mardi 26 novembre 2013

Secular Christmas Music

Now that the silly season is with us once again and people all around the world prepare to celebrate the various traditional midwinter festivals of the Northern Hemisphere, most notably Christmas, I was thinking that we could put together a playlist of songs that celebrate the season without celebrating religion.



(For the sake of sanity, we'll also omit the numerous children's songs about portly polar gift-givers, aerobatic ruminants with ludicrously luminous noses, magically animated snow-golems, ect.)



To start things off, I'll ignore the obvious choice that I've heard so many times on the radio over the years that I'm sick of it, and I'll suggest "White Wine in The Sun" by Tim Minchin instead...
















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If anyone's confused about why a Christmas song should have "in The Sun" as part of the title and lyrics, Tim Minchin is Australian, and over here Christmas is in the middle of the summer. It's not unusual for people down here to celebrate Christmas with immediate family in the morning, and then go off for an extended family gathering in the afternoon, often spending part of the day lounging around outside having a picnic or barbeque, with adults drinking cold beer or wine while the children play with their new toys.



If you're interested in Christmas music in general, there's already a thread for them from last year: http://forums.randi.org/showthread.p...ight=christmas



ETA: I've put this in the Religion and Philosophy sub-forum because that's where the other Christmas music thread was. But I'm not entirely sure a thread about non-religious Christmas songs belongs there. Maybe social issues and current events?





via JREF Forum http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=269175&goto=newpost

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