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Thank you so much for supporting us this month and throughout the year! Definitely a rough one; normally i don't look forward to our year-end break but definitely feeling like i need it this time. Let's close out the year on a positive note: Hit us with your SAFE TAKES, LIKABLE OPINIONS, and SOFTBALL QUESTIONS, preferably oriented around the holiday season. We've asked many times about things like Christmas songs you despise, etc., so let's hit it from the other side this year. Drop your takes in the comments and we'll look through em all in the next couple of weeks. Let's go!

For anyone who didn't see, November's episode is out now: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lets-argue-is-145514377

Comments

Zach Stolpa

Does anyone actually like fruit cake?

Chris Hickson

The LCD Soundsystem residency schtick is a great time but getting a bit stale. The setlist has been recycled for almost a decade now, only modified to include the 2(!) new songs that have come out since American Dream. As fun as they are, they could use a breath of fresh air

HolidayVostok

Paul McCartney had better Christmas the better beatle member Christmas single and there will never be another Christmas song that isnt a cover that gets added to the mix wide range of American classic Christmas songs the last big one was probably in the 80s

Kyle Cahill

I’ve been dealing with a lot of seasonal depression and anxiety with school, work, and my personal life and it’s been really tough to keep going. Your videos are always so comforting and I figured I tell you about it. Not a take or anything, but just a thing you should be made aware of. Love the whole TND crew

Soulsby Blue

Now that AI music is running rampant and slop fills the charts, songwriters and musicians with real soul are needed more than ever. No matter how bad this gets, I’m optimistic more amazing voices like Billie Eilish or Olivia Rodrigo will pop up soon.

Benjamin Lisboa

This year in particular has been disastrous in so many different ways, I am endlessly grateful for the comfort music can bring.

bressig

Dominick the Donkey is a severely underappreciated Christmas song, better than all the other novelty tunes like I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas and All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth and all that other crap combined 🫏

Byrd

2025 is the year that Rage music has really come into its own, from more digicore influenced artists like Lucy Bedroque, slayr, and Prettifun, to the harshest and rawest distortion yet from the likes of Che, Osamason, Bleood, and 2slimey. Even MUSIC, in spite of its inconsistency, was the biggest hip hop album in the year and had some songs like Pop Out and Cocaine Nose that pushed the genre forward.

Trevor Young

2026 can't be worse than 2025, right?

Jackson Clift

This year has really sucked for popular music. But was actually pretty decent for the underground in my opinion.

josujosu

I miss physical form custom mixtapes, they were a very cute kind of present

vvo

Christmas music hasn't progressed in like 10 years because people love the nostalgic hits too much but a Christmas slapper could really bring your spirits up. I wish someone would step in and reinvent it 🙏🙏🙏

Kelsi Rae

The Charlie Brown Christmas album is the best thing to throw on all winter long. Almost a no skip, and always makes me feel warm and happy 🎄

Herbieguy

Quincy Jones passing is bar none the most tragic music loss of the decade. The tremendous talent he had with his composing and production work is never going to be replicated by another musician. And that's not even touching on the incredible solo album run through the 60s and 70s. The impact he's had on funk, soul, and jazz cannot be understated, and he will be greatly missed by anyone who loves those music styles.

EZGames69

Growing up can be depressing, some of us would love to be kids again.

Daniel Segal

100 gecs' "sympathy 4 the grinch" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "Mittens" should be modern Christmas classics.

Marek Moreno

the current crop of popular songwriters (Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, maybe Laufey and Olivia Rodrigo) have a higher chance of penning a new enduring Christmas song than others in recent memory. Not just a cover either, but a new song that would be timeless enough to play over the decades. I think Billie has the best shot given her popularity, voice, and all her film songs, get this girl a Christmas movie and she'll nail it

Hunter Hurt

Last Christmas by Wham! is still the greatest version of Last Christmas and the greatest Christmas Pop song period.

patrick

A Christmas Carol is an amazing Christmas story that can bring a tear to any grown man’s eye

Snow

the amount of people who think that jazz is only just either christmas music or “elevator music” is unfortunate.

Snow

if Magdalena Bay released the “Nice Day” singles collection as a compilation (or mixtape or e.p. or something anything) this year it would be one of the best “albums” of 2025. though the vinyl boxset does come out in April so maybe it will be for 2026?

Snow

that new album announcement really did go nowhere (yet, hopefully)

BlueZones

Late 80’s/90’s indie pop is super underrated. Bands like The Magnetic Fields, Belle & Sebastian, Saint Etienne, Tiger Trap, Beat Happening, The Softies, The Pastels, Heavenly, The Field Mice, and pretty much all of Sarah Records were putting out some of the best stuff of the decade

Ashy MorningStar

How the grinch stole Christmas’s cartoon, is better than the live action movie. 😛

Madeline Castagna

Last Christmas and wonderful christmastime are genuinely great songs that I would listen to outside of christmastime

Owen Harris

IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) is a super useful label for a certain kind of electronic music, for which there is no better term. It’s just a little pretentious. It’s as simple as that.

Alec Moore

The best part about 80s hip hop is you could get away with a song like "Christmas in Hollis." We need another Christmas rap banger. Gotta grab all of the finest MCs like Kendrick, JID, Malice of course, Pusha T, Denzel Curry, and screw it Danny Brown too why not? Just throw them all in a room and make a dope family friendly posse cut about celebrating the holidays. That would be unironically awesome.

Chris

American Water is easily the best singer songwriter album of the 90 perfect album

Tuck

Okay so I don’t think you should get rid of “least favorite tracks” but if you WERE going to, you should at least keep them for super negative reviews. I feel like that’s where “ least favorite tracks” has the most value.

Skullring27

I’d say it’s still fun to do it if you haven’t seen them before and are in the city.

#1 amo defender

It’s very sad to see some of the most popular and influential rappers from my childhood (mainly Kanye and Nicki) become hateful right wingers. I can’t help but think how generations from now the fucked up things they’re currently saying and doing will likely come to define their legacy.

Paul

Can we take a moment to recognize how fucking dumb someone has to be to think that punk music’s ethos is related to the political ideology that is currently aligned with mass deportations of innocent people and limiting free speech for everyday people? Maybe get a bigger beanie so that you don’t squeeze your brain too much

Chris

The Turning Wheel is the best album you gave a 10

Paul

The video you posted yesterday was all I could want and more for a response!

Waffles!

Overplayed music isn't as bad as everyone else makes it seem, and a good recent(ish) example of this is Not Like Us