Christmas for me is less about shinny lights, decorations, gifts, and all that jazz - but rather about the songs that help carry these wholly traditions and memories year after year. Oh and the food and the family, obviously. As I ready myself to spend the holidays away from my folks stranded here in Montreal, I thought I'de comb over some music I have and share some with you, my friends, on this modest "music blog".
Let's start with this high energy Phil Spector penned piece called Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) by one of my fav boy-girl folk duos from Sheffield, Slow Club! This is off the Christmas, Thanks For Nothing EP that is due to drop in North America via the venerable Moshi Moshi imprint December 14th.
Sung over the original Vince Guaraldi instrumental, Mayer Hawthorne earlier today offered this MP3 gift to his fans on the Stones Throw web site. Very nice.
The UK duo of Summer Camp decided to cover a song by The Waitresses titled Christmas Wrapping. The outcome is a spacey synth driven ditty of a track.
Earlier this month, New York's synthpop duo The Golden Filter offered fans a free download of a cover they made of Psychic TV's White Nights. From the press release: "The Golden Filter brings festivity to this Psychic TV cover, which originally pulled the verses from the Rev. Jim Jones' death tapes. The chorus - "Santa Claus is checking his list, going over it twice, seeing who is naughty and who is nice" - was a rhyme used by Jones to teach children paranoia." Weird/good.
And last but not least: Sony recently reissued my new favorite Christmas album ever, Elvis' Blue Christmas. The record ends with a little message from the God himself. That voice... THAT VOICE! Wow.
That's it.
Happy Holidays ya'll.
P.S. If you feel like sharing your favorite Christmas tracks, post a youtube link or an mp3 in the comments! Would love to hear em :)
i'm all about the cheese factor:
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/gFtb3EtjEic
definitely my favourite christmas track!
cheers,
melanie ~ aka ian.random's girl :)