Today we have a nice, well-rounded assortment for you. Like a George Michael-shaped box of chocolate sweets, left on your doorstep in the middle of the night by an admirer unknown, with only a simple note: “Enjoy!”

This first one by Dan Tran might seem like a low-energy a cappella version at first, but don’t be fooled! Once those low-energy electronic beats kick in, and the low-energy synth keyboards start unenthusiastically jamming out, you’ll realize that Dan Tran has produced one of the best low-energy electronica versions of Last Christmas that we’ve ever featured.

Dan Tran – Last Christmas


Hold on to your socks! After Mr. Tran’s milquetoast version, you might be feeling a little drowsy. And then The Maine come along and blow your mind with their incredibly-faithful-to-the-original version. They start off strong, and plateau from there.

The Maine – Last Christmas

You can find the whole Maine holiday EP for download at amazon for a measly $2.98! Go get it!

Time to start classing things up, dear readers. And as we all know, there are 3 pillars to a classy song: 1) Don’t have lyrics. 2) Invest in disco drummer. 3) Tell your piano player to “make it sound like the theme to Wings.” Mission accomplished, Wonder Girls. You’ve classed it up in spades.

Wonder Girls – Last Christmas

The South Korean Wonder Girls look to have had a rough start with members being injured, replaced and then the whole being involved in a van accident while touring. Don’t fret! They have prevailed and are the first South Korean group to enter the Billboard Hot 100 with their single “Nobody.” You can also find that on Amazon.

Right from the start, you can tell Germany’s Amen Am Arsch are going to deliver a special one. Their drummer counts it off on the hi hat, some super-distorted crunchy guitar comes in, and then a tough-sounding dude does a lackluster GM impersonation. I’ll have to admit, it’s not that great. But once the tough-sounding dude starts to do what he does best (sounding tough) things start to get interesting. It quickly becomes a pretty decent hardcore version. They start changing up the tempo, and right around the 2:00 mark, it’s pretty awesome. If only they hadn’t wasted so much time in the beginning. Check out their version of “Rudolph” on their myspace, it’s guaranteed to frighten your friends and loved ones!

Amen Am Arsch – Last Christmas


We’ll wrap things up with this pretty downtempo live version, but why during the first verse do we get a Jamaican accent?

Well frankly, I’m a little annoyed no one told us about this version earlier. Mostly because this was posted to youtube and uses our banner, but they didn’t let us know about the song! Anyways, Caramelle is cute and does a R&B/hip hoppy version, it’s nice.

Caramelle – Last Christmas (Airplay)
Caramelle – (groove)


Jim Thornton does one of the best background party keyboard versions I think our staff has ever been lucky enough to listen to.

Jim Thornton – Last Christmas


This is quite a bit like the original, but in duet form. The thing is, with these fairly regular covers, it doesn’t give us much to write about. What we can say is that Kelly is in Bellefire and Stephen is in Boyzone, both Irish pop groups. Apparently both are popular in their homeland, Boyzone also launching the career of Ronan Keating, who briefly managed the the band Westlife, who also performed Last Christmas …and the cycle continues…

Kelly Kilfeather & Stephen Gately – Last Christmas

The Holy Night Orchestra by Jesus McMillan (maybe the best name ever?) deliver solid holiday party background tunes on their album “Merry Christmas.” This album is filled with mostly traditional holiday songs and “Last Christmas” and oddly enough “The Neverending Story”…

The Holy Night Orchestra By Jesus McMillan – Last Christmas

You can get the whole mp3 album on amazon.

We featured Sugarcube back in Year One and briefly mentioned the other versions available and Sugarcube’s danceability factor. Everything we said about them and their cover still hold true, but here are two more mixes.

Sugarcube Inc. – Last Christmas (Architechs Remix)

Sugarcube Inc. – Last Christmas (Cuva Remix)

If you’re a Sugarcube Inc. completist, you can buy this import single for $129…or you can download it for $4.95.


Bliss are a 6-piece vocal group from Switzerland and really pretty fantastic. Of all the a cappella covers we’ve featured, this may be my favorite. They have a weirdly funny/awesome cover of U2’s “With or Without You” to stream on their site, and perhaps best of all, an incredible delivery of the Golden Girls’ theme “Thank You For Being a Friend.”

Bliss – Last Christmas


You have to appreciate a band that has a sense of humor..

Whoa! I hope you didn’t stow away those glow sticks, ‘cause you’re gonna need ‘em! The only info we found on Kan’t Fade This was a mysterious blog post from March. It looks like you can get the whole album there also.



Kan’t Fade This – Last Christmas (Johnny B Ft. Kingiee)



The following sounds quite a bit like the original. In fact, almost completely like it.



Periklis Stergianoudis – Last Christmas



This next version is a pretty difficult one to classify. Slow island-pop? At any rate, the singer tries real hard to impress, as if George Michael himself were sitting in the front row…



Down and Down – Last Christmas



About 25 seconds in, these ladies huddle up and make a plan. “Hey girls, I really want to impress these people.”