It’s Christmas time. Again. For one month out of the year we all have listen to a special genre of music, and that’s Christmas music. Most Christmas songs suck, because writing good music is hard and Christmas songs are inherently more difficult to write because there are way more rules to them. While everyone knows that the best Christmas song is actually about Hanukkah and it’s by Adam Sandler, there is a veritable shit-ton of good Christmas songs to be found within the realm of pop-punk. If I had to guess why this was, it’s probably that writing a good pop-punk song involves sticking to a very specific formula, so sticking to the Christmas song formula wasn’t that hard. So without further adieu, here are ten hella-good pop-punk Christmas songs. Happy holidays, you bastard.

For the record, a band is “pop-punk” if they could feasibly wear checkered Vans. This means that Crass’s “Merry Crassmas” is not a pop-punk song, but any Christmas song by Lil Wayne automatically is. Lil Wayne wears checkered Vans. Therefore, Lil Wayne is pop punk. That’s just logic.

Jimmy Eat World – “Last Christmas” From First To Last – “Christmassacre” The Ramones – “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)” No Doubt – “Oi To The World” Rancid – “Christmas Eve” MXPX – “Christmas Day CPMV” Me First And The Gimme Gimmes – “Hava Nagila” SKAyway – “Jingle Bells” The Used – “Alone This Holiday” My Chemical Romance – “All I Want For Christmas Is You” Weezer – “The Christmas Song” Fall Out Boy – “Yule Shoot Your Eye Out” Blink 182 – “Won’t Be Home For Christmas”

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