Christmas Every Day: December (no really)

 

Christmas is based on love, so the holiday’s for lovers, dig. Or the converse. (These songs all appeared on Christmas albums.)

Breakups are rough in the cold. Something Corporate is desperate to hold onto love, but wants you to “Forget December.”

Ready to throw in the old love towel, The Matches are convinced “December is for Cynics.” You might pogo out your soul to their message.

Merle Haggard, oddly, has a tale of the hard times and unemployment tearing up the family. “If We Make it Through December.” Way to break the mood, Merle.

Kay Starr takes us back with “December.” Romantic nights when they’re longer, eh?

Mu330’s “December” is decidedly more modern, but still about that special love who is ‘better than crack.’ Dance, ska buddy!

Trying on the Motown, The Sisterhood’s American song-poem wants you warm ’cause “Baby, It’s a Cold Night in December.” Chicka-bow-wow.

Quiet as a blanket of winter snow, Club 8 sings about being close, connected, and cold in “Love in December.” Feels like a holiday.

Norah Jones’s voice gets more of a workout than that piddly guitar during her ode to love “December.”