It’s Christmaaaaaas! That time of year when songs about Santa and sleigh bells are relentlessly shoved down our throats at the supermarket, at work, at the pub, in the shops and round your neighbour’s house for smart price mince pies and shots of Baileys. Ever get the feeling those old songs are never going to run out of steam; that Slade are immortal and the best we can hope from life is the occasional Band Aid? Think again! Us here at DrunkenWerewolf have rubbed our mitts together and come up with the perfect Christmas countdown – a list of songs that won’t make us sicker than too much chocolate, with just enough bite to compliment port and wine we’ll all be chugging as Father Christmas comes crawling down the chimney.
Check out our playlist below, cackle at the occasional slip into normality, grump with the grinches, fear for the sanity of some and laud over the ingenuity of others. After all, it happens but once a year.
20. John Lennon – Happy Xmas (War is Over)
19. Aimee Mann – I Was Thinking I Could Clean up for Christmas
18. Wham – Last Christmas
17/16. Tom Waits – Silent Night and Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis
15. Mogwai – Christmas Song
14. Glasvegas – Please Come Back Home
13. The Killers – Don’t Shoot Me Santa
12. Sufjan Stevens – Sister Winter
11. Simon and Garfunkel – Hazy Shade of Winter
10. Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmas Time
9. Jona Lewie – Stop the Calvary
8. David Bowie and Bing Crosby – Little Drummer Boy
7. Beans on Toast – Christmas at Tesco
6. Andy Williams – It’s the most wonderful time of the year
5. East 17 – Stay Another Day
4. Bob Dylan – It Must Be Santa
3. Laura Marling – Goodbye England
2. Bing Crosby – White Christmas
1. The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York
