I've scattered some Christmas songs in with the usual unusual mix here, because I for one like hearing them in and around other non-seasonal offerings, rather than as part of an endless pile-up of holiday tunes somewhere in the middle of which inevitably lurk David Bowie and Bing Crosby. In our playlist era more than ever, we get the all-or-nothing Christmas song approach. Go for it if that's your thing. Me, I'll stay here fighting for nuance in a nuance-free culture. I'll go further and announce my suspicion that digital reality aggravates the problem---that the necessity of reducing information to zeros and ones is decreasing our tolerance for and/or interest in gray areas. It's just a theory at this point, mind you. Full playlist in the comments, below.
