Last year I made a Christmas mix for my friends that included all the tracks below. This year I’m trying to turn it into a tradition, but I’m having trouble finding good Christmas music that I haven’t already used. At least not without tapping further into Sufjan’s and Mindy Smith’s Christmas albums than I already have. That would be a bit lopsided a mix, don’t you think?

Maybe I should have saved a few for this year. Anyone know any good Christmas songs on par with these ones?

1. Brenda Lee – Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
2. Death Cab For Cutie – Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
3. Bing Crosby – Happy Holiday (Beef Wellington Remix)
4. Fiona Apple – Frosty The Snowman
5. Mindy Smith – Santa Will Find You
6. Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds – Christmas Song (Live)
7. Iron & Wine and Calexico – Sixteen, Maybe Less
8. A Fine Frenzy – Let It Snow
9. Sufjan Stevens – Put The Lights On The Tree
10. Kay Starr – I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (STUHR Remix)
11. Copeland – Do You Hear What I Hear?
12. Joshua Radin – Winter
13. Damien Rice – Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
14. George Winston – Carol Of The Bells
15. Feist – Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming
16. John Mayer – St. Patrick’s Day
17. Kelly Osbourne – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
18. Nat King Cole – The Christmas Song
19. Mindy Smith – What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?
20. Sufjan Stevens – O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Coming up: my personal goals for 2008, which explains how this here blog will finally be put to greater use than monthly playlists and the occasional rant.

1. The Knife – “We Share Our Mothers’ Health” (Silent Shout)
2. Daft Punk – “Robot Rock / Oh Yeah” (Alive 2007)
3. Holy Fuck – “Echo Sam” (LP)
4. Thom Yorke – “Harrowdown Hill” (The Eraser)
5. Sufjan Stevens – “O Come O Come Emmanuel” (Songs For Christmas)
6. Vince Guaraldi – “Christmastime Is Here (Vocal)” (A Charlie Brown Christmas)
7. Rihanna – “Umbrella” (Good Girl Gone Bad)
8. A Fine Frenzy – “Fever” (Dan In Real Life Soundtrack)
9. Bright Eyes – “Poison Oak” (I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning)
10. Bright Eyes – “Road To Joy” (I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning)
11. This Will Destroy You – “The Mighty Rio Grande” (This Will Destroy You)
12. Mindy Smith – “Santa Will Find You” (My Holiday)
13. The Snake The Cross The Crown – “Cakewalk” (Cotton Teeth)
14. M.I.A. – “Mango Pickle Down River” (Kala)
15. The Snake The Cross The Crown – “Electronic Dream Plant” (Cotton Teeth)
16. M.I.A. – “Paper Planes” (Kala)
17. Iron & Wine – “Wolves (Song of the Shepherd’s Dog)” (The Shepherd’s Dog)
18. This Will Destroy You – “They Move On Tracks Of Never-Ending Light” (This Will Destroy You)