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Songs That Mention Christmas But Aren't Christmas Songs

Started by SteveDave, November 24, 2021, 10:05:33 AM

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Pet Shop Boys - A Red Letter Day

('Like Christmas morning/ when you're a kid...')

"I went home and read my Christmas Humphreys book on Zen"

Cleaning Windows, Van Morrison

Greg Torso

William Shatner & Ben Folds - It Hasn't Happened Yet

I was crossing the snow fields in front of the Capital Building. It was Christmas and I was alone.

I relate to this song more and more with each gathering year.

fucking ponderous

The TMBG, Sparks, and Low titles are all Christmas songs to me at least, have all found a spot on my Christmas playlists.
For a TMBG selection that mentions Christmas but isn't a Christmas song, try Judy Is Your Viet Nam. Flansburgh has even said it "did start as a Christmas song, and then sort of veered a hard left."
My other pick is Devo's Space Junk, which mentions Christmas Eve as a date on which the titular junk fell to earth and killed.

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Greg Torso on November 25, 2021, 12:18:09 AMWilliam Shatner & Ben Folds - It Hasn't Happened Yet

I was crossing the snow fields in front of the Capital Building. It was Christmas and I was alone.

I relate to this song more and more with each gathering year.

Tell me about it.

easytarget

Dead Christmas by Monster Magnet:
"I said fuck you on Christmas, and then they put me to bed
And I'm never gonna tell you why"

AND A HAPPY NEW YEAAAAR!

Johnboy

more Cure

Let's Go To Bed

"lighting up the Christmas lights,
we'll remember from December"

Janie Jones

Quote from: Clatty McCutcheon on November 24, 2021, 11:28:10 AM'River' by Joni Mitchell.


Definitely a Christmas song. She mentions Christmas, trees, snow and carols, there's an ice skating theme throughout and she even plays a couple of bars of Jingle Bells at the end.

JaDanketies


AllisonSays

Tom Waits' 'Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis', unless that actually is a Christmas song. I wouldn't have it on while my granny unwraps her presents anyway.

shagatha crustie

Quote from: AllisonSays on November 25, 2021, 09:38:55 AMTom Waits' 'Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis', unless that actually is a Christmas song. I wouldn't have it on while my granny unwraps her presents anyway.

It is in my house! But mainly this version:


niat


AllisonSays

Quote from: shagatha crustie on November 25, 2021, 09:50:56 AMIt is in my house! But mainly this version:



Never seen that before, what a beaut, made me feel slightly too emotional for 11 in the morning sat at my desk in work. He was an incredibly charismatic performer eh.

Quote from: Janie Jones on November 25, 2021, 09:31:03 AMDefinitely a Christmas song. She mentions Christmas, trees, snow and carols, there's an ice skating theme throughout and she even plays a couple of bars of Jingle Bells at the end.

Yeah, have always thought of it as just a melancholy song that happens to have a Christmassy theme, but you've got me bang to rights... too Christmassy for this thread.

The Hold Steady - 'One for the Cutters'. Definitely not a Christmas song, and Christmas is only mentioned right at the end.

boki

Almost forgot about one that our Barry introduced me to:
MC Chris - Fucking Up My Christmas

LORD BAD VIBE

'Child Psychology' by Black Box Recorder.

The November day when I came home
The Christmas decorations were already up
Spray on snow, coloured flashing lights
And an artificial tree that played Silent Night
Over and over again
My parents welcomed me with loving arms
But within an hour were back at each others throats
Normal, happy childhood back on course
Batteries not included

SweetPomPom

Couple of Carter USM classics -

"The Christmas cards and greetings are arriving
across the shifty sands to the war
By the time I get to read them she'll be rising
to a 50/50 chance and nothing more"

Say It With Flowers.

Shoppers Paradise too:
"Top floor Shoppers' Paradise
We've got a drunk Father Christmas and the Anti-Christ
It's nothing of value, there's no V.A.T.
We're going S.H.O.P.P.I.N.G"

jobotic

I guess Christmas by Beat Happening is a Christmas song, what with its title and mentions of Christmas, but it sure ain't Christmassy

QuoteI had sex on Christmas
I had sex three times today
Three different women taught be how to be bored
In their own separate, sweet, little ways

I feel like hell on Christmas
And I feel like hell today
I feel like hell, when I wake up I can tell
That I'm never gonna make you stay

Okay, here it goes

I didn't get no presents on Christmas
And I sure didn't get none today
Learned my lesson
Life is one long session of
Disappointment, heartache, pain

Disappointment
Heartache
Pain

...and despair




greencalx

Quote from: Johnboy on November 25, 2021, 09:15:06 AMmore Cure

Let's Go To Bed

"lighting up the Christmas lights,
we'll remember from December"

Hey You!!! as well if I recall.


SweetPomPom

More (Easy) Cure, See The Children - "I am a supermarket Santa
underneath the Christmas tree"

https://youtu.be/TzxC-JcUYgk