Song · blink-182
“I Won't Be Home for Christmas” by blink-182
Released 1997
“I Won't Be Home for Christmas” by blink-182 appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1999. It was first released in 1997. Its best result is #324 on the WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999).
Blink-182 cut "I Won't Be Home for Christmas" in 1997 and sent it out as a promo-only single, a bratty send-up of Bing Crosby's "I'll Be Home for Christmas" written by the trio of bassist Mark Hoppus, guitarist Tom DeLonge and drummer Scott Raynor. Mark Trombino produced it, and the band tear through it at a pop-punk sprint with sleigh bells jangling along. The narrator is a Scrooge with a grudge who takes his contempt for good cheer out on a pack of carolers and ends up spending Christmas Eve in a cell.
It caught on without a proper release, thanks to its turns on Christmas compilations, and MCA reissued it for the 2001 holidays. The reissue took it to number one in Canada, the band's only chart-topper there, and it was the first of several holiday songs they would record.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 324 | WHFS | WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) | 500 |
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