Fa la la! Which Christmas song sings to the spirit of your zodiac sign?

From November 1 onward to New Year’s Day, we Americans are inundated with the background sounds of the most wonderful time of the year.For some, its fa-la-la-la f–k off, with a quarter of retail employees citing holiday music as a source of psychic strain and emotional damage.

Still, crippling carols and all, Christmas music is an enduring piece of our national landscape.In the words of Post columnist Rich Lowry: “American tastes have drastically changed over the decades, yet our Christmas songbook has remained largely the same.

With honorable exceptions — most notably Mariah Carey’s 1994 classic, “All I Want for Christmas Is You” — the most-played and most beloved Christmas songs date from the 1930s and the couple of decades after.”In honor of the songbook of the season, we’re matching a Christmas anthem with each zodiac sign.Read on, listen loud, and be merry and bright.

Aries is punk rock energy incarnate, coming out of the gate with an axe to grind, a fire to start, a sneer to share, and a mall Santa to rough up.Kinks guitarist Dave Davies recalls of the song: “I love the humor of it, and the aggression and bitterness.

I could see the faces of my parents when Christmas came around.They had to struggle to make ends meet.

We kind of got what we needed, but there was something fake about the holiday.” Humor and aggression? Calling out bull—t to the tune of Christmas bells? Unrepentant ram energy.Taurus rules the second house of material goods and earthly delights, and this banger tells the tale of a park-roaming, wallet-finding good samaritan rewarded with a million in cold cash, a warm yule log, and a belly full of macaroni and cheese.

A Taurus poem.Leave it to a Gemini to fail to bring a gift for a newborn demi-god and improvise with a drum solo.Pure mutability, pa rum pum pum pum.

Runner up for Gemini yuletide banger is Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” which encourages singing, twirling, and merry-mak...

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Publisher: New York Post

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