COVER TIME: Just Like Christmas (2025 edition)

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Yes, yes, y'all, and we don't stop, because Low's Just Like Christmas keeps being covered, and we made it our duty to keep you informed on all the versions worth to share.

Like this great version by Basketball, a Texan trio that sampled the iconic intro of JLC, keep the driving beat, add organ and build and twang and build and go astray....

From 2025, a happy go lucky version by Eric Jenkins:

From 2023, on piano and sung with a soprano voice, kinda nice:

This could either be a South Park-character singing, a parody, a loud guitar workout or all of that rolled in one hell of a cover:

A rather hurried, feedbacked-to-the-max version:

With a lot of effects, yet faithful to the original:

Land of the lakes treated their piano for this slow, very nice version:


From 2023, and revamped for 2025 with an instrumental version added, this pretty version by Dutch singer Tamara van Esch:


Earlier posts with more Just Like Christmas covers are here, here, here, here, and here, and this is the first post about Low.

Recent covers of other Christmas songs by Low are this slow burning version of Taking down the tree:

This slow, folksy version of Long way around the sea:

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