It's Christmas time for god's sake

Normal service will now be suspended on STN for the month of December while we scratch an extensive itch regarding the year's best records. As is now traditional the very slow reveal of our top 50 albums of the year begins tomorrow, with old Christmas top forties on the three Sundays leading up to Christmas weekend, the non-album list tracks of the year wrapped around the big day, a roundup of festive telly of a musical bent at some stage and news of Winterval compilations and giveaways as they come in. As for the first week or so of 2011 the UK Blogger Album Of The Year poll requests have gone out and the Class Of 2011 and album releases to look forward to lists are ready and waiting. Tis the season to tl;dr.