{"id":6177,"date":"2011-12-19T20:27:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T01:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=6177"},"modified":"2011-12-19T20:27:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T01:27:43","slug":"on-christmas-songs-new-and-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6177","title":{"rendered":"On Christmas Songs New and Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, Christmas music. How I love it! How I will listen to it year-round! Unless it’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” which I think is all kinds of dire. (And I didn’t find Doctor Who Magazine<\/i>‘s rousing Twitter-version of it this morning any sort of inspiring.)<\/p>\n

This week, I’m participating in one of the Facebook song challenges, the 10 Day Christmas Song Challenge<\/a>, with the tenth and final answer coming (for me) on Christmas morning.<\/p>\n

While I’ve worked out my ten answers in advance, there are two songs — one I’ve just discovered, one I’ve liked for a while — that I wanted to share that don’t fit the ten days.<\/p>\n

First up, the new discovery.<\/p>\n

I heard this on Vic Galloway’s show on BBC Radio Scotland this afternoon: Withered Hand<\/a>‘s “Real Snow”:<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

I love the sound of it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Now, the long time favorite is a song that’s entirely appropriate for this time of Occupy Wall Street and the 99%, 60s protest singer Phil Ochs’ “No Christmas in Kentucky”:<\/p>\n

<\/param><\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n

After Christmas (or possibly on Christmas morning itself), I’ll post the ten Christmas songs for the 10 Song Challenge.<\/p>\n

And in the new year, I’m going to tackle the 30 Day Beatles Song Challenge<\/a>. It does have one problem, though — you’re not allowed to repeat songs, but the first and last day want the same thing, the person’s favorite Beatles song. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ah, Christmas music. How I love it! How I will listen to it year-round! Unless it’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” which I think is all kinds of dire. (And I didn’t find Doctor Who Magazine‘s rousing Twitter-version of it this morning any sort of inspiring.) This week, I’m participating in one of the FacebookContinue reading “On Christmas Songs New and Old”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[64,88],"class_list":["post-6177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-christmas","tag-scotland","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}