Well Draco & the Malfoys definitely can't be on the playlist. KAT-TUN either.

[timeripple]

I’m trying to put together a holiday playlist for the bookstore, which is supposed to involve 60-70% normal music and 30-40% holiday. I should probably note at this point that I hate holiday pop music. As I scroll through my iTunes, pretty much all I have are a few Johnnys songs, a bunch of nasal traditional Celtic stuff, the Love, Actually soundtrack, and Draco & the Malfoys’ version of All I Want for Christmas.

All I want, it turns out, is a Great Big Sea holiday album. PLEASE, GUYS?

I mean, it would probably be all about drinking and partying and being stranded on an ice floe with both your legs chopped off while your sweetheart runs off with a Yankee sailor, but you know. IT WOULD STILL BE AWESOME.

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[echoindarkness.livejournal.com]

Kate Rusby has one, and Loreena Kennitt's is gorgeous, if it helps. Also I quite like Sufijan Steven's christmas albums, which could be pop enough for the bookstore.

I should mention that I have a thing for weird/obscure holiday music. (ie: random goth holiday music with sepulchral versions of carol of the bells)

[timeripple.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, must investigate. Most of my non-seasonal playlist is Celtic instrumental, with a good dose of Crooked Still and a little Vienna Teng and why do I not have any work-appropriate male vocalists, that is sad.

OH HEY I have the Mediaeval Baebes' version of Gaudete. That's a start.

[echoindarkness.livejournal.com]

Oh duh, Loreena McKennitt. I'm sure you figured that out. It's called a Midwinter Night's Dream (http://is.gd/hQRmL). Tori Amos also has one called Midwinter Graces (http://is.gd/hQQVc). I um, have kind of a lot of music, Christmas and otherwise. Let me know if you want anything zipped and uploaded.

[timeripple.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Excellent recs, thank you! OH HEY I totally have that Tori Amos song about snow and skates and mittens and fairy tales, that'll work. *busily gets searching*

...it's called "Winter." Of course it is. XD