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Nice track with a Christmas feel - sleigh bells do it for me

Dear Internet, It’s Christmas. Please Stop Fighting About ‘Love Actually’

In the past few weeks, a debate has been raging online over the merits of Love Actually. The British movie, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, follows 10 interwoven stories of love — unrequited, adulterous, pre-adolescent, etc. — and for a movie that’s all about love, there’s sure been a lot of hating going on.

But it’s almost Christmas, and so we’d like to ask the Internet to just agree to disagree and focus on something we can all get behind: Everybody’s gotta dance. In one scene, British prime minister (Hugh Grant) boogies through 10 Downing Street to the Pointer Sisters’ 1983 hit “Jump (for My Love).” And in the spirit of well-known people doing something silly, we caught some NPR folks letting loose in a similar fashion at our HQ.

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Why fight its the best Christmas movie right after National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

Torrent by Asgeir is a passionate song. I fully expect this to show up in a movie soundtrack in 2015 - enjoy!

The Arcade

I haven't met anyone who likes the new Arcade Fire album - if you do I'd like to know why. I've listened to it many times and it sounds like a bad 70s remake which is all the rage in movies so why should music be any different.