Canarie Records/Self-Released?
Buy: Good Luck!
Many moons ago, Swedesplease hipped me to this wonderful, odd little Christmas tune. The anti-christmas lyrics, the rough-around-the-edges vocals, the sparse guitar arrangement and beautiful horn interplay have placed this track solidly in my own personal “classics” collection. I now find myself wanting to learn more about the band in question, Oh Sweet Music. So, after some basic research, which takes some serious digging, I have come up with a few items I believe to be (relatively) true. First, the band is fronted by a man of the name of Magnus Nordström. This turns out to be quite a popular name in Sweden, and has thwarted my attempts to find him on Facebook. Secondly, he was also in a band called Piotor. Each of his bands appear to only have MySpace pages, and they haven’t been attended to in years. Thirdly, he recorded on Canarie Records in Sweden, and appeared on a Series Two Records compilation in the US. Canarie Records appears to be long-gone, and Series Two stopped releasing records in 2010. What I would give for an e-mail address, simply to thank him for the songs (I’ve found about four Oh Sweet Music tunes still available around the net), and perhaps suggest a Bandcamp page where his music can live on with high fidelity downloads and a few bucks in his pocket.
So, I throw out in to the ether, Magnus Nordström, please create a Bandcamp page for your old recordings. I will buy them.
Also, it appears that everyone thinks this song is called “Oh Sweet Christmas,” rather than “(Fly Away For) Christmas,” as it was originally titled (or so I assume… based that it makes sense from the lyrics, and is titled such in the earliest instance of the song being posted.)
Download the song here – I found a link that was still live!
Bottom Line: An interesting original with a rough edge, sung by Swedes who, try as they might to fight it, have quite an ear for pop music. 5/5
Christmas Underground 
Hello my friend. My name is Magnus Nordström and is the person behond this song and Oh Sweet Music! The band itself is not active anymore but I still play in various forms. I googled the bandname just for fun for the first time in ages and found this page. It makes me happy to see that it still has new listeners. I have loads of Oh sweet music songs somewhere on an old hard drive if you’re interested.
You can mail me at (EDIT: don’t want you to get spammed when a bot scans my page)
Magnus! Check your e-mail. I sent you something with the subject line “Christmas Underground.”