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Nov 9, 2023 · 641 votes. 312 voters. List of all punk rock Christmas albums, ranked from best to worst. For many, punk rock Christmas albums capture the essence of the holiday spirit, even if the music isn't quite what you'd expect to hear around holiday time.
- Brooke Bajgrowicz
- The Dickies, “Silent Night” This ’70s punk version of “Silent Night” is anything but silent. The Dickies made sure of that by adding killer guitar lines, busting out some shaky vocals and topping off the tune with a “silent night!”
- My Chemical Romance, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” The original “All I Want for Christmas is You” is iconic — but if you’re looking for something a little more angsty and desperate, this is it.
- August Burns Red, “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” Don’t be fooled by the happy, care-free opening: this take on “Rudolph” is more like the answer to, “What would it sound like if ol’ red nose joined a metal band?”
- The Vandals, “Oi To The World” This tune by the classic Orange County, California lifers isn’t just the intense version of “Joy to the World” — rather, it is an original tongue-in-cheek holiday punk anthem.
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- The Yobs – “Rub-A-Dum-Dum”
- Ramones – “Merry Christmas (I Don’T Want to Fight Tonight)”
- Stiff Little Fingers – “White Christmas”
- The Dickies – “Silent Night”
- Rise Against – “Making Christmas”
- Fear – “Fuck Christmas”
- The Damned – “There Ain’T No Sanity Clause”
- Descendents – “Christmas Vacation”
- The Humpers – “Run, Run Rudolph”
Whether future punk carollers realized it or not, the Wailers set the tone for Christmas punk future with their three-minute protest track. Some bands took the classics and kicked them about, the way Sid Vicioustrashed Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.”Others composed their own nasty Yuletide rockers. With that, Alternative Press brings you our pick of punk...
In 1977, the great underrated British punk-pop outfit the Boysissued a punk-up of Berry’s Yuletide gasser “Run Rudolph Run.”They inverted the “B” and “Y” in their name, transforming it to the U.K. slang for “a rude, noisy and aggressive young person.” It began a Christmas tradition, culminating in 1980sbeautiful, horrible The Yobs Christmas Album.A...
The definitive American punk band delivered a definitive punk seasonal standard. Initially the B-side to 1987’s “I Wanna Live’‘ single, the Ramonesre-recorded it for 1989’s Brain Drain LP. Over a midtempo ver...
The Irish heroes cut the Irving Berlin-penned classicfor the live “Silly Encores” B-side to 1980’s “At The Edge”45. Guitarist Henry Cluney assumed Jake Burns’ vocal mic as the band struck up a sloppy mock-country jangle of Bing Crosby’s perennial holiday hit. With a brusque four count, Stiff Little Fingersabruptly accelerate into a fourth-gear thra...
Franz X. Gruber and Joseph Mohr’s 1818 carol received a blistering rethink from San Fernando Valley’s snot-pop comedians the Dickies160 years later. Stan Lee’s guitar borders on the Stoogely, while Leonard Graves Phillips bleats “’round yon virgin mother and child” like the meth-addled offspring of Sparks’ Russell Mael. The track rocks like a seaho...
Walt Disney Recordsreleased Nightmare Revisited—reinterpretations from modern rock bands of the soundtrack to Tim Burton’s 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas—in 2008. Chicago’s melodic hardcore powerhouse Rise Againstcontributed this clanky, minor-key dirgeout of Danny Elfman’s morbidly whimsical score. The mechanical feel gets ferociously am...
Beginning with plinked guitar resembling sleigh bells, Los Angeles’ aggrocorekings fashion a blues about the homeless at Christmastime. “All the children on the street/Hope they get something good to eat,” singer Lee Vingwails, adding, “But for me, it’s not so great.” Kicking into a brief thrash, Ving rants the title 10 times, ending proceedings af...
Britpunk’s most chaotic wiseguys tried their hand at their country’s enormous Christmas singles market in 1980, failing spectacularly. Remixed in ’83, it finally charted as high as No. 97. How can you lose, lifting a title from brilliant ’30s film comics the Marx Brothers? In 1935’s A Night At The Opera, Groucho Marxtries explaining a business cont...
Descendentsfirst uncorked thison 1985’s I Don’t Want To Grow Up. Singer Milo Aukermanset his heartbroken lyrics to one of drummer Bill Stevenson’s most aching melodies. Over bullet-pop slightly more delicate than your typical Descendentsconfection, Milo returns from college to his high school girlfriend. She promptly breaks up with him, going on an...
In 1995, Sympathy For The Record Industrycollected several of their artists wrecking seasonal nuggets into Happy Birthday, Baby Jesus. Long Beach trad punks the Humpersalways had more than a little Johnny Thundersto them. So they naturally reached out to the ex-New York Doll’s inspiration Berry for their contribution, his “Rudolph The Red-Nosed Rei...
- Tim Stegall
Punk Christmas · Playlist · 100 songs · 62.7K likes.
As this playlist shows, punk rock has always had a special relationship with Christmas. But if you think about it, so have many indie, fringe, and avant-garde movements. John Waters believes the “whole purpose of life is Christmas.”
The BEST Christmas punk mix on You Tube! Turn it up, deck the halls and enjoy! Featuring Christmas songs from X, Bad Religion, The Vandals, Misfits, NOFX, The Ramones, The Dickies, Dropkick...
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We’ve got 10 classic covers and 10 holiday originals, plus some bonus full albums at the end as well. What are some of your favorite tunes to get you in, or keep you out of, the Christmas spirit? Covers: 1. “Step into Christmas” The Business kick off the list via a 1981 holiday cover from the EP Bollocks to Christmas.
