Rudolph's holiday benediction

Hey there everybody! Today's the day we wind up all our holiday preparations and start the celebrations rolling. For those of you still looking for some ideas to perk up your playlists, you've come to the right place. If it's unfinished shopping, well, once the stores close I'm not sure even Amazon can help you. Every year I do a Christmas Eve post as a summing up point, since we're arriving at the point where people's holiday music needs start tapering off. (Unless they celebrate Orthodox Christmas, in which case they're in for another 11 days.) This is the 21st year I've come to you via whatever version of the Internet was available in any given year, and while I'm happy to keep doing it, I do worry that being "the ho-ho-home of a rock 'n roll Christmas" is going out of style, what with the hippety-hoppers and the bro-country guys taking over the music world. Those folks are entitled to their space in the culture, but hey, so is Mistletunes and all its fellow travelers. So onward we press. Merry Christmas. And because I like to leave folks with something to make their holidays go "hmmm," check this out.