If you’re still standing after three weeks of holiday madness, congratulations. We think you’ve earned the second installment of our anti-carol December playlist, dropping today just in time for the final round of parties you’ll be sloshing your way through this weekend. From Devo to Vampire Weekend, we've collected our favorites for the season. Enjoy after the jump.



Devo, "Snowball"
Leave it to the ever-enthusiastic art-rockers of Devo to find the fun side of wintertime. Okay, it’s more complicated than that — they're using the snowball as a metaphor for a relationship that's careening downhill — but we like to pretend they're just getting ready to chuck the sucker.



Jimmy Eat World, "12-23-95"
Holidays and drama go together like plaid and bow ties. And emo gurus Jimmy Eat World practically wrote the book on drama, so they make for a great holiday band. This particular song ends on a hopeful note, but we're not convinced; if the singer is patching things up with only one shopping day left ‘til Day Zero, somebody's about to go right back in the doghouse.



Animal Collective, "My Girls"
Tiny Tim from A Christmas Carol would have appreciated "My Girls." Under that blizzard of electro-pop it's really just about the simple pleasures of family and home — specifically the wife, daughter and adobe bungalow of lead singer Noah Lennox. In his words: "I don't mean to seem like I / Care about material things. / I just want / Four walls and adobe slats / For my girls." God bless ‘em, all three.



Vampire Weekend, “Horchata”
This tune, a preview single from Vamp Weekend’s upcoming second album Contra, was an addition based on your comments on our last December Playlist post, readers, and it’s a good one. “In December / Drinking horchata...,” mmm, sure makes us wish we were on a plane to sunny Mexico instead of freezing in New York today. Contra comes out January 12. Hold on to your popped collars.



Counting Crows, "Long December"
Really, though, it isn't — not when you count all that vacation (thank you, New Year’s Eve, for falling on a Thursday this year). But this classic folk-rock song is actually about the month after December — which, if you've had a crummy 2009, might be a good thing to focus on right about now.