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Is there a good place to share modern Xmas songs across the Fediverse? (I'll lead off with a couple...)

XTC - Thanks for Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VhonU1aMw4

Bethan - In the Bleak Midwinter: (lullaby; wait for the moody strings)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmMQvU13Wi0

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, featuring Obama - Silent Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuFURWSZkcI

Pearl Jam - Someday at Christmas:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGCnzz9H0Ws

EDIT: Is there also a place for classic folk songs across the FV..?
Me, I've found three absolute corkers, all tackling the song "500 Miles." I find each version remarkably unique and moving in their own ways, but I'd rather unleash them upon the most-appropriate community, if that makes sense...

EDIT2: If you really insist upon a small sample of such, then let's go with Joan Baez:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_K6z3HiRAs

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My top ten:
100 gecs — "Sympathy for the Grinch"
Andrea Perry — "Fat Aunt Bette"
The Primatives — "You Trashed My Christmas"
The Barbary Coasters — "I've Been Naughty (and Nice)"
Fountains of Wayne — "The Man in the Santa Suit"
The Killers — "Cowboys' Christmas Ball" (cover)
The Kinks — "Father Christmas"
Thomas Heinl — "Christmas Tree on Fire"
Emmy the Great — "Christmas Day (and I Wish I Was Surfing)"
The Reverend Horton Heat — "Santa Bring My Baby Back"
I'll try to loop back through and add non-spotify links as I can.
- Whoa! That list looks interesting, maybe with some Dr. Demento vibes..?
  I'll be wading in to it! :D
  Thank you, NEMO, thank you...
  
  Here's my whole Christmas playlist on spotify. Some folk, some oldies, some covers, some weird stuff, some new stuff. It's been both expanded and winnowed every Advent for the last five years.
  
  I can make a more Demento-like list, too, but these are ones I genuinely just like.

Off topic but I do t like that santa pictire
- Wow, AI got the number of strings right… but then you notice the belt buckle.
  
  It's santas chastity belt
  
  The mouths always look like some kind of eldritch horror to me. I've noticed this also on AI-generated blue singers on YouTube.
- Metal Santa goes well every time.

I always lean to Xmas with Doom for my seasonal vibes.
- The whole album is amazing but "XXXmas ladies" is my fuckin jam

The Pogues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9jbdgZidu8

If you want to cry
Tim Minchin - White wine in the sun

"Weird Al" Yankovic - The Night Santa Went Crazy
DEVO - Merry Something to You
- Hahaha... I love that DEVO song, plus the video!
  Thank you for that.
  At the same, I also love Weird Al. And yet, that was one of the truly WORST songs I've ever heard of his, oh dear... XD

Midnight Riders - All I want for Christmas is to kick your ass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTZc3z21YVU
- Holy hell, that was both hilarious and awesome!
  Also, that caused me to remember that one Eddie Vedder tune. (now added to the list, above)

Uncle John by Jonathan Colton
"Your uncle's late again, last minute Christmas shopping at the airport, a dozen ringer tees he bought at Eddie Rickenbacker's bar–ladies extra extra large" is such a mood
- Edit: jfc I keep fat-fingering my phone today, posting before finishing my thoughts. Here's what I intended:
  I also really enjoy Christmas in Jail from that same album!
  Found it a few years ago after discovering the Omnibus podcast that John Roderick co-hosts with Ken Jennings.

August Burns Red - Carol of the Bells
Honestly most of that album “Sleddin’ Hill” shreds pretty hard 🤘

New found glory-let it go (frozen cover)
The kinks-father Christmas
Bad religion has an entire Christmas themed album
The pogues-fairytale of New York

It's not new necessarily, but Father Christmas by the Kinks is criminally underplayed

Can you make it a playlist and add all suggested songs? Would love to hear through them

Anything recently published by "There I ruined it" (the full songs are locked on his Patreon but well worth it for darker themes.
Same with "Almost Vinyl" (The only good reason for AI edited songs):
https://open.spotify.com/album/3VZ6JgoLOMQlnQCQQcqaMA

I'm quite partial to Lil Jon's All I Really Want For Christmas, featuring the Kool-Aid Man.
Yes, the Kool-Aid Man.

Police nabbed my Dad - Bobnoxious https://youtu.be/SUqp-COhlMc

https://wavlake.com/album/31bab476-03c2-4c89-b417-c4910b0a8b6f
- I think I answered the wrong question 😅
  But you can post to wavlake.com or fountain.fm and monetize too if they're original compositions.

Some personal favorites of mine:
Pussy Poppin For Santa by Heath Hussar
Wonderful X-mas Time by Apathy
Crustified Christmas by R.A. the Rugged Man & Mac Lethal

Grant-Lee Phillips, Yuletide
Mary Margaret O'Hara, Christmas EP

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