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Christmas is not a normal time of year. Those who partake go… really weird. People drag a big tree (?!) into their living room. They drape lights around it. They start going on about reindeers and elves, even though most of us have never seen either of them IRL (is a reindeer the same as a moose?). Oh, and they stop listening to regular music and start listening to songs with jingle bells in them, or else that one song Mariah Carey released in literal 1994, over and over again, as if they’ve been taken over by some sort of mass hysteria, like the great dancing plague of 1518 when 400 people died.Anyway, without sounding like a miserable prick, we thought we should switch things up a bit this year, musically. All those songs by Wham! and Wizzard and Mariah etc are great but they're also stale as fuck. IDK why we haven't evolved beyond them yet? It's as if someone decided there's only space for 20 songs on repeat and we. must. stick. with. them. Well, we think otherwise. Here's a one-hour, 15-minute playlist of Christmas songs that aren't the usual ones, from some weird shiny banger from PC Music's GFOTY to rock \m/ treats by The Spook School and Shame to Prince's only Christmas song, which is completely devastating. Press play below:You can follow Noisey on Twitter.
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