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Right on the heels of the Cocktail Party Playlist Mix, here is a short, but (in my opinion) solid Christmas music mix. Most mixes consist of the same 15 or so songs, so I tried to find original versions, the most iconic versions, or the just what I thought were the best versions of each of the songs. Obviously everyone has their personal tastes, but this is the ultimate Christmas music playlist in my world.

I love all of these songs, but I think I am partial to Little Saint Nick from The Beach Boys (just something about surfin’ Christmas music), and Run Rudolph Run from Chuck Berry. But as far as the best pure Christmas song, I think the Brenda Lee version of Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree is hard to beat.

As was the case with the cocktail party mix, this is in descending alphabetical order by song title. Also, there are two versions of Santa Clause Is Comin’ To Town, because both the Sinatra and the Springsteen versions are both fantastic….and different enough to appear on the same mix without being annoying.

Enjoy!

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Julie and I hosted a little get together recently, and for background music, I tuned the iPod up to play my hand selected cocktail party mix that I made back in the spring. Now I know everyone has their own individual tastes, but I did get multiple unsolicited compliments on this mix at our last soiree, so I thought I’d post the track listing here.

The short back-story on the mix is that my searches for “cocktail party music” never quite yielded what I was looking for. I knew I wanted a good mix of classic cool music (aka, either genuinely classic as in old or just classic in sound), that would be good background sound, but not go unnoticed completely. This mix seems to have hit that spot that I was going for.

So if you are looking for some good cocktail party music, here is my recommended play list, not in any particular order…merely descending alphabetically by track name.

I have another popular mix of non-shitty Christmas music that I will post soon as well for those that may be interested.

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Been seeing a lot of tilt shift stuff lately, and I have to say, I think it is pretty cool. Especially the time-lapse tilt shift videos like the one below.

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