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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 19, 2019 20:15:44 GMT
Alex Chilton (re) started this holiday music thread 2019 edition and of all the complimentary things you can say about him - he is first and foremost one of the best singers in Rock history - period - maybe beyond Rock even.
If you've ever heard his astonishing vocal on "Nature Boy" you'll know how he can twist lines to a different effect in a way most can't think to even try. But here he sings a standard song straightforwardly - and no one could sing this better.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 20, 2019 0:41:13 GMT
People are always saying "Wtf pacinoyes, what's with the weird....... punctuation".......and "do you actually think you're funny?" and especially "do you like any recent bands dad"? The answers are "Is it......weird?"......."Yes" .......and ......."No, I don't and besides that is what the 2019 music thread is for - this is holiday music! One of the best recent-ish bands, with a very recent Christmas song too, a James Murphy beautiful bummer.....
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 20, 2019 15:30:30 GMT
The great Kim Shattuck one of 2019's saddest obituaries with a typically wonderful and witty Christmas song - she has a deeper catalog of terrific songs than Courtney Love and Liz Phair combined - if you don't know her, well you don't read my posts I guess but it's not too late to pay tribute to her too.
RIP Kim.......
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 20, 2019 22:00:03 GMT
Yeah, here's my beloved The Regrettes with their peppy, fun, teenage-ish poptacular take on a standard (though this song doesn't actually mention you know the birth of Jesus or Christmas at all........hmmmmmmmmmmmm).
Hit that last note Lydia!
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 21, 2019 12:39:55 GMT
XTC, under the pseudonym "The Three Wise Men", recorded this particularly well-crafted and very XTC-ish Christmas song. This is one of those songs that is so good, you wonder why they didn't just swap out the lyrics for one of their great singles.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 21, 2019 17:43:15 GMT
Saint Paul doing the traditional Christmas song in his raggedy signature style. For Mattsby, Viced, Archie and all the rest of the Replacements fans of this board - which I basically assume is all of you by now, ammirite?
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 21, 2019 20:22:44 GMT
Sofia Coppola's boyfriend in the 80s/90s was Steve McDonald of Redd Kross - they were fellow SoCal kids who knew their Punk Rock - that's Sofia (naked, masked) on the cover of their "Third Eye" album (@tyler !). This song is a Redd Kross specialty mocking/loving SoCal and Christmas in the sun.
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 21, 2019 22:49:37 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 22, 2019 11:17:45 GMT
Liz Phair wrote this very cute, very witty Christmas song which stays in your head in a crazy way - if you hum it for days after that's sort of a gift isn't it?
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 22, 2019 19:10:33 GMT
The Supersuckers were one of the few bands genuinely playing Rock and Roll in the 90s - plenty of bands played Rock - but the Supersuckers played the "and roll" part when they were on their game and this Christmas song is appropriately raucous and roaring.
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Post by cherry68 on Dec 23, 2019 19:48:03 GMT
A song written by Saint Antonio Maria De Liguori :
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 23, 2019 22:55:33 GMT
I posted this in the 2019 thread a while back but it fits better here - 2019's best new Christmas song by 2019's artist of the year (pacinoyes version)/Best Album of the Year maestro, Mike Krol.
He's had quite a year...
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Post by dazed on Dec 25, 2019 15:20:16 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 29, 2019 19:10:37 GMT
The best American lyricist of the 21st century......oh it's true.......it's damn true.
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Post by Mattsby on Nov 30, 2020 20:53:24 GMT
Well, it's December in Seoul - good enough for me. Bumping this merry yule trove of a thread.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 1, 2020 23:17:20 GMT
They want records and beer..........lots and lots of beer
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 4, 2020 4:01:09 GMT
What About Yob? starring Bill Merry..... The Yobs' Christmas Album (1979) is a xmas must-listen, proudly profane punk with bells, yule love it.
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 18, 2020 21:31:29 GMT
Frank Portman was talking about 'em today, so we should too! Come wom, come all...
Song from '74, newer video though I think...
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 19, 2020 21:10:51 GMT
The Reducers were sort of like The Replacements and were around in the same era too - just in case you thought they only influenced bands way later........
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 20, 2020 18:16:28 GMT
Maybe the best Christmas song because it has Power Pop in the title for Godsakes and mentions Johnny Thunders and Big Star in the lyrics and a funny mention of The Methadones who get " whatever Santa brings them
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 21, 2020 21:23:51 GMT
One of the great bands of the early 2000s - their Time Bomb High School missed our Best of the 00s......a low point in our lurid history MAR
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Dec 21, 2020 23:19:54 GMT
The Macarena!
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Post by dazed on Dec 21, 2020 23:27:46 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 22, 2020 20:41:29 GMT
Replacements wannabe Beach Slang give that up this time and swipe from T. Rex instead......though........they want beer......
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 23, 2020 19:20:57 GMT
Jacques Dutronc Rocking the House and being a bad-ass.........and he was a better Van Gogh than Kirk Douglas was too.......oh that's true ...........that's damn true...... Santa, baby.......for HELENA MARIA ........Merry Christmas (a little early)!
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