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#525 The Sound Opinions Holiday Spectacular 2015

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Sound Opinions

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.32K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Get out those sleigh bells…it's time for the 2015 Sound Opinions Holiday Spectacular. As always, Jim and Greg are joined by Christmas record collector Andy Cirzan who will share a mix of yuletide tunes you won‘t hear anywhere else. This year’s theme is rare country, bluegrass, and hillbilly Christmas music.

Andy's complete 2015 holiday compilation, The Holiday Hangout at Hillbilly Holler, is available as a free download through the end of the year at christmas.soundopinions.org.

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0:00.0

What happened to music that meant something?

0:03.0

The Who at the Kingdom or a kiss at the Coliseum?

0:07.0

Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke on the water?

0:12.0

Where is the Iron man of today. Hey, this is not a test. This is rock and roll.

0:27.0

You've heard the same time.

0:32.0

You've heard the same tired Christmas songs on a loop everywhere you've gone since

0:36.7

Halloween.

0:37.7

Now it's time for us to share some holiday music you haven't heard anywhere else.

0:42.2

I'm Jim De Regadas.

0:43.4

And I'm Greg Kot, holiday music collector Andy Surzan

0:46.7

drops through our chimney once again

0:48.7

to present our 2015 holiday spectacular.

0:52.3

That's coming up on Sound Opinions. This is sound opinions and time now for our holiday spectacular with Andy

1:05.0

Surzan. Craig I love Christmas you love Christmas. We both love music, I hope people know that, we even like some

1:25.3

Christmas music. I think the problem is there is too much of it that gets played

1:29.4

and played and played until you're sick to death of it. The same songs, right?

1:33.0

I mean, it's a centuries old holiday, okay?

1:36.0

There's got to be other stuff out there.

1:38.0

We have the exception to the Christmas rule here, and we owe it all to Andy Surzan, the Senior Vice President at Jam Productions by day by night.

1:45.0

He's tracking out holiday music year round.

1:47.0

Andy, welcome to the show.

1:49.0

Thanks, thanks for having me back, guys.

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