xmas classix

xmas classix

Songs that have nothing to do with Christmas but always remind me of Christmastime.

My vague memories of my awkward first year of high school

The Scientist  ---Coldplay

Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)  ---Bruce Springsteen

My Love  ---Paul McCartney

The View  ---Modest Mouse

My vague memories of my awkward first Christmas in Idaho

Adrift  ---Barenaked Ladies

Recovering the Satellites  ---Counting Crows

Bling (Confessions of a King)  ---The Killers

Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses  ---U2

Peace on Earth  ---U2

Junior year winter when I thought I was a hard-ass

Sunday Sun  ---Beck

Impossible Germany  ---Wilco

Intervention  ---Arcade Fire

Hypnotize  ---System of a Down

Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)...  ---Jay-Z

Heard 'Em Say  ---Kanye West (ft Adam Levine)

Celebrity Skin  ---Hole

Without Love  ---from Hairspray 

The year I played Ebenezer Scrooge in the school play

Across the Sea  ---Weezer

Flashing Lights  ---Kanye West (ft Dwele)

Whatever You Like  ---T.I.

My Love  ---Justin Timberlake (ft T.I.)

Get Innocuous!  ---LCD Soundsystem

Man out of Time  ---Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Death and All His Friends  ---Coldplay

Spaceman  ---The Killers

That one date I went on with a girl who definitely wasn't into Radiohead

Optimistic  ---Radiohead

Depressing December where I definitely wasn't ready to serve an LDS mission

Blindsided  ---Bon Iver

Today Is the Day  ---Yo La Tengo

Exit Music (For a Film)  ---Radiohead

Fade Into You  ---Mazzy Star

The Wagon  ---Dinosaur Jr.

Feeling Yourself Disintegrate  ---The Flaming Lips

The winter I started "feeling things" for the first time in years

Michicant  ---Bon Iver

Babys  ---Bon Iver

Myth  ---Beach House

Song for America  ---Destroyer

Forrest Gump  ---Frank Ocean

Studying for finals in the TSC computer lab past 1am

Immunity  ---Jon Hopkins

Driving my 1984 Honda Civic on a snowy night

Help Me Lose My Mind  ---Disclosure (ft London Grammar)

Afterlife  ---Arcade Fire

Depressing December where I mostly listened to actual Christmas music

Grace Cathedral Park  ---Red House Painters

I started dating this one girl...

As  ---Stevie Wonder

I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)  ---Jamie xx (ft Young Thug & Popcaan)

And I Remember Every Kiss  ---Jens Lekman

Heaven or Las Vegas  ---Cocteau Twins

Nothing Even Matters  ---Lauryn Hill (ft D'Angelo)

Basketball Jones  ---Cheech & Chong

Moby Octopad  ---Yo La Tengo

Chosen One  ---The Flaming Lips 

Songs I listened to while I did my last college final before graduating

Sunday Candy  ---Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment

Pick up the Phone  ---Young Thug & Travis Scott (ft Quavo)

Driving my 1997 Ford Taurus on a snowy night

Runaway  ---Kanye West (ft Pusha T)

That one good December on antipsychotics 

Saturday  ---Yo La Tengo

Mary Jane  ---Rick James

A couple bad Decembers on antipsychotics

Nothing Gets Crossed Out  ---Bright Eyes

Sail to the Moon  ---Radiohead

These ones kinda just keep coming back

More Stars Than There Are in Heaven  ---Yo La Tengo

Nude  ---Radiohead

Ágætis byrjun  ---Sigur Rós