Geeky Songs for the Holidays

While it’s fun grooving to the light jazz of Charlie Brown Christmas Special (thanks Vince Guardaldi Trio!), the malls and radio are full of pop singers with their contractually mandated holiday singles. Luckily “Nerd-core” has enough diversity that there’s a number of geeky songs about the holidays from either a geeky perspective or sung by a geeky band. (I do like geeky bands!)

Here are nine songs (and an album) that Alex James and I found, but if I’ve missed any of your favourites; link them in the comments.

If you’ve ever received a Christmas Letter updating you on some family’s successes, you might get a grin out of Jonathan Coulton’s Chiron Beta Prime where the Andersons have not had a very good year, what with the robot overlords and all.  JoCo also has a full album of Christmas tunes!

For a blend of holiday standards it’s Kirby Krackle and The Doubleclicks putting a Hoth-y spin to Baby, It’s Cold Outside.

Less geeky, but still holiday focused includes a solo song by Kirby Krackle’s Kyle Stevens. His Christmas Bells is more of an observed lament between the message of the season and the world we’re in.

The Double Clicks’ relive the pain of no longer being an only child at Christmas with Christmas Ain’t About Me.

Weird Al has a few holiday songs including the cold war Christmas At Ground Zero and a cheerful ditty about a slaughter at the North Pole with a very cranky Kris Kringle called The Night Santa went Crazy.

Paul and Storm contributed to Cards Against Humanity’s 12 Days of Holiday Bullshit project with a NSFW song focusing on the period between American Thanksgiving and New Years called Holidays Song.

If you’re MMORPG gamer, or a fan of “The Guild” webseries, you might like this tune, which they released after their first season. Here’s A Christmas Raid Carol.

Toronto’s Kari Maaren looks at an old European tradition that’s the dark side of Santa in her ukulele tune, It Must Be Krumpus!

With the recent ice storm, there have been a lot of Hoth references. Toronto’s own Debs & Errol have more of a seasonal song rather than holiday focused with their AT-ATs in the Snow (Listen and Buy the Album Here,) which lists schematic details and strategic weaknesses of these All Terrain Armored Transports. It’s one of my favourites of theirs! Here’s a vid of them preforming it live:

For some people December 25th is all about one man: The Doctor. If you’re day is counting down to the Doctor Who Christmas Special, I’d recommend listening to More Or Les’s album “Bigger on the Inside” with ten songs dedicated to 50 years of a mad man in a blue box!

However you choose to enjoy them, hope this music helps out your holidays!