I'm still over here (Eclectic Playlist Series 6.11)

So you already know that I don't buy into the internet's addiction to one-type-of-music playlists. Turns out this holds true for me even for holiday music. Personally, I'd rather hear a few choice holiday nuggets sprinkled into a diverse playlist than an unending parade of Christmas songs. As such, this isn't a holiday playlist in any meaningful way. And yet, I do like how the seasonal offerings mixed in here seem sometimes to infuse a subtle holiday spirit---joyful or melancholy, it can go either way---into their secular neighbors. The even more interesting twist: I like how much more naturally we can hear the Christmas songs as actual music in this setting. Fittingly, I guess, we end with a Christmas song in name only---"Anorak Christmas," from the great Sally Shapiro, makes the barest mention of a "cold December night," but other than that, there's no Christmas here, and no anorak either. Ho ho ho. For more info visit http://fingertipsmusic.com/?p=20333.