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Good Christmas Music?

Are there only twenty good Christmas songs? I’m starting to get that idea.

Last year I made a Christmas mix for my friends that included all the tracks below. This year I’m trying to turn it into a tradition, but I’m having trouble finding good Christmas music that I haven’t already used. At least not without tapping further into Sufjan’s and Mindy Smith’s Christmas albums than I already have. That would be a bit lopsided a mix, don’t you think?

Maybe I should have saved a few for this year. Anyone know any good Christmas songs on par with these ones?

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Monthly Playlist – December 2007

I’m only a few days late. This was a month of making the best Christmas mix CD ever (exclusively in the hands of my closest friends), listening to countless best-of-2007 lists (hence the recurrence of M.I.A. and The Snake The Cross The Crown), a new This Will Destroy You record (not as good as Young Mountain, but still not a waste of money if you make it to the last few songs), discovering only a few years too late how great I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning is and realizing that Sam Beam has probably been listening to dub music.

Coming up: my personal goals for 2008, which explains how this here blog will finally be put to greater use than monthly playlists and the occasional rant.

  1. The Knife – “We Share Our Mothers’ Health” (Silent Shout)
  2. Daft Punk – “Robot Rock / Oh Yeah” (Alive 2007)
  3. Holy Fuck – “Echo Sam” (LP)
  4. Thom Yorke – “Harrowdown Hill” (The Eraser)
  5. Sufjan Stevens – “O Come O Come Emmanuel” (Songs For Christmas)
  6. Vince Guaraldi – “Christmastime Is Here (Vocal)” (A Charlie Brown Christmas)
  7. Rihanna – “Umbrella” (Good Girl Gone Bad)
  8. A Fine Frenzy – “Fever” (Dan In Real Life Soundtrack)
  9. Bright Eyes – “Poison Oak” (I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning)
  10. Bright Eyes – “Road To Joy” (I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning)
  11. This Will Destroy You – “The Mighty Rio Grande” (This Will Destroy You)
  12. Mindy Smith – “Santa Will Find You” (My Holiday)
  13. The Snake The Cross The Crown – “Cakewalk” (Cotton Teeth)
  14. M.I.A. – “Mango Pickle Down River” (Kala)
  15. The Snake The Cross The Crown – “Electronic Dream Plant” (Cotton Teeth)
  16. M.I.A. – “Paper Planes” (Kala)
  17. Iron & Wine – “Wolves (Song of the Shepherd’s Dog)” (The Shepherd’s Dog)
  18. This Will Destroy You – “They Move On Tracks Of Never-Ending Light” (This Will Destroy You)

O Holy…

This has to be the best version of O Holy Night I’ve ever heard.

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