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How did this happen?! I’m nowhere near done with my shopping, I’m not ready for all the family festivities and worse of all, I didn’t do my “Is It Too Early For Christmas?” Christmas songs series. I guess I have some catching up do to.
Jason Mraz ft. Tristan Prettyman – All I Want For Christmas Is Us: This is one of my favorite acoustic boy-girl Christmas songs ever. Actually, this is my favorite acoustic boy-girl song period. Tristan’s and Jason’s voices are perfect Christmas song voices in a non-Tony Bennett way.
Coldplay – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas: Holla at KROQ for bringing this soon-to-be classic Coldplay rarity. “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” is one of my favorite Christmas songs ever, though I’m pretty sure “Jingle Bell Rock” takes the crown. Anyway, Chris Martin did good on this one. I sort of wish Prospekt’s March was a Christmas album now.
The Killers – Don’t Shoot Me Santa: This song certainly made my Christmas last year. Classic Killers song. Classic weird Christmas song.
Sufjan Stevens – Did I Make You Cry on Christmas Day?: I wasn’t planning on writing about this one at all, actually. But I was shuffling through my Sufjan stuff on iTunes and “Did I Make You Cry…” popped up. I’m glad fate reminded me of this gem. Sort of embarrassing to admit, but I’ve found this song to be quite useful during Christmastime fights.
Death Cab For Cutie – Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home): I love whenever a band does a Christmas song to sound like something they would actually do. “Baby, Please Come Home” features traditional Death Cab keys, guitars and, of course, Gibbard’s angel-voice.
Download these Christmas songs after the jump:
Jason Mraz ft. Tristan Prettyman – All I Want For Christmas Is Us
Coldplay – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
The Killers – Don’t Shoot Me Santa
Sufjan Stevens – Did I Make You Cry on Christmas Day
Death Cab For Cutie – Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)
Tags: Coldplay, Death Cab For Cutie, Jason Mraz, Sufjan Stevens, The Killers
Don’t forget the Wombats new christmas song -”is this christmas?”
And also the new christmas tracks from Glasvegas and The Hives
Oh this won’t be my only christmas post
I love these tunes, especially the Coldplay’s cover of “Have yourself a merry little Christmas” and the Jason Mraz’s song. Just plain exquisite!
More please!
Yay! I love indie christmases!
Merry Christmas! I’m putting these on a friends xmas mix cd right now! Thank you! Looking forward to more.
Nice stuff here. Strange, I find myself almost looking forward to christmas blog posts around this time of year. Just last night I strapped on my elf ears, put my cassette of Wham’s “Last Christmas” on, and danced around my miniature Christmas tree for at least a good half hour. True story.
you should have youtube’d that, justin!
some really beautiful tracks. especially the coldplay cover. it’s raining here. cool and quiet. and its amazing…
I suggest Lady Gaga – Christmas Tree in all its vulgar yet amazing gaga and space cowboy ness.
Have you heard the new one from Goldblade with Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex) on vocals? It’s got a gabba-gabba-hey riff and a Shadows solo with some Hare Krishna chanting on the fade out – great stuff! It’s great to hear Poly in full punk wigout after 30 years!
why can’t i download any of these as promised? i have downloaded from PMA multiple times before. Whats wrong?
The links are all still working?
yeah the links are working, but usually you can right click on the link to dl it on itunes but this time its not working..and i really want the sufjan stevens track!!
nvm it just started working for me lol
Haha! Good!
Nice tracks. I learned the QuickTime technique to download a few days ago. Haha. Still getting a hang of it though.
On Google Chrome and Mozilla FireFox all you do is right click the link, and click “Save Link As…” It should prompt a download menu immediately after.
I don’t get why people have problems with that…
Hello,
I saw that you like Jason Mraz's songs. I think you should check out this upcoming artist, Alexi Paraschos. His style is acoustic/soul/pop and he plays guitar and piano. Check him out. If you like what you hear, can you write a review on him on your blog?
Here's his site. myspace.com/alexisongs
Thanks!