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The Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm Brian. And I'm Jeff. And this is a special bonus song Thursday Christmas edition. Bonus Jeff Thursday. Bonus Jeff

Thursday because Jeff joined us earlier this week as he counted down his top 10 albums of 2017.

Brian had done his top 10 albums of 2017 the week before.

And now we've just got a fun bonus song Thursday to help us wrap up the year.

Because this was actually Jeff's idea to talk about some of this stuff.

How did you pitch it to me, Jeff?

That'd be fun to do a, since it's the holiday season, just do a Christmas episode, since you guys had covered Christmas music before, just thought we could do, just list off just albums or especially unlikely albums that we had received as Christmas presents.

And I thought that that was a really fun idea.

Yeah.

And also I want to talk about some of the good ones we've gotten too, because I feel like, you know, we should have both because this is the great album's podcast.

I didn't do my normal spiel.

Each and every week, we pick an album of music and talk about what makes it great.

Then we have a conversation around it that fans do.

We followed up with a bonus episode where something tangentially related, et cetera.

You're really phoning it in this week, man.

This is a laid-back episode.

If this is your first The Great Albums podcast episode, I recommend going albums podcast episode.

I recommend going back an episode.

Listen to the past couple of best of 2017 episodes.

I think that's a good place to start instead of this one.

This is kind of the great albums podcast after dark.

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