Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays, EN! It’s that time of year where favorite songs resurface to help make spirits bright. Hopefully these tunes will fill you with the holiday spirit!
Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Christmas Eve/Sarajevo
There are many classics out there, but for me, this one is the crown jewel of Christmas songs. Every year just after Thanksgiving TSO rolls through on their annual holiday tour and this song is featured heavily in the radio ads for the concert. This song always flips a switch in my mind that makes it Christmas time, even if it’s a stunningly beautiful 65 degrees out with no rain in the forecast for weeks.
Bing Crosby and David Bowie – The Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth
Bing Crosby has one of those voices that is synonymous with Christmas. David Bowie is synonymous with awesome. This video is classic Christmas awesome. The little-intro clip where they pretend not to know each other makes me smile even if it is a bit saccharine. As an added bonus, Will Ferrell and John C Reilly did a shot-for-shot spoof on this three years ago and it is kind of amusing.
Run-DMC – Christmas In Hollis
Christmas in Hollis is one of my favorite holiday songs. It would stand on it’s own as a noveaux-classique Christmas song but it also has the added bonus of being featured in Die Hard which forms an integral piece of the debate as to whether or not Die Hard can be counted as a Christmas Movie. (Yes, it can. Just ask any of your male friends.)
