Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The Only Holiday Playlist You’ll Ever Need (Okay. You can have ONE other. BUT THAT'S IT!)

Quick Update: About to go on winter break. Can't wait to be reunited with sleep. In other news, I JUST GOT 40 FOLLOWERS. Woot. If I get a job before I get to 50, then I'm definitely doing a contest or something. Any ideas?

Song Stuck In My Head: Basically any Top 40 song on the charts right now. We were listening to radio in my math final exam, so basically Colbie Caillet and Adam Levine and Adele are dancing in my head.

If you’ve been watching commercials on TV, putting on some of your favorite Christmas movies, or even turning on the radio, you probably got some sort of holiday tune dancing in your head like sugar plums. The coolest part about holiday songs is that a lot of modern artists are fans - hence, you get some pretty neat covers and the occasional original.

Here are some Christmas songs to check out by MODERN artists! All of them are rock and pop. There’s also a few random, non-genres thrown in here or there. It may or may not include singing cats. I can’t make any guarantees. ; )

Enjoy.

(Do you know any? Feel free to comment, and I'll make one twice as good next year! Muahahaha!)

WHITE CHRISTMAS, covered by

Lady Gaga
Michael Buble ft. Shania Twain
Panic! At the Disco
Katy Perry

And fun fact for the day... actor Robert Downey Jr. sings!



WINTER WONDERLAND, covered by

Jason Mraz
Hellogoodbye
Phantom Planet
Selena Gomez

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS, covered by

Weezer
Relient K

Disney's Santa Buddies! (They're cute, even if registered by Disney...(



LAST CHRISTMAS, covered by

Wham!
Taylor Swift
Hilary Duff
Jimmy Eat World
Hawk Nelson

JINGLE BELL ROCK, covered by

Aly and AJ
Rascal Flatts

And then the classic cover and dance from the movie "Mean Girls"



JOY TO THE WORLD, covered by

No Doubt
Simple Plan
Mariah Carey (again)

And Jingle Cats!



ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU, covered by

My Chemical Romance
Mariah Carey
John Mayer

HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS, covered by

Coldplay
Christina Aguilera


And if you're not celebrating Christmas or just like to hear a good Jewish tune here and then, here's a couple things to check out:

Get Your Dreidel On by Incubus

And Adam Sandler has some funny ones too..




Now some random, newer and not so traditional songs (most of them I am getting from my best friend's I-Pod...just to be honest)

That Time Of Year Again - Sick Puppies (as in, my favorite band peeps).
Killing Myself For Christmas - Sick Puppies (not as sweet as the first one, if you could guess).
Things I Want by Sum 41 ft. Tenacious D (yep. That means Jack Black).
Baby Please Come Home - Josh Ramsay (from Marianas Trench)
Christmas By the Phone - Good Charlotte
Happy Holidays, You Bastard - Blink-182
I Wish It Was Christmas Today - Julian Casablancas (From the Strokes)
I Won't Be Home For Christmas - Blink-182
It's Christmas Day - Family Force 5
Merry Christmas I Don't Wanna Fight - Bowling for Soup
Merry Christmas, I Missed You So Much- Taking Back Sunday
Merry Christmas Kiss My A** - All Time Low
30 Days - NeverShoutNever
Christmas In Hollywood - Hollywood Undead

And probably the best modern Christmas song, my favorite singer Avril Lavigne's ex-guitarist and his solo song... "MERRY SWIFTMAS!"



My list not good enough? Fine. Then I'll provide some more lists for you... Try these links, okay?

http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=185582

http://www.free-christmas-songs-lyrics.info/list-of-christmas-songs/list-of-modern-christmas-songs.html

http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/Christmas.html (this ones a list of lists).

And lastly...not enough Jingle Cats? DID YOU NEED MORE?

Here you go. :)








Have an awesome holiday, peeps. If you can’t guess my New Year’s aspiration, then here it is: to blog more! Ah!

And anyone doing anything interesting for the holidays? New traditions, traveling, etc.? If you go or live somewhere with snow, please oh please ice it and send it my way. We’ve been getting the cold but not the snow. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be, living in a desert town in the middle of nowhere….





Just found that online. The closest I can get to what it's like where I live, haha.



HAPPY HOLIDAYS!