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Spinning the Christmas Discs
Since the massive quite kindly listened to, commented upon, and - I hope - shimmied to my Disco mix in November, I thought I'd share 25 Words for Snow, my eighth Christmas mix, and the first on SoundCloud.
I've been at this for ten years, pretty much in line with my recreational computer use. Each year, I enjoy tailoring something I hope to appeal both to family and friends with a casual interest in music, as well as those who make my own tastes seem tame by comparison. Now, with the added prospect of pleasing my own children (a development that did McCartney no favours), and the sincere hope each mix offers a respite from the same ol' stuff.
I'll bet there are a few of the massive moving files about in a similar enterprise. How about posting it (or at least a track listing) here?
25 Words for Snow Part 1 of 2 by Positively First Street
25 Words for Snow Part 2 of 2 by Positively First Street
Tracklisting in comments. If you'd prefer a zipped version with individual tracks, contact me for a link to do so.
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Part 1 of 2
01 The Gems Love For Christmas
02 Pugwash Tinsel And Marzipan
03 My Morning Jacket Xmas Time Is Here Again
04 Bob Marley & The Wailers White Christmas
05 Charlie Rich Santa Claus' Daughter
06 Brook Benton Soul Santa
07 The Doors Wintertime Love
08 The Bees Winter Rose
09 Jackie Mittoo Steeple In The Snow
10 Broadcast Winter Now
11 Wham Last Christmas (Irregular Disco Workers Edit Re-Edit)
12 Coconut Records It's Christmas
Part 2 of 2
13 Sam Cooke Christmas Means Love
14 The Cadillacs Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
15 Ray Davies & Chrissie Hynde Postcard From London
16 Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion First Snow
17 Kensington Market Half Closed Eyes
18 Andrew Watt December Night
19 Saint Etienne Driving Home For Christmas
20 Jon Auer Let It Snow
21 Tracey Thorn Sister Winter
22 The Coral Walking In The Winter
23 Lightnin Hopkins Happy New Year
24 The Orioles What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
25 The Mynabirds This Will Be Our Year
Dedicated To Jackie Leven
Another list
Brilliant, SoundMind
I really love the Pugwash, The Bees, Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion ,Saint Etienne and Lightin Hopkins tracks.
I did a mix for people at work over here in Dublin.
It's sillier and more obvious than yours and has two versions of the same song.
Winter Wonderland - Goldfrapp
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Frank Sinatra
Jingle Bells -Barbra Streisand
Must Be Santa - Bob Dylan
Christmas Lullaby (Edit) - Shane McGowan & The Popes
Christmas In Killarney - Dennis Day
Love Came Down At Christmas - Jars Of Clay
Rudolf The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo- Alvin Stoller
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) -KT Tunstall
Come on! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance! - Sufjan Stevens
Christmas Island - Ella Fitzgerald
Christmas Tree On Fire - Holly Golightly
Blue Christmas - Chris Isaak
As The Snowflakes Fall - Smith & Burrows
What Are You Doing New Years Eve - Nancy Wilson
Winter Song - Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson
Winter Wonderland - Aimee Mann
Toys For Tots- Peggy Lee, Nat King Cole, Nancy Wilson
The Smith & Burrows track is new but very special from an excellent album.
This is a long version of the Shane McGowan track.
Smith & Burrows
Strangely restricted on eMusic in Canada, but with your and Georgedivided's collective recommendation, I must secure a copy to pepper future Christmas comps. I must hear the Holly Golightly, too.
But monsieur
with these festive compilations you're spoiling us.
Your two disco mixes have been regularly played chez Bisto and I look forward to unleashing your latest musical missives on my lug-holes as I sit at my office desk this afternoon trying to complete a particularly onerous tender submission.
More mix malarky
I did this one last year, and uploaded through my iTunes podcast (which is usually wall to wall Drum and Bass) - it's the December 2011 podcast. It's a Winter/Christmas/New Year list which starts by pretending that it's not a Christmas mix, then ambles through a variety of sub-genres designed to appear to my crazy kids and my lovely wife...
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/fridgecasts/id434212755
Tracklisting as follows:
White Winter Hymnal – Fleet Foxes
Winter in the Hamptons – Josh Rouse
Christmas is going to the dogs – Eels
The Christmas Song – The Ravonettes
Jingle Bells – The Puppini Sisters
Getting Ready for Christmas – Paul Simon
Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses
Just Like Christmas – Low
Merry Christmas – Ramones
Home on Christmas Day – Cyndi Lauper
It Doesn’t Often Snow at Christmas – Pet Shop Boys
Last Christmas (2010 Solid Sleep Trance Mix Edit) – X-Mas Allstars feat. Fab
Christmas With You is the Best – The Long Winters
Get Behind Me, Santa! – Sufjan Stevens
Santa Claus is coming to Town – Diana Krall
I’m a Little Snowflake – Laurie Berkner
Snow Day – Bleu
Christmas at the Zoo – The Flaming Lips
Green Christmas – Bare Naked Ladies
A Christmas Carol – Tom Lehrer
It’s Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas – Half Man Half Biscuit
All I Want For Christmas is New Year’s Day – Hurts
Auld Lang Syne (Rob Hilton Mix) – The Dissident Army
Tar Barrel In Dale (Live) – The Unthanks
Happy New Year - Abba
Enjoy!
Sounds Wonderful
Downloading as we speak. I'm happy to see firm favourites (the Unthanks) alongside news to me (is it verboten to not be well-acquainted with HMHB?). And, as ambles go, through subgenres might just be my favourite kind. I'll be glad to hear it.
HMHB are somewhat Marmite, but...
... it's hard to go wrong with a lyric like 'Now how did I guess
You were going to express Your disdain at the crane With the bright fairy lights.' Thanks for the fine introductions from your mix - enjoying it greatly as I type!
And another thing...
or two.
Love the artwork on 25 Words for Snow.
Title is good too.
Good work fellah.
Tree Fire
SoundMind, here's the Holly Golightly track. It's a bit Marmite-y - some people love it (especially kids), others hate it. It's quite refreshing in a mix of Christmas tracks.
Here's another track from Smith & Burrows. The current single, I believe. I keep hearing it on the radio!
Still Shut Out
No eMusic joy on the Smith & Burrows front still (though the Kate Rusby, highly recommended elsewhere on the blog, is and should be downloaded soon), but thanks for all of the above.
Some of us may be intermittently disconnected through the next week or so, so I'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all peace in the coming year.
The One That Got Away
Every year', there's one song that steadfastly refuses to be included on the mix. This year it was Lindisfarne's Winter Song, which despite my affection for Alan Hull's solo stuff, I came to via a version by Elvis Costello. It's a beautiful but profoundly bleak song. Aside from shunting Holly Jolly Christmas or something similar afterwards, how would the massive follow this on a mix?
One suggestion
Love & Money - Winter