RC 391: The Nameless Xmas Episode

Happy Xmas from Radio Clash – and have a Perfectly Reasonable New Year, ok? We say goodbye to Shane MacGowan the only way we know how – with a TikTok meme, play lots of silly Christmas tunes, mashups, covers, and even some non-festive stuff like some selections from Mashed At The Sock Hop Vol 2 and Hallmighty’s 100% Fresh album. Even a new ‘Xmas single’ from The KLF (sorta).



Xmas Metal, punk, electro, drum and bass, reggae, ska, pop, indie, new age, electronica, folk and The Indescribably Ungenred, this podcast has a gift for everyone! And oddly. no Wham’s Last Xmas this year , so safe for Whamageddon (Mariahpocalypse maybe not, almost – it’s an edge case).



The Xmas With No Name, No Packdrill, No Address and No-No-No-No-No-No-No-No-No-No-No-No-No Limits (187mb, 2:17)



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Censored Xmas – Holland and Barrett



iWillBattle – Shake God It’s Christmas (Queen x Taylor Swift)



Tankard – Fuck Christmas



Wat Tyler – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen



Cuckooland – Silver Bells



Santa Claws And The Naughty But Nice Orchestra – For Whom The Bell Tolls



William Maranci – For Whom The Bell Tolls But It’s All I Want For Christmas (Metallica vs. Mariah Carey)



Hannah Peel – I Believe in Father Christmas (REBOX)



Logan Lynn – It’s Christmas, Motherfuckers!



Grace Petrie – I Just Want The Tories To Fuck Off (A Christmas song)



The Kleptones – Bling Crosby (Bing Crosby Bootleg) White Xmas Christmas



IamJstncrdble – Fe-Kneesh Navidad (Megan Thee Stallion vs. Aquadrop)



DJ Paul V. – Just Can’t Get Club Action (Yo Majesty & Enya vs. Depeche Mode -2023 edit)



The KLF & Ricardo da Force – Everybody’s Talkin’ At Me (Tony Thorpe remix)



Granville Williams Orchestra – Santa Claus Is Ska-Ing to Town



Jacob Miller & Ray I – Deck the Halls



Inokasira Rangers – Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence



The Dollyrots – Because I’m Santa



Instamatic – Santa’s Still Breathing (Still Breathing At Xmas) (Sia vs Green Day) V2



reconthuse – Runaway Lovefool (The Cardigans vs. Del Shannon)



HallMighty – Rhiannon’s Time (Fleetwood Mac vs Chase & Status)



iWillBattle – Disconnected from Your Collar (Connie Francis x Chase & Status)



Gwenno – Tonnow



Tracey Thorn – River



Clannad – Almost Seems (Too Late To Turn)



CSE Art Project – I Played This Cassette Till It Broke



Pedro Morquecho – Campanas Navideñas (Jingle Bells)



Bruce Haack & Ted Pandel – I Like Christmas



Santa Cloud – Christmurfingland



Low – Long Way Around The Sea



Clannad – La Coimhthioch Fan Dtuath (A Strange Day In The Countryside)



Egg – Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas



Barra MacNeils – Sumhach An Oidhch’ (Silent Night)



Christian Chevallier – Douce Nuit (Silent Night)



Bruce Haack & Ted Pandel – Written In The Snow



Instamatic – Driving A Fast Car Home For Christmas (Tracy Chapman vs Chris Rea)




Transcript
00:00:28.840 –> 00:00:33.160 Hello, Welcome to Radio Clash 391, it is the Christmas episode.



00:00:33.160 –> 00:00:37.160 Which is the Mameless Christmas episode, because it doesn’t have a name.



00:07:48.640 –> 00:07:54.720 That was God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Wat Tyler.



00:07:54.720 –> 00:07:59.200 We had both sides of the Christmas debate there.



00:07:59.200 –> 00:08:06.400 I must sound leaning towards the Tankard Fuck Christmas Wat Tyler approach to the festivities.



00:08:06.400 –> 00:08:13.520 Before that was Tankard Fuck Christmas from 1995 and that was God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen



00:08:13.520 –> 00:08:20.280 Wat Tyler from 2009’s A Damaged Christmas Gift To You.



00:08:20.280 –> 00:08:24.840 We like punk and metal festive songs on this podcast we play them quite often.



00:08:24.840 –> 00:08:30.760 As it started we had a mashup with iWillBattle, that’s Shake God It’s Christmas, Queen



00:08:30.760 –> 00:08:37.360 vs Taylor Swift and that’s a leftover, a reheated leftover, How Christmasy from 2022



00:08:37.360 –> 00:08:41.240 from now the Christmas Bootlegs album which apparently has been uploading onto YouTube



00:08:41.240 –> 00:08:42.240 this year.



00:08:42.240 –> 00:08:47.560 Not so many Christmas festivities from iWillBattle but then again it goes through



00:08:47.560 –> 00:08:52.640 cycles I know I’m surprised I did one this year which we’ll hear later in the podcast.



00:08:52.640 –> 00:08:58.360 I wasn’t intending to so I added it to X-Mash rather than doing multiple Christmas albums



00:08:58.360 –> 00:08:59.360 because I didn’t do that many.



00:08:59.360 –> 00:09:05.160 I do maybe one or two maybe I did three last year which is quite a lot for me and you might



00:09:05.160 –> 00:09:06.600 hear another one of those as well.



00:09:06.600 –> 00:09:10.880 More reheated leftovers some years I do noms so I just add it to the band camp and you



00:09:10.880 –> 00:09:16.560 find that on the finger treble band camp it should be realityengine.co.uk should direct



00:09:16.560 –> 00:09:17.560 that.



00:09:17.560 –> 00:09:21.680 This is a Nameless Christmas episode I couldn’t think of a name so it’s called the Nameless



00:09:21.680 –> 00:09:23.200 Christmas episode.



00:09:23.200 –> 00:09:28.280 Maybe we’ll find a name along the way maybe the names will be the friends we make along



00:09:28.280 –> 00:09:31.000 the way or maybe the friends will be names we make.



00:09:31.000 –> 00:09:35.800 I don’t know I really don’t know I really don’t care actually.



00:09:35.800 –> 00:09:39.200 As I said I’m not just not in the mood this year in a way.



00:09:39.200 –> 00:09:44.280 I had stockpiled all of this Christmas shit so I feel like I’ll use it.



00:09:44.280 –> 00:09:50.720 Over the last 12 months suddenly he’s literally started in December, November last year and



00:09:50.720 –> 00:09:55.400 weren’t used and some of them were like oh yes yes but this is a good one it’s Cuckooland



00:09:55.400 –> 00:10:00.840 again from a Damaged Christmas gift to you and this is Silver Bells which is something



00:10:00.840 –> 00:10:01.840 I love anyway.



00:29:00.300 –> 00:29:09.400 “Torys to fuck off, torys to fuck off, torys to fuck off, torys to fuck off, torys to fuck



00:29:09.400 –> 00:29:13.600 off, torys to fuck off, torys to fuck off…”



00:29:13.600 –> 00:29:20.280 Ah yes, that’s the anthem of this year for me, and actually it came out at the end of



00:29:20.280 –> 00:29:22.400 last year.



00:29:22.400 –> 00:29:27.520 But sadly the torys are still there, and I really do want them to fuck off.



00:29:27.520 –> 00:29:32.580 That is Grace Petrie, I Just Want The Torys To Fuck Off (A Christmas Song).



00:29:32.580 –> 00:29:33.820 Very helpful.



00:29:33.820 –> 00:29:37.540 From her YouTube post just before last year, and I didn’t hear it about that enough, I



00:29:37.540 –> 00:29:41.300 was like, “Oh I wonder what Grace Petrie’s doing because of Fairytale?”



00:29:41.300 –> 00:29:43.220 I didn’t mention at the start.



00:29:43.220 –> 00:29:48.140 We had a little bit of a meme that’s doing the rounds, Censoring Christmas with Holland



00:29:48.140 –> 00:29:54.460 and Barrett, or New Season of Taggart for that section, because we had the sad death



00:29:54.460 –> 00:29:57.960 of Shane MacGowan.



00:29:57.960 –> 00:30:02.720 But unfortunately that’s brought out the people going, “I don’t like the snowflake version!”



00:30:02.720 –> 00:30:08.080 I just watched the version played at the funeral.



00:30:08.080 –> 00:30:11.160 Luckily one of the comments tipped me off before I got to that section, because I was



00:30:11.160 –> 00:30:16.880 just like, “Oh I do hope at a funeral they didn’t leave the F-word in?”



00:30:16.880 –> 00:30:17.880 Apparently yes.



00:30:17.880 –> 00:30:22.120 I even saw someone on TikTok, I know TikTok, I don’t need to go to TikTok, but I was actually



00:30:22.120 –> 00:30:26.900 looking for that meme itself, the Holland and Barrett New Season of Taggart, which I think



00:30:26.900 –> 00:30:30.500 is genius, thanks to iWillBattle for introducing me to that.



00:30:30.500 –> 00:30:32.000 And so I was looking for that.



00:30:32.000 –> 00:30:35.220 Unfortunately I stumbled on all the people moaning about the censorship of Fairytale



00:30:35.220 –> 00:30:38.780 of New York, and one was going, “Queer people don’t care.”



00:30:38.780 –> 00:30:40.980 And I’m like, “This queer person does.”



00:30:40.980 –> 00:30:46.380 And it was a woman who was saying it, and F-word, and I don’t mean fuck, is directed



00:30:46.380 –> 00:30:48.260 at male gay men, or it’s directed at men.



00:30:48.260 –> 00:30:49.260 It’s a male thing.



00:30:49.260 –> 00:30:55.420 No-one has ever used that word against a woman, so it’s not her word to police, it’s not



00:30:55.420 –> 00:30:58.800 her word to say, “Oh that’s perfectly fine.”



00:30:58.800 –> 00:30:59.800 Well to you maybe.



00:30:59.800 –> 00:31:04.840 I was so glad when the news broke and Craig Charles played the Haggard version.



00:31:04.840 –> 00:31:10.640 I get it, the Haggard isn’t as good a rhyme, but I just know, just know.



00:31:10.640 –> 00:31:15.840 When that song comes on, I’m just like tense up, it’s just, “Oh what version is it?



00:31:15.840 –> 00:31:16.840 What version is it?”



00:31:16.840 –> 00:31:18.920 You know it’s always going in my brain, I was like, “Oh I just don’t want to hear that



00:31:18.920 –> 00:31:19.920 word.”



00:31:19.920 –> 00:31:21.460 I don’t want to hear that bit.



00:31:21.460 –> 00:31:25.820 Unfortunately, the death of Shane McGowan was brought out by those people, and so I really



00:31:25.820 –> 00:31:30.060 love that censorship, you know, and New Season of Taggart, which is not actually invented



00:31:30.060 –> 00:31:31.060 by that meme.



00:31:31.060 –> 00:31:35.540 It was someone, 2018 I think when the first debate of this, someone came up with that,



00:31:35.540 –> 00:31:36.540 somebody on Twitter.



00:31:36.540 –> 00:31:40.980 But I hadn’t heard the Holland and Barrett, it was very funny, very funny.



00:31:40.980 –> 00:31:48.220 So Grace Petrie, I know, long anecdote, did another version where she changed it, “I love



00:31:48.220 –> 00:31:49.220 Diane Abbott.”



00:31:49.220 –> 00:31:54.200 I posted that on the blog two years ago, and of course they got a long green ink comment



00:31:54.200 –> 00:31:59.160 from someone telling me how I was wrong and how they constitutionally have the right to



00:31:59.160 –> 00:32:01.160 say that word.



00:32:01.160 –> 00:32:03.960 And it’s like, “Mate, are you even gay?”



00:32:03.960 –> 00:32:06.240 I’ll accept it if you’re gay.



00:32:06.240 –> 00:32:10.920 You know, if you’re a male gay man, then yeah, I will accept it as a thing, but don’t tell



00:32:10.920 –> 00:32:17.040 the people what words that they can be offended by please.



00:32:17.040 –> 00:32:19.740 It makes me so angry.



00:32:19.740 –> 00:32:21.900 And so do the Tories, so yes, we want them to fuck off.



00:32:21.900 –> 00:32:23.500 I think it would be good for the country at this point.



00:32:23.500 –> 00:32:24.780 They’re driving the country into the ground.



00:32:24.780 –> 00:32:28.260 I mean, spending all that money, sending people to Rwanda.



00:32:28.260 –> 00:32:30.360 Why?



00:32:30.360 –> 00:32:33.900 And then before that, we had Logan Lynn, 2021’s It’s Christmas Motherfucker.



00:32:33.900 –> 00:32:39.620 I think dealing with the American version of this, from what I remember him saying about



00:32:39.620 –> 00:32:43.940 it, it’s about COVID and Christian right and how they just didn’t care.



00:32:43.940 –> 00:32:49.080 But in 2023, when I hear body bags under the tree, I’m thinking, well, not just the AIDS



00:32:49.080 –> 00:32:53.000 pandemic and COVID, but also what’s going on in Gaza.



00:32:53.000 –> 00:32:56.240 So yeah, that section was a bit of a Gaza section.



00:32:56.240 –> 00:32:58.240 Yeah, happy Christmas.



00:32:58.240 –> 00:33:03.880 Because before we had the anti-war song, which weirdly never gets marked as an anti-war song.



00:33:03.880 –> 00:33:06.880 It always gets put into compilations when people don’t listen to the lyrics.



00:33:06.880 –> 00:33:14.820 I Believe in Father Christmas by Hannah Peel, (REBOX) from 2014, a single called Find Peace



00:33:14.820 –> 00:33:16.500 very appropriately.



00:33:16.500 –> 00:33:17.500 She gets it.



00:33:17.500 –> 00:33:22.220 Greg Lake wrote that as a criticism of the war that was going on at the Middle East, the



00:33:22.220 –> 00:33:23.220 time.



00:33:23.220 –> 00:33:24.220 I can forget which one it was.



00:33:24.220 –> 00:33:25.740 Was it the Yon Kippur?



00:33:25.740 –> 00:33:29.220 It was ’74, ’75.



00:33:29.220 –> 00:33:32.260 And it’s like time just repeats itself, doesn’t it?



00:33:32.260 –> 00:33:33.260 Depressingly.



00:33:33.260 –> 00:33:38.100 Before that, we had William Maranci with For Whom the Bell Tolls, But It’s All I Want



00:33:38.100 –> 00:33:41.220 for Christmas, Metallica versus Mariah Carey.



00:33:41.220 –> 00:33:45.640 I was going to go No Mariah Carey, but doesn’t use the vocal.



00:33:45.640 –> 00:33:49.900 And I can’t remember if Mariahpocalypse, where the, I think it’s like Whamageddon,



00:33:49.900 –> 00:33:51.700 Remixes and Mashups are Fine covers.



00:33:51.700 –> 00:33:53.200 I think it’s just the original.



00:33:53.200 –> 00:33:57.640 But there’s no Maria in that, apart from a little bit of backing box.



00:33:57.640 –> 00:33:58.640 So I thought it was all right.



00:33:58.640 –> 00:33:59.640 I thought it was all right.



00:33:59.640 –> 00:34:00.720 Because yeah, I know, I get it.



00:34:00.720 –> 00:34:06.260 I feel the same way about the original, but I love how it just turns into a song about



00:34:06.260 –> 00:34:07.260 bells.



00:34:07.260 –> 00:34:10.660 We had a bell section there, because before we had For Whom the Bell Tolls, a cover by



00:34:10.660 –> 00:34:13.300 Santa Claws And The Naughty But Nice Orchestra.



00:34:13.300 –> 00:34:15.340 They do sound like complete cash ins.



00:34:15.340 –> 00:34:16.660 They do like Christmas themed albums.



00:34:16.660 –> 00:34:20.140 The faces is randomly put in sleigh bells over the top.



00:34:20.140 –> 00:34:22.900 But that one is a bit more electro swing, a bit more different.



00:34:22.900 –> 00:34:25.460 And the Christmas Frawl, a holiday tribute to Metallica.



00:34:25.460 –> 00:34:28.180 So it’s like how they do change the genre somewhat.



00:34:28.180 –> 00:34:31.760 There’s like this weird goth swing thing going on.



00:34:31.760 –> 00:34:32.760 I don’t know how to describe it.



00:34:32.760 –> 00:34:34.240 It’s like goth electro swing.



00:34:34.240 –> 00:34:35.800 I like that part.



00:34:35.800 –> 00:34:40.680 And then at the start of the session we had Cuckooland with Silver Bells.



00:34:40.680 –> 00:34:41.880 One of my favourites.



00:34:41.880 –> 00:34:44.560 And so we’re going to continue the Mashupage.



00:34:44.560 –> 00:34:45.560 Is that a word?



00:34:45.560 –> 00:34:46.560 Mashupage?



00:34:46.560 –> 00:34:47.560 This is the Kleptones



00:34:47.560 –> 00:34:48.720 And this is a classic one.



00:34:48.720 –> 00:34:53.240 I didn’t know about this one until fairly recently, I think the last year or so.



00:34:53.240 –> 00:34:55.200 Or I found it and then lost it.



00:34:55.200 –> 00:34:56.400 It does happen with my collection.



00:34:56.400 –> 00:34:58.980 I find I lose things all the time.



00:34:58.980 –> 00:35:03.860 This is Bling Crosby, Bing Crosby Bootleg, White Christmas Christmas.



00:56:16.900 –> 00:56:20.060 This is turning out to be the Nightmare Podcast before Christmas.



00:56:20.060 –> 00:56:21.460 I might call it that.



00:56:21.460 –> 00:56:26.100 I just had a first thing ever, a complete crash of Traktor.



00:56:26.100 –> 00:56:27.620 That’s never happened.



00:56:27.620 –> 00:56:31.220 It’s had freezers, literally just like BAM!



00:56:31.220 –> 00:56:38.560 And for a while there I thought I’d lost an hour’s worth of recording.



00:56:38.560 –> 00:56:43.160 Looks like thanks to Reaper and VLC being able to read it.



00:56:43.160 –> 00:56:49.440 I got it back, but yes, the ghosts of Christmas present.



00:56:49.440 –> 00:56:55.920 That was Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, the Inokasira Rangers, a Japanese Ska group, and



00:56:55.920 –> 00:57:00.760 that goes out to Ryuichi Sakamoto, who we lost this year.



00:57:00.760 –> 00:57:03.300 One of my favourite songs of all time.



00:57:03.300 –> 00:57:05.900 I used that as a bed, but it deserves more.



00:57:05.900 –> 00:57:08.780 It deserves so much better.



00:57:08.780 –> 00:57:12.780 And before that we had a bit of a reggae ska, Christmas ska, Christmas reggae.



00:57:12.780 –> 00:57:14.340 Yes, Christmas reggae is a thing.



00:57:14.340 –> 00:57:17.020 Trojan did a whole album of it.



00:57:17.020 –> 00:57:21.900 That was a very strange album actually from 1980.



00:57:21.900 –> 00:57:25.700 Christmas album by Jacob Miller and Ray I.



00:57:25.700 –> 00:57:28.900 But that’s actually from the Christmas reggae box set I mentioned.



00:57:28.900 –> 00:57:29.900 And that’s Deck the Halls.



00:57:29.900 –> 00:57:32.840 I think it’s 1980 it came out originally.



00:57:32.840 –> 00:57:33.840 It’s a completely demented.



00:57:33.840 –> 00:57:36.160 I mean Deck the Halls with Bows of Collie.



00:57:36.160 –> 00:57:37.520 How could I not?



00:57:37.520 –> 00:57:39.320 The other ones are brilliant as well.



00:57:39.320 –> 00:57:45.360 Then before that we had Granville Williams Orchestra with Santa Claus Ska-Ing to Town.



00:57:45.360 –> 00:57:50.320 And then we had some new shizzle from the KLF.



00:57:50.320 –> 00:57:54.560 All the KLF Kare Foundation, or KLF Kare, or the K2 Foundation, or whatever they are



00:57:54.560 –> 00:57:55.920 this week.



00:57:55.920 –> 00:58:02.180 And that’s the turn you thought. Remix of Everybody’s Talking at Me, the KLF and Ricardo



00:58:02.180 –> 00:58:03.180 Da Force.



00:58:03.180 –> 00:58:05.340 That was just posted up on their KLF Kare website.



00:58:05.340 –> 00:58:09.260 Yeah, they’re getting into doing old folks’ homes for raving people.



00:58:09.260 –> 00:58:10.260 I like that.



00:58:10.260 –> 00:58:12.900 The sort of the Christmas intro is going to be appropriate.



00:58:12.900 –> 00:58:17.020 And the idea is called the far name is some like Christmas number one or some like, you



00:58:17.020 –> 00:58:19.020 know, Christmas, top Christmas thing or something.



00:58:19.020 –> 00:58:20.020 Yeah, maybe they hope.



00:58:20.020 –> 00:58:21.020 Maybe they hope.



00:58:21.020 –> 00:58:24.740 But I don’t know if Nilsson’s estate would agree.



00:58:24.740 –> 00:58:34.000 And before that we had DJ Paul V with an update of his Just Can’t Get Club Action, 23 Edit,



00:58:34.000 –> 00:58:37.800 that’s Yo Majesty and Enya versus Depeche Mode.



00:58:37.800 –> 00:58:38.800 Yo Majesty and Enya.



00:58:38.800 –> 00:58:42.160 I don’t think Yo Majesty approached Enya and went, “Oh, can we have a collab?”



00:58:42.160 –> 00:58:43.160 No.



00:58:43.160 –> 00:58:48.480 And before that, a classic from last year that IamJstncrdble with Fe-Kneesh Navidad.



00:58:48.480 –> 00:58:51.960 That became the Bootie anthem of last Christmas, I remember.



00:58:51.960 –> 00:58:54.580 That’s Megan Thee Stallion versus Aquadrop.



00:58:54.580 –> 00:58:57.700 He was like, “Ehh, eh, eh, I can’t do that.



00:58:57.700 –> 00:58:58.700 I can’t do that.”



00:58:58.700 –> 00:59:00.980 That noise that Megan Thee Stallion makes.



00:59:00.980 –> 00:59:05.660 But yeah, it was all about Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B last year, obviously.



00:59:05.660 –> 00:59:07.460 And I did Christmas Wapping as well.



00:59:07.460 –> 00:59:09.900 So that was…



00:59:09.900 –> 00:59:13.340 And then before that we had a silent section.



00:59:13.340 –> 00:59:17.300 We had the Kleptones with Bling Crosby, Bing Crosby Bootleg.



00:59:17.300 –> 00:59:19.420 It’s called White Xmas Christmas.



00:59:19.420 –> 00:59:22.520 I’m not exactly sure why this two Christmases is in there.



00:59:22.520 –> 00:59:25.040 Double the fun from 2003.



00:59:25.040 –> 00:59:30.560 So I’m going to play some more Rock at You, because I can.



00:59:30.560 –> 00:59:32.440 And maybe some Drum and Bass.



00:59:32.440 –> 00:59:33.960 Just maybe, if you’re good.



00:59:33.960 –> 00:59:35.160 If you’ve not on the naughty list.



00:59:35.160 –> 00:59:36.840 Yeah, in the background you’re hearing some more.



00:59:36.840 –> 00:59:39.120 I mentioned earlier the Santa Claws.



00:59:39.120 –> 00:59:42.160 I’m not sure if I used this as a bed before on a previous Christmas, but yeah, Boulevard



00:59:42.160 –> 00:59:44.160 of Broken Dreams.



00:59:44.160 –> 00:59:45.600 Because I sometimes do this.



00:59:45.600 –> 00:59:47.480 This one I’m just using Christmas beds.



00:59:47.480 –> 00:59:50.460 Well, almost made it into the podcast, but didn’t.



00:59:50.460 –> 00:59:54.660 But so before something else goes wrong, which is probably about five minutes from now,



00:59:54.660 –> 00:59:56.740 I’m going to play a track by the Dollyrots.



00:59:56.740 –> 01:00:00.140 The Dollyrots do a lot of Christmas stuff every year.



01:00:00.140 –> 01:00:04.580 I’m not sure what they’re doing this Christmas, but this is from 2014, Because I’m Santa.



01:00:04.580 –> 01:00:12.100 And I don’t know if it’s a piss-take of a Riot Girl song, but it’s very Riot Girl.



01:17:23.880 –> 01:17:33.280 That was iWillBattle with Disconnected From Your Collar, Connie Francis vs. Chase & Status,



01:17:33.280 –> 01:17:37.240 and that’s from the new album Mashed Up at the Sockhop Vol 2.



01:17:37.240 –> 01:17:41.480 There’s a couple of mashups from that in that segment.



01:17:41.480 –> 01:17:44.160 And yeah, not everything in this podcast is Christmas related.



01:17:44.160 –> 01:17:46.000 I get mad if everything was Christmas related.



01:17:46.000 –> 01:17:47.000 I mean, it’d be like, what?



01:17:47.000 –> 01:17:53.360 There has to be a bit of a palate cleanser from all the sugary, candy cane nonsense.



01:17:53.360 –> 01:17:55.800 So yeah, there’s a bit of drum and bass, Connie Francis.



01:17:55.800 –> 01:18:00.160 I think there needs to be more Connie Francis bootlegs in the world.



01:18:00.160 –> 01:18:02.520 My tip, Stupid Cupid, go check her out.



01:18:02.520 –> 01:18:08.600 And then before that, we had Hallmighty with Rhiannon’s Time,, Fleetwood Mac vs. Chase &



01:18:08.600 –> 01:18:11.200 Status, so we had a Chase & Status section.



01:18:11.200 –> 01:18:15.880 I’ve been checking out their last mixtape, Dunproofin, mentioned it, so I was like,



01:18:15.880 –> 01:18:17.600 oh, and also their previous album.



01:18:17.600 –> 01:18:20.920 There was almost going to be an album track from their previous album and they have a



01:18:20.920 –> 01:18:23.600 time, I’m trying to reconnect with Chase & Status.



01:18:23.600 –> 01:18:25.920 I haven’t really checked out their stuff for a while.



01:18:25.920 –> 01:18:31.040 Then before that, we had, again, from the Sock Hop Vol 2, there’s like two parts.



01:18:31.040 –> 01:18:33.360 There’s iWillBattles, Rock ‘n Roll mashups.



01:18:33.360 –> 01:18:39.640 It’s like music that you would hear in a rock ‘n roll diner, something pre-1960s.



01:18:39.640 –> 01:18:45.320 There’s also a mixtape section, which I’m very proud that DJNoNo opens with the swinging



01:18:45.320 –> 01:18:52.080 cymbals, killed the Radio Star, I think it’s called, swinging cymbals vs. Buggles, and ends



01:18:52.080 –> 01:18:56.120 with Patsy Cline vs Olivia Rodrigo.



01:18:56.120 –> 01:18:59.000 So I was very proud that it’s sort of top and tail that.



01:18:59.000 –> 01:19:05.240 But that’s reconthuse with Runaway Love Fool, and again, we need more Del Shannon,



01:19:05.240 –> 01:19:06.640 mashups in the world.



01:19:06.640 –> 01:19:09.880 iWillBattled it one, and that one.



01:19:09.880 –> 01:19:13.320 And that’s Cardigans vs. Del Shannon.



01:19:13.320 –> 01:19:20.920 Then we had a rock section with a mashup from last year from me, Santa Still Breathing.



01:19:20.920 –> 01:19:21.920 It’s a bit weird.



01:19:21.920 –> 01:19:26.320 I think I made some of them a bit late, but they all were earmarked for the podcast and



01:19:26.320 –> 01:19:28.800 I don’t play them.



01:19:28.800 –> 01:19:29.800 I do that sometimes.



01:19:29.800 –> 01:19:33.440 I make stuff for the podcast and go, “Oh, I must play this.”



01:19:33.440 –> 01:19:35.440 Something else comes on there.



01:19:35.440 –> 01:19:36.440 Nope.



01:19:36.440 –> 01:19:38.520 I have a harsh in my own music sometimes.



01:19:38.520 –> 01:19:40.360 So that’s Santa Still Breathing.



01:19:40.360 –> 01:19:47.280 Still Breathing at Christmas, Sia vs. Green Day, that’s a V2 version from Instamatic.



01:19:47.280 –> 01:19:49.680 And you can find that on the XMash compilation I mentioned before.



01:19:49.680 –> 01:19:52.200 For free, you’ll donate or whatever you want to do.



01:19:52.200 –> 01:19:53.200 It’s pay as you want.



01:19:53.200 –> 01:19:58.200 Who knows how long it’ll be up there for, because Bandcamp changed their management



01:19:58.200 –> 01:20:00.240 to a company that’s into DRM.



01:20:00.240 –> 01:20:03.840 So I think it runs DRM software or something like that.



01:20:03.840 –> 01:20:07.720 I’m suspecting my account to be cancelled any day soon.



01:20:07.720 –> 01:20:11.600 And then at the start of the section, we had the Dollyrots with Because I’m Santa from



01:20:11.600 –> 01:20:14.600 2014’s a Dollyrots Christmas mini album.



01:20:14.600 –> 01:20:19.720 As you might have guessed, I really do like my old school, early synthesizers, organ synthesizers.



01:20:19.720 –> 01:20:20.720 I love those.



01:20:20.720 –> 01:20:23.040 This is by Pedro Morquecho.



01:20:23.040 –> 01:20:25.320 I probably said that wrong.



01:20:25.320 –> 01:20:29.600 And you’ll hear more of them in a little bit, but as I say, this section was more about



01:20:29.600 –> 01:20:35.280 newer music or newer things that aren’t Christmasy necessarily.



01:20:35.280 –> 01:20:42.120 And I’ve been really digging the album Tresor by Gwenno, which there was a Peggy P challenge



01:20:42.120 –> 01:20:44.320 talking about Breton music.



01:20:44.320 –> 01:20:45.920 And I was like, oh, Cornish music.



01:20:45.920 –> 01:20:49.640 And I never got into actually making the mashup, but it’s a beautiful album.



01:20:49.640 –> 01:20:55.160 She’s a Welsh artist, but writing in Kernow or Cornish.



01:20:55.160 –> 01:20:56.400 So this is Tonnow.



01:46:07.140 –> 01:46:10.740 That was Santa Cloud with Chrismurfingland.



01:46:10.740 –> 01:46:13.900 It goes on for another three or four minutes.



01:46:13.900 –> 01:46:17.140 A lot of people would rebel at that point.



01:46:17.140 –> 01:46:21.340 That’s St Allio from 2018’s Christmas Spirits for all three.



01:46:21.340 –> 01:46:27.160 I don’t know if there’s any more Santa Cloud last year or so, I haven’t checked very recently.



01:46:27.160 –> 01:46:33.600 Then before that we had Bruce Haack and Ted Pandel from 1976’s Ebenezer Electric that’s



01:46:33.600 –> 01:46:36.680 I Like Christmas, which I was like, oh is that a cover?



01:46:36.680 –> 01:46:38.240 But I think they wrote that.



01:46:38.240 –> 01:46:42.000 Or Ted Pandel, I don’t know who wrote that, but there’s no credits to who is.



01:46:42.000 –> 01:46:44.920 And a little bit Ms Esther Nelson in there as well.



01:46:44.920 –> 01:46:47.440 It was on her label, Dimension 5.



01:46:47.440 –> 01:46:53.140 And before that we had Pedro Moquecho, who you’re hearing in the background as well.



01:46:53.140 –> 01:47:02.060 That’s Campanas Navadinas, Jingle Bells from Noche De Paz Mexican Organist and Bandleader.



01:47:02.060 –> 01:47:07.460 And then before that we had CSE Art Project with I Played This Cassette Till I Broke It



01:47:07.460 –> 01:47:09.500 with a bit of John Peel in there.



01:47:09.500 –> 01:47:13.740 I don’t know if that made the Festive 50 on Dandelion Radio, that’s where I first heard



01:47:13.740 –> 01:47:14.740 it.



01:47:14.740 –> 01:47:19.320 I had to plug the Festive 50 that they do on the station.



01:47:19.320 –> 01:47:24.240 And it’s interesting that actually that’s the early Festive 50 where it was all time.



01:47:24.240 –> 01:47:31.200 It had to change it because one of the Festive 50s, the lost Festive 50, it was so disheartening.



01:47:31.200 –> 01:47:33.120 It just stopped doing it.



01:47:33.120 –> 01:47:38.480 It came out a little bits after, not during Christmas.



01:47:38.480 –> 01:47:43.840 And partly the reason why I changed it was the same records we’re getting in the top



01:47:43.840 –> 01:47:45.700 10 or top 20 every year.



01:47:45.700 –> 01:47:49.740 And so he made it so it had to be released during that year to stop that.



01:47:49.740 –> 01:47:51.580 Because there used to be these rants.



01:47:51.580 –> 01:47:57.020 I’ve heard them on some of the Festive 50s, like him going, “Oh, that’s the same record



01:47:57.020 –> 01:47:58.020 again.



01:47:58.020 –> 01:47:59.700 Was there no other records?”



01:47:59.700 –> 01:48:05.060 And then before that we had Clannad with Almost Seems Too Late To Turn.



01:48:05.060 –> 01:48:06.300 That’s not very Christmasy.



01:48:06.300 –> 01:48:11.100 I think it was released around this time of year as a single.



01:48:11.100 –> 01:48:13.200 And that’s from 1985’s Macalla.



01:48:13.200 –> 01:48:18.040 And probably the reason we’re playing Clannad, and there might be some more Clannad in a



01:48:18.040 –> 01:48:19.040 second.



01:48:19.040 –> 01:48:20.040 I got those albums at Christmas.



01:48:20.040 –> 01:48:24.240 So it kind of feels Christmasy to me, even though it’s not really Christmas music.



01:48:24.240 –> 01:48:28.160 And then another song, which is not Christmas music, but has become Christmas music a bit



01:48:28.160 –> 01:48:35.120 like I believe in Father Christmas, is River by Joni Mitchell, as covered by Tracy Thorn



01:48:35.120 –> 01:48:39.240 there in 2012 for her Tinsel and Lights album.



01:48:39.240 –> 01:48:40.240 It’s a beautiful song.



01:48:40.240 –> 01:48:44.080 I love River so much, but it’s said at Christmas, but it’s not really a Christmas song.



01:48:44.080 –> 01:48:50.040 It seems like any song that’s some motley tangentially said at Christmas or as a sort of thing at



01:48:50.040 –> 01:48:54.480 Christmas just gets sort of shoehorned into Christmas compilation land.



01:48:54.480 –> 01:48:55.920 It’s bizarre.



01:48:55.920 –> 01:49:00.960 Then before that we had Tonnow by Gwenno from 2022’s Trezor.



01:49:00.960 –> 01:49:02.440 I really recommend checking it out.



01:49:02.440 –> 01:49:04.920 It sort of, it might be a bit of Broadcast actually.



01:49:04.920 –> 01:49:12.400 It’s like Broadcast, Belbury poly, but Cornish, a bit more real instruments rather than electronica.



01:49:12.400 –> 01:49:16.360 But bits of it made me think it’s a bit more jazzy, a bit more funky version of some of



01:49:16.360 –> 01:49:17.360 the Broadcast stuff.



01:49:17.360 –> 01:49:23.720 So yeah, it has that quite spooky mystical, neolithic feel, which I love.



01:49:23.720 –> 01:49:25.120 Hey, hey, Clannad.



01:49:25.120 –> 01:49:29.320 But also I’ve been editing the video of me hanging around on Chanctonbury rings.



01:49:29.320 –> 01:49:32.080 So that’s Justin Kraus territory and all that sort of stuff.



01:49:32.080 –> 01:49:35.600 That’s probably where it’s coming from in my head.



01:49:35.600 –> 01:49:42.200 So I’m going to play a song from the Low Christmas EP from 1999.



01:49:42.200 –> 01:49:44.760 And this is because of the sad loss of Mimi Parker.



01:49:44.760 –> 01:49:47.040 Just over a year ago we lost Mimi Parker.



01:49:47.040 –> 01:49:50.080 So yeah, I’m still not over it really.



01:49:50.080 –> 01:49:54.880 One of the best, if not the best Christmas single EPs or I would say in that series.



01:49:54.880 –> 01:49:55.880 Really it’s an album.



01:49:55.880 –> 01:49:57.880 I think there’s six tracks on there.



01:49:57.880 –> 01:50:02.400 Of all time, is that low EP?



01:50:02.400 –> 01:50:04.400 So this is Long Way Around The Sea by Low.



02:07:32.820 –> 02:07:36.940 That was Written in the Snow by Bruce Haack and Ted Pandel.



02:07:36.940 –> 02:07:46.740 Again from the 1976 Ebenezer Electric album, Beautiful Song, very much Ted Pandel singing.



02:07:46.740 –> 02:07:54.100 I’ve seen him interviewed about Bruce Haack before, and then before that we had Christian



02:07:54.100 –> 02:07:57.740 Chevalier with Deuce Knight, Silent Night.



02:07:57.740 –> 02:08:01.700 That isn’t dated, but I think it’s early ’82s.



02:08:01.700 –> 02:08:04.140 Christian Chevallier, yes, him.



02:08:04.140 –> 02:08:05.140 That gets name-checked.



02:08:05.140 –> 02:08:12.140 Boards of Canada he did a Christmas album called Noëls D’hier Et De Demain, which I’ve totally



02:08:12.140 –> 02:08:16.180 ruined, but you know, I don’t speak French.



02:08:16.180 –> 02:08:19.940 Then before that in Irish, we had Barra MacNeils with…



02:08:19.940 –> 02:08:21.940 Ah, here we go.



02:08:21.940 –> 02:08:26.380 Sumhach An Oidhch’, probably.



02:08:26.380 –> 02:08:33.860 Silent Night in Irish from their 2006 Christmas album too, and Barra MacNeils are Canadian,



02:08:33.860 –> 02:08:38.780 but they were Canadian Irish, and they sing in Irish.



02:08:38.780 –> 02:08:47.140 Then before that we had a song that you probably know, but you do like, what is these lyrics?



02:08:47.140 –> 02:08:52.180 That’s Egg with Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and those are the original lyrics.



02:08:52.180 –> 02:08:57.300 I only learned that today, and I then had to hunt out and find a cover of the original,



02:08:57.300 –> 02:09:04.900 because Judy Garland was upset at the lyrics thinking it would really traumatise this young



02:09:04.900 –> 02:09:06.580 girl that she’s singing it to.



02:09:06.580 –> 02:09:10.740 This might be our last, but it’s 1944, you can see where it’s coming from.



02:09:10.740 –> 02:09:14.780 So it’s much more modern colline, and like a lot of Christmas songs, they tend to get



02:09:14.780 –> 02:09:19.820 sort of happyed up, and that sadly one has been so changed over the years, and the lyrics



02:09:19.820 –> 02:09:25.420 have been so mucked around that although I can see why it was changed because it’s very



02:09:25.420 –> 02:09:32.220 melancholy, I also think that given the film, the bit in the film, Meet Me in St. Louis,



02:09:32.220 –> 02:09:38.260 and the time, it kind of makes more sense, but yeah, it was changed and changed again.



02:09:38.260 –> 02:09:40.380 I feel sorry for it, and that’s from 2021.



02:09:40.380 –> 02:09:48.900 And then before that we heard Clannad again from 1980s Crann Úll with ‘La Coimhthioch Fan



02:09:48.900 –> 02:09:55.380 Dtuath’, A Strange Day In The Countryside, I probably murdered that completely.



02:09:55.380 –> 02:10:00.500 Then before that, it sounded quite Clannad-y actually if you think about it, and it’s low



02:10:00.500 –> 02:10:08.020 with ‘Long Way Around the Sea’, and there are not many people I will play Christian songs



02:10:08.020 –> 02:10:09.020 from.



02:10:09.020 –> 02:10:14.300 It’s like Low, and Daniel Johnston, that’s about it really.



02:10:14.300 –> 02:10:19.980 I’m not really a big fan of very Christian songs, but that’s about the Three Kings in



02:10:19.980 –> 02:10:21.140 the story in the Bible.



02:10:21.140 –> 02:10:24.260 I don’t know what the ‘Long Way Around the Sea’ is a reference to, maybe it’s something



02:10:24.260 –> 02:10:26.020 that we were told to do.



02:10:26.020 –> 02:10:29.300 Again, something that had been foretold, I don’t really know.



02:10:29.300 –> 02:10:31.540 I’m not up on that sort of stuff.



02:10:31.540 –> 02:10:37.980 It is a beautiful song, and yeah, it’s very sad that we lost Mimi Parker.



02:10:37.980 –> 02:10:38.980 Just over a year ago.



02:10:38.980 –> 02:10:42.380 I got all my Christmas stuff pretty much ready actually.



02:10:42.380 –> 02:10:49.060 Cards have mostly all sent off all the present support, and I’ve been doing lots of eBay



02:10:49.060 –> 02:10:50.060 stuff actually.



02:10:50.060 –> 02:10:53.780 I’ve been selling a lot of my stuff on eBay, so possibly sending out presents is nothing.



02:10:53.780 –> 02:10:57.700 A couple of days I’ve been sending out another parcel, another parcel, another parcel.



02:10:57.700 –> 02:11:01.780 Just sending a lot of old stuff, funny raising for the YouTube channel, just booked in for



02:11:01.780 –> 02:11:05.740 Christmas Day lunch, so luckily I don’t have to cook that.



02:11:05.740 –> 02:11:07.700 I like that a lot.



02:11:07.700 –> 02:11:14.460 I’m meeting up with Adriana, hopefully around the 21st/22nd, and also meeting up with my



02:11:14.460 –> 02:11:19.540 godson and his mother and his brother to give the presents.



02:11:19.540 –> 02:11:22.580 So that’ll be good if those two happen.



02:11:22.580 –> 02:11:24.060 I’m looking forward to those.



02:11:24.060 –> 02:11:29.180 Yeah, I’ve had lots of eBay’s, it’s weird, all the high ticket items.



02:11:29.180 –> 02:11:30.940 Pretty much all of them are sold now.



02:11:30.940 –> 02:11:31.940 They haven’t been in trouble.



02:11:31.940 –> 02:11:36.060 What’s been trouble is the little five quid, couple of quid ones.



02:11:36.060 –> 02:11:37.460 And they’ve been no end of trouble.



02:11:37.460 –> 02:11:42.060 I had one today where the postage, I put it in his large letter and obviously the Royal



02:11:42.060 –> 02:11:44.660 Mail disagreed and tried to surcharge this person.



02:11:44.660 –> 02:11:47.700 And it’s so much faffed in here with refunds and things.



02:11:47.700 –> 02:11:49.620 And it’s all over a couple of quid.