{"id":900,"date":"2006-12-08T10:28:40","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T10:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/08\/the-christmas-tunes-experiment\/"},"modified":"2006-12-08T10:28:40","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T10:28:40","slug":"the-christmas-tunes-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/08\/the-christmas-tunes-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Christmas Tunes Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

As previously established, I don’t much care for Christmas music. Last year, I compiled the few holiday songs I owned<\/a>, and came up with a whopping ten, and that required stretching things a bit. Based on comment thread recommendations, I expanded that to 22 songs (mostly by adding Sufjan Stevens tracks), but it’s still not good, and I don’t really like all the songs on the list.<\/p>\n

With the AV Club debating Christmas music<\/a>, though, and every PA in the country blaring dire holiday songs, it seems like a good time to revist the crucial question from last year’s post:<\/p>\n

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Are there Christmas songs that can hold their own against “Fairytale of New York”?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the spirit of the Old Tunes Experiment<\/a>, I’m willing to try to settle this scientifically, and I have a starting sample:<\/p>\n

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I’ve occasionally referred to posts over at Jefitoblog, which is an MP3\/ music review blog. The proprietor generally has good taste in music, and I’ve found some good stuff based on his recommendations.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago, he posted a Holidy Mix Tape<\/a>:<\/p>\n