Enjoy the day!! Merry X-Mas! :)

https://youtu.be/OR07r0ZMFb8?si=XcZRx-hSUM8ix3qB&t=45

#rundmc #xmas #xmasmusic #diehard #rap #hiphop #music #rundmc #christmas #christmasmusic

24/24

Today’s choice is from my favourite seasonal album Tinsel & Lights by Tracey Thorn (2012). This captures everything I love about the season: it’s wistful and downbeat, but celebrates how we take comfort together in the darkest months of the year. It never fails to make me mist up a little.

From my home to yours, merry Xmas.

Joy by Tracey Thorn

https://youtu.be/maRckqODJnA

[see pinned post for details of the full Xmas playlist]

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👻 Christmas Eve is a time for telling ghost stories. Listen to Malady of the Mind by Speckled Band 👉 https://youtu.be/02DyGcamKco?si=NIj6juVf4SIr-x8P

#XmasEve #scrooge #xmas #xmasmusic #dickens #ghosts #supernatural

White Xmas by Irving Berlin, played by me.

(The lighting in this room is horrible)

#xmasmusic #piano

23/24

Xmas wouldn’t be complete without the arrival of Sandy Claw….

Spence was a Bahamian guitar legend, but here, he sounds like a muppet sketch with a passing familiarity with the song. I’m here for it. I love the way he leaps into the choruses like a drowning man for a life ring, but he doesn’t know them either.

Joseph Spence - Santa Claus is Coming to Town

https://youtu.be/r_jRAJZ9_y0

[see pinned post for details of the full Xmas playlist]

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22/24

Another one of those songs that doesn’t directly mention Xmas, but is clearly set in the (damn) season. It’s also another one of those wistful ones about the life you might have led.

Forget the hype and the $$$ (haters gonna hate), this song is pure poetry and I love it.

“To leave the warmest bed I’ve ever known now”… 😢

Taylor Swift - ‘Tis the Damn Season

https://youtu.be/WuvhOD-mP8M

[see pinned post for details of the full Xmas playlist]

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If you've been assaulted with weeks of insufferably schmaltzy and cloying #ChristmasMusic, and you need a "fix", I invite you to check out:

#AmyEngelhardt channeling the Virgin Mary in "#HowDidThisThingGetInMe?"

https://audiomack.com/twanky-records/song/how-did-this-thing-get-in-me-live-at-largo

The sublime #JudithOwen w/ the #GentlemanCallers doing covers of

#BackDoorSanta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSBsUEp3uRU

#SantaBaby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhRuQ8bU9B8

#MerryChristmasBaby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZh65lZrQd4

#bluesyChristmas #NewOrleansChristmas #xmasMusic (but cool) @MusiqueNow