Christmas Music for People Who Hate Christmas Music

December 20, 2016 12:53 PM

Want the humbugs to hum along? Amelia has been making Christmas mixes for a long time. She started sixteen years ago with cassettes. CD-Rs forced her to adopt another technology. Now she has adopted Mixcloud which loses a bit of personalization, but more of us can benefit can benefit from her good holiday music selections.
posted by christopher.taylor (15 comments total)

Looking through, there are some smart picks here - I have to admit when I read the post title I immediately thought first of Lux and Ivy of the Cramps' Black Christmas mix, though.
posted by ryanshepard at 1:30 PM on December 20, 2016

I don't know how to find the mix but my favorite anti-Christmas song is Stupid Bells by The Handsome Family. "The candy cane is Satan's walking stick!"
posted by gigantocypris at 1:34 PM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

Thanks for this. Christmas music that does not suck, and is also Little Drummer Boy-free, is a welcome refuge from the usual dreck.
posted by old_growler at 1:45 PM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

When I go to the Wordpress site, under each entry I'm seeing Amazon links to purchase, but nothing to hear the mixes. What am I missing?
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 2:08 PM on December 20, 2016

The mixes are above the tracklists.
posted by christopher.taylor at 2:10 PM on December 20, 2016

To be clear, Mixcloud doesn't do things in terms of a playlist, like Spotify. It's one long mix meant to be listened to from beginning to end. There is also no going backwards in the mix (presumably for IP/licensing reasons). I really love the site and have been using it more lately.
posted by naju at 2:19 PM on December 20, 2016

Vince Guaraldi Trio
posted by lazycomputerkids at 2:32 PM on December 20, 2016

The mixes are above the tracklists.

Not in my browser window (Chrome), they're not. And I don't think I'm blocking a Mixcloud widget, this is the first I've ever heard of the site.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 3:05 PM on December 20, 2016

Yeah, not in Firefox either.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 3:08 PM on December 20, 2016

People having trouble: Some of them seem to be showing up on my browser, and others not. Go directly to the page where they all live, which doesn't have the tracklists but does have the mixes: https://www.mixcloud.com/christmasmix/
posted by old_growler at 3:19 PM on December 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

there's always the classical stations, if you like the brass or choir thing for Christmas music
posted by thelonius at 4:20 PM on December 20, 2016

*Notes Bobby Helms version of "Jingle Bell Rock." Acknowledges Amelia's impeccable taste.*
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 4:22 PM on December 20, 2016

I quite like Sufjan Stevens' Songs for Christmas.
posted by foobaz at 7:20 PM on December 20, 2016

I was all, "yeah, what'evs" at the selection of almost 100% American music in the first mixes, but then I saw a Beatles mix, a sexy mix, and what looks to be a super awesome HEAVY mix.
Good stuff.
posted by bystander at 11:45 PM on December 20, 2016

Christians and Pagans by Dar Williams comes to mind
posted by BobtheThief at 11:02 AM on December 21, 2016