Originally written by Sean Adams · 19 December 2014
Over the years, DiS (with plenty of help from our Music Forum - thank you all) set about creating the ultimate Christmas playlist to take the bother out of deciding what to listen to at this time of year.
We've picked covers by some of our favourites like Sufjan Stevens, The Polyphonic Spree and Katy Perry, plucked a few festive originals by Frightened Rabbit, The Raveonettes and Emmy the Great, and then smothered the playlist with Christmas classics and seasoned the selection with some Snoop Dogg. Oh and if that wasn't enough, we added Tom Waits' 'Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis ' for good measure, because we can.
Currently, this 5 hours long playlist has a total of 88 (partly because the number 88 looks a little like two snowmen). However, we want to add 12 more songs to up it to 100 tracks. Over to you to make suggestions using the Twitter hashtag #DiSmas or by commenting on this facebook post (or you can comment using FB below).
IT'S DISSSSMASSS!!!
A very DiS Christmas playlist.
Tracklisting
Marc Bolan – Xmas Riff Sufjan Stevens – Jingle Bells Fall Out Boy – What's This? Fountains Of Wayne – I Want An Alien For Christmas Jimmy Eat World – Last Christmas The Killers – Don't Shoot Me Santa The Darkness – Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) Smash Mouth – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) The Polyphonic Spree – Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Sufjan Stevens – Get Behind Me, Santa! The Ravonettes – The Christmas Song Mew – She Came Home for Christmas Low – Just Like Christmas Au Revoir Simone – Christmas Time is Here Kate Havnevik – Winter Wonderland Slow Club – Christmas TV My Brightest Diamond – Nature Boy Tom Waits – Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis Sufjan Stevens – That Was The Worst Christmas Ever! The Flaming Lips – Christmas At The Zoo Emmy The Great – Christmas In Prison Of Montreal – Christmas Isn't Safe For Animals Sufjan Stevens – Star Of Wonder Cap'n Jazz – Winter Wonderland Martha Wainwright – Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Damien Rice – Silent Night - Live From Union Chapel Pretenders – 2000 Miles - 2007 Remastered Version The Ronettes – I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Fiona Apple – Frosty the Snowman Cyndi Lauper – A Christmas Duel Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You Girls Aloud – I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday The Killers – A Great Big Sled Studio Artist – Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Marah – New York Is A Christmas Kind Of Town Tom DeLonge – I Won't Be Home For Christmas Reuben – Christmas Is Awesome Third Eye Blind – One Of Those Christmas Days KIDS Allstarz – Merry Xmas Everybody Busted – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing RJD2 – Christmas Eve Montage Kid606 – Xmas Funk Lady Gaga – Christmas Tree Kurtis Blow – Christmas Rappin' Daz Dillinger – Christmas In The Hood RUN-DMC – Christmas in Hollis Half Dead & The Twinz – Just Like Xmas Destiny's Child – 8 Days of Christmas Boyz II Men – Silent Night Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – It's Christmas Time The Crystals – Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Squeeze – Christmas Day Katy Perry – White Christmas Glen Campbell – Blue Christmas Carpenters – Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) The Pogues – Fairytale Of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) Nat King Cole – God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Eartha Kitt – Santa Baby - Edit Nina Simone – Little Girl Blue - Live In New York/1964 Emmylou Harris – O Little Town of Bethlehem Kristin Hersh – Jesus Christ Tori Amos – Emmanuel Sufjan Stevens – We Three Kings Sufjan Stevens – I Saw Three Ships Glasvegas – A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss) The Magnetic Fields – Mr. Mistletoe Big Star – Jesus Christ (Remastered Album Version) Sun Kil Moon – Jesus Christ Was An Only Child Radar Brothers – This Xmas Eve Casiotone For The Painfully Alone – Cold White Christmas The BellRays feat. Lisa Kekaula, Tony Fate and Bob Vennum – All I Want To Do Is Shag For Christmas The Fall – Xmas With Simon Ramones – Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight) Alice Cooper, John 5, Billy Sheehan, Vinny Appice – Santa Claws Is Coming To Town No Use For A Name – Fairytale Of New York The Vandals – My First Christmas (As A Woman) The Wombats – Is This Christmas? Wombles – Wombling Merry Christmas Eazy-E – Merry Mutha****** Xmas Deerhoof – Xmas Tree Luke Haines – In The Bleak Midwinter The Album Leaf – End Title Mogwai – Christmas Steps
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