Around December 1 in most years since started this blog, I’ve posted a short playlist of odd, unique, and/or just plain strange songs1 related to the holidays. Since I’m not a fan of the usual Christmasy crap, I sometimes have to dig deep to find new-to-me stuff that’s both seasonal and entertaining.
This is my annual playlist of new-to-me tracks, added to my collection of holiday music. Stuff I can stand to hear in heavy rotation this time of year.
Definitely not the far-too-cheery, often annoying dreck you’re likely to hear in the supermarket and mall.
This is just some trivia for the winter break. A fun little piece of nostalgia for those of us in a certain age range.
An article in Grunge, a website that celebrates “the wild, fun, and bizarre things about the world around us”, asks Whatever Happened to Columbia House?.
They don’t make holiday music like they used to.1
Or maybe it’s that they’re making too much of it. Hundreds of artists recording the same twenty or so songs, trying (and usually failing) to find a new twist. And Maria Carey ad nauseam.
Disregarding the politics involved, all the stories about artists pulling their recordings from Spotify had me thinking again about the way people consume music these days.
I’m old enough now that I’ve paid for The Beatles’ Abbey Road album at least four times. In college on vinyl, later on cassette tape, still later on CD, and more recently as a digital file.1 While the record and tape are long gone, I still have the digital file. And the CD is around here somewhere.