More holiday music:

["Got Something For You" - Best Coast & Wavves]

Cute! And catchy. There's not that much to this song, so that's all I have to say.


["Oh Santa!" - Mariah Carey]

I heard this in a store today and my initial thought was "Mariah Carey has more than one Christmas song?" This was the lead single from her second Christmas album, released last year.


["I Wish It Was Christmas Today" - Horatio Sanz, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Kattan, & Tracy Morgan]

SNL has contributed some true classics to the holiday music catalog--most notably, "The Chanukah Song," which was first performed on Weekend Update! This version was performed on SNL last weekend (SUCH AN EXCELLENT EPISODE, YOU GUYS), but it's been performed a number of other times on television (you can find a collection of them here; I'm partial to the version with the Muppets) and covered by Julian Casablancas.

The happiest of holidays

I just put up a string of lights in my room and am really ready for this shitshow of a semester to be over! Here's some holiday music to fit the mood.

["Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" - She & Him]

This pared down cover of the Judy Garland classic is really lovely with some nicely restrained instrumentals. I'm not a big She & Him fan--I like Zooey's voice but it can be really cloying sometimes-- but in this song, she doesn't really stray into the nasally cuteness she sometimes affects.

Also worth checking out is their sped-up version of "Baby, It's Cold Outside" where they switch genders. I really appreciate this because it sounds a lot less like a date rape about to happen. ("Say, what's in this drink?" ROOFIES. RUN, GIRL.)

["Linus and Lucy" - Vince Guaraldi]

"Linus and Lucy" might be more closely associated with the Charlie Brown TV specials than Christmas, but it counts because it made its first appearance in A Charlie Brown Christmas. Maybe something like "Christmas Time Is Here" would've been more appropriate, but I just like this better.