{"id":5265,"date":"2010-12-12T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/12\/annual-request-christmas-songs-1\/"},"modified":"2010-12-12T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T11:20:08","slug":"annual-request-christmas-songs-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/12\/annual-request-christmas-songs-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Request: Christmas Songs That Don’t Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"i-47b5d532d31a39d1693cff2aa09a5cf5-sm_xmas_tree_2010.jpg\"<\/a>As you can see from the picture at right, we’ve got our Christmas tree up, waiting to surprise SteelyKid when she comes home in a couple of hours. This also means it’s getting toward the time when I switch over to the holiday music playlist on iTunes.<\/p>\n

Christmas music is, of course, a problematic genre<\/a>. I spent half an hour in a toy store the other day, looking for stuff for SteelyKid, and the entire time that I was there, the only song that played was “The Christmas Song.” After six different versions of that, I was more than ready to roast somebody’s chestnuts.<\/p>\n

So, it’s time for the annual request: recommend some Christmas songs that don’t suck. To give you an idea of my definition of “don’t suck,” I’ll put the four-and-five-star-rated songs from my good Christmas music playlist below the fold. I’m looking for more stuff in that general vein.<\/p>\n

If you’ve got favorite Christmas songs that are similar to songs on the list below, leave them in the comments. The playlist we have now is about long enough to last for the drive to my parents’ for Christmas, but we could always use more.<\/p>\n

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