I love Christmas. I also like some Christmas music. However, much of the Christmas music you hear is quite girly and doesn’t really appeal to manly sensibilities. Testosterone filled guys will shudder at Santa Baby or a very Wilson Phillips Christmas.
Thankfully, there are a couple exceptions to this seemingly unwritten rule. The Unwritten Rule: Any pop star, regardless of how popular or talented shall produce at least one Christmas song. That song should be Christmas oriented or have Santa referenced; the end result may, or may not be good. The balance between a good song that you want to hear and a Christmas song that you feel obligated to hear in December is a thin line.
Having said that, these five songs are great for Christmas and good to hear any other time of the year.
Every guy should love something by The Kinks. Likewise, Father Christmas should be played as often as that dreck song from Bruce Springsteen, but sadly it’s not..
Twisted Sister-Oh Come all Ye Faithful
TS is an easy band to take a cheap shot at. They dress in costume, have concept videos and play rock and roll. Those that get them understand why they are still producing music after 30 years. Their Christmas album has a couple bright spots, this song being one of them.
The Ramones-Merry Christmas
Awesome song. Again, if there were justice in the radio programming world this song would be heard every day after Thanksgiving.
Elvis-Blue Christmas
This entire album of Christmas songs hits a solid note. Gotta pick one song? Go with Blue Christmas by the King.
Yeah John Lennon was a hippie. I’ll forgive him for that because this song is really good. It’s great at taking you back through the past year, as well as, making you forecast ahead to the coming year.
The antithesis to all good Christmas songs
Sir Paul McCartney-Wonderful Christmastime
.01 seconds. That my reaction time to lowering the volume when I hear this song. It’s so bad I half expect him to come out now and say that the song was meant as a joke. Not only is the song bad, it’s too long. It’s a crap, horribly dated song that is :30 too long. If it were possible to revoke his “Sir” status just on the premise of this abomination I would recommend it.
The video reinforces how bad the song is. You know the song, play it now only if you want to annoy house pets or make visitors check into a hotel.
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Excellent suggestions, but I’m thinking that Christmas and Twisted Sister may border on sacrilege.
Happy Holidays!
I was skeptical too about TS. However, close your eyes and judge the song from that, it stands up rather well.