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
