HOLIDAY 2020 SONG CONTEST!
“Songs to Remember/Forget”
“Songs to Remember/Forget”
From Seville, Spain, a very elegant anthem about not to think about by the buttery-voiced Alvaro Gastmans. Featuring fabulous backup singing
Nothing gets us more melancholy than a holiday! Mega-prolific songwriter Icarus Tyree nails it again
From the hills of Tennessee, an angry folk repudiation of plastic and corporate holiday junk
A sad song about longing, and the human need for nostalgia, which is so present right now. Excellent songwriting and lovely viola
This is the first dance song in this collection to feature both Sam Donaldson and an elk bugle
Finally, various religions are weighed based on gift-haul potential, and a clear winner emerges! All this with sensitive holiday sax as well! Eggnog and latkes DO sound great
Maybe our most adorable submission so far. It’s hard to be jolly out there, but staying home is feeling pretty good right about now
The Deathbots are ready to make some money from this one. People in sweaters are ready to start couples-dancing. This sounds like eggnog! Legit!!
Really pretty and genuinely meaningful: A really good song for those of us who spend time feeling sorry for ourselves at Christmas.
Anti Social club will make you want to do a sitting down couch dance, which is where it’s at right now. Why not decide that winter 2020 is groovier than your average winter?
Guess who’s coming! It’s not who you think, and I bet you weren’t expecting those laser eyes! Also our first song to rock an L Ron Hubbard reference
From Berlin Germany comes the cure to our collective mild/acute international depression: Art! And something about a duck
Architectural, poetic, challenging – Wyla is back! June bliss and spare soundscapes and parenthetical decay for your holiday
Missy Lawrence captures the weird emotional space in which we all find ourselves this holiday, and her spare weird-beautiful velvet undergroundy-ness matches all that really well
Ho Ho Ho! It’s Christmas in my pants! With mildly terrifying vocal stylings and even more terrifying guitar licks, The Ointment Appointment will make you dread December even more than you already were
Hlycrp.com 2020 holiday song contest Submission 23: The line between very cheerful and mildly despairing is tough to find -musically or lyrically – but Default American does it here. This is a catchy, honest song. We’re not worthy!
Written and recorded just for this contest: Enjoy it now before it’s being played in every department store every day in December. Fiona Apple has nothing on Cuteface. We especially love the Bake Off reference
Dude Babe has done it again! A musical synthesis of the spooky pagan spirit of darkness PLUS geese and snacks and santa. This song will make you festive with fear!
Sabrina Spivey’s song is as happy/sad/miserable/hopeful as the season itself. A good one to play in your low moments this December
From NYC: Rockin through wonderland, awash in mixed feelings, the Rizzos bring it with their usual big rock star talent and production.
This holiday, ask yourself: Do you recall, there’s a flesh tube on top of the balls? Clown in the Middle invites us to forget whatever else we were doing this holiday, and instead take a big inventory of ridiculous body parts.
NACNAC, a duo from Canada and the UK (members of les chouettes), invite us to get down and in so doing to make this holiday sacred.
Season of fear, coming to take the children to hell! It’s our second satanic holiday song. Increasingly sinister as it goes on! Love it!!!
We’ve been waiting for a song like this! Our first country/drinking Christmas song. She didn’t mean to break every single dish!
A three-eyed glowing Santa bops around with some carolers in the snow. Church bells, screaming, harmonies – this one is the whole package.
Scott Thompson brings it to a whole other level with this disturbing and hilarious tune that you are hereby forbidden to play for your kids. His Satan is the funniest thing I have heard in all of 2020
Pockets Ov going for the win! She is bored with the boys in this town and ready to get some toys that come at variable speeds for Christmas. Wooo!
From France! Evidently it’s the holidays over there too. The In-Fuzzed seems pretty cheerful about things — holding hands, closing doors and stuff like that — we love the backup singing in particular, and of course some degree of spoken-word is mandatory for all good holiday songs.
Inspired by what Abby from Day & Dream refers to as the “sad/happy” music from the Peanuts Christmas special, with the addition of the Day & Dream haunting/beautiful spin
Complexities of dating AND holidays! This is our first song to reference dancing on tables or to have boop boop background singing or to talk about dating Jesus! Icarus ups the bar
Beautiful wintery music. It reminds one of when you wake up in the middle of the night for no reason and go outside and remember about the stars.
Yes it’s our boy Johnny P. He’s got a little pagan in his blood! Johnny and the Dark City Kings bring a lot of emotion and appropriate amounts of screaming to this intense solstice anthem that will make you want to rock around the fire pit.
Ah yeah man! This song is funny. Also funny is the reality of being in a house, doing a call and response about santa by yourself. We’ve all been there, right? Oh! Santa! Oh! 2020
Metal! But not the satan kind, the hair kind. With cool kinds of talking and incomprehensibly inspiring holiday references. Rock on, Tin Roof Echo!
A pensive, wnc-sounding song that asks the eternal question, What DO you do when you see a big man fly across the sky?
This song is so for real it sounds like it’s from JC Penny Presents the Greatest Stars of Christmas, and that is the ultimate compliment from this reviewer
The irrational enthusiasm of the intro is paired with Rasmussen’s dark beats, aching melody and many F-bombs to make a strange ode to an extremely strange holiday season. This song was made on a nintendo switch.
Submit recordings of your original “Holiday-themed” songs!