12 days of Bottlemas

Last year i was still testing out my useless superpowers when it came to Christmas Albums. For obvious reasons, we have to listen to 12 of the damned things, but it's so hard to pick. Do we do 12 good albums? 12 bad albums? Repost my 12 favorite reviews from last year (good or bad)? 12 new albums we've never heard? I have 3 more, but youtube has thousands... 

That all seems like real work, so we're just gonna keep winging it. 

I have questions. Were Christmas albums ever actually lucrative? Has any self respecting band ever really wanted to make a Christmas album? Do you actually want your favorite bands to make Christmas albums? I submit that the answer to all of these questions is "no."

Jethro Tull made 20 albums. Their 21st album, the last one to date, is Christmas Album. Why? I'm not sure Ian Anderson even knows why he did it. What i do know is that it's both terrible and completely fine at the same time. The everyday normal person in your brain says "oh hell no, not Christmas at Aqualung's house!," but it actually just turns out to be an hour of Celtic adjacent Folk music about the fact that it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. For lack of a better term it's an actual album, not just schlocky standards.

Sure, it's terrible for a Jethro Tull album, but perfectly boringly tolerable for Christmas. Do we need to go find the third Oak Ridge Boys Christmas album for comparison? Yeah, didn't think so. Please enjoy this strange thing Ian Anderson produced in 2003 for some unknown reason. It will be our baseline for this year's collection of corporate Christmas calamities, and it's actually surprisingly tolerable. 

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mnVYUtyJbjwxABISnbNerYMPu_x7L41f0

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