Alternative Christmas Music: 2009's Playlist

Once again I posted a CD containing my favourite indie Christmas tunes to my friends in 2009. Here's the playlist. Check my other posts for all the playlists from ten years of these CDs.

1 Santa Claus – Belle & Sebastian
2 A Christmas Duel – The Hives & Cyndi Lauper
3 Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) – The Raveonettes
4 Candy Cane Children (Merry Christmas From The White stripes) – The White Stripes
5 Someday At Christmas – Jack Johnson
6 Don’t Shoot Me Santa – The Killers
7 Christmas Trees On Fire – Holly Golightly
8 Only At Christmas Time- Sufjan Stevens
9 The First Snowflake – Boy Least Likely To
10 Christmas In Prison – Emmy The Great feat. Lightspeed Champion
11 Is This Christmas – The Wombats
12 Ghost Of Christmas – Manic Street Preachers
13 Through December - Laura Veirs
14 Merry Christmas (War Is Over) – Badly Drawn Boy
15 Christmas TV – Slow Club
16 Sleigh Ride - KT Tunstall
17 Last Christmas – Coldplay
18 We Wish You A Merry Christmas – Weezer
19 A Snowflake Fell (& It Felt Like A Kiss) – Glasvegas
20 The Man In The Santa Suit – Fountains Of Wayne
21 All I Want For Christmas – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
22 Santa Claus Is Ska-ing To Town – Granville Williams Orchestra

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