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Main Discussion Area => Capital Gold, other Internet Radio => Topic started by: Gazoo on November 27, 2008, 02:18:42 PM
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A new thread to tout the songs and stations whose logs on the fire fill us with desire.
I spent some of this afternoon listening to "Play Xmas UK" (http://www.playradiouk.com/, but I'm listening via iTunes), a station that covers the predictables (JCM's magnificent "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), some considerably less so (a Samantha Mumba fuzzed-up cover of "All I Want for Christmas Is You"), lots of novelties (the finely arranged chestnut "Walkin' Round in Women's Underwear," whose Murphy Brown line kills me every time) and some surprises (FGTH's "Power of Love," not seasonal but seasonally fitting).
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somafm.com (the local SF-based internet radio site) has its Xmas channel up and running. A wild, wacky and wide-ranging assortment (definitely adults-only) and always a treat.
http://somafm.com/
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JCM's magnificent "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
it certainly is... and as I probably say every year, it's one of the few tracks on Very Special Xmas that totally "gets" what the concept was supposed to be: in a nod to the Phil Spector holiday collection, artists were told "cover a seasonal classic in the idiosyncratic sound/style of one of your hits." JCM nailed it, a few others came close or fudged the concept... and Madonna failed miserably.
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for those looking for a classical christmas stream: SF's own KDFC has one:
http://kdfc.radiotown.com/christmas2008/
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Tonight on Play Xmas UK: Slade's perfectly in-their-style "Merry Xmas Everybody." Followed, awkwardly, by Wilson Phillips' steam-cleaned "Silent Night." (I note that the Dixie Chicks' last album was a bit WP-ish in its harmonies, to its detriment.) The programmers loves 'em some Very Special Christmas.
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OMFG! The Crystals doing "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers"!
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A guy named Bob Rivers is singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem" to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun." Nice for those who are into the Rising Son concept of the day.
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A guy named Bob Rivers is singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem" to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun." Nice for those who are into the Rising Son concept of the day.
I think Bob Rivers is the Weird Al of Christmas music. I've heard any number of parodies he's done, most notably the Oh Come All Ye Grateful (Deadheads) that came out a number of years back. His stuff pops up frequently on the SOMA-FM Xmas stream.
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A guy named Bob Rivers is singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem" to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun." Nice for those who are into the Rising Son concept of the day.
I think Bob Rivers is the Weird Al of Christmas music. I've heard any number of parodies he's done, most notably the Oh Come All Ye Grateful (Deadheads) that came out a number of years back. His stuff pops up frequently on the SOMA-FM Xmas stream.
And Gaz should know that it was Bob Rivers who was responsible for "Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear". He must have at least a dozen Twisted Christmas CDs out by now.
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A guy named Bob Rivers is singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem" to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun." Nice for those who are into the Rising Son concept of the day.
I think Bob Rivers is the Weird Al of Christmas music. I've heard any number of parodies he's done, most notably the Oh Come All Ye Grateful (Deadheads) that came out a number of years back. His stuff pops up frequently on the SOMA-FM Xmas stream.
And Gaz should know that it was Bob Rivers who was responsible for "Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear". He must have at least a dozen Twisted Christmas CDs out by now.
Very good to know - thank you both!
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A guy named Bob Rivers is singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem" to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun." Nice for those who are into the Rising Son concept of the day.
I think Bob Rivers is the Weird Al of Christmas music. I've heard any number of parodies he's done, most notably the Oh Come All Ye Grateful (Deadheads) that came out a number of years back. His stuff pops up frequently on the SOMA-FM Xmas stream.
And Gaz should know that it was Bob Rivers who was responsible for "Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear". He must have at least a dozen Twisted Christmas CDs out by now.
Very good to know - thank you both!
Actually he's been discussed many times here -- you REALLY need to cut back on the weed, my friend. ;)
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A guy named Bob Rivers is singing "O Little Town of Bethlehem" to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun." Nice for those who are into the Rising Son concept of the day.
I think Bob Rivers is the Weird Al of Christmas music. I've heard any number of parodies he's done, most notably the Oh Come All Ye Grateful (Deadheads) that came out a number of years back. His stuff pops up frequently on the SOMA-FM Xmas stream.
And Gaz should know that it was Bob Rivers who was responsible for "Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear". He must have at least a dozen Twisted Christmas CDs out by now.
Very good to know - thank you both!
Actually he's been discussed many times here -- you REALLY need to cut back on the weed, my friend. ;)
::)
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Actually he's been discussed many times here -- you REALLY need to cut back on the weed, my friend. ;)
I just did a board search - the last time he was mentioned here was in Dec. '05.
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Actually he's been discussed many times here -- you REALLY need to cut back on the weed, my friend. ;)
I just did a board search - the last time he was mentioned here was in Dec. '05.
Fine, but I don't retract the basic sentiment ;)
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first Brenda Lee sighting of the season: she's rockin' around the tree on WLNG. What a fab pop single.
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My first listen this year to somafm.com's "Xmas in Frisko" stream -- Eric Cartman's "Swiss Colony Beef Log", as hilarious a combination Christmas song/Meat Loaf parody as you'll find.
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it's been a swell afternoon of holiday weirdness with somafm. Well, except for N'Sync's pallid cover of "Last Christmas". As Ben Stiller famously said to them at a SuperBowl halftime show: "N'Sync, that N'SUCKED!"
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another Bob Rivers "classic", sung to the tune of Deck the Halls: "Grab Your Balls (Like Michael Jackson)". Fa La La La La indeed.
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WLNG makes us swoon for Xmas with Bobby Sherman, "Sing a Song of Christmas Cheer". Which is not on YouTube (tho' its B-side is -- go figure!)
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one of the odder Xmas records: Babs Streisand doing "Silent Night" -- recorded live in Central Park in midsummer.
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You want odder? How about the Village People recasting "YMCA" as "N-O-E-L"?
http://lost45.com/audio/Track%201.mp3 (half-hour stream; forward about 5-7 minutes into it)
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'LNG keeps hauling out some amazing stuff: a Sammy davis Jr/Carmen MacRae version of "Baby it's Cold Outside" that was NTM, as is Bobby Vinton's "Santa Must be Polish" (!)
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Barry Scott's playing a languidly funked-and-queened-out "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" - "Let's face it, darling, YOU are a MESS!" - but didn't ID the artist.
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Barry Scott's playing a languidly funked-and-queened-out "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" - "Let's face it, darling, YOU are a MESS!" - but didn't ID the artist.
I'm guessing RuPaul.
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You want odder? How about the Village People recasting "YMCA" as "N-O-E-L"?
http://lost45.com/audio/Track%201.mp3 (half-hour stream; forward about 5-7 minutes into it)
I'm listening to the whole half-hour; loved the Partridges and this VP thing is hilarious (and apparently recent, based on the "big-screen TV" reference).
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You want odder? How about the Village People recasting "YMCA" as "N-O-E-L"?
http://lost45.com/audio/Track%201.mp3 (half-hour stream; forward about 5-7 minutes into it)
I'm listening to the whole half-hour; loved the Partridges and this VP thing is hilarious (and apparently recent, based on the "big-screen TV" reference).
this Tommy James thing was sweet until he went all jingoistic and Christian on my ass. "Happy Birthday Jeezus!"
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TANC: the John Denver orig of "Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)", which I mentioned when posting the Alan Jackson cover.
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holy crap! is this ABBA doing "Santa Claus is Facing his Waterloo"? ROTFL!
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many thanks, Gaz, for that Barry Scott link -- "lost in Xmas" indeed. I had not heard that Bobby Goldsboro Xmas song in 35 years, easily.
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TANC: the John Denver orig of "Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)", which I mentioned when posting the Alan Jackson cover.
Meant to post that! Glad you enjoyed.
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More Barry Scott Xmas goodness -- sorry I missed "Part 1" last week, but Part 2 is awesome (except for Corey Hart's execrable "Rudolph".)
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My first listen this year to somafm.com's "Xmas in Frisko" stream -- Eric Cartman's "Swiss Colony Beef Log", as hilarious a combination Christmas song/Meat Loaf parody as you'll find.
I'm listening to Xmas in Frisko right now. Here: an outfit called Rubber Band doing Wham's "Last Christmas" in the style of early Beatles/DC5/Merseybeat. Works quite well; you'd think it was a Fountains of Wayne side project.
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My first listen this year to somafm.com's "Xmas in Frisko" stream -- Eric Cartman's "Swiss Colony Beef Log", as hilarious a combination Christmas song/Meat Loaf parody as you'll find.
I'm listening to Xmas in Frisko right now. Here: an outfit called Rubber Band doing Wham's "Last Christmas" in the style of early Beatles/DC5/Merseybeat. Works quite well; you'd think it was a Fountains of Wayne side project.
Damn, I'll have to seek that out, sounds wonderful. WLNG just gave me my first Waitresses sighting of ('tis) the season. Betting we get it from Dave tomorrow.
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I'm not usually fond of hip-hop-ified remixes of old tunes, but this "update" of Macca's "Wonderful Xmastime" is def an improvement. "the W-W-W-W-Word is out!" OMG -- now they've added samples from Santa Claus is Coming to Town (the TV special). B-B-B-Burgermeister!
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On Xmas in Frisko: Yet another Bob Rivers parody for the ages: Jesus' Birthday, a note-for-note take on the Beatles' Birthday.
"I would like some presents...see my uncles and aunts...get some socks and some pants..."
Followed by Snoop Dog's The Night Before Christmas, funny but def. NSFMFW.
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On Xmas in Frisko: Yet another Bob Rivers parody for the ages: Jesus' Birthday, a note-for-note take on the Beatles' Birthday.
"I would like some presents...see my uncles and aunts...get some socks and some pants..."
Followed by Snoop Dog's The Night Before Christmas, funny but def. NSFMFW.
Snoop made me switch to WLNG. Crude and unfunny, IMHO. But the Rivers thing is indeed one of his most inspired.
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Another NTM on Xmas in Frisko: A mashup of More Than a Feeling with the Beatles' Christmas Time Is Here Again and a little bit of Greg Lake's Father Christmas. It sorta works, kinda.
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Gayla Peevey's "I want a Hippopotamus for Xmas" is from the '50s, yet I never once heard it until I bought the Dr Demento Xmas CD in 1991. And now I hear it multiple times each year on places like 'LNG and somafm.
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OMG, Ray Stevens' "Santa Claus is Watchin' You", featuring a cameo by Clyde the Camel from "Ahab the Ay-rab"!
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OMG2: The Royal Guardsmen, "Snoopy's Chrstmas" -- I just found out SmashMouth are one of the very few artists to do a cover of this one in the past 40 years.
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Barry Scott plays the BeeGees "First of May", (when I was small/and Christmas trees were tall...) one of those non-Xmas songs that mentions Xmas. I meant to devote a post on the Christmas thread to just such tunes.
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TANC: Jim Croce's "It Doesn't Have to Be That way", accompanied by an interview with his widow, who I've always heard bad things about.
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wow -- nobody EVER plays EJ's "Ho Ho Ho", the B-side of "Step into Xmas".
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Chris DeBurgh's intergalactic Xmas song, "Spaceman Came Travelling" -- sad that most American don't know this one, a UK hit for Christmas 1986,
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Barry Scott plays 3DN's "Rockin' Around the Xmas Tree" -- sounds like the same version they lip-synched to on that godawful '80s holiday special discussed here last week.
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here's America, riding a one-horse (with no name) open sleigh thru a "Winter Wonderland".
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nicest surprise of the season: The Drive's Steve Downes ends his pre-10@10 segment today with The Band's orig version of "Christmas Must Be Tonight", which you NEVER hear. (The Robbie Robertson remake tends to get the most play.)
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KPIG is in all-Xmas mode and it's wonderful -- stuff you won't hear anywhere else.
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I've just officially concluded my Christmas listening with today's blog post. Now I'm back to my irregularly scheduled listening.
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Ok, bringing this one back for the 09 season.
I'm kvetching here.
I think I have a new candidate for my least-liked Christmas songs. It's well produced, features two superstars, and I just heard it on KOIT 96.5.
James Taylor & Natalie Cole - Baby, It's Cold Outside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErsNaRTd82A
I wasn't that annoyed by JT until the ad-libs near the end. I've never found Natalie's voice that nice, either.
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This weekend some AT40 stations will run Casey's "Christmas at the Movies" countdown:
http://www.wbbgfm.com/pages/pp_caseykasem.html
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This weekend some AT40 stations will run Casey's "Christmas at the Movies" countdown:
http://www.wbbgfm.com/pages/pp_caseykasem.html
Hrm. I'm guessing Casey's syndicator realized they were losing stations at this time of year, so they're making these shows available to the ones that go all-Xmas. Casey did a number of holiday countdowns over the years, so there should be several to choose from.
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It's baaaack! SomaFM's annual "Xmas in Frisko" stream, the wackiest (adults-only) holiday music feed on the interwebs!
http://somafm.com/
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quite the twin-spin on somafm's Xmas feed: Red Peters and his Swingin' Hamsters, "Holy S**t it's Xmas" and (NTM) Bootsy Collins, "Boot-olf the Red Nosed Reindeer" (!)
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RuPaul does "Santa Baby": "hurry on down mah chimney tonite, daddy .. if you know what ah mean!"
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OMGWTFLOL: 'LNG plays Bobby Vinton, "Santa Must Be Polish".
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OMGWTFLOL: 'LNG plays Bobby Vinton, "Santa Must Be Polish".
this is the closest image I could find for "Santa Polish"
(http://contexts.org/socimages/files/2008/11/2360211670_5fbf1c05d6_o.jpg)
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OMGWTFLOL: 'LNG plays Bobby Vinton, "Santa Must Be Polish".
this is the closest image I could find for "Santa Polish"
LOL! and people think the '50s were sexless!
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'LNG plays a Lou Rawls version of "Little Drummer Boy" that's the most bearable one I've heard (well, besides Joan Jett's). Pa-rum-pa-pum-pum yo' OWN damn self!
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Last nite's annual KPOO Oldies show Xmas spectacular was wonderful as always. Mostly the usual suspects, but NTM this year was Binky Griptite (of Sharon Jones' Dap-Kings) doing "Stoned Soul Christmas" -- yes, the Laura Nyro/5th D hit with clever new holiday lyrics. Available as a download only but worth a listen:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TXLCO4/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&qid=1261498755&sr=1-2-fkmr0
sadly, could not find it on the YouTubes.
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While my ham bakes in the oven, I'm listening to fab Xmas stuff on KPOO. Meanwhile, I went over to the KFOG website and saw they played Death Cab For Cutie doing a cover of "Xmas (Baby Please Come Home)". Y'know, there's a limit to what I consider "World Class holiday music"...
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having just discovered that KPFA has a podcast archive, I'm listening to Mary Tillson's Dec 20th "America's Back 40 (the Hicks From Coast-to-Coast)" her weekly alt-country show. It's her Xmas/Solstice show, and I'm hearing the McGarrigle sisters doing "The Rebel Jesus", which I've only ever heard sung by Jackson Browne. Lovely.
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Too early? Well, Soma FM have thier always-fabulous wacky Xmas stream up'n'running.
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Too early? Well, Soma FM have thier always-fabulous wacky Xmas stream up'n'running.
love it! thanks for the reminder.
When does KOIT go 24 hr holiday? can't be soon enough IMO, but I hope it's after Thanksgiving for the good of the children. Although they mix in too much Cheesy listening/Diva versions of the classics, it's nice to know they are there.
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Too early? Well, Soma FM have thier always-fabulous wacky Xmas stream up'n'running.
love it! thanks for the reminder.
When does KOIT go 24 hr holiday? can't be soon enough IMO, but I hope it's after Thanksgiving for the good of the children. Although they mix in too much Cheesy listening/Diva versions of the classics, it's nice to know they are there.
yeah, they usually go the week before Turkey Day. A station in Indiana switched on Oct 10th (!)
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Too early? Well, Soma FM have thier always-fabulous wacky Xmas stream up'n'running.
love it! thanks for the reminder.
When does KOIT go 24 hr holiday? can't be soon enough IMO, but I hope it's after Thanksgiving for the good of the children. Although they mix in too much Cheesy listening/Diva versions of the classics, it's nice to know they are there.
yeah, they usually go the week before Turkey Day. A station in Indiana switched on Oct 10th (!)
According to Ben Fong-Torres' column, it begins this Wednesday, November 17 on KOIT.
Edited to correct error.
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Too early? Well, Soma FM have thier always-fabulous wacky Xmas stream up'n'running.
couldn't get their player to work for several weeks, but magically it's working today --it's a Christmas Miracle, I tells ya!
and it don't get much wackier than "Leroy the Redneck Raindeer".
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Too early? Well, Soma FM have thier always-fabulous wacky Xmas stream up'n'running.
couldn't get their player to work for several weeks, but magically it's working today --it's a Christmas Miracle, I tells ya!
and it don't get much wackier than "Leroy the Redneck Raindeer".
is that by Red Peters? That man is a genius of sorts.
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Too early? Well, Soma FM have thier always-fabulous wacky Xmas stream up'n'running.
couldn't get their player to work for several weeks, but magically it's working today --it's a Christmas Miracle, I tells ya!
and it don't get much wackier than "Leroy the Redneck Raindeer".
is that by Red Peters? That man is a genius of sorts.
Joe Diffie, actually -- one of those boot-scooty country records of the early-to-mid '90s. But I lurves me Red Peters' "Holy S**t it's Xmas" Hamsters doing Richard Gere jokes -- what's not to love?
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Highlight of the day: the Kinsey Sicks, "Soylent Night", about eating people for the holidays. From their CD, Oy Vey in a Manger, of course! (Best song title: "God Bless Ye, Femmy Lesbians!")
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Highlight of the day: the Kinsey Sicks, "Soylent Night", about eating people for the holidays.
That is now one of my favorite puns ever. Applause!
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I can always count on Soma FM for something from the infamous Star wars Xmas LP. "Christmas in the Stars" -- "only a Wookie would kiss a droid for Christmas!"
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Cartman's "O Holy Night" is always a treat -- I had a neighbor who always called that hymn "the fall-on-your-knees song", without irony.
Pearl Bailey doing "Baby It's Cold Outside" makes me imagine a Queen Latifah/Melissa Etheridge duet of this one.
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Best. Herb Alpert. Imitation. EVAH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgDpP7IVqYU
it's esp funny because HA & the TJB's own Xmas LP is a big disappointment -- it *should* sound like this but doesn't.
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Bob Geldof calls "Do They Know it's Xmas" the Worst. Song. EVAH:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1333921/Do-They-Know-Its-Christmas-worst-song-world-admits-Bob-Geldof.html
Love the pic of young Midge Ure -- he looks like Ralph Fiennes!
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Hoping against hope that channel 32 shows Scrooges' RnR Xmas this year; here's the only clip that I could find on YT:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RryIroTqs-k
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not radio, technically...
I was in Amoeba this past weekend and they were playing a Ray Charles's Christmas album. I think it was this one:
(http://image.kazaa.com/images/53/888072312753/Ray_Charles/The_Spirit_Of_Christmas/Ray_Charles_and_Betty_Carter_comp_Frank-_3.jpg)
http://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Christmas-Ray-Charles/dp/B000003432
I'm sure it's a classic and many of you might even have it. It sounded great.
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Holiday-related, and my Find of the Week: a blog devoted to my all-time-fave Xmas special, Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol:
http://mrmagooschristmascarol.blogspot.com/
Wish I'd been in LA to see it on the big screen! It hasn't been shown on TV in a bunch of years, ever since Cartoon Network let their option lapse.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/2/2167353_e4320f3aa4.jpg)
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Worst new Xmas tunes? Why am I not surprised Coldplay and Train made the list...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/18/DDQ21GRJ1A.DTL
Gotta especially agree on the Train tune: it's quite heinous.
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In the car earlier I heard someone doing a cover of the Pogues' "Fairytale of NY" -- seemed to have been KT Tunstall and... some guy. They changed the word "faggot" to "braggart", BTW.
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In the car earlier I heard someone doing a cover of the Pogues' "Fairytale of NY" -- seemed to have been KT Tunstall and... some guy. They changed the word "faggot" to "braggart", BTW.
Jeeeez, some songs just shouldn't be covered, period. Fairytale of New York is one and Happy Xmas (War Is Over) is another. Oh, and Last Christmas too. I was gonna say Santa Baby, but I wouldn't mind hearing a Cat Power version of it.