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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) Listen to RC 391: The Nameless Xmas Episode byRadio Clash on hearthis.at 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 --> 00:00:33.160Hello, Welcome to Radio Clash 391, it is the Christmas episode. 00:00:33.160 --> 00:00:37.160Which is the Mameless Christmas episode, because it doesn't have a name. 00:07:48.640 --> 00:07:54.720That was God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen by Wat Tyler. 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:59.200We had both sides of the Christmas debate there. 00:07:59.200 --> 00:08:06.400I must sound leaning towards the Tankard Fuck Christmas Wat Tyler approach to the festivities. 00:08:06.400 --> 00:08:13.520Before that was Tankard Fuck Christmas from 1995 and that was God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 00:08:13.520 --> 00:08:20.280Wat Tyler from 2009's A Damaged Christmas Gift To You. 00:08:20.280 --> 00:08:24.840We like punk and metal festive songs on this podcast we play them quite often. 00:08:24.840 --> 00:08:30.760As it started we had a mashup with iWillBattle, that's Shake God It's Christmas, Queen 00:08:30.760 --> 00:08:37.360vs Taylor Swift and that's a leftover, a reheated leftover, How Christmasy from 2022 00:08:37.360 --> 00:08:41.240from now the Christmas Bootlegs album which apparently has been uploading onto YouTube 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:42.240this year. 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:47.560Not so many Christmas festivities from iWillBattle but then again it goes through 00:08:47.560 --> 00:08:52.640cycles I know I'm surprised I did one this year which we'll hear later in the podcast. 00:08:52.640 --> 00:08:58.360I wasn't intending to so I added it to X-Mash rather than doing multiple Christmas albums 00:08:58.360 --> 00:08:59.360because I didn't do that many. 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:05.160I 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 --> 00:09:06.600hear another one of those as well. 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:10.880More reheated leftovers some years I do noms so I just add it to the band camp and you 00:09:10.880 --> 00:09:16.560find that on the finger treble band camp it should be realityengine.co.uk should direct 00:09:16.560 --> 00:09:17.560that. 00:09:17.560 --> 00:09:21.680This is a Nameless Christmas episode I couldn't think of a name so it's called the Nameless 00:09:21.680 --> 00:09:23.200Christmas episode. 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:28.280Maybe we'll find a name along the way maybe the names will be the friends we make along 00:09:28.280 --> 00:09:31.000the way or maybe the friends will be names we make. 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:35.800I don't know I really don't know I really don't care actually. 00:09:35.800 --> 00:09:39.200As I said I'm not just not in the mood this year in a way. 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:44.280I had stockpiled all of this Christmas shit so I feel like I'll use it. 00:09:44.280 --> 00:09:50.720Over the last 12 months suddenly he's literally started in December, November last year and 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:55.400weren't used and some of them were like oh yes yes but this is a good one it's Cuckooland 00:09:55.400 --> 00:10:00.840again from a Damaged Christmas gift to you and this is Silver Bells which is something 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:01.840I 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 --> 00:29:13.600off, torys to fuck off, torys to fuck off…" 00:29:13.600 --> 00:29:20.280Ah yes, that's the anthem of this year for me, and actually it came out at the end of 00:29:20.280 --> 00:29:22.400last year. 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:27.520But sadly the torys are still there, and I really do want them to fuck off. 00:29:27.520 --> 00:29:32.580That is Grace Petrie, I Just Want The Torys To Fuck Off (A Christmas Song). 00:29:32.580 --> 00:29:33.820Very helpful. 00:29:33.820 --> 00:29:37.540From her YouTube post just before last year, and I didn't hear it about that enough, I 00:29:37.540 --> 00:29:41.300was like, "Oh I wonder what Grace Petrie's doing because of Fairytale?" 00:29:41.300 --> 00:29:43.220I didn't mention at the start. 00:29:43.220 --> 00:29:48.140We had a little bit of a meme that's doing the rounds, Censoring Christmas with Holland 00:29:48.140 --> 00:29:54.460and Barrett, or New Season of Taggart for that section, because we had the sad death 00:29:54.460 --> 00:29:57.960of Shane MacGowan. 00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:02.720But unfortunately that's brought out the people going, "I don't like the snowflake version!" 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:08.080I just watched the version played at the funeral. 00:30:08.080 --> 00:30:11.160Luckily one of the comments tipped me off before I got to that section, because I was 00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:16.880just like, "Oh I do hope at a funeral they didn't leave the F-word in?" 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:17.880Apparently yes. 00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:22.120I even saw someone on TikTok, I know TikTok, I don't need to go to TikTok, but I was actually 00:30:22.120 --> 00:30:26.900looking for that meme itself, the Holland and Barrett New Season of Taggart, which I think 00:30:26.900 --> 00:30:30.500is genius, thanks to iWillBattle for introducing me to that. 00:30:30.500 --> 00:30:32.000And so I was looking for that. 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:35.220Unfortunately I stumbled on all the people moaning about the censorship of Fairytale 00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:38.780of New York, and one was going, "Queer people don't care." 00:30:38.780 --> 00:30:40.980And I'm like, "This queer person does." 00:30:40.980 --> 00:30:46.380And it was a woman who was saying it, and F-word, and I don't mean fuck, is directed 00:30:46.380 --> 00:30:48.260at male gay men, or it's directed at men. 00:30:48.260 --> 00:30:49.260It's a male thing. 00:30:49.260 --> 00:30:55.420No-one has ever used that word against a woman, so it's not her word to police, it's not 00:30:55.420 --> 00:30:58.800her word to say, "Oh that's perfectly fine." 00:30:58.800 --> 00:30:59.800Well to you maybe. 00:30:59.800 --> 00:31:04.840I was so glad when the news broke and Craig Charles played the Haggard version. 00:31:04.840 --> 00:31:10.640I get it, the Haggard isn't as good a rhyme, but I just know, just know. 00:31:10.640 --> 00:31:15.840When that song comes on, I'm just like tense up, it's just, "Oh what version is it? 00:31:15.840 --> 00:31:16.840What version is it?" 00:31:16.840 --> 00:31:18.920You know it's always going in my brain, I was like, "Oh I just don't want to hear that 00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:19.920word." 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:21.460I don't want to hear that bit. 00:31:21.460 --> 00:31:25.820Unfortunately, the death of Shane McGowan was brought out by those people, and so I really 00:31:25.820 --> 00:31:30.060love that censorship, you know, and New Season of Taggart, which is not actually invented 00:31:30.060 --> 00:31:31.060by that meme. 00:31:31.060 --> 00:31:35.540It was someone, 2018 I think when the first debate of this, someone came up with that, 00:31:35.540 --> 00:31:36.540somebody on Twitter. 00:31:36.540 --> 00:31:40.980But I hadn't heard the Holland and Barrett, it was very funny, very funny. 00:31:40.980 --> 00:31:48.220So Grace Petrie, I know, long anecdote, did another version where she changed it, "I love 00:31:48.220 --> 00:31:49.220Diane Abbott." 00:31:49.220 --> 00:31:54.200I posted that on the blog two years ago, and of course they got a long green ink comment 00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:59.160from someone telling me how I was wrong and how they constitutionally have the right to 00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:01.160say that word. 00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:03.960And it's like, "Mate, are you even gay?" 00:32:03.960 --> 00:32:06.240I'll accept it if you're gay. 00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:10.920You 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 --> 00:32:17.040the people what words that they can be offended by please. 00:32:17.040 --> 00:32:19.740It makes me so angry. 00:32:19.740 --> 00:32:21.900And so do the Tories, so yes, we want them to fuck off. 00:32:21.900 --> 00:32:23.500I think it would be good for the country at this point. 00:32:23.500 --> 00:32:24.780They're driving the country into the ground. 00:32:24.780 --> 00:32:28.260I mean, spending all that money, sending people to Rwanda. 00:32:28.260 --> 00:32:30.360Why? 00:32:30.360 --> 00:32:33.900And then before that, we had Logan Lynn, 2021's It's Christmas Motherfucker. 00:32:33.900 --> 00:32:39.620I think dealing with the American version of this, from what I remember him saying about 00:32:39.620 --> 00:32:43.940it, it's about COVID and Christian right and how they just didn't care. 00:32:43.940 --> 00:32:49.080But in 2023, when I hear body bags under the tree, I'm thinking, well, not just the AIDS 00:32:49.080 --> 00:32:53.000pandemic and COVID, but also what's going on in Gaza. 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:56.240So yeah, that section was a bit of a Gaza section. 00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:58.240Yeah, happy Christmas. 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:03.880Because before we had the anti-war song, which weirdly never gets marked as an anti-war song. 00:33:03.880 --> 00:33:06.880It always gets put into compilations when people don't listen to the lyrics. 00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:14.820I Believe in Father Christmas by Hannah Peel, (REBOX) from 2014, a single called Find Peace 00:33:14.820 --> 00:33:16.500very appropriately. 00:33:16.500 --> 00:33:17.500She gets it. 00:33:17.500 --> 00:33:22.220Greg Lake wrote that as a criticism of the war that was going on at the Middle East, the 00:33:22.220 --> 00:33:23.220time. 00:33:23.220 --> 00:33:24.220I can forget which one it was. 00:33:24.220 --> 00:33:25.740Was it the Yon Kippur? 00:33:25.740 --> 00:33:29.220It was '74, '75. 00:33:29.220 --> 00:33:32.260And it's like time just repeats itself, doesn't it? 00:33:32.260 --> 00:33:33.260Depressingly. 00:33:33.260 --> 00:33:38.100Before that, we had William Maranci with For Whom the Bell Tolls, But It's All I Want 00:33:38.100 --> 00:33:41.220for Christmas, Metallica versus Mariah Carey. 00:33:41.220 --> 00:33:45.640I was going to go No Mariah Carey, but doesn't use the vocal. 00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:49.900And I can't remember if Mariahpocalypse, where the, I think it's like Whamageddon, 00:33:49.900 --> 00:33:51.700Remixes and Mashups are Fine covers. 00:33:51.700 --> 00:33:53.200I think it's just the original. 00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:57.640But there's no Maria in that, apart from a little bit of backing box. 00:33:57.640 --> 00:33:58.640So I thought it was all right. 00:33:58.640 --> 00:33:59.640I thought it was all right. 00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:00.720Because yeah, I know, I get it. 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:06.260I feel the same way about the original, but I love how it just turns into a song about 00:34:06.260 --> 00:34:07.260bells. 00:34:07.260 --> 00:34:10.660We had a bell section there, because before we had For Whom the Bell Tolls, a cover by 00:34:10.660 --> 00:34:13.300Santa Claws And The Naughty But Nice Orchestra. 00:34:13.300 --> 00:34:15.340They do sound like complete cash ins. 00:34:15.340 --> 00:34:16.660They do like Christmas themed albums. 00:34:16.660 --> 00:34:20.140The faces is randomly put in sleigh bells over the top. 00:34:20.140 --> 00:34:22.900But that one is a bit more electro swing, a bit more different. 00:34:22.900 --> 00:34:25.460And the Christmas Frawl, a holiday tribute to Metallica. 00:34:25.460 --> 00:34:28.180So it's like how they do change the genre somewhat. 00:34:28.180 --> 00:34:31.760There's like this weird goth swing thing going on. 00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:32.760I don't know how to describe it. 00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:34.240It's like goth electro swing. 00:34:34.240 --> 00:34:35.800I like that part. 00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:40.680And then at the start of the session we had Cuckooland with Silver Bells. 00:34:40.680 --> 00:34:41.880One of my favourites. 00:34:41.880 --> 00:34:44.560And so we're going to continue the Mashupage. 00:34:44.560 --> 00:34:45.560Is that a word? 00:34:45.560 --> 00:34:46.560Mashupage? 00:34:46.560 --> 00:34:47.560This is the Kleptones 00:34:47.560 --> 00:34:48.720And this is a classic one. 00:34:48.720 --> 00:34:53.240I didn't know about this one until fairly recently, I think the last year or so. 00:34:53.240 --> 00:34:55.200Or I found it and then lost it. 00:34:55.200 --> 00:34:56.400It does happen with my collection. 00:34:56.400 --> 00:34:58.980I find I lose things all the time. 00:34:58.980 --> 00:35:03.860This is Bling Crosby, Bing Crosby Bootleg, White Christmas Christmas. 00:56:16.900 --> 00:56:20.060This is turning out to be the Nightmare Podcast before Christmas. 00:56:20.060 --> 00:56:21.460I might call it that. 00:56:21.460 --> 00:56:26.100I just had a first thing ever, a complete crash of Traktor. 00:56:26.100 --> 00:56:27.620That's never happened. 00:56:27.620 --> 00:56:31.220It's had freezers, literally just like BAM! 00:56:31.220 --> 00:56:38.560And for a while there I thought I'd lost an hour's worth of recording. 00:56:38.560 --> 00:56:43.160Looks like thanks to Reaper and VLC being able to read it. 00:56:43.160 --> 00:56:49.440I got it back, but yes, the ghosts of Christmas present. 00:56:49.440 --> 00:56:55.920That was Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, the Inokasira Rangers, a Japanese Ska group, and 00:56:55.920 --> 00:57:00.760that goes out to Ryuichi Sakamoto, who we lost this year. 00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:03.300One of my favourite songs of all time. 00:57:03.300 --> 00:57:05.900I used that as a bed, but it deserves more. 00:57:05.900 --> 00:57:08.780It deserves so much better. 00:57:08.780 --> 00:57:12.780And before that we had a bit of a reggae ska, Christmas ska, Christmas reggae. 00:57:12.780 --> 00:57:14.340Yes, Christmas reggae is a thing. 00:57:14.340 --> 00:57:17.020Trojan did a whole album of it. 00:57:17.020 --> 00:57:21.900That was a very strange album actually from 1980. 00:57:21.900 --> 00:57:25.700Christmas album by Jacob Miller and Ray I. 00:57:25.700 --> 00:57:28.900But that's actually from the Christmas reggae box set I mentioned. 00:57:28.900 --> 00:57:29.900And that's Deck the Halls. 00:57:29.900 --> 00:57:32.840I think it's 1980 it came out originally. 00:57:32.840 --> 00:57:33.840It's a completely demented. 00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:36.160I mean Deck the Halls with Bows of Collie. 00:57:36.160 --> 00:57:37.520How could I not? 00:57:37.520 --> 00:57:39.320The other ones are brilliant as well. 00:57:39.320 --> 00:57:45.360Then before that we had Granville Williams Orchestra with Santa Claus Ska-Ing to Town. 00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:50.320And then we had some new shizzle from the KLF. 00:57:50.320 --> 00:57:54.560All the KLF Kare Foundation, or KLF Kare, or the K2 Foundation, or whatever they are 00:57:54.560 --> 00:57:55.920this week. 00:57:55.920 --> 00:58:02.180And that's the turn you thought. Remix of Everybody's Talking at Me, the KLF and Ricardo 00:58:02.180 --> 00:58:03.180Da Force. 00:58:03.180 --> 00:58:05.340That was just posted up on their KLF Kare website. 00:58:05.340 --> 00:58:09.260Yeah, they're getting into doing old folks' homes for raving people. 00:58:09.260 --> 00:58:10.260I like that. 00:58:10.260 --> 00:58:12.900The sort of the Christmas intro is going to be appropriate. 00:58:12.900 --> 00:58:17.020And the idea is called the far name is some like Christmas number one or some like, you 00:58:17.020 --> 00:58:19.020know, Christmas, top Christmas thing or something. 00:58:19.020 --> 00:58:20.020Yeah, maybe they hope. 00:58:20.020 --> 00:58:21.020Maybe they hope. 00:58:21.020 --> 00:58:24.740But I don't know if Nilsson's estate would agree. 00:58:24.740 --> 00:58:34.000And before that we had DJ Paul V with an update of his Just Can't Get Club Action, 23 Edit, 00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:37.800that's Yo Majesty and Enya versus Depeche Mode. 00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:38.800Yo Majesty and Enya. 00:58:38.800 --> 00:58:42.160I don't think Yo Majesty approached Enya and went, "Oh, can we have a collab?" 00:58:42.160 --> 00:58:43.160No. 00:58:43.160 --> 00:58:48.480And before that, a classic from last year that IamJstncrdble with Fe-Kneesh Navidad. 00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:51.960That became the Bootie anthem of last Christmas, I remember. 00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:54.580That's Megan Thee Stallion versus Aquadrop. 00:58:54.580 --> 00:58:57.700He was like, "Ehh, eh, eh, I can't do that. 00:58:57.700 --> 00:58:58.700I can't do that." 00:58:58.700 --> 00:59:00.980That noise that Megan Thee Stallion makes. 00:59:00.980 --> 00:59:05.660But yeah, it was all about Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B last year, obviously. 00:59:05.660 --> 00:59:07.460And I did Christmas Wapping as well. 00:59:07.460 --> 00:59:09.900So that was… 00:59:09.900 --> 00:59:13.340And then before that we had a silent section. 00:59:13.340 --> 00:59:17.300We had the Kleptones with Bling Crosby, Bing Crosby Bootleg. 00:59:17.300 --> 00:59:19.420It's called White Xmas Christmas. 00:59:19.420 --> 00:59:22.520I'm not exactly sure why this two Christmases is in there. 00:59:22.520 --> 00:59:25.040Double the fun from 2003. 00:59:25.040 --> 00:59:30.560So I'm going to play some more Rock at You, because I can. 00:59:30.560 --> 00:59:32.440And maybe some Drum and Bass. 00:59:32.440 --> 00:59:33.960Just maybe, if you're good. 00:59:33.960 --> 00:59:35.160If you've not on the naughty list. 00:59:35.160 --> 00:59:36.840Yeah, in the background you're hearing some more. 00:59:36.840 --> 00:59:39.120I mentioned earlier the Santa Claws. 00:59:39.120 --> 00:59:42.160I'm not sure if I used this as a bed before on a previous Christmas, but yeah, Boulevard 00:59:42.160 --> 00:59:44.160of Broken Dreams. 00:59:44.160 --> 00:59:45.600Because I sometimes do this. 00:59:45.600 --> 00:59:47.480This one I'm just using Christmas beds. 00:59:47.480 --> 00:59:50.460Well, almost made it into the podcast, but didn't. 00:59:50.460 --> 00:59:54.660But so before something else goes wrong, which is probably about five minutes from now, 00:59:54.660 --> 00:59:56.740I'm going to play a track by the Dollyrots. 00:59:56.740 --> 01:00:00.140The Dollyrots do a lot of Christmas stuff every year. 01:00:00.140 --> 01:00:04.580I'm not sure what they're doing this Christmas, but this is from 2014, Because I'm Santa. 01:00:04.580 --> 01:00:12.100And 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 --> 01:17:33.280That was iWillBattle with Disconnected From Your Collar, Connie Francis vs. Chase & Status, 01:17:33.280 --> 01:17:37.240and that's from the new album Mashed Up at the Sockhop Vol 2. 01:17:37.240 --> 01:17:41.480There's a couple of mashups from that in that segment. 01:17:41.480 --> 01:17:44.160And yeah, not everything in this podcast is Christmas related. 01:17:44.160 --> 01:17:46.000I get mad if everything was Christmas related. 01:17:46.000 --> 01:17:47.000I mean, it'd be like, what? 01:17:47.000 --> 01:17:53.360There has to be a bit of a palate cleanser from all the sugary, candy cane nonsense. 01:17:53.360 --> 01:17:55.800So yeah, there's a bit of drum and bass, Connie Francis. 01:17:55.800 --> 01:18:00.160I think there needs to be more Connie Francis bootlegs in the world. 01:18:00.160 --> 01:18:02.520My tip, Stupid Cupid, go check her out. 01:18:02.520 --> 01:18:08.600And then before that, we had Hallmighty with Rhiannon's Time,, Fleetwood Mac vs. Chase & 01:18:08.600 --> 01:18:11.200Status, so we had a Chase & Status section. 01:18:11.200 --> 01:18:15.880I've been checking out their last mixtape, Dunproofin, mentioned it, so I was like, 01:18:15.880 --> 01:18:17.600oh, and also their previous album. 01:18:17.600 --> 01:18:20.920There was almost going to be an album track from their previous album and they have a 01:18:20.920 --> 01:18:23.600time, I'm trying to reconnect with Chase & Status. 01:18:23.600 --> 01:18:25.920I haven't really checked out their stuff for a while. 01:18:25.920 --> 01:18:31.040Then before that, we had, again, from the Sock Hop Vol 2, there's like two parts. 01:18:31.040 --> 01:18:33.360There's iWillBattles, Rock 'n Roll mashups. 01:18:33.360 --> 01:18:39.640It's like music that you would hear in a rock 'n roll diner, something pre-1960s. 01:18:39.640 --> 01:18:45.320There's also a mixtape section, which I'm very proud that DJNoNo opens with the swinging 01:18:45.320 --> 01:18:52.080cymbals, killed the Radio Star, I think it's called, swinging cymbals vs. Buggles, and ends 01:18:52.080 --> 01:18:56.120with Patsy Cline vs Olivia Rodrigo. 01:18:56.120 --> 01:18:59.000So I was very proud that it's sort of top and tail that. 01:18:59.000 --> 01:19:05.240But that's reconthuse with Runaway Love Fool, and again, we need more Del Shannon, 01:19:05.240 --> 01:19:06.640mashups in the world. 01:19:06.640 --> 01:19:09.880iWillBattled it one, and that one. 01:19:09.880 --> 01:19:13.320And that's Cardigans vs. Del Shannon. 01:19:13.320 --> 01:19:20.920Then we had a rock section with a mashup from last year from me, Santa Still Breathing. 01:19:20.920 --> 01:19:21.920It's a bit weird. 01:19:21.920 --> 01:19:26.320I think I made some of them a bit late, but they all were earmarked for the podcast and 01:19:26.320 --> 01:19:28.800I don't play them. 01:19:28.800 --> 01:19:29.800I do that sometimes. 01:19:29.800 --> 01:19:33.440I make stuff for the podcast and go, "Oh, I must play this." 01:19:33.440 --> 01:19:35.440Something else comes on there. 01:19:35.440 --> 01:19:36.440Nope. 01:19:36.440 --> 01:19:38.520I have a harsh in my own music sometimes. 01:19:38.520 --> 01:19:40.360So that's Santa Still Breathing. 01:19:40.360 --> 01:19:47.280Still Breathing at Christmas, Sia vs. Green Day, that's a V2 version from Instamatic. 01:19:47.280 --> 01:19:49.680And you can find that on the XMash compilation I mentioned before. 01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:52.200For free, you'll donate or whatever you want to do. 01:19:52.200 --> 01:19:53.200It's pay as you want. 01:19:53.200 --> 01:19:58.200Who knows how long it'll be up there for, because Bandcamp changed their management 01:19:58.200 --> 01:20:00.240to a company that's into DRM. 01:20:00.240 --> 01:20:03.840So I think it runs DRM software or something like that. 01:20:03.840 --> 01:20:07.720I'm suspecting my account to be cancelled any day soon. 01:20:07.720 --> 01:20:11.600And then at the start of the section, we had the Dollyrots with Because I'm Santa from 01:20:11.600 --> 01:20:14.6002014's a Dollyrots Christmas mini album. 01:20:14.600 --> 01:20:19.720As you might have guessed, I really do like my old school, early synthesizers, organ synthesizers. 01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:20.720I love those. 01:20:20.720 --> 01:20:23.040This is by Pedro Morquecho. 01:20:23.040 --> 01:20:25.320I probably said that wrong. 01:20:25.320 --> 01:20:29.600And you'll hear more of them in a little bit, but as I say, this section was more about 01:20:29.600 --> 01:20:35.280newer music or newer things that aren't Christmasy necessarily. 01:20:35.280 --> 01:20:42.120And I've been really digging the album Tresor by Gwenno, which there was a Peggy P challenge 01:20:42.120 --> 01:20:44.320talking about Breton music. 01:20:44.320 --> 01:20:45.920And I was like, oh, Cornish music. 01:20:45.920 --> 01:20:49.640And I never got into actually making the mashup, but it's a beautiful album. 01:20:49.640 --> 01:20:55.160She's a Welsh artist, but writing in Kernow or Cornish. 01:20:55.160 --> 01:20:56.400So this is Tonnow. 01:46:07.140 --> 01:46:10.740That was Santa Cloud with Chrismurfingland. 01:46:10.740 --> 01:46:13.900It goes on for another three or four minutes. 01:46:13.900 --> 01:46:17.140A lot of people would rebel at that point. 01:46:17.140 --> 01:46:21.340That's St Allio from 2018's Christmas Spirits for all three. 01:46:21.340 --> 01:46:27.160I don't know if there's any more Santa Cloud last year or so, I haven't checked very recently. 01:46:27.160 --> 01:46:33.600Then before that we had Bruce Haack and Ted Pandel from 1976's Ebenezer Electric that's 01:46:33.600 --> 01:46:36.680I Like Christmas, which I was like, oh is that a cover? 01:46:36.680 --> 01:46:38.240But I think they wrote that. 01:46:38.240 --> 01:46:42.000Or Ted Pandel, I don't know who wrote that, but there's no credits to who is. 01:46:42.000 --> 01:46:44.920And a little bit Ms Esther Nelson in there as well. 01:46:44.920 --> 01:46:47.440It was on her label, Dimension 5. 01:46:47.440 --> 01:46:53.140And before that we had Pedro Moquecho, who you're hearing in the background as well. 01:46:53.140 --> 01:47:02.060That's Campanas Navadinas, Jingle Bells from Noche De Paz Mexican Organist and Bandleader. 01:47:02.060 --> 01:47:07.460And then before that we had CSE Art Project with I Played This Cassette Till I Broke It 01:47:07.460 --> 01:47:09.500with a bit of John Peel in there. 01:47:09.500 --> 01:47:13.740I don't know if that made the Festive 50 on Dandelion Radio, that's where I first heard 01:47:13.740 --> 01:47:14.740it. 01:47:14.740 --> 01:47:19.320I had to plug the Festive 50 that they do on the station. 01:47:19.320 --> 01:47:24.240And it's interesting that actually that's the early Festive 50 where it was all time. 01:47:24.240 --> 01:47:31.200It had to change it because one of the Festive 50s, the lost Festive 50, it was so disheartening. 01:47:31.200 --> 01:47:33.120It just stopped doing it. 01:47:33.120 --> 01:47:38.480It came out a little bits after, not during Christmas. 01:47:38.480 --> 01:47:43.840And partly the reason why I changed it was the same records we're getting in the top 01:47:43.840 --> 01:47:45.70010 or top 20 every year. 01:47:45.700 --> 01:47:49.740And so he made it so it had to be released during that year to stop that. 01:47:49.740 --> 01:47:51.580Because there used to be these rants. 01:47:51.580 --> 01:47:57.020I've heard them on some of the Festive 50s, like him going, "Oh, that's the same record 01:47:57.020 --> 01:47:58.020again. 01:47:58.020 --> 01:47:59.700Was there no other records?" 01:47:59.700 --> 01:48:05.060And then before that we had Clannad with Almost Seems Too Late To Turn. 01:48:05.060 --> 01:48:06.300That's not very Christmasy. 01:48:06.300 --> 01:48:11.100I think it was released around this time of year as a single. 01:48:11.100 --> 01:48:13.200And that's from 1985's Macalla. 01:48:13.200 --> 01:48:18.040And probably the reason we're playing Clannad, and there might be some more Clannad in a 01:48:18.040 --> 01:48:19.040second. 01:48:19.040 --> 01:48:20.040I got those albums at Christmas. 01:48:20.040 --> 01:48:24.240So it kind of feels Christmasy to me, even though it's not really Christmas music. 01:48:24.240 --> 01:48:28.160And then another song, which is not Christmas music, but has become Christmas music a bit 01:48:28.160 --> 01:48:35.120like I believe in Father Christmas, is River by Joni Mitchell, as covered by Tracy Thorn 01:48:35.120 --> 01:48:39.240there in 2012 for her Tinsel and Lights album. 01:48:39.240 --> 01:48:40.240It's a beautiful song. 01:48:40.240 --> 01:48:44.080I love River so much, but it's said at Christmas, but it's not really a Christmas song. 01:48:44.080 --> 01:48:50.040It seems like any song that's some motley tangentially said at Christmas or as a sort of thing at 01:48:50.040 --> 01:48:54.480Christmas just gets sort of shoehorned into Christmas compilation land. 01:48:54.480 --> 01:48:55.920It's bizarre. 01:48:55.920 --> 01:49:00.960Then before that we had Tonnow by Gwenno from 2022's Trezor. 01:49:00.960 --> 01:49:02.440I really recommend checking it out. 01:49:02.440 --> 01:49:04.920It sort of, it might be a bit of Broadcast actually. 01:49:04.920 --> 01:49:12.400It's like Broadcast, Belbury poly, but Cornish, a bit more real instruments rather than electronica. 01:49:12.400 --> 01:49:16.360But bits of it made me think it's a bit more jazzy, a bit more funky version of some of 01:49:16.360 --> 01:49:17.360the Broadcast stuff. 01:49:17.360 --> 01:49:23.720So yeah, it has that quite spooky mystical, neolithic feel, which I love. 01:49:23.720 --> 01:49:25.120Hey, hey, Clannad. 01:49:25.120 --> 01:49:29.320But also I've been editing the video of me hanging around on Chanctonbury rings. 01:49:29.320 --> 01:49:32.080So that's Justin Kraus territory and all that sort of stuff. 01:49:32.080 --> 01:49:35.600That's probably where it's coming from in my head. 01:49:35.600 --> 01:49:42.200So I'm going to play a song from the Low Christmas EP from 1999. 01:49:42.200 --> 01:49:44.760And this is because of the sad loss of Mimi Parker. 01:49:44.760 --> 01:49:47.040Just over a year ago we lost Mimi Parker. 01:49:47.040 --> 01:49:50.080So yeah, I'm still not over it really. 01:49:50.080 --> 01:49:54.880One of the best, if not the best Christmas single EPs or I would say in that series. 01:49:54.880 --> 01:49:55.880Really it's an album. 01:49:55.880 --> 01:49:57.880I think there's six tracks on there. 01:49:57.880 --> 01:50:02.400Of all time, is that low EP? 01:50:02.400 --> 01:50:04.400So this is Long Way Around The Sea by Low. 02:07:32.820 --> 02:07:36.940That was Written in the Snow by Bruce Haack and Ted Pandel. 02:07:36.940 --> 02:07:46.740Again from the 1976 Ebenezer Electric album, Beautiful Song, very much Ted Pandel singing. 02:07:46.740 --> 02:07:54.100I've seen him interviewed about Bruce Haack before, and then before that we had Christian 02:07:54.100 --> 02:07:57.740Chevalier with Deuce Knight, Silent Night. 02:07:57.740 --> 02:08:01.700That isn't dated, but I think it's early '82s. 02:08:01.700 --> 02:08:04.140Christian Chevallier, yes, him. 02:08:04.140 --> 02:08:05.140That gets name-checked. 02:08:05.140 --> 02:08:12.140Boards of Canada he did a Christmas album called Noëls D'hier Et De Demain, which I've totally 02:08:12.140 --> 02:08:16.180ruined, but you know, I don't speak French. 02:08:16.180 --> 02:08:19.940Then before that in Irish, we had Barra MacNeils with… 02:08:19.940 --> 02:08:21.940Ah, here we go. 02:08:21.940 --> 02:08:26.380Sumhach An Oidhch’, probably. 02:08:26.380 --> 02:08:33.860Silent Night in Irish from their 2006 Christmas album too, and Barra MacNeils are Canadian, 02:08:33.860 --> 02:08:38.780but they were Canadian Irish, and they sing in Irish. 02:08:38.780 --> 02:08:47.140Then before that we had a song that you probably know, but you do like, what is these lyrics? 02:08:47.140 --> 02:08:52.180That's Egg with Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and those are the original lyrics. 02:08:52.180 --> 02:08:57.300I only learned that today, and I then had to hunt out and find a cover of the original, 02:08:57.300 --> 02:09:04.900because Judy Garland was upset at the lyrics thinking it would really traumatise this young 02:09:04.900 --> 02:09:06.580girl that she's singing it to. 02:09:06.580 --> 02:09:10.740This might be our last, but it's 1944, you can see where it's coming from. 02:09:10.740 --> 02:09:14.780So it's much more modern colline, and like a lot of Christmas songs, they tend to get 02:09:14.780 --> 02:09:19.820sort of happyed up, and that sadly one has been so changed over the years, and the lyrics 02:09:19.820 --> 02:09:25.420have been so mucked around that although I can see why it was changed because it's very 02:09:25.420 --> 02:09:32.220melancholy, I also think that given the film, the bit in the film, Meet Me in St. Louis, 02:09:32.220 --> 02:09:38.260and the time, it kind of makes more sense, but yeah, it was changed and changed again. 02:09:38.260 --> 02:09:40.380I feel sorry for it, and that's from 2021. 02:09:40.380 --> 02:09:48.900And then before that we heard Clannad again from 1980s Crann Úll with 'La Coimhthioch Fan 02:09:48.900 --> 02:09:55.380Dtuath', A Strange Day In The Countryside, I probably murdered that completely. 02:09:55.380 --> 02:10:00.500Then before that, it sounded quite Clannad-y actually if you think about it, and it's low 02:10:00.500 --> 02:10:08.020with 'Long Way Around the Sea', and there are not many people I will play Christian songs 02:10:08.020 --> 02:10:09.020from. 02:10:09.020 --> 02:10:14.300It's like Low, and Daniel Johnston, that's about it really. 02:10:14.300 --> 02:10:19.980I'm not really a big fan of very Christian songs, but that's about the Three Kings in 02:10:19.980 --> 02:10:21.140the story in the Bible. 02:10:21.140 --> 02:10:24.260I don't know what the 'Long Way Around the Sea' is a reference to, maybe it's something 02:10:24.260 --> 02:10:26.020that we were told to do. 02:10:26.020 --> 02:10:29.300Again, something that had been foretold, I don't really know. 02:10:29.300 --> 02:10:31.540I'm not up on that sort of stuff. 02:10:31.540 --> 02:10:37.980It is a beautiful song, and yeah, it's very sad that we lost Mimi Parker. 02:10:37.980 --> 02:10:38.980Just over a year ago. 02:10:38.980 --> 02:10:42.380I got all my Christmas stuff pretty much ready actually. 02:10:42.380 --> 02:10:49.060Cards have mostly all sent off all the present support, and I've been doing lots of eBay 02:10:49.060 --> 02:10:50.060stuff actually. 02:10:50.060 --> 02:10:53.780I've been selling a lot of my stuff on eBay, so possibly sending out presents is nothing. 02:10:53.780 --> 02:10:57.700A couple of days I've been sending out another parcel, another parcel, another parcel. 02:10:57.700 --> 02:11:01.780Just sending a lot of old stuff, funny raising for the YouTube channel, just booked in for 02:11:01.780 --> 02:11:05.740Christmas Day lunch, so luckily I don't have to cook that. 02:11:05.740 --> 02:11:07.700I like that a lot. 02:11:07.700 --> 02:11:14.460I'm meeting up with Adriana, hopefully around the 21st/22nd, and also meeting up with my 02:11:14.460 --> 02:11:19.540godson and his mother and his brother to give the presents. 02:11:19.540 --> 02:11:22.580So that'll be good if those two happen. 02:11:22.580 --> 02:11:24.060I'm looking forward to those. 02:11:24.060 --> 02:11:29.180Yeah, I've had lots of eBay's, it's weird, all the high ticket items. 02:11:29.180 --> 02:11:30.940Pretty much all of them are sold now. 02:11:30.940 --> 02:11:31.940They haven't been in trouble. 02:11:31.940 --> 02:11:36.060What's been trouble is the little five quid, couple of quid ones. 02:11:36.060 --> 02:11:37.460And they've been no end of trouble. 02:11:37.460 --> 02:11:42.060I had one today where the postage, I put it in his large letter and obviously the Royal 02:11:42.060 --> 02:11:44.660Mail disagreed and tried to surcharge this person. 02:11:44.660 --> 02:11:47.700And it's so much faffed in here with refunds and things. 02:11:47.700 --> 02:11:49.620And it's all over a couple of quid. 02:11:49.620 --> 02:11:52.620It's like, what? 02:11:52.620 --> 02:11:57.260I understand, but especially when the two I sent to the wrong, I switched the labels. 02:11:57.260 --> 02:12:02.420And then one went to my old address up in North West London. 02:12:02.420 --> 02:12:07.020If you remember when I used to live there, I need to now go there at some point and probably 02:12:07.020 --> 02:12:09.260will do so on the days I'm in London. 02:12:09.260 --> 02:12:15.660To pick it up, the woman that works at landlord is usually helpful as she was back then, which 02:12:15.660 --> 02:12:16.900is not at all. 02:12:16.900 --> 02:12:20.180And reminded why I was kind of relieved leaving that place. 02:12:20.180 --> 02:12:23.820Although I didn't want to leave, but that was one of the upsides, not having to deal 02:12:23.820 --> 02:12:24.820with her. 02:12:24.820 --> 02:12:25.820And just like, errr. 02:12:25.820 --> 02:12:32.260So yeah, lots of faffy things, but I think I've mostly got it all sorted currently. 02:12:32.260 --> 02:12:35.900So I hope you're all having a good run up to Christmas and a good Christmas depending 02:12:35.900 --> 02:12:38.660on when you listen to this or a good new year if it's then. 02:12:38.660 --> 02:12:42.540I'm playing out with a mashup of mine and this is new. 02:12:42.540 --> 02:12:45.540This is posted as of anywhere a week ago. 02:12:45.540 --> 02:12:48.460This is my Christmas mashup for this year. 02:12:48.460 --> 02:12:52.540And Fast Car is having a moment because the Luke Combs cover, but it's one of my 02:12:52.540 --> 02:12:54.460favourite songs of all time. 02:12:54.460 --> 02:12:56.420But it's also incredibly sad. 02:12:56.420 --> 02:13:01.620There's a challenge on the Crumplbanger Discord of happy songs versus sad songs. 02:13:01.620 --> 02:13:02.620You had to kind of contrast them. 02:13:02.620 --> 02:13:06.740And literally I made this about an hour or two after that deadline closed. 02:13:06.740 --> 02:13:09.300So it was obviously on my mind. 02:13:09.300 --> 02:13:15.660So this is a Tracy Chapman's Fast Car versus Chris Rea's Driving Home for Christmas. 02:13:15.660 --> 02:13:17.460Driving A Fast Car Home For Christmas. 02:13:17.460 --> 02:13:18.740And people seem to like this one. 02:13:18.740 --> 02:13:21.180And when I came with the con bar, I was like, I have to do this. 02:13:21.180 --> 02:13:22.180I have to do this. 02:13:22.180 --> 02:13:25.780This is just, it just works. 02:13:25.780 --> 02:13:27.740And it has the nostalgia factor as well. 02:13:27.740 --> 02:13:30.180And I didn't realise both eighties as well. 02:13:30.180 --> 02:13:31.180Close in date. 02:13:31.180 --> 02:13:33.860There's a genre clash sort of. 02:13:33.860 --> 02:13:36.420Not a age clash either. 02:13:36.420 --> 02:13:38.660So anyway, I'll speak to you soon.

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