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A sight for sore ears. Power pop, freakbeat, and psychedelic songs for all six senses.
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Format | Comments | New | Approx. start time | ||
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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra |
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
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VA: The #1 Baroque Album | Universal Music Group | 2001 | CD box set | 1990. Cover version of one of Bach's biggest hits. | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |||
Bellrays |
All I Want To Do Is Shag For Christmas
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Merry Christmas from the Bellrays | Cheap Lullaby | 2006 | CD | 0:02:57 (Pop-up) | ||||
Bob Seger and the Last Heard |
Sock It To Me Santa
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Cameo | 1966 | 7" | 0:05:32 (Pop-up) | |||||
Bibi Farber with the Michael Lynch Orchestra |
Gonna Ask Santa Claus
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2008 | CD-R | 0:07:35 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Fleshtones |
Super Rock Santa
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Stocking Stuffer | Yep Roc | 2008 | CD | 0:11:20 (Pop-up) | ||||
Sloppy Seconds |
Hooray for Santa Claus
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Lonely Christmas | Taang! | 1992 | CD | 0:13:15 (Pop-up) | ||||
Cheap Trick |
Come On Christmas
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Gift | Not Cool | 1995 | CD | 0:15:23 (Pop-up) | ||||
Kurt Baker |
Christmas in the Sand
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VA: This Christmas Time 2 | Power Pop Academy | 2012 | CD | * | 0:17:27 (Pop-up) | |||
Larry Norman |
Christmas Time
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VA: Sugarplums | Gentleman Joe | 2010 | CD-R | 1973. From WFMU's Gentleman Joe McGasko's 2010 Xmas comp -- he turned me on to this awesome track | 0:21:12 (Pop-up) | |||
Chesterfield Kings |
Hey, Santa Claus
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VA: Little Steven's Underground Garage Presents Christmas A Go Go | Wicked Cool | 2008 | CD | 0:24:58 (Pop-up) | ||||
James Brown |
Go Power at Christmas Time
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James Brown's Funky Christmas | Chronicles | 1995 | CD | 1970 | 0:27:14 (Pop-up) | |||
Rockfield Chorus |
Jingle, Jangle
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VA: Destination Bomp! | Bomp! | 1994 | CD box set | 1975 | 0:40:00 (Pop-up) | |||
Zumpano |
Mods of Christmas Town
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VA: Dawn of a New Era | Ptolemaic Terrascope | 1997? | CD | CD given out with issue 25 of the "Ptolemaic Terrascope" mag | 0:42:47 (Pop-up) | |||
Chris Stamey Group |
Christmas Time
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Christmas Time | Coyote | 1985 | LP | 0:45:23 (Pop-up) | ||||
Mockers |
(There’s No War On Christmas) When Christmas Is In Your Heart
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2012 | MP3 |
Another track I snagged from a YouTube vid -- Did these dudes officially release this one? Actually, buy it from iTunes right HERE |
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Jerry and the Landslides |
Get Off of My Roof
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VA: You Gotta Have... Moxie, Volume 2 | AIP | 1999 | CD box set | 1966 | 0:52:19 (Pop-up) | |||
Kinks |
All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
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MP3 | Live on the "Ready Steady Go" UK TV show, December 1965 | 0:54:58 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Sonics |
Don't Believe In Christmas
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Norton | 1997 | 7" | 1965 | 0:56:42 (Pop-up) | ||||
Wolf Pack |
We're Gonna Howl
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OST: The Dangerous Christmas of Red Riding Hood | ABC-Paramount | 1965 | LP | This is the Animals! This is from a 1965 ABC TV musical comedy show. | 0:58:34 (Pop-up) | |||
Youngsters |
Christmas In Jail
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VA: Bummed Out Christmas | Rhino | 1989 | CD | 1956 | 1:00:20 (Pop-up) | |||
Chuck Berry |
Run Rudolf Run
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VA: Rhythm & Blues Christmas | United Artists | 1976 | LP | 1958 | 1:02:32 (Pop-up) | |||
Wildebeests |
Rudolph's Ruin
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Norton | 2000 | 7" | 1:04:56 (Pop-up) | |||||
Clarence Carter |
Back Door Santa
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VA: Cool Yule | Rhino | 1986 | LP | 1968 | 1:07:07 (Pop-up) | |||
Procol Harum |
Shine On Brightly
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Shine On Brightly | A&M | 1968 | LP | 1:18:38 (Pop-up) | ||||
Twice As Much and Vashti |
The Coldest Night of the Year
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Sittin' On A Fence: The Immediate Anthology | Sequel | 1999 | CD | 1968 | 1:22:06 (Pop-up) | |||
Majority |
All Our Christmases
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The Decca Years 1965-68 | Rev-Ola | 2009 | CD | 1968. Written by the Gibb brothers | 1:25:27 (Pop-up) | |||
Oscar |
Holiday
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VA: Maybe Someone is Digging Underground - Songs of the Bee Gees | Sanctuary | 2004 | CD | 1968. Written by the Gibb bros. | 1:27:58 (Pop-up) | |||
Who |
Christmas
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Tommy | Decca | 1969 | LP | 1:31:30 (Pop-up) | ||||
Monkees |
Riu Chiu
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Missing Links, Vol 2 | Rhino | 1990 | CD |
1967. |
1:35:58 (Pop-up) | |||
Marvin Gaye |
Purple Snowflakes
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VA: A Christmas Present From Motown, Volume 1 | Motown | 2001 | CD | 1964 | 1:37:28 (Pop-up) | |||
Beatles |
Christmas Time is Here Again
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Free As a Bird | Apple | 1995 | CD | 1967. 4-song maxisingle | 1:40:13 (Pop-up) | |||
Big Star |
Jesus Christ
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VA: WFMU's War on Christmas | WFMU | 2012 | CD-R | alternate mix of 1975 track | * | 1:43:12 (Pop-up) | ||
Velvet Underground |
Jesus
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Peel Slowly and See | Polydor | 1995 | Boxed set | "closet mix" of 1969's "The Velvet Underground" LP | 1:45:46 (Pop-up) | |||
Rolling Stones |
Cosmic Christmas
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Their Satanic Majesties Request | London | 1967 | LP | Hidden track at the end of Side 1 of this LP | 1:48:52 (Pop-up) | |||
Velvet Haze |
Last Day on Earth
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VA: Aliens Psychos & Wild Things #3 | Arcania International | 2003 | CD | 1968 | 2:03:51 (Pop-up) | |||
Creatures of the Golden Dawn |
It Feels Like the End of the World
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1000 Shadows | Dionysus | 1994 | CD | 2:06:24 (Pop-up) | ||||
Lancastrians |
The World Keeps Going Round
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VA: Doin' the Mod, Vol. 4 - Ready Steady Stop! | Castle | 2002 | CD | 1966. Cover of a Kinks' track written by Ray Davies featuring Jimmy Page on guitar. | 2:09:02 (Pop-up) | |||
Mirage |
The World Goes On Around You
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You Can't Be Serious | MR1 | 2000 | CD | 1968 | 2:11:26 (Pop-up) | |||
Twilights |
Stop The World For A Day
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Once Upon a Twilight | Aztec | 2006 | CD | 1968 | 2:13:36 (Pop-up) | |||
La-De-Da's |
On Top of the World
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How Is The Air Up There? 1966-1967 | Ascension | 2000 | CD | 1966 | 2:17:02 (Pop-up) | |||
Shocking Blue |
Send Me a Postcard
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VA: We Can Fly, Vol. 3 | Past and Present | 2003 | CD | 1968 | 2:19:24 (Pop-up) | |||
Above |
Imprisoned
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Boppa Do Down | 2013 | 7" | This single is coming soon in 2013 | * | 2:21:50 (Pop-up) | |||
Vipers |
Christmas I'll Be Home
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VA: Oh! No! Not Another... Midnight Christmas Mess Again!! | Midnight | 1986 | LP | 2:33:37 (Pop-up) | ||||
Johnny Cash |
The Little Drummer Boy
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The Christmas Spirit | Columbia | 1963 | LP | 2:36:39 (Pop-up) | ||||
Ivy League |
Good King Wenceslas
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VA: Sequel's Sixties Christmas | Sequel | 1998 | CD | 1965 | 2:39:09 (Pop-up) | |||
Buck Owens and His Buckaroos |
Christmas Shopping
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Christmas Shopping | Sundazed | 1999 | CD | 1968 | 2:41:10 (Pop-up) | |||
Bee Gees |
All My Christmases Came At Once
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Horizontal | Reprise | 2006 | CD box set | Bonus track on CD reissue of this 1968 LP | 2:43:25 (Pop-up) | |||
Michael Lynch |
Christmas Bells
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Warped Xmas 2012 | Michael Lynch | 2012 | CD-R | taking its cue from the Yardbirds' "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" | * | 2:46:18 (Pop-up) | ||
Blind Faith |
Presence of the Lord
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Blind Faith | ATCO | 1969 | LP | 2:48:59 (Pop-up) | ||||
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I will be driving up to Denton, TX [the city of my birth] tomorrow to see my grandparents. Will probably spend the night with my parents tomorrow. I hope nobody gets stabbed.
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Foghat from youtoobs
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To make you feel better
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Before I forget, thank you, Mike, for filling in for Therese. It's always a pleasure to hear you on my interwebs.
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Merry Christmas to all of you! I hope you have a pleasant day regardless of who you do or do not spend it with.
Until next time...
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Wow it is getting late. Merry Christmas one and all.
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