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Sufjan Stevens: Good King Wenceslas (MP3)

5:31 p.m. · December 22, 2008 · by Andria Spring

Sufjan Stevens' short n' sweet version of "Good King Wenceslas" is the closest a Christmas song has ever come to sounding like Christmas morning. It's your brother using the sound effects buttons on his new keyboard, you on your Auto-Tune singing the only four lines you know of the carol and your parents battling each other at Space Invaders in the background.

It's chaotic and cheerful, just like Christmas morning.