With these 26 songs interspersed with all those well-known songs, you'll get into the true spirit of Christmas, whether you love or hate it. The perfect Christmas has some highs and lows, and a little bit in between. You've got to make sure there's songs for everyone, including those of us who are just plain Grinches about the whole holiday season. The perfect holiday playlist shouldn't all be upbeat or focused on love. All around, they prove that with the right imagination, you can inject a harder-rocking spirit into Christmas music-mall holiday playlists be damned. Meanwhile, other rockers have just gotten, well, a little weird with things, whether it’s peak Weird Al taking the piss, the Pretenders getting new wave, or Fall Out Boy shutting down any chance of mistletoe romance.
(Sometimes it is better to leave things to Crosby and the other classic crooners, after all.) But from Chuck Berry and Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen, guitar gods have successfully livened up the otherwise straight-laced proceedings, or at least given the tunes more personality. Many rock icons have tried their hand at Christmastime staples, with mixed results. Thankfully, there are plenty of rocking Christmas gems out there that tend to fall under the radar. It's Christmas time, but we all know you can only play so much Bing Crosby and Mariah Carey before you'll go mad. The big kids were able to sing them all by the end of the month, and the babies even joined in with some of our hand movements.
