If you're bored of the Christmas music you usually listen to, there's plenty more available, if you know where to look. Christmas Music 24/7 is a collection of no fewer than six different Christmas online radio stations, each with a different genre: general, jazz, kids, country, Christian, and a mixture of all five. Hearing different arrangements of traditional songs is quite fun, plus there's original festive music a-plenty too.
Bearing in mind that these stations are USA-based (so expect varying levels of sacharrine thrown in), it's quite nice to listen to. Here are some sample playlists:
- Christmas Music 24/7 (Traditional Christmas)
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas/Bryan Duncan and the NehoSoul Band
- Frosty The Snowman/Mannheim Steamroller (what a name!)
- Medley/The Kingdom Heirs
- Christmas 24/7 Jazz (Instrumental and Jazz)
- Thanksgiving/Michael Allen Harrison
- We Three Kings Of Orient Are/Segio Salvatore
- The First Noel/Don Caroll
- Christmas 24/7 Country
- White Christmas/Lari White
- The Christmas Spirit/Alabama
- A Big Red Christmas Bow/Janis Gott
- Christmas 24/7 And More (Eclectic)
- On This Christmas Night/James House
- Christmas Time/Mike Surratt
- Oh Christmas Tree/Dick Pyatt
Bet you don't recognise most of those names and titles - and that's a good thing. It's refreshing after year upon year of Slade, John and Yoko, Band Aid and Shakin Stevens. The audio player tells you what's playing, and has a handy link showing you album details so that you can order a copy of whatever takes your fancy.
Christmas Music 24/7 is hosted on Live365.com, and it looks like there are more Christmas stations on there to have a browse through. There seems to be a two-tier system where most stations are free, but subscribers get additional stations and no adverts between tracks. Nice in small doses, even in October, although I think I personally will give the Country music station a miss!
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