Love Is Christmas - The 2016 Xmas Music Compilation

The thing about Bowie is, he was always five years ahead of the curve. He did it before everybody. So you can forgive me for thinking that, since he decided to check out in January, we’re all doomed. (And then Alan Rickman heard that Liev Schreiber was going to be doing Liaisons Dangereuses, said “It is beyond my control” so it broke your heart, and exited stage left, a gentleman all the way.)

That doomed feeling is such a winter thing, isn’t it? Whether you celebrate a birth, gather around a tree, light a brace of candles, get put through the wringer by a bunch of sadistic ghosts, or stamp your staff with glee, it’s all about birth and renewal in a waste of death and the withered, it’s all about love as a candle in the darkness, love as warmth against the chill of pettiness, love as an oasis of hope in the smug and pompous desert of contempt.

That desert takes many forms. That coldness always comes from new directions. That winter always feels like it will never end. But it does. As everything does.

Except love.

It’s who we are. It’s how we do. If there's a star in the sky that guides us, that's its name. And if we follow it, one day we'll look around and see no stranger's face. 

Merry happy, everybody.

Matthew

The 2016 Xmas Compilation: Love Is Christmas

Part One: Love Is Who We Are

Clarence Puts It All In Perspective

Love Is Christmas – Sara Bareilles

Joseph, Better You Than Me – The Killers

River – Ashley Monroe

Christmas Is All Around – Sleeping At Last

Silent Night – Lisa Harrington

Silence – Jack O’Rourke

Please Santa, Let’s Go – Vyvienne Long

Redribbon Foxes – A Fine Frenzy

Rudy – Be Good Tanyas

Clothe Yourself For The Winter – Sofia Talvik

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town – The Harmony Grits

I Want A Boy For Christmas – The Del Vetts

White Christmas – The Ravens

I’ll Stay Home (New Year’s Eve) – The Creators

Lonely This Christmas – Los Kingdom

Mistletoe – Justice Crew

Happy Xmas (War Is Over) – John Holt

Wonderland – Heidi Klum

Christmas Isn’t Christmas ‘Til You Get Here – Kylie Minogue

Part Two: Love Is How We Do

Text Me Merry Christmas – Straight No Chaser (featuring Kristen Bell)

To Christmas! (The Drinking Song) – Straight No Chaser

A New Year’s Carol – Joel Graham

Oh Santa (Bad World) – Freedom Fry

Fairytale Of New York – No Use For A Name

Santa Baby – The Dollyrots

Angels We Have Heard On High – Bad Religion

All I Want For Christmas Is You – The Dollyrots

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town – The Reverend Horton Heat

Sweet Christmas – Shonen Knife

Another Rock ‘n’ Roll Christmas – Gary Glitter

Deck The Hall Boogie! – Asleep At The Wheel

Egg Nog Twist – Three Elfmen

Russian Sleigh Song – The Three Suns

Carol of The Bells – The Last Bison

The Christmas Massacre of Charlie Brown – DJ John

St Nick The Knife – Voicedude

Rudolph – Detail

Black Christmas – Poly Styrene

Bonus Track