Not All Christmas Music Is Terrible (Your Music Links)

[Dausuul]

 

[Riley]

We’re about to attend Minnesota’s greatest Christmas gift of all, The 17th annual New Standards Holiday Show:

The New Standards Holiday Show
(2014 PBS broadcast)

I can’t recommend it highly enough. It’s a jazzy post-punk big band extravaganza. And they made a great Christmas album:

 

[MGibster]

 

[Lidgar]

 

[CleverNickName]

One of the scouts this weekend at the campout introduced me to "Joy to the World, Barney is Dead."

Exquisite. Not sure if there are any recordings of it.

This one?

 

[pukunui]

Here are some of the non-standard Christmas staples on my playlist:

 

[pukunui]

This one is a Christmas standard but I really like Tracy Chapman's arrangement:

 

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