Bonus Episode: Twelve Songs x Ranking the Beatles

Last year, Twelve Songs did its first crossover episode with
Jonathan and Julia Pretus of the Ranking the Beatles podcast.
During the COVID shutdown in 2020, Jonathan took the time on his
hands as an excuse to rank all of The Beatles’ songs, from his
least favorite to his favorite. That list morphed from a Facebook
conversation into a podcast with his wife Julia as the voice of
reason.  Since The Beatles didn’t release any true Christmas
songs during their time together, last year we ranked the annual
fan club-only releases, testing Julia’s patience in the process.


This year, we got together for a second crossover, this time
ranking their post-Beatles Christmas music. Julia had reached a
saturation point between watching, discussing, and podcasting
about Peter Jackson’s Get Back and opted for a badly needed night
off. Jonathan and I discussed the obvious choices by John and
Paul as well as less obvious ones from George and Ringo.  If
you like what hear, you might consider adding Ranking The Beatles
to your podcast feed.


Thanks as usual to our sponsors at Car Floats, who asked me to
contribute a Christmas music playlist to their website. I’m
pleased to have curated a number of playlists this season
including the 23-hour “Twelve Songs of Christmas Radio” playlist
on Spotify. Go to it and click Shuffle to get the all-Christmas
radio experience but with a greater variety of music. You can
also still get this year’s downloadable listeners-only playlist
by writing me at alex@myspiltmilk.com to request it. 


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