Here's mine:

• Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas
• Elvis Presley - White Christmas
• Elvis Presley - Santa Claus Is Back In Town
• Elvis Presley - I'll Be Home for Christmas
• Elvis Presley - If Every Day Was Like Christmas
• Elvis Presley - Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)
• Elvis Presley - Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me)
• *NSYNC - Home for Christmas
• *NSYNC - Under My Tree
• *NSYNC - I Never Knew the Meaning of Christmas
• *NSYNC - Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
• *NSYNC - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
• *NSYNC - I Guess It's Christmas Time
• *NSYNC - All I Want Is You (This Christmas)
• *NSYNC - The First Noel
• *NSYNC - In Love on Christmas
• *NSYNC - It's Christmas
• *NSYNC - O Holy Night - A Cappella
• *NSYNC - Love's in Our Hearts on Christmas Day
• *NSYNC - The Only Gift
• *NSYNC - Kiss Me at Midnight
• Louis Prima; Joe "Wingy" Manone - What Will Santa Claus Say? (When He Finds Everybody Swingin') - 78 rpm Version
• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Christmastime In Tinseltown
• The Jackson 5 - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
• James Brown - Soulful Christmas
• Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7MeBsHfJ5LAxXYU9rDYla8

PS. My (at the time) preteen daughter had a lot of input on this list. However, it has maintained its integrity through the years, and is what we use currently.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/24735535

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Source: Ox Fanzine #177

REAGAN YOUTH

• MusicBrainz
• Wikipedia
• Official homepage
• Rate Your Music

"The Complete Youth Anthems for the New Order"

• Apple Music
• Spotify

"Volume Two"

• Bandcamp
• Spotify

KRAUT

• MusicBrainz
• Wikipedia
• Rate Your Music

"Kill for Cash / True Color / Just Cabbage"

• Spotify

"Unemployed / Last Chance / Matinee"

• YouTube

"An Adjustment to Society"

• Bandcamp
• Spotify

HEART ATTACK

• MusicBrainz
• Wikipedia

ANTIDOTE

• MusicBrainz
• Rate Your Music

"Thou Shalt Not Kill"

• Bandcamp
• Spotify

BEASTIE BOYS

• MusicBrainz
• Wikipedia
• Rate Your Music

"Polly Wog Stew EP"

• Spotify

THE ABUSED

• MusicBrainz
• Rate Your Music

"Loud and Clear"

• YouTube

URBAN WASTE

• MusicBrainz
• Wikipedia
• Rate Your Music

"Recycled"

• Spotify

ISM

• MusicBrainz
• Rate Your Music

"A Diet for the Worms"

• Spotify

DAMAGE

• MusicBrainz
• Wikipedia
• Rate Your Music

"Sins of Our Fathers"

• YouTube

SHEER TERROR

• MusicBrainz
• Wikipedia
• Rate Your Music

"Just Can't Hate Enough"

• Apple Music
• Bandcamp
• Spotify
• YouTube

"Ugly and Proud"

• Apple Music
• Spotify

"Thanks fer Nuthin"

• Apple Music
• Bandcamp
• Spotify

NIHILISTICS

• MusicBrainz

Something one can expect as Gibson has been hawkishly defending its own patented guitar designs.

Cross posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/20469568

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Some key excerpts:

In the latest twist in the bruising beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, the Canadian rapper has initiated legal action against Universal Music Group over allegations that the company conspired using Spotify to artificially inflate the popularity of Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us.”

The action is doubly surprising because UMG distributes both artists’ recordings.

In a filing Monday in Manhattan court first reported by Billboard, Drake’s Frozen Moments LLC accused UMG of launching an illegal “scheme” involving bots, payola and other methods to boost the numbers for Lamar’s viciously personal song, which accuses Drake of pedophilia and amplified the already fiery dispute between the two artists.

“UMG did not rely on chance, or even ordinary business practices,” the petition continues. “It instead launched a campaign to manipulate and saturate the streaming services and airwaves.”

The song in question can be found here: YouTube | Spotify | Tidal | Apple Music

Trump Guitars, now I have seen everything.

I was listening to a vaporwave internet radio station (which is this, it also streams genres that is similar, such as future funk if i am correct) and this was one of the songs that was played, thought it would be nice to share this here lol

So first off, let me set this straight.

I actually like GenAI music. It offers me a way to er... "create" tracks that resonate with a particular moment in my life. It's more personal and relevant than anything most artists produce. But that's where it ends - I don't want to hear GenAI mass market slop. Heck, I don't want to hear MOST folk's AI Generated stuff. That's for them. The music I generate is for me.

Moving on from that - I primarily use Spotify currently for music discovery, and up until a few months ago it's been the most reliable way to find new Artists that might interest me. Their algorithm, while not perfect, generally hooked me up with artists that were in the ballpark of what I like and were REAL.

Today, about half of my "Release Radar" is AI generated slop. Some of it is published under their own names and labels which is fine, but others are transparently attempting to dupe listeners by imitating or outright impersonating known bands. However, even in the "nice" case of well labeled and non-impersonating AI tunes, it's significantly getting in the way of finding new stuff.

I think I'm done with Spotify, recent statements from the CEO has me thinking that they don't consider this to be a problem. They aren't looking to fix this issue, and aren't even pretending to.

But the problem is, none of the other music streaming services are in a better situation. None have sought to deal with the artist impersonation problem or general labeling of AI generated music.

I feel like I have to go back to CD's and word-of-mouth like back in the "old days" - at least if I'm to be sure that the music was actually made by a human. But how long would it be before we start getting CD's with AI generated music on them? My hope is that the fad is too "low effort" to bother with pressing vinyl or burning CD's.

How are you discovering new (human) music in this rapidly changing landscape?

An absolutely fantastic look at how goth is overwhelmingly white and all the problems that causes in it by Shonalika.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22534350

As far as I can tell, it has nothing to do with the Irish tune of the same name.

Kim Johnson on banjo, Jesse Pearson on fiddle. Rest of the album is great too.

This Baby Boomer-centric sentiment seems to crystallize around one topic in particular: modern pop music’s treatment of love and romance—or the lack thereof. According to Boomer Bob, the love song is dying. But is it true? Let’s investigate...

Acid for the month of December and beyond!

Acid December is an multidimensional holiday observed subconciously by all cultures and religions, by listening to and creating Acid immidiate inner peace is achieved, as well as making us look more attractive and say more interesting things. devsound got this ball rolling way back when and the rest as they say is up to you

To participate send your most bespoke tracks to acid@datapop.se

Hi, does Rockbox have a limit regarding album art resolution? My iPod G5.5 only shows it for some tracks, sometimes with ridicously long track durations in the progress bar. Any ideas? TIA

[update 01]: RB apparently prefers JPEG until 600 x 600 pixels, ideally not progressive. After updating the cover art to 150 x 150 sizes, the iPod briefly displays the album art for ~10 sec max, followed by skipping to the next song and the same behavior all over again. Not sure if this is happening because the database might still be updating in the background.

[update 02]: issue seems solved: File transfer to the iPod should be done in disk mode of the iPod OS, otherwise songs will be corrupted.

Thanks everyone to contributing with your input!

This is downright brilliant Talking Heads parody and satire about the sad state of modern gaming.