Not overplayed Christmas songs?

[Lamb]

Are there any really good Christmas songs that are NOT overplayed? Maybe something newer by a modern artist?

 

[Josiah]

There's a very popular radio station here that for some reason goes TOTALLY, 100% Christmas songs. It USED to be this started the day after Thanksgiving, now it's the day after Halloween.

All they play are BAD songs (few of which have anything to do with Christmas but with winter and Santa)... and it's the SAME dozen or so songs, over and over and over and over and over.... 24/7..... it makes you SICK of the whole season.

There are SO many wonderful Christmas songs (ones that actually have to do with Christmas) that only get used in churches.




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[tango]

I wish I could find such a song. This time of year often leaves me wondering whether I'm the only one who finds visiting any retail establishment a test to see whether I can find what I want and check out before getting utterly sick of the same half-dozen snippets of musical drivel and walking out (if anyone wonders, I have been known to abandon a full shopping cart and walk out when I lose patience with musical garbage)

I've often wondered why East 17's song "Stay Another Day" counts as a Christmas song. It was released in December but apart from that I see absolutely no connection to Christmas. Since Rage Against The Machine's song "Killing in the name of" was re-released at Christmas time, maybe we could have that played instead. I often thing people would be happier if they took advice from the final refrain - the part that says "(expletive) you I won't do what you tell me" and decided not to plunge into debt to play the games the Christmas marketers would have us play.

 

[harmonicat]

"Mary did you know" is one of my favorites and was written by Mark Lowry in 1984 and Buddy Greene put music to it in 1991. I played an awesome version of it at a Christmas concert last year.