Daughter (10) lying here with Covid, (quite poorly actually) and asking about good Christmas albums/playlists - I kicked off with this:
Any good Christmas music suggestions 
Frosty the Snowman by The Cocteau Twins is verging on the acceptable for a Xmas tune.
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No contest
Try some of the Windham Hill, Winter Solstice albums. Different and still very nice.
Haven’t looked to see if you can stream them, but this is one.
There is a whole series of them.
Yes, many of them are on Spotify.
Obvious, but it has all the usual suspects in one place.
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This always gets a few plays in my house.
Guest appearances right through the album, Solomon Burke, Tom Waits, Chrissie Hynde, Mavis Staples and more
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A song not an album, but my favourite one of the season:
I like the words:
'Tis ill for a mind to anger inclined
To think of small injuries now;
If wrath be to seek don’t lend her thy cheek
Nor let her inhabit thy brow.
Cross out of thy books malevolent looks,
Both beauty and youth’s decay,
And wholly consort with mirth and with sport
To drive the cold winter away.
The complete Elizabethan Carol:
https://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/drive_the_cold_winter_away.htm
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Song not an album but Type O Negative - Red Water
It used to be standard to recommend the Phil Spector Xmas album until all the ‘give my gun a blowjob, oops it’s gone off’ stories emerged…
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Close the thread.
The Pracatan is in the house.
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They’re all shit. Every last single one of them.
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