Need to play Christmas songs in my shop.
Sick to death of all the usual. I have an excellent album by The Duallers in a ska style.
Suggestions please.

If you want people’s heads to start exploding then you could play them this on a perpetual loop;

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IippcraBPKA[/video]

ChavXL – Dreaming of a Brown Xmas

It’s got Christmas in the title anyway
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQPoN2j6LPE[/video]

Mumford and sons

Lily the Pink, The Scaffold.

A Christmas number one way back so counts as Christmassy without being about Christmas (bizarrely I heard it two years ago whilst queueing to see Santa in his Grotto).

A bloody annoying song though.

Need to play Christmas songs in my shop.

does that really make people spend? Even at a subliminal level?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6T0bN8g6xs[/video]

Absolutely lovely!

The Killers — Great Big Sled

This one could be a bit marmite though:

Bob Dylan Christmas In The Heart [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8qE6WQmNus[/video]kitch at it’s best.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PewKtLL9nJA[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/v/9D_SyJk8nAI?fs=1&hl=en_US[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQjCmRhV9VY&feature=related[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJ8kE5Kf3g[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3M7IR6jkpc[/video]

Killing in the Name of – Rage Against the Machine.

http://www.putumayo.com/putumayo_cds/holiday

The Power of Love by FGTH sounds seasonal without mention of the C word.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHWmhR3rD74[/video]

AC/DC – Mistress for Christmas

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aEEhN7_ZTw[/video]

why do you have to play christmas songs?

Get XFM’s It’s a Cool Cool Christmas

1. Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland – Grandaddy
2. Little Drummer Boy – The Dandy Warhols
3. Every Day Is Christmas – The Webb Brothers
4. Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas – Eels
5. Feliz Navidad – El Vez
6. Christmas In Waikiki – Morgan
7. Maybe At Christmas Time – Drugstore
8. O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Belle & Sebastian
9. Thank You Dreaded Black Ice, Thank You – Giant Sand
10. White Christmas – The Flaming Lips (Demo for Tom Waits)
11. My Christmas Prayer – Saint Etienne
12. Christmas Downer – Departure Lounge
13. I Believe In Father Christmas – Six By Seven
14. When I Get Home For Christmas – Snow Patrol
15. Spiritual Guidance – Titan
16. Christmas Boogaloo – Big Boss Man
17. Christmas Eve – Teenage Fanclub
18. Gift X-Change – Calexico
19. Hwiangerdd Mair – Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
20. Just Like Christmas – Low

Surfjan Stevens has a really good box set of Christmas songs.
Phil Spector’s Christmas Gift For You is good.

My fave though…

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlf—13Q0g[/video]

rat pack christmas album, elvis christmas songs, or just loop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUOcNuCsLa0

The Power of Love by Jennifer Rush sounds seasonal without mention of the C word.

ah, what you need is festive mayhem by those wonderful makers of steam punk noise “The men that will not be blamed for nothing”

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qIn65oes8SM[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YqHxLBLZcB8[/video] Rammsteinesqe noise

God rest ye merry gentlemen and oi!
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YqHxLBLZcB8[/video]

lord bless the little maniacs 😀

Ta everyone, will get on Spotify and check them out.
To everyone who wonders about why we play Christmas songs. We sell a lot of Christmas gift and it puts people in the mood.There are some people out there who absolutely love Christmas. We get phone calls in September to see if our cards and advent calendars are in yet. Personally I’ve never really gone in for Christmas but i seem to be a minority. Everyday i see the happiness it brings and not even i am enough of a bah humbug to deny them their pleasure.
Merry Christmas everyone.
Not playing Jennifer bloody Rush though.

This has a place in our family christmas every year:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOSsKN48Ps[/video]

Or how about

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBHjen9Jz2o[/video]
(hardly anything off this album on Youtube yet)

or

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1uIFs-pNdc[/video]

Tom Waits – Christmas card from a hooker in Minneapolis?

My God, another John Prine fan!

Simon and Garfunkel have done a lot of ‘wintery’ songs, always remind me of Christmas.

My friend Lucy’s band “Pilgrim’s Way” have been getting some good airplay on that there Radio 2, and they have a folky but funky EP for Christmas

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shining-Gently-All-Around/dp/B00669CQSS/ref=sr_shvl_album_3

Always have this playing at home around yuletide Xmas Album

Killing in the name of was last years number one wasn’t it?

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPgq_fxaW7U[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6kHN92Yv48[/video]

Queen Bohemian Rhapsody
Pink Floyd Another Brick In The Wall
The Human League Don’t You Want Me

All Xmas no. 1s

We sell a lot of Christmas gift and it puts people in the mood.

… for mass murder. My soul is saved only though pity for shop workers.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4–Lkb_Oldo[/video]

slainte 😀 rob

Joni Mitchell’s The River is Christmassy, and Kate Rusby has done two albums of Yorkshire traditional folk seasonal songs. Shawn Colvin did a lovely album called Holiday Songs And Lullaby’s, which you ought to be able to find fairly easily. The Waitresses Christmas Rapping is a long-time favourite, it pops up on my phone pretty regularly, to my delight. Tori Amos has an album of classic and original seasonal songs called Midwinter Graces, and released a single called Spark some years ago, CD1 has Purple People (Christmas In Space and Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas on it, the last track is absolutely wonderful, I think one of the best versions of the song ever. It was used in a Christmas episode of Bones, very effectively too.

You could get some inspiration here

or

here

or just play their feeds.