It’s that time of year again when innocent emo kids can’t even go to the local supermarket or pub without having our ears attacked by Mariah Carey’s inferior version of the My Chemical Romance Christmas jam All I Want For Christmas Is You, Wham’s uninspired read on Jimmy Eat World's Last Christmas, or Bert McCracken forbid, whatever the latest talent comp winners cover of a generic Christmas song is being flogged that year. It’s enough to make the wrong type of tears fall down the face.
Despite our best efforts to convince the manager to put on that absolutely ripping Rise Against version of Making Christmas, they won’t do it! It’s a bloody outrage it is!
The good news is this is a struggle as old as MySpace itself and the wonderful people of emo and pop-punk worlds have been working on a solution to the festive season noise pollution in earnest. In celebration of these most excellent souls, and to save your ears from the torment of carols, we've put together this playlist of the best emo and pop-punk Christmas hits. This is All I Want For Christmas Is Emo, the playlist. Oh and a message to the elder emo gatekeepers, before you hit the comments in outrage, please believe us that we don't care if most of these tracks aren't 'technically emo', we're having a bit of fun in the festive season over here, so maybe go listen to Rites Of Spring again and let us all wail away with Gerard Way.
My Chemical Romance - All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey)
The Used - Alone This Christmas
Jimmy Eat World - Last Christmas
Fall Out Boy - Yule Shoot Your Eye Out
Phoebe Bridgers - If We Make It Through December
Creeper - Fairytale Of New York
Weezer - O Holy Night
Poppy - I Won't Be Home For Christmas
Manchester Orchestra - Silent Night
Green Day - Xmas Time Of Year
New Found Glory - Nothing For Christmas
blink-182 - I Won't Be Home For Christmas
All Time Low - Merry Christmas, Kiss My Ass
Something Corporate - Forget December
Issues - Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
Fountains Of Wayne - I Want An Alien For Christmas
Rise Against - Making Christmas
Real Friends - I Had A Heart
Man Overboard - Father Christmas
Yellowcard - Christmas Lights
Wavves - Emo Christmas
From First To Last - Christmassacre
Good Charlotte - Christmas By The Phone
Flyleaf - What's This?
Neck Deep - December
Dragged Under - This Holiday
Charly Bliss and PUP - It's Christmas and I Fucking Miss You
The Dirty Nil - Christmas at My House
Panic! At The Disco - Feels Like Christmas
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