It’s been 27 days since Thanksgiving, which means you’ve been bombarded with saccharine holiday music for approximately 26 days, and if you’re an adult and roughly the same age as me (39 as of last week), you’ve been hearing holiday music for a really long time—and anything you’ve been habitually exposed to for nearly four decades can feel quite the opposite of heartwarming. Exhausting? Distressing? Maddening? How many times does a person have to endure “Jingle Bells” in one lifetime??? If you could pretty much never hear another fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la again and be okay with it, I have a playlist for you.

It's a 72-song, 4 hours-and-29-minutes-long collection of brand new holiday-themed odes, along with some elder originals and non-traditional covers, because there is SO MUCH un-played “holiday” music out there. Which begs the question: How is it we're still hearing the same old motherfucking shit???

True story: Beck’s “Little Drum Machine Boy” was issued on a Geffen comp, Just Say Noël, in 1996. (Noisey just wrote a story about it, “Remember When Beck Made The World's Greatest Hanukkah-Themed Funk-Rap Song?.”) And I heard it for the first time ever last week. How is this possible? Because, we generally don’t get to hear good shit like that on the radio, KEXP aside. The stations would rather stick to Bing Crosby’s (‘50s-era) “White Christmas,” or John Lennon’s (’70s-era) “Happy Xmas (War Is Over),” or Wham!’s (’80s-era) “Last Christmas,” or Mariah Carey’s (’90s-era) “All I Want for Christmas Is You”—originals that have been played so much, they've become holiday standards.

My playlist features lots of gems, very likely many you haven’t heard, and more soul and funk than you might expect (and many less than I originally included). For those who don’t have Spotify (or who prefer not to use it), I’ve embedded some media of select tracks that are definite must-hears. Although, if I’m being honest, everything on this list is worthy of a listen…