I am pretty easy to please...but I get a little tired 0f  all the "best of" list that come out at the end of each year. Many of them are great and provide real info while others seem like a project they gave to the intern, and he polled a group of kindergarten kids for the results...this I think is one of those polls. "Rolling Stone" has put together a list of The Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Christmas Songs.  There are 16 of them . . . but not all of them are "rock 'n' roll."

Here's the list, which doesn't appear to be in any particular order or very rock'n'roll at all:

--"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", Darlene Love (1963)

--"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)", John Lennon (1971)

--"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", Bruce Springsteen (1985)

--"All I Want For Christmas Is You", Mariah Carey (1994)

--"Little Saint Nick", The Beach Boys (1963)

--"Run Rudolph Run", Chuck Berry (1958)

--"The Chanukah Song", Adam Sandler (1994)

--"Frosty the Snowman", The Ronettes (1963)

--"Do They Know It's Christmas?", Band Aid (1984)

--"Wonderful Christmastime", Paul McCartney (1979)

--"Jingle Bell Rock", Bobby Helms (1957)

--"The Night Santa Went Crazy", “Weird Al" Yankovic (1996)

--"Christmastime for the Jews", Darlene Love (2005)

--"Christmas in Hollis", Run-D.M.C (1987)

--"Christmas in Harlem", Kanye West (2010)

--"The Christmas Waltz", She & Him (2011)

 

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