The Student Christmas Playlist 2016
We’ve created the ultimate Spotify playlist for every stage of your Christmas holiday. Merry Mixmas!
Picture this: It’s December. It’s the end of term. You’ve handed in your last assignments. You’re slowly getting over the breakdown you had over them. It’s time to relax and celebrate with a bang up Christmas party!
Here are the highlights of our Spotify playlist, but if you’re ready for 3hrs 47min of Christmas tunes now, click here!
1. Beginning of the night:
Song: Michael Bublé - Christmas Deluxe Special Edition (the WHOLE thing)
The start of the Yuletide season means only one thing: it’s time to call forth the King of Christmas from his cave so he can melt our hearts for the next four weeks. It’s Bublé.
It’s early in the night, everyone’s arriving laden with bottles and wearing their ugliest Christmas jumpers. Not everyone’s in the festive party mood yet, but Michael Bublé WILL change that. How can you not be enticed into Christmas by those silky tunes?
Bonus Tracks: Classics like Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, and Aled Jones obvs. Festive voices for festive feels.
2. Get everyone dancing:
Song: Mariah Carey- All I Want For Christmas is You
You’ve all been lulled into a sense of Christmas comfort and joy by Bublé, but now it’s time to get on your feet and commence the embarrassing singing and terrible sweaty dancing in your jumpers. AKA, best part of the night.
If you can show us a single person who does not hear “Aaaaalllllll I want foOoOoOoOor Christmassss iiiiiiIIIIssssss YoooOOOOOOoooooou” and do their *best* Mariah impression for the rest of the song, I will be amazed. The best thing about this song is the slow start, where we can all warm up our voices; then that Christmas beat drops and we lose our minds dancing our little legs off to this absolute classic!
Bonus Tracks: Ultimate Christmas bangers like ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’ and that terrible (but fantastic) Slade classic ‘Merry Xmas Everybody!’
3. Festive Flirting
Song: Kylie Minogue - Santa Baby
The night continues, you’ve had a few glasses of pop, and you’ve had your eye on your friend’s flatmate since Freshers Week. It’s time…
They’ve seen your killer dance moves, they’ve heard your angelic voice. It’s now time to woo them with your rendition of the sauciest Christmas song out there. Or just play it cool in the corner, but throw a cautionary wink their way to let them know you’re feeling as flirty as Kylie rn.
Bonus Tracks: ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside’ for those on the pull, and Wham! for those nursing some Yuletide heartache.
4. Time for a DMC
Song: Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas
Your cups are overflowing with Christmas cheer, you’ve grabbed your BFF to give a play-by-play of the flirty encounter, and it’s descended into that timeless uni tradition: the DMC (Deep Meaningful Chat for the uninitiated).
A deep chat like this needs the deepest of songs to accompany it, and what better than our favourite popstars singing about poverty. “I swear I’m not crying about Darren, its just Bono’s bit gets me every time..”
Bonus Tracks: A spattering of John Lewis advert singles, for the feels. Also John Lennon & Yoko Ono and ‘Stop the Cavalry’ for our inner activists.
5. End of the night
Song: The Pogues & Kirsty McColl - Fairytale of New York
It’s 2am, you’re all so merry you’d put the big man Father Christmas to shame, you’ve drunk your way through the Twelve Days of Christmas in 2 hours. The lights are about to come up, but there’s time for one more song..
Throw your arms round your best friends/any other friends you’ve made throughout the night/strangers you’re just feeling the love for. We wait all year for this, to belt out our best Shane MacGowan Irish slur, and shout at our loved ones to the tune of a festive pipe. Happy Hangover everybody!
Bonus Track for tomorrow morning: Chris Rhea - Driving Home for Christmas.
