Happy Holidays if you celebrate. if not, I hope the closing of the year finds you in a place of peace and comfort. Me? I’m celebrating with friends, in a house filled with too much noise, dog hair everywhere…and I love it. My soul needed it, and so I’m making this quick so I can get back to games and naps and too many cookies and laugh. This playlist is a quick compilation of the rock and roll holiday songs that soundtracked our travels to family and back again. We run the gamut from classic rock to punk to metal to…Cheech and Chong. Enjoy.

• William Shatner – “Jingle Bells (Punk Rock version feat. Henry Rollins)”
• Ramones – “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Wanna Fight Tonight)”
• The Waitresses – “Christmas Wrapping”
• The Smashing Pumpkins – “Christmastime”
• The Kinks – “Father Christmas”
• AC/DC – “Mistress For Christmas”
• Bing Crosby/David Bowie – “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy”
• The Pogues – “Fairytale Of New York”
• King Diamond – “No Presents For Christmas”
• Rob Halford – “Donner and Blitzen”
• Twisted Sister – “Oh Come All Ye Faithful”
• Gwar – “Stripper Christmas Summer Weekend”
• Bad Religion – “Hark, The Herald Angels Sing”
• August Burns Red – “Carol of the Bells”
• Cheech & Chong – “Santa Claus and His Old Lady”

Happy Holidays.

Be safe, be good to each other. See you next week.