Christmas Party Soundtrack...

There's a lot of the traditional holiday stuff I don't do:

I don't buy, make or receive Christmas presents.
Therefore, I don't shop on Black Friday OR Cyber Monday.
I don't go caroling.

But I LOVE Christmas music. No, I will not tune into Sunny 95 for 24/7 boring Christmas music. I've got TSO loaded into the CD player. I have a special channel on Pandora that's nothing but blues-y Christmas music. And, I have a special playlist of songs that I MUST hear every holiday season:

Top 25 Songs for Holiday Parties

Music for a night of passion...

Music and romance just seem to naturally go together. Why do you think so many hookups start in bars? OK, that's not romance but the music can lead to the bedroom...

We have music playing in the house most of the time. When we head to the kitchen for a marathon session, I turn up Pandora and it's almost impossible to walk back into the office once an hour to let Pandora know "I'm still listening!" Trans-Siberian Orchestra (all of them!) will go into the CD player on the day before Thanksgiving and won't be removed until after New Year's Day. I highly suggest trying it - TSO mixed with Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin...I have a 25-disc changer so I can get a pretty eclectic mix going on when the holiday baking and decorating begin.

A night of romance, a night of passion. Sometimes, just the right song will play and suddenly we're dancing in the kitchen and then...

Put this list of songs together on a CD in this order...I guarantee it will take you from dancing in the kitchen to dancing between the sheets...

Just a taste...

Back in Black - My Number ONE 80s album!

I grew up in a time that the only time I heard a lot of 70s hard rock was when I was with friends or at the pizza shop. "What is that shit???" was a common phrase from Mom & Dad, so I didn't really understand the magic of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath or Judas Priest until I was an adult. Well, actually until I got divorced because my ex-husband was a bit (?) of a control freak.

AND, I will admit to having a bit of a prejudice against Zeppelin for a different reason. At the time, my best friend in high school loved Led Zep AND had a huge drug problem. So, I blamed Zeppelin. He's cured, he's still one of my dearest friends AND I can thank Shawn & Bodak - and indirectly, Brad the psycho-freak manager for keeping us at Barley's until o'light-thirty on the weekends - for letting me develop an appreciation for Led Zeppelin.

But I digress. I still have one favorite album from the 80s - hell, it was released in 1980 and in my humble opinion, not a single album released in the decade to follow could measure up to what AC/DC did with "Back in Black". Brian Johnson showed the world that sadly, yes, Bon Scott was dead but AC/DC was still alive...and would never die.

All these years later - damn, has it been 30 years? - I still remember when I learned the "Have a Drink on Me" drinking game. It was the night of OJ Simpson's infamous slow-speed Bronco chase. I was at the bowling alley in Mount Vernon and a girl I didn't know but would eventually become friends with was sitting beside me at the bar and said "oh - do you want to play?"

I've seen AC/DC twice in concert. Once at Polaris in Columbus (RIP) while I was living in Chillicothe. I didn't miss a second of the show, but because I was alone I headed straight for my car as the closing notes of the encore were fading away and I made it back to my front door in barely over an hour. The second time was SARStock '03 in Toronto. Yeah, the Rolling Stones were the headliners but I will shout from the rooftops that AC/DC blew the Stones away in showmanship and power in their short one-hour set that night.

AC/DC ROCKS - and no one can ever take that away from them!


The Best Album of the Eighties

That's right...I know you want to dance!



OK, a two-fer: My absolute FAVORITE AC/DC song, even if it's a different album!