Month: March 2026

“I Threw All You Photos into the [Open] Fire”

SayWeCanFly is all business in “Merry Christmas, I Miss You“. Altrock attitude outlines a coffee shop encounter gone wrong.

“I’ll Miss You At Christmas” is what happens when a good song gets worked over by a talent three decades too late. E for effort, M. J. Moore. Pop deflated.

Then Mariah Carey showed up and showed us how to overdo it. “Miss You Most (At Christmas Time)” does what it needs to and not one pop more.

Still prefer Bowling for Soup’s quirk in “I Miss You Most On Christmas“. Not an essential novelty, but it rocks the calendar.

How about a bit of the ol punk and out when Rancid rocks out “X-Mas Eve (She Got Up And Left Me)“. Sudden. Yet heart rending.

“I Never [Orna]ment Anything to You, Did I?”

Picking over the bluegrass folk, 30 Pounds of Bone scry “You Can’t Break Up At Christmas (So Let’s Get It Over With)“. That’s the saddest banjo i ever heard.

One of the funniest country numbers i ever ran before, “Break Up Before Christmas” from Corey Hunt and the Wise advises the men out there how to manage their holiday budget.

Dude York’s “Break Up Holiday” is rock that deserves a rewind as well. Classic.

Also inordinately fond of “Breakup For The Holidays” Migratory Animals, a brazen electronic pop in your face.

Jellyrolling the ragtime Goldentusk pulls out the piano bar stops singing “I’m Breaking Up with You for Christmas“. But he’s just telling you now, so what’d you get him? (Rotten to the encore.)

“I’ve Already Thrown All Your [Red] Suits Out the Window Into the Street”

“Christmas Without You” is an over serious skit by Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton, but that’s just right for corporate country western.

“(It Just Can’t Be) Christmas Without You” is a gentler folk pop from The Four Oh Six All Stars. But then they all join hands and sing together. What th-

Swinging cool, Michael J Handley croons through “Christmas Without You” like it’s you suffering, not him. Blasé the Lord.

James and Mark jumble up the electronics with shouted feelings for “Christmas Without You“, a blast from the ’70s. An excellent mess.

“You Deserve Better [Not Pout, Better Not Cry]” BLUE ALERT

Cori Connors covers Tarja’s observance how much “You Would Have Loved This“. (This = winter.) She packs a punch in this soft indie pop with power vocals.

Also hemmed in by the winter weather, Alison Trelfa doodles around easy listening jazz with “It’s Not Christmas Without You“.

David McMullen’s “Christmas Without You” is just as bathetic, and he’s ready to yacht rock call it all off.

What the funk? Don Lee’s “Black Christmas” is especially dark without you. Turn it up.

James Coyle begins mid-breakup with the poignantly mean-spirited “A Very AIDS-y Christmas“. BLUE ALERT, but hilarious (if you ask me) pop. An encore of comic excess.

“Now I’m Stocking You on Social Media”

Cheesy pop peppers us in “Without You“. heymonday is determined to party on through the loneliness, but i feel like picking up the red Solo cups brimming with tears.

Swing also seems a bit inappropriate for Jeremey Lister’s “Wouldn’t Be Christmas Without You“. It’s cruel to be cool, dude.

Pounding indie tries to emo the moment. The Power of Truth makes a musical out of a moment in “Xmas Don’t Feel the Same Without You“. Now that’s a ride.

Dave Dudley slathers on the corn for the easy listening country “I Wish You Were Here“. Making it all about him.

Doowop digression! “Without You Christmas is Blue” is like Elvis fronting The Drifters. The Emotions feat. J Favale make a musical mountain out of a missing person. (BTW brown lights?!?)

“I’m Writing You a Dear John [McClane] Letter”

Kelly Long drawls “My First Christmas without You” with extra twang. Seems clingy even for country.

There’s some question who you is in “There’s No Christmas Without You“. Kirk Franklin and the Family might be singing about Jaysus, but what could they have done to rid themselves of His Grace?–surely not this gospel singalong.

Showing us how to mope, Flooded Cellar spiral with their folk “Without You“. Bemoaning the single set of footprints in the snow and on the floor, they don’t know what to do. Wait, is this bereavement?

John Cedrick synths the R+B with his lack of you. Apparently “Santa Didn’t Hear” that you needed to be with him. Scary, you think about it.

More rockabilly, STAT! Darrel Higham riffs out the high stepping dread of “Our Last Night” and all i can do is snap and clap along. Oh yeah.

Angry Johnny and The Killbillies get maudlin in “Winter’s Here Again“. It could be that this tinkling country ballad hides a secret: he made you go underground, with his shovel. Shivers.

“I’d Rather Stay in Tonight with Ben & Jerry [& Buddy the Elf]”

Parry Music makes gospel out of “Missing You At Christmas“, elevating a cruel breakup with soaring harmonies. Hard to listen to analytically.

Theory of a Deadman instills metal in their “Missing You This Christmas“. Might make a good TV show intro, but the driving drum rhythms knock all the pathos outta this sob story.

Richard Melvin Brown may be mourning in “My First Christmas Without Her “. The Carib beat doesn’t help the reading on this pulsating pop. I’m sorry for your loss of melody.

MMMC girlies up the AI with “A Star to Wish Upon“. Whispery snow laden missing you, in the key of limp pop.

One of the great star-crossed holiday cinematic stories is “Sally’s Song” from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Doors in the Labyrinth overplay the drama in this sad tale metamorphosing showtune into rock ballad. Noice.

Most authentic is the trilling, cackling grief of Shawn ‘Da Ma$tamind’ Noel paranging “What is Christmas Without ah Rum?” Truly a heartbreak.

“We Should See Other People[‘s Presents]”

Woven in Hiatus says There’s an emptiness I feel when you’re not around. Well, it guess that means–you exist. “Joy” is anything but, rolling around sketchy imagery and partial feelings while turning a fair indie melody into sound.

Alan Jackson pulls out all the tissues with “Merry Christmas to Me“, a country weeper with left behind wedding rings and pretend cards.

Lorrie Morgan employs more cliched tropes to less effect in her “Merry Christmas to Me“. Country leavings.

B2K R+Bs their demands in the pushy “Why’d You Leave Me on Christmas“. Boy band whimpering for the masses.

“Sickly Sweet Holidays” is a cry for comfort from Dallon Weekes. He needs your nurturing, your nursing, your presence. Solid rock.

Creamed Corn aren’t sure who they’re missing. But “Merry Christmas, Carol” is a fine melange of if onlys and wonderments set to almost Hawaiian indie. Cool.

“I Need Space [in My Stocking]”

Surf’s up! “It’s Just Not Christmas Without You” from Malibooz wipes out gently against the breakers of breakups.

Victoria Justice (Tori), Elizabeth Gillies (Jade), Ariana Grande (Cat), Leon Thomas III (André) spritz up cheesy pop for the Disney TV’s “It’s Not Christmas Without You“. You have the right to remain silent.

Dealing with a negligent rat bastard Katherine McPhee self deludes that “It’s Not Christmas Without You.” Soulful, yet clingy pop that may cause cringe.

Bebopping the pop Jorden Milnes · Steven Mcgill set the scene for “Our Fairytale Christmas“. There may be some distance, as well as some allotment of blame.

Dan Dyer wants to know if you’ll forget him gain “This Ex-Mas“. He’s prepared to cry in this percussive rocker.

Prozzak retros the pop with “It’s Just Another Christmas Without You“. They blame the stove, the sidewalk, and the season while floundering in single-tude. The singing cheers them up, so there’s that.

“Sometimes Things Fall Apart [Joyful], So Better Things can Fall Together [Triumphant]”

38 Special does NOT rock and absolutely wants you to take their pop seriously in “It’s Christmas and I Miss You“. Sorry, couldn’t keep a straight upper case.

Gary Roberts sleepwalks through “I Don’t Think She’ll Be Here for Christmas” almost holding onto the long notes like he was singing, not simply kvetching. Country with regrets.

“It Wouldn’t Be Christmas” has Chris Bennett trying her best to vamp some life into wet blanket lyrics about nothing sparkling without you. Lounge morphing into showtune.

J-Wonn (feat. Big Yayo) commiserate with R+B about how “She Left Me for Christmas“. Did Christmas offer something she couldn’t refuse?

AI and Dennis Johnson bring us hopes and dreams of your return “Under the Moonlight Snow“. Elements of brooding ballad, tinted with slow pop.

You want lounge? The Mavericks lean into “It’s Christmas Without You” like a producer’s watching, giving it a gutless go that suggests actual heartache. Yeah, it’s supposed to be country–but it got overproduced. I like the mess that it is now.