Holiday Music Quiz (kind of)

[willow_25]

 A couple of years ago for Christmas, I made up a CD of not-exactly Christmas music.  Songs that were 'wintery' or 'december-y' or 'joyful and giving' without mentioning trees or religion or Santa.

So, when I was working on playlists for mymagritte's birthday/Halloween/Day of the Dead party, I started thinking about not-exactly Halloween music.  There are some really great songs with gory or violent lyrics, supernatural imagery, etc.; it's almost too easy to pick.  I started out with almost 200 songs for the party, and it took me a good long while to get the number down low enough to fit on 2 CD's.

So now I'm wondering of my flist; when you get sick of hearing "The Monster Mash" or "White Christmas", what do you listen to?  Or, do you not believe that there are alternatives?  Just listen to lots of Goth stuff?

My 'alternative' Halloween/Day of the Dead choices:
Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles
I Can't Decide - Scissor Sisters
Red Rain - Peter Gabriel
Living Dead Girl - Rob Zombie
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels
Murder She Wrote - Chaka Demus & Pliers
Metro - The Vincent Black Shadow

Comments

[kaylaraine.livejournal.com]

Bang Bang (My baby shot me down) - Nancy Sinatra

[sharoncs.livejournal.com]

Last Christmas - George Michael. Yes, it has x-mas in the title, but it's not really a xmas song. It's actually a pretty sucky breakup song. Or spite song, whathaveyou. Plus, thinking of George Michael when he had feathered hair makes me all giddy inside.

[willow-25.livejournal.com]

Don't know that one, I'll have to check it out. Thnx!

[willow-25.livejournal.com]

Ahh, George Michael, back in the legwarmer days. How did we not know he was gay? That's actually one of my not-so-Christmas songs, too.