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You probably haven’t heard this awesome New Year’s song

You probably haven’t heard this awesome New Year’s song

As we’re all painfully aware by this point, there are plenty of here are plenty of Christmas songs out there — some more obscure than others. But when it comes to New Year’s, a more secular and in some ways more awesome holiday, there’s a surprising dearth of good tunes in tribute. What’s up with that? Sure, there is of course “Auld Lang Syne,” a classic despite its confounding Scottish lyrics. But that’s just one song. Surely we can do better.

British synth-pop band Hurts was thinking exactly that when they were tasked with that proud U.K. music tradition of recording a Christmas single. Looking to be a bit different, the group came up with “All I Want for Christmas is New Year’s Day,” a lovely tribute for those of us less interesting in the yuletide than we are in the turning of the year. Here they are performing it live:

And speaking of “Auld Lang Syne,” since it is proud tradition and a beautiful song and all, here’s Julie Andrews doing a pretty much perfect rendition of it.

Here’s to a great 2015.
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