XTC - Thanks for Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VhonU1aMw4
Bethan - In the Bleak Midwinter: (lullaby; wait for the moody strings)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmMQvU13Wi0
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, featuring Obama - Silent Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuFURWSZkcI
Pearl Jam - Someday at Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGCnzz9H0Ws
EDIT: Is there also a place for classic folk songs across the FV..?
Me, I've found three absolute corkers, all tackling the song "500 Miles." I find each version remarkably unique and moving in their own ways, but I'd rather unleash them upon the most-appropriate community, if that makes sense...
EDIT2: If you really insist upon a small sample of such, then let's go with Joan Baez:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_K6z3HiRAs
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Nemo@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 276d
My top ten:
100 gecs — "Sympathy for the Grinch"
Andrea Perry — "Fat Aunt Bette"
The Primatives — "You Trashed My Christmas"
The Barbary Coasters — "I've Been Naughty (and Nice)"
Fountains of Wayne — "The Man in the Santa Suit"
The Killers — "Cowboys' Christmas Ball" (cover)
The Kinks — "Father Christmas"
Thomas Heinl — "Christmas Tree on Fire"
Emmy the Great — "Christmas Day (and I Wish I Was Surfing)"
The Reverend Horton Heat — "Santa Bring My Baby Back"
I'll try to loop back through and add non-spotify links as I can.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 276d
Whoa! That list looks interesting, maybe with some Dr. Demento vibes..?
I'll be wading in to it! :D
Thank you, NEMO, thank you...
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 276d
Here's my whole Christmas playlist on spotify. Some folk, some oldies, some covers, some weird stuff, some new stuff. It's been both expanded and winnowed every Advent for the last five years.
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 276d
I can make a more Demento-like list, too, but these are ones I genuinely just like.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 276d
Off topic but I do t like that santa pictire
everett@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 275d
Wow, AI got the number of strings right… but then you notice the belt buckle.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 275d
The mouths always look like some kind of eldritch horror to me. I've noticed this also on AI-generated blue singers on YouTube.
reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 275d
It's santas chastity belt
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 276d
Metal Santa goes well every time.
onTerryO@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 276d
The Pogues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8
cv_octavio@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 276d
kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 275d
The whole album is amazing but "XXXmas ladies" is my fuckin jam
ClipperDefiance@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 276d
"Weird Al" Yankovic - The Night Santa Went Crazy
DEVO - Merry Something to You
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 276d
Hahaha... I love that DEVO song, plus the video!
Thank you for that.
At the same, I also love Weird Al. And yet, that was one of the truly WORST songs I've ever heard of his, oh dear... XD
ace_garp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 276d
If you want to cry
Tim Minchin - White wine in the sun
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 276d
Midnight Riders - All I want for Christmas is to kick your ass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTZc3z21YVU
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 2 pts · 276d
Holy hell, that was both hilarious and awesome!
Also, that caused me to remember that one Eddie Vedder tune. (now added to the list, above)
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 276d
My top ten:
100 gecs — "Sympathy for the Grinch"
Andrea Perry — "Fat Aunt Bette"
The Primatives — "You Trashed My Christmas"
The Barbary Coasters — "I've Been Naughty (and Nice)"
Fountains of Wayne — "The Man in the Santa Suit"
The Killers — "Cowboys' Christmas Ball" (cover)
The Kinks — "Father Christmas"
Thomas Heinl — "Christmas Tree on Fire"
Emmy the Great — "Christmas Day (and I Wish I Was Surfing)"
The Reverend Horton Heat — "Santa Bring My Baby Back"
I'll try to loop back through and add non-spotify links as I can.
buttmasterflex@piefed.social · 2 pts · 275d
Some personal favorites of mine:
OldManWithACane@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 276d
August Burns Red - Carol of the Bells
Honestly most of that album “Sleddin’ Hill” shreds pretty hard 🤘
pleasestopasking@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 276d
Uncle John by Jonathan Colton
"Your uncle's late again, last minute Christmas shopping at the airport, a dozen ringer tees he bought at Eddie Rickenbacker's bar–ladies extra extra large" is such a mood
goosehorse@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 275d
Edit: jfc I keep fat-fingering my phone today, posting before finishing my thoughts. Here's what I intended:
I also really enjoy Christmas in Jail from that same album!
Found it a few years ago after discovering the Omnibus podcast that John Roderick co-hosts with Ken Jennings.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 275d
New found glory-let it go (frozen cover)
The kinks-father Christmas
Bad religion has an entire Christmas themed album
The pogues-fairytale of New York
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 276d
Grant-Lee Phillips, Yuletide
Mary Margaret O'Hara, Christmas EP
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 276d
Anything recently published by "There I ruined it" (the full songs are locked on his Patreon but well worth it for darker themes.
Same with "Almost Vinyl" (The only good reason for AI edited songs):
https://open.spotify.com/album/3VZ6JgoLOMQlnQCQQcqaMA
VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 276d
Can you make it a playlist and add all suggested songs? Would love to hear through them
Evkob@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 276d
I'm quite partial to Lil Jon's All I Really Want For Christmas, featuring the Kool-Aid Man.
Yes, the Kool-Aid Man.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 276d
It's not new necessarily, but Father Christmas by the Kinks is criminally underplayed
danielsan256@piefed.social · 1 pts · 276d
https://wavlake.com/album/31bab476-03c2-4c89-b417-c4910b0a8b6f
danielsan256@piefed.social · 1 pts · 276d
I think I answered the wrong question 😅
But you can post to wavlake.com or fountain.fm and monetize too if they're original compositions.
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 276d
Police nabbed my Dad - Bobnoxious https://youtu.be/SUqp-COhlMc