Tori Amos: "The Little Drummer Boy" (1997, "You Sleigh Me" various artists compilation)
The Bangles "Light My Way" (2006, single)
Pat Benatar: "Please Come Home for Christmas" (1991, from "True Love" album)
Kate Bush: "December Will Be Magic Again" (1979, television special)
Belinda Carlisle: "Christmas Lullaby" (1995, "Mother and Child" various artists compilation)
Cocteau Twins: "Frosty the Snowman" (1983, "Snow" single)
Cranes: "The Christmas Angel" (1997, from "Santa's Got a GTO" compilation)
The Creatures (Siouxsie Sioux & Budgie): "Red Wrapping Paper"
Danielle Dax: "Blue Christmas" (1988, "Winter Warnerland" promotional various artists compilation)
Dressy Bessy: "All the Right Reasons...a holiday Song" (2009)
The Dollyrots: "Because I'm Santa" (2012) Note: To properly appreciate this one, first watch The Dollyrots: "Because I'm Awesome"
Enya: "Oiche Chium" (Silent Night) (1992, single)
Eurythmics: "Winter Wonderland" (1987, "A Very Special Christmas" various artists compilation)
Everything But the Girl: "25th December" (1994, "Amplified Heart" album)
Feist: "Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming" (16th century hymn)
Lita Ford & Cherie Currie: "Rock This Christmas Down" (2013, single)
froSTed: "Frosty the Snow Man" (1997, from "Santa's Got a GTO" compilation)
Fuzzy: "Christmas" (1996, from "Electric Juices" album)
Juliana Hatfield: "Make it Home" (1994, from "My So Called Life" soundtrack)
Cyndi Lauper: "Feels Like Christmas" (1993, from "Hat Full of Stars" album)
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and Special Guests: "Silent Night" (2009, from "A Blackheart Christmas" various artists compilation)
Kindred Spirit (Debbi Peterson of The Bangles/Siobahn Maher of River City People): "The Christmas Son" (1995, from "Mother and Child" various artists compilation)
Annie Lennox: "Got Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (2010, from "A Christmas Cornucopia" album)
Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues: "Fairytale of New York" (1988, The Pogues' "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" album)
Aimee Mann & Michael Penn: "Christmastime" (1996, "Hard Eight" soundtrack)
Loreena McKennitt: "The Holly and the Ivy" (2008, from "A Midwinter Night's Dream" album)
Sarah McLachlan: "Wintersong" (2006, "Wintersong" album)
Natalie Merchant: "Children, Go Where I Send Thee" (1997, from "A Very Special Christmas 3" various artists compilation)
Merry Wives of Windsor: "Gloucestershire Wassail" (2015, digital single)
The Pipettes: "Santa's On His Way" (2010)
Poe: "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" (1997)
The Primitives: "You Trashed My Christmas" (2012, Elefant Records' "A Christmas Gift for You" various artists compilation)
Sixpence None the Richer: "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch" (1997, from "Starball Contribution" various artists compilation)
Strawberry Whiplash: "Santa Needs a Holiday" (2012)
The Waitresses: "Christmas Wrapping" (1981, from "I Could Rule the World If I Could Only Get the Parts" EP)
Jane Wiedlin: "What Do You Want for Xmas?"
Dar Williams: "The Christians and the Pagans" (1996, from "Mortal City" album)
Wyrd Sisters: "Solstice Carole" (1993, from "Leave a Little Light" album)
Chanukah songs are harder to locate, but YinPop extends warm holiday wishes to the many prominent Jewish women whose work we admire:
Babes in Toyland (Kat Bjelland, Maureen Herman)
Bratmobile (Allison Wolfe, Molly Neuman)
Sharon Cheslow of Chalk Circle
Ani DiFranco
Lesley Gore
Kathleen Hanna of Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Julie Ruin
Kristin Hersh (Tanya Donelly too?) of Throwing Muses
Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles
Kittie (Morgan Lander, Mercedes Lander , Talena Atfield, Lisa Marx)
Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde
Pink
Sleater-Kinney (Carrie Brownstein)
Regina Spektor
Veruca Salt
Dot Allison, Tori Amos, Blondie, The Capsules, Concrete Blonde, Cranberries, Dressy Bessy, Ani DiFranco, The Flatmates, 45 Grave, Garbage, The Gits, The Go-Go's, Nina Hagen, PJ Harvey, Juliana Hatfield, Penelope Houson, Anne-Marie Hurst, Indigo Girls, Wanda Jackson, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Lady Gaga, Cyndi Lauper, Letters to Cleo, Lene Lovich, Mazzy Star, Loreena McKennitt, Merry Wives of Windsor, Missing Persons, The Motels, Alison Moyet, No Doubt, Sinead O'Connor, The Primitives, The Raincoats, Santa Dog, Siouxsie Sioux, Skeletal Family, Tegan and Sara, Suzanne Vega, Jane Wiedlin, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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