Care to share any unconventional Christmas songs you like?

How ‘bout the good old reliable Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer ?

http://youtu.be/pL9DF1SRBnM

I want a hippopotamus for Christmas!

Allan Sherman’s Twelve days of Christmas.

“I Yust Go Nuts at Christmas” by Ygi Yorgesson. 1978

How about some Christmas at Ground Zero?

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band’s There’s no Lights on the Christmas Tree Mother. They’re Burning Big Louie Tonight

Being the heathen I am I love quite a few alternative christmas songs. Depends what you mean by unconventional, though. If you mean still Christmas but different than baby boomer Christmas songs, then there’s

Atheist Christmas Carol by Vienna Teng (heathen!)
Love is Christmas by Sara Barielles
And a little sad but still gorgeous, River originally by Joni Mitchell, though I prefer the linked version by Barielles.

Now, there’s also ‘unconventional’ as in not really about Christmas at all, but about the season, in which case I also have to add

Winter Song by Bareilles and Ingrid Michelson

Fun fact, another of my favorites is the Carol of the Bells, which is considered ‘traditional’, but is actually ancient. Pre-history ancient, it’s originally from Ukraine, and existed as a magical chant to bring in the new year (celebrated in April, not January) before the introduction of Christianity. Pretty cool. And makes some pretty great metal.

The Pogues ~ Fairytale of New York

Christmas in Fallujah

I always say Pat a Pan

It’s a French song.

Also, The original Feed the World by Bandaid was great. I figure people know that one around the world. I heard parts of a new version a couple of weeks ago.

Tim Minchin’s White Wine in the Sun
(so named because he’s Australian)

This

Elvis Costello’s St Stephen’s Day Murders
Greg Lake’s I Believe in Father Christmas
Jackson Browne’s The Rebel Jesus
Sun 60’s Merry XMess
And of course, Squeeze’s Christmas Day

Louis Armstrong and the Commanders Cool Yule

Christmas by the Bay by Tim Hockenberry