brokedown melodies

Like I mentioned yesterday, one of the best renditions of a Christmas carol that I have ever heard.

Artist: Barenaked Ladies w/Sarah McLachlan
Song: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

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Best one so far? Agree or Disagree in the comments.

And the winner is… She & Him: Volume One (Article, List)

Anybody have this? Worth picking up? I’ve heard a couple tunes from it that I dig but not sure they’re enough to garner album of the year. Bon Iver finished up at #4 just behind Vampire Weekend and Sigur Rós.

It only took me 4 days to get behind. Sorry to all of you on the other side of GMT that didn’t have a new tune for most of the day! Thanks to Steve for the reminder to get on the ball.

Short, slow and a cappella today.

Artist: Damien Rice & Lisa Hannigan (although Damien is no where to be found)
Song: Silent Night

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Note: Tomorrow’s song is one of my favorites out of the entire list. It’s in the top 3 for sure.

Brush up on your Spanish for the holidays, courtesy of Guster.

Artist: Guster
Song: Donde Esta Santa Claus?

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I’m a little surprised at the download numbers for the first two days. Quite a bit lower than I thought they would be. Nobody interested?

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Lennon classic, redone.

Artist: Sense Field
Song: Happy Christmas (War is Over)

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Update

It wasn’t until last night that I even noticed that Brushfire put out a Christmas compilation a couple of weeks ago. Looks like there might be some good stuff on it, anybody bought it yet? Worth it? Other than the Day 1 track, which is from a compilation years ago, I won’t be posting any of the tracks from it.

James writes in to ask though if we could get a qualified tab’er to knock out a quick tab for Matt Costa’s All I Want for Christmas from it though. Somebody up to the challenge?