Myra’s Music Corner: All The Jingle Ladies – Holiday Songs That Aren’t Terrible

By Myra Mulongoti, Co-editor-in-chief

I’ll be the first to admit that a lot of holiday music is overplayed, trite, and quite frankly, grating. That being said, I don’t think we should throw the baby out with the bath water and forget that good holiday music exists that unfortunately gets a bad rap from the not-so-good variety blasted by shopping malls and radio stations. And that’s why for this timely edition of Myra’s Music Corner, I’ve compiled a playlist of some of my favorite holiday music. The list includes covers and renditions of well-known classics as well as more contemporary originals.

1. Little Drummer Boy – Bright Eyes
2. Did I Make You Cry on Christmas? – Sufjan Stevens
3. Blue Christmas – Christian Leave
4. Winter Wonderland – Cocteau Twins
5. Last Christmas – Wham!
6. Silent Night – Sharon Van Etten
7. Wonderful Christmastime – Paul McCartney
8. Wintering – The 1975
9. River – Joni Mitchell
10. 25^th December – Everything But the Girl
11. Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight) – Ramones
12. Santa Baby – Eartha Kitt
13. Happy Xmas (War is Over) – John Lennon & Yoko Ono ft. The Harlem Community Choir
14. All I Want for Christmas is You – Mariah Carey