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Yule Survive – Six Moody & Depressing Christmas Songs To Get You Through The Holidays
Topics: Music | Add A CommentBy admin | December 9, 2010
Sometimes the only thing you get for Christmas is your freedom, and the only thing under the tree is you, passed out drunk. Yule get over it. In the meantime, here’s some melancholic music to help you wallow.
  The perfect tree to pass out drunk beneath. |
You have to dig pretty deep to dig up weirder Christmas music ideas than we did over the last couple of years with Generation Triple Xmas – Holiday Songs For Millennials, last holiday season’s Oye To The World, our tribute to the non-Christian menorah-ty , and our mashup roundup of 2008, Generation X-Mas, but this year we’re digging deeper. Or lower, as the case may be. Yeah, yeah. Christmas is a time of joy and celebration, blah blah blah. Face it. For much of the world, Christmas is only a few days after the longest night of the year, and unless you live in southern climes, there’s a good chance it’s cold and dreary during those few hours of daylight that do exist. No wonder we string lights all over the place, eat ourselves into oblivion, and try to cheer each other up with presents wrapped in shiny paper. So this year, why not just roll with it, and ball your eyes out with some awesomely depressing Christmas music. We’ve rounded up a few tunes below to help bring you down, but got so depressed in the process that we couldn’t go on. Feel free to share some suggestions. We’ll post them in a followup, that is, if we can read your comments through the tears that are freezing our eyes shut
We’ll ease you in gently. Low’s Just Like Christmas
Somehow Roy Orbison songs are even more depressing when you watch him sing them. Here’s Roy wrapping the holidays in blue with Pretty Paper
Sometimes it’s a bunch of snow that gets dumped around Christmas time. Sometimes it’s you. Joni Mitchell’s River
If you think of John Lennon’s Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
Only Sufjan Stevens could make “Riding a sled down the hillside, hillside” sound like an integral part of The Worst Christmas Ever
However you’re feeling, it could always be worse. Because as Harvey Danger points out, Sometimes You Have to Work on Christmas
