Fluxblog 505: 🎄⛄❄️you'll need this music for CHRISTMAS🎅🤶🦌🛷

Here are 7 playlists for different types of holiday cheer.

Happy holidays! This issue collects all of my Christmas playlists in one place, which I hope will be helpful to you over the next few days. Please pass this along to anyone you think might enjoy it! I think this set of playlists covers a lot of ground for holiday vibes.

This year’s holiday playlist is A 20th CENTURY CHRISTMAS, a stylistically eclectic mix of holiday music from the 1930s through the mid 1990s. It’s built to be something you can put on for three hours in the background while you have company over. There’s a lot of big obvious classics, some interesting variations on standards, and a few songs that go back to a pre-World War II version of Christmas. [Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube]

JAZZY CHRISTMAS, BABY – a selection of jazz greats from the mid 20th century performing Christmas classics, perfect for your chill holiday gathering. [Spotify | Apple | YouTube]

HAVE YOURSELF A FUNKY LITTLE CHRISTMAS, a playlist full of seasonal funk and R&B including music by Rufus Thomas, Otis Redding, James Brown, Clarence Carter, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Emotions, and more. [Spotify | Apple]

BOPPIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE, a selection of holiday bops by some of the world's greatest pop stars including Ariana Grande, Destiny’s Child, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse, and more. [Spotify | Apple]

CHRISTMAS WILL CRUSH YOUR SOUL, a playlist of melancholy holiday music including songs by Aimee Mann, LCD Soundsystem, Neko Case, Cat Power, Phoenix, Fiona Apple, St. Vincent, and more. [Spotify | Apple]

A DUDES ROCK CHRISTMAS, a frequently goofy hard rockin' celebration of the yuletide that I hope is worthy of this cover art from a 1986 Chess King ad by Boris Vallejo. [Spotify | Apple]

…AT THE HOLIDAY PARTY is a playlist I made for my own holiday party in 2022. This features a lot of Christmas music of different vintages and style along with a lot of non-Christmas music, with a heavy emphasis on Jamaican music from the 60s and 70s, which for whatever reason has become Christmas music to me. (Some of it is literally Jamaican Christmas music too.) This playlist has a nice warm vibe to it, and crucially, it is intended to be played on RANDOM setting! [Spotify | Apple | YouTube]