We've carefully curated a tiny collection of not- your-typical holiday songs designed to provide joy and/or puncture a few treacly memes.
First off, Boston's own Dropkick Murphys with "The Season's Upon Us":
Merle Haggard sings the melancholy but hopeful "If We Make It Through December":
Finally, the Foo Fighters morph "Everlong" into "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" and into the Charlie Brown Christmas song to close out on an upbeat note:
