Hollis \u201d\u201c Run DMC<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OR07r0ZMFb8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Christmas in Hollis <\/em>is a fairly cheery Christmas song but it earns credibility for a) being one of the first rap Christmas songs and b) featuring on the <em>Die Hard <\/em>soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Run receives a million dollars off Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Christmas in Heaven \u201d\u201c Monty Python<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EK5mPuAcbh0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Taken from <em>The Meaning of Life<\/em>, this absurdly tacky Vegas-style showtune describes Christmas in the afterlife. Highlights include \u201d\u02dcgreat films on TV\u2019 (namely the <em>The Sound of Music<\/em> twice an hour and the first three <em>Jaws <\/em>movies), warm snow and everyone wearing ties.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Little Drummer Boy \u201d\u201c Christopher Lee<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-TnFIDKyX50\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a heavy metal version of <em>Little Drummer Boy <\/em>sang by the bloke who played Saruman and Dracula. Need we say more?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Merry Christmas (I Don\u2019t Want to Fight Tonight) \u201d\u201c Ramones<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Y5GtaTrPHM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of the better tracks from the Ramones lesser-loved late period, <em>Merry Christmas <\/em>sees Joey Ramone pleading for everyone to get along over the band\u2019s trademark power punk. A heart-warming punk carol that rises above the usual schmaltz.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Merry Motha****** Christmas \u201d\u201c Eazy-E<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>So vulgar that we can\u2019t even post a link to it, this festive gangsta rap\u2019s lyrics include a three-year-old Eazy-E drinking whiskey, X-rated versions of Christmas carols and fart noises. Oh, and it features a 17 year old Will.i.am too.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fair to say no-one who appeared on this track was on Santa\u2019s nice list that year.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Post-Apocalypse Christmas \u201d\u201c Gruff Rhys<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/js8JmTMU_gU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Taken from his <em>Atheist Xmas EP<\/em>, the ex-Super Furry Animals frontman sings about the first Christmas spent in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Unfortunately, turkeys didn\u2019t survive the nuclear winter; the residents of Gruff\u2019s bunker are forced to lick their wounds for dinner instead. Lovely.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas \u201d\u201c Various<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BtUK4AyHeTw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas <\/em>is a Christmas standard but it could have been a lot different if the writers of the 1944 movie <em>Meet Me In St. Louis <\/em>had their way.<\/p>\n<p><em>Merry Little Christmas <\/em>is the final song of the film, with Judy Garland singing to her sister during their last Christmas in St. Louis. The original lyrics were altogether bleaker than the version most know and love, with cheerful little sentiments like \u201cHave yourself a merry little Christmas, it may be your last\u201d\u009d and \u201cNext year, we may all be living in the past\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>The writers eventually changed the lyrics after Judy Garland refused to sing it, but the song\u2019s bleak origin makes it an unexpectedly dark Christmas tune.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>If We Make It through December \u201d\u201c Merle Haggard<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9TByT3QlWc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you prefer your Christmas songs to be heartbreakingly sad, this is the tune for you. Haggard sings as a factory worker who loses his job just before the holidays, leaving him unable to buy his daughter a present and worrying about what she\u2019ll think of him as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Although it\u2019s a bit depressing, <em>If We Make It through December <\/em>is timely encouragement to spare a thought for those less fortunate this Christmas.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Having a pre-Christmas clear out? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/entertainment\/sell-cds\/\">Sell CDs<\/a> with musicMagpie today! It\u2019s easy: just get an instant price, send your stuff for FREE and we\u2019ll pay you the same day it arrives. 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Even if you love Christmas, hearing Last Christmas every day for a whole month can be enough to drive you up the wall. 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