Well, it’s that magical season again, people – the time of year when otherwise fairly normal people enter a state of frenzy, turning themselves inside-out to purchase holiday consumer items for family and friends before the 25th of December. Where’s the magic in that, you may ask? No man can say.

For your friends in Big Green, it’s time to look back at where the hell we’ve been all these years. We are more than a quarter century past the release date of our first album, 2000 Years To Christmas, and while it hasn’t achieved holiday classic status as of yet (give it another fifty!), it does get a few plays here and there. And yeah, we DO listen to some of them, goosing the numbers a bit I suppose. Anywho, here’s my personal Big Green yuletide playlist:

Pagan Christmas

As I mentioned last year, Pagan Christmas tends to be a holiday favorite around this time of year among a select few, typically wiccans and assorted pagan. They’re always good for a few hundred streams, and it does well on YouTube (by our standard, which is pretty small potatoes). It’s kind of upbeat with a pretty simple lyric:

You’re a standing invitation
You’re a complete stranger at the top of the list
You’re just like a relation
You’ll be right there with us while we’re tearing away at our gifts
And you’ll stand there gleaming with a ton of decorations

You’re not very different
In a couple of minutes I’ll be heating you up
You’re not very different
In a couple of hours I’ll be serving you up on a plate
And you’ll sit there gleaming with a ton of trimmings at your side

Have yourself a Merry Pagan Christmas Sacrifice

Hear it on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube.

Merry Christmas Jane

One of my personal holiday favorites from the broader Big Green catalog is the live version of Merry Christmas Jane, which we tossed up on YouTube some time ago. This one features the nimble-fingered Jeremy Shaw on guitar, and it goes something like this:

Christmas Is All Done

Okay, this one was never commercially released, but we dropped it on YouTube a couple of years ago. It’s a song Matt wrote and we recorded sometime in the nineties, one of the first tracks we finished on our Tascam DA-88, the deck we would later use to record 2000 Years to Christmas. I always liked the atmosphere of this one, though I think Matt wanted to choke me for posting it. (He’s more of a perfectionist than I am … he and nearly all the rest of humanity.)

One Small Step

Okay, now I know what you’re going to say – that ain’t no Christmas song! Actually, it started life as a holiday number, the original version recorded with the group that included Christmas Is All Done. We resurrected it years later, added parts, then released One Small Step as a single. It is one of those rare Big Green releases that has an actual video associated with it. The original Christmas reference in the lyric was written out – it was pretty obscure, in any case.

All Saints Come

This is another number from 2000 Years To Christmas. I particularly like this track because it probably sounds more like we actually sounded as a performing band than any song on that album. It’s a bit of a dirge, but it’s got some crunch to it, and there’s nothing I like more around Christmas time than a little crunch.

What’s new for the New Year?

Well, it’s coming down fast, isn’t it? In 2026 we should be starting production on our next collection of songs, most of which have been written but not tracked. We plan to release a new single sometime early in the year – I’ll be posting about that in the coming weeks. Until then, keep the cards, letters, emails, posts, and rocks coming, have a safe and happy holiday, and don’t forget to tip the wait staff – they work effing hard and deserve every cent.

PEACE OUT, PEOPLE!