The Best (and Weirdest and Saddest) Holiday Songs

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos join host Brian Hiatt for a rundown of their favorite Christmas and holiday songs, from Mariah Carey to Ariana Grande to Run-DMC to Bruce Springsteen – and oddities including Bryan Adams' "Reggae Christmas" and the entire existence of Trans-Siberian Orchestra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.
0:07.0	We thought it would be a good time of year to talk about our favorite holiday songs.
0:12.0	And to do so, and maybe we'll talk about some non-favor
0:15.1	ones but we don't want to be super scrugy to do so I have with me
0:19.3	Brittany Spanos and Rob Schiafield. Hello.
0:23.0	Hello.
0:24.0	Happy holidays.
0:25.0	Rob and I just achieved the rare unison happy holidays.
0:29.0	It was awesome.
0:30.0	It was like John and Paul.
0:31.0	It was beautiful.
0:32.0	It was beautiful. It was fantastic. Before we dive in, let's give a
0:36.5	shout to Hyam's incredible take on Adam Sandler's Uber Classic Hanukkah song. They absolutely absolutely killed it it was at least as good as any of the
0:46.2	three or four previous versions that the Sandler did.
0:49.4	Maya Rudolph lights the menorah
0:53.8	the menorah so does Japanese breakfast and the desert suit
0:57.8	we need a longer version we need the full the full take because I just I love a good update on a song I love a good
1:04.6	cultural update and it was it was very fun diving in and there is a list going up of
1:09.6	the worst holiday songs on Rollingstone.com and definitely check that out. But diving in, here's a controversial one that I love, which is wonderful Christmas time by Paul McCartney. Among other things, of course, it fully invented chillwave.
1:23.7	I mean, we have to agree on that much.
1:25.0	I'll give you that.
1:28.0	Yes, those scents are the having the most amazing slash, people think awful I think wonderful
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