Sometimes, the holigays aren’t about joy overflowing out of your elf ears. Sometimes, they’re stressful and awful and straight-up sad. And sometimes, you just get a little bit tired of the most wonderful time of the year.
In these moments, you don’t have to abandon all things holiday to get your fix of mellow and melancholy music to ease your emotional pain. Instead, you can actually just subvert the whole damn season by putting this playlist on.
Having a Blue Christmas
Come On Christmas – MGMT
Firewood – Regina Spektor
The Last Christmas – Emery
O Come All Ye Faithful – Art Garfunkel
O Holy Night – Tracy Chapman
Christmas – Blues Traveler
I Believe In You – Sinead O’Connor
Labor of Love – Point of Grace
Hungover Boxing Day – The Gasoline Brothers
Christmas Song – Dave Matthews And & Reynolds
Peace – Norah Jones
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – Babyface
Little Drummer Boy – Bright Eyes
I Believe – Natalie Grant
Christmas Time is Here – Ivy
December 25 – Francesca Battistelli
Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing – Sufjan Stevens
Christmastime – The Smashing Pumpkins
Oh Holy Night – Brand New
All Through the Night – Sheryl Crow
The Little Drummer Boy – Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Bethlehem Skies – Dara Maclean
Silent Night – Taylor Swift
I Hate Christmas Parties – Relient K
Christmas Day – Dido
Yule Shoot Your Eye Out – Fall Out Boy
Wonderful Christmas – Tom McRae
