Scientifically proven to be the best Christmas music ever

At the risk of sounding like the Flat Earth Society's music critic: nuh uh! This is the best Christmas music ever. (Okay, maybe not, but it is better than the stuff with the QED stamp.)

The pigwanking was, to use an unfortunate phrase, a storm in a teacup.

Are you sure that's not, "The pigwanking, to use an unfortunate phrase, was a storm in a teacup"?

ETA: Sllloooowwww downloads today from the Hound, but it really is a great tune so be patient.

A friend (Joe Boucher will probably guess who) has given me an enormous amount of music from a band called Accordion Tribe.

Adding at least 50% more accordion to my day has been a huge improvement. Highly recommended.

What's the RDA for accordion music, anyway?

Just got back from final shopping for Emmett's god-family. They all got music and one other thing.

Pater: Lavagulin and The Pogues If I Should Fall From Grace With God and Oscar Peterson's tribute to Sinatra.

Mater: new Madeleine Peyroux and P.G. Wodehouse's Summer Lightning (in a nice new hardbound edition).

Daughter #1 (16): Futurama S4 and the K-Tel Indie Rock collection (which is stellar, incidentally).

Daughter #2 (10): the new Gwen Stefani (special edition with Gwen-designed CD case) and a fantasy novel set in Venice, Italy (City of Masks?).

Can you tell I love them a lot?

For Christmas I got the latest Kings of Convenience CD from my guy, who was intrigued by the "staff pick" blurb at the local music shop. I'm sorry to say it's dreadfully boring. It reminds me too much of Belle and Sebastian, who I definitely do not like, and the songs all sound the same. Bummer.

But he also got me the Live Aid DVDs, and it's really fun to watch so far. Is it just me, or is Ultravox's "Vienna" a really frickin' awesome song? What a voice on that Midge guy.

Nik Kershaw's on now, singing an old favorite of mine, "Wouldn't It Be Good." I was in a bar a few summers ago, and asked the bartender what CD he was playing, because it was really good. Turned out to be a recent (at the time) Nik Kershaw album. Sorry I didn't jot down the name, because I'd like to have that. Had no idea he'd done anything since his one hit in the '80s.

A friend (Joe Boucher will probably guess who) has given me an enormous amount of music from a band called Accordion Tribe.

Maybe I DO know, but then again maybe I DOn't. (That's the lightly coded answer which I'm sure erinaceous can crack.) And if that guess is the wrong one, that means it must be MC, whom I will see this week! Yay! I'm delighted she's happy on the West coast, but I still miss her muchly & could not be happier that we'll have her again in Brooklyn, even if only for a few days. Happy countdown to 2005, y'all!!

Oh, Alicia, that's too bad. I really like the Kings of Convenience. But then again, I also dig Belle and Sebastian.

Yeah, I was pretty bummed about not liking it, too. For my birthday, this same guy had gotten me the Mark Lanegan "Bubblegum" CD, and while I was apprehensive because I hadn't heard anything about it and never cared for the Screaming Trees, it's a really cool album.

Maybe with the next present, he'll break the tie and get me something I'll end up liking.

Alicia, I'm hoping to copy the batch of CDs meara gave me sometime later today, which means that I should be able to get them in the mail to you by this weekend.

Joe, you're gooD, you got it in One!

Have fun with MC!

anyone here a fan of Straylight Run? i heard one of their songs on Fuse a couple of days ago and sought out more. i'm impressed! will have to get the cd when i get some money.

also? Butterfly Boucher.