This Jew's favorite Christmas songs

Most Christmas music drives me crazy.

But some Christmas songs I look forward to hearing every year. For the most part, they are cynical Christmas songs, but still....


#5. Greg Lake : I Believe in Father Christmas (the album version from Emerson Lake and Palmer)

Lake just passed away, but the song is described as "a picture-postcard Christmas, with morbid edges" by lyricist Peter Sinfield. It includes a section from Prokofiev, whom we just discussed on the blog, and part of the video was made in the Qumran Caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.




#4. The Who: Christmas

Part of the Tommy rock opera, it includes a subversive dig at Christianity, asking how someone who cannot see or hear can be saved.





#3. The Waitresses, Christmas Rapping

OK, this is far more traditional. The plot is corny, but, damn, I love both the lyrics and the tune. My guilty Christmas pleasure. (Along with the original Miracle on 34th Street.)



#2. Bob Rivers, I Am Santa Claus

This Black Sabbath spoof is great, with very funny lyrics.



#1 The Kinks: Father Christmas

Another subversive song, with poor kids mugging Santa Claus because they need money, not silly toys. And it really rocks.

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