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SILENT NIGHT

Christmas Playlist

By Mike Jones, YMM Contributor

is the season to freshen O Come All Ye Oi To the World
up that Christmas Spotify Faithful NO DOUBT
playlist! With all the BAD RELIGION Recently engaged
‘new normal’ most likely It may seem a bIt to Blake Shelton and
‘Taffecting everything weird at first to hear currently climbing
the Country charts
a band whose logo
from Christmas concerts to staff parties – is a crossed-out cross doing a hymn, with the couples second duet “Happy
we’re going to need all the help we can but Bad Religion recorded several Anywhere,” it’s easy to forget where
get to get into the holiday spirit. when they released Christmas Songs Gwen Stefani came from. In the ’90s,
There are two types of people in back in 2013. Lead singer Greg Graf- she was the fantasy of pretty much
this world: those who, as soon as fin’s monotone vocals combined with every teenage boy as the reigning
breakneck speed punk riffs make for a
heiress of Ska. You’ll be hard-pressed
Remembrance Day is over, break out track that will have even the grinchiest to find a more positive, upbeat, dance-
the tinsel and immediately listen to nodding their head by the end. able genre, and this two-tone classic
Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas” will have you skankin’ (it’s a dance-
twenty-four times in a row. Then, there is Heavy Metal trust us) around the Christmas tree.
the more cynical Christmas fan. Christmas
Sure, they love spending time with TWISTED SISTER Run
Rudolph Run
family and seeing Clark Griswald lose his Depending on LEMMY,
your age and the
mind, but they also heard every version amount of spandex DAVE GROHL,
of “Silent Night” and “Jingle Bells” under in your closet; the ‘80s glam metal BILLY GIBBONS
the sun. This playlist is for the latter. era is either remembered with fond Taken from the
Crank it loud, and you’ll have even the memories or a shuddering cringe. If excellent 2008 compilation “We Wish
most cynical Krampus Decking the Halls you’re in the former group, you’ll love You A Metal Xmas and a Headbang-
Twisted Sister’s take on the “12 Days
ing New Year,” this is a song that has
and blowing the speakers. of Christmas”. There’s not a partridge been covered thousands of times over
or a pear tree in sight, but outspoken the years but never like this. From its
Warning: Just like Bad Santa and Die lead singer Dee Snider lists off some Johnny B. Goode-esque opening riff
Hard are more ‘adult’ Christmas movies much-needed items for a hair metal (first recorded by Chuck Berry) to the
– not all these songs are family-friendly. holiday like six cans of hairspray, three blues riffing, this song is a natural fit for
Yippie Ki Yay, Mister Falcon! studded belts and (naturally) four bearded ZZ Top wonder Billy Gibbons.
quarts of Jack Daniels.

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