In honor of my friend, Braidwood at Authentic Threads, I’ve decided to create a Cool Christmas Playlist. Since some of the songs were recommended by her last year, she might not have much use for it, but there might be a song or two there for her.

I generally don’t like Christmas music. There are only so many times I can hear We Wish You A Merry Christmas in a month before I start to get homicidal. I love unique Christmas songs, so I’m creating the coolest Christmas playlist EVAR.

Note: I’ve tried to link to Amazon.com MP3s for any that I could. If I couldn’t find them there, I’ve linked to iTunes (with a warning). If I couldn’t find it in either places, I’ve linked to an album at Amazon. Oh, and if you buy a song, I get a commission from Amazon or Apple.

• One Christmas Catalogue by Captain Sensible
• Santa’s Beard by They Might Be Giants
• Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues
• The Night Santa Went Crazy by Weird Al Yankovic
• Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade [iTunes]
• It Feels Like Christmas by The Muppets
• Green Christmas by Barenaked Ladies
• Last Christmas by Wham!
• Do They Know It’s Christmas? by Band Aid
• Christmas In America by Melissa Etheridge
• A New York Christmas by Rob Thomas
• 2000 Miles by The Pretenders
• Christmas Is The Time To Say “I Love You” by Billy Squier
• Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy by Bing Crosby/David Bowie
• Christmas in Prison by John Prine
• Christmas At Ground Zero by Weird Al Yankovic
• Run Rudolph Run by Brian Setzer
• Just Like Christmas by Low
• 25th of December by Everything But The Girl
• Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses
• Christmas Day by Squeeze
• Another Christmas Song by Stephen Colbert [iTunes]

I have lots more in my Cool Christmas playlist, but this list is already a little daunting. Hope you like it!