Christmas Countdown: 365 &

You know what else is endless (365 days a year)? Besides Christmas?! It’s love. Or it should be.

D Heywood’s simple metaphor is love = Christmas. But the weird heavy organ and cavernous echo on the vocals makes “365 Days of the Year (Christmas)” an R+B train wreck. It’s the thought that counts. Is what we say when the words don’t add up.

Pop bubblegum says the romance! Stella Roya (feat. Brysun) has ended years of loneliness when she got “Xmas with You.” Cute as babies! Then auto-tune rap spoils it all.

NeeNa Lee thinks “Every Day Should be Christmas” since Tis the season that we fall in love. Smooth soul seals the sentiment with a silky sizzle.

With more bounce, Nicole Mullen would love for Christmas to stay “365” days, since Love would be the gift we gave 365 days. Party R+B, but intimate as heck.

Christmas Countdown: 365*

Perhaps Christmas ought to be every day. Well, the spirit for it anyway. Too much?! Don’t decide until after you hear these songs out.

Don’t stop the love! Keep your lights up! croons the reggae ringing Mahami (feat. STRTWLKR) in “Christmas 365.” An upbeat sentiment you can march to.

Miss Tania Lou also hopes it up with her “Christmas Soca!” A good cheer that should last 365 days a year! Unite! Delight! Dance! Ay-yi-yi!

John Butler asks you to celebrate with him every day of the year–because it was a rough year. Am i missing a step in the logic here? “Merry Christmas – Christmas 365” is a rhythm machine gospel plea that needs no sense, just hope.

Barry Biggs figures Christmas trees and street lights will help solve the homelessness problem in the carrib-beat “Christmas 365.” If you believe, that is. It’s on you.

Country swing from Tracy Barfield wants you to live Christmas like it’s always been. “Christmas 365” is a line-dance party around the world. And a one-two-three…

Shame (with Roc Dean) party rap out “Christmas 365” to celebrate, uh, just this song. No big picture here.

The BIG picture seems to be the topic of Superb Lyrics’s “Persevere Before Next New Years.” This hipster experimental word salad rap pins rainbows, attraction, manifestations, management, goodies, goal projects–and more. Get’r done!

Christmas Countdown: 365!

The number of days in a calendar represents forever in some cases. That. Is. A. Lot. Of. Days. Groundhog Day curse?

“Santa’s Little Helpers” is by one of the elves who makes the toys 365. LaTroy Larkins makes this country rap more of a slog than an ADHD dream come true, however, so celebrate responsibly.

‘Whispering’ Bill Anderson takes a minute out of country hit-writing to notice what’s available 365: an alternative to home celebrating. “Waffle House Christmas” is the low-rent fun you suspect it otterbee. Perhaps your waitress would enjoy you leaving behind the gift you didn’t like as a tip.

Echopark itemizes the childish atrocities committed without forethought every day of the last year in the sprightly pop celebration “Christmastime is Here for All (But It’s Not Here for Me).” Way to commit, bro.

Jane’s Villains autotunes the rockin’ “Christmas Song” about how a villain works 365 days a year, so mastering the holidays should be no problem-o. Not that there’d be a tree, or lights, or silent nights….

Christmas Countdown: 401

Highway 401 will take you from Detroit through Ontario to Montreal (where it becomes the A-20). Kaleb Hikele will take this route to come home, and though he was hoping “To Buy You Gold” for Christmas, he now wishes you’d wait for his broke-ass butt to just show up. Garage desperation.

Time to think about the future… the 401K plan. (Which is not a thing so much as it was twenty years ago. What’s the future coming to?)

Fast Eddie’s Bowling Academy (feat. Dave Gomez) has a thing or two to say about consumerism in “Slay Bells.” Santa, being the mad capitalist symbol, is the salesman 401k stocks are enriching him. Boo! Right?

Lamonta gets stuck at a terrible holiday bash with small talk (and offensive subjects) that drive them outside. Rock out to “All I Got for Christmas was Stoned.” (They slip NEED for got in there a couple times, you get the idea.)

Christmas Countdown: 404

Now we’re (trying to) getting somewhere! Southbank Crows are Hitchhiking down the 404–It’s Christmas Eve again Trying to get home to see My darling baby. Going home in this American rock anthem is emotional and repetitive. 404 is Georgetown to Wye Mills–crossing Delaware’s flap to get across to the mainland/D.C. Looks like a slog. She must be worth it or they wouldn’t be singing “Another Xmas Song.”