OB1
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Blue Moon Playlist Review Club - Season 2 - Episode 27 - Out on blue 6 - Gone Too Soon (pg 438)
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Yes, that is definitely the point.
Saddleworth2
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Jeez. I get Frosty the bloody Snowman and other assorted bilge whilst we put the tree up. It’s Tradition.Great playlist OB1. The best so far.
It is certainly coming from a music genre I grew up with but haven’t played a lot of in recent times.
So much of it is outdated, but none of these.
It certainly plays like a Zeppelin tribute EP, but there’s nothing wrong with that.
Gary and Joe for me are definitely the standouts, but I liked them all.
Never played Diamond Head before but really like the guys voice.
Same with Lone Star and Detective. New to me.
No skip over tunes here though.
Played them all on a loop while I put the Christmas tree up. I normally play something more chilled when I’m doing that but this was ideal. A bit of energy. Perfect for motivation.
Well done.
mancity2012_eamo
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I put it up and get the lights on it while she’s out. I play the stuff I like.Jeez. I get Frosty the bloody Snowman and other assorted bilge whilst we put the tree up. It’s Tradition.
She decorates it later.
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I’ve been mulling over this, going back-and-forth whether to do a Christmas playlist or not. I didn’t want to waste my go doing a playlist of Slade and Mariah Carey (as if!), but I decided that I couldn’t really not with it being the last playlist before Christmas. Plus I’m sure there’ll be an opportunity to get another go in the future.
Timothy J. Fairplay ‘Sleighride / Bilzzard (Andrew Weatherall Remix)’
(2012)
I first heard this at a Noel Gallagher gig at Christmas when the DJ played a few songs before Noel came on stage. Shazam was the saviour here as I’d never heard it before or anywhere since. A remix by the late, great Andrew Weatherall of electronic DJ, Timothy J. Fairplay’s ‘Sleighride / Blizzard’. A funky sleighbell toe-tapper.
Fairplay has loads of interesting instrumental tracks to his name, worth looking up. Weatherall is a legend! I went to see him at the Warehouse Project around five years ago and he tore the smaller room a new one. Glad I did n’all because he died in 2020.
The Coral ‘Walking in the Winter’
(2010)
One of my favourite bands who are still kicking out top albums as a band (Coral Island, 2021), as side projects (Serpent Power) and as solo artists (Bill Ryder-Jones, Paul Molloy and Ian Skelly). They’ve even got their own label, Skeleton Key Records, which has some decent lesser known bands on there (The Fernweh, Cut Glass Kings).
‘Walking in the Winter’ has a nice folk feel to it. Reminds me of a girl I knew from round my way who I gave a letter to when I left for uni. Years later she’s married with a kid but we got back in touch for a short time recently and she told me she still has that letter in her parents’ loft that she reads from time-to-time. Nice to know and, despite the fact we’ll never be together, that’ll do for me!
Tammar ‘Frost Meter’
(2011)
Granted, this isn’t very Christmassy (there is a feint sleighbell in the background), but just good to get a cold-weather themed song in by a band that should have become so much more than they were. This London outfit came out with one album (Visits) in 2011 and were never seen again. The whole album is worth a listen; a post-punk/Krautrock belter!
The Bees ‘Lying in the Snow’
(2001)
My all-time favourite band! ‘Lying in the Snow’ is the one non-Summery track from their 2001 debut album Sunshine Hit Me, it’s also arguably the best track on that album (which was recorded in a garden shed). When the horns come in: eyes shut and hairs stand on-end level good. What a song, what a band!
Vince Guaraldi Trio ‘Christmas Time is Here (Vocal Version)’
(1965)
Charlie Brown’s Christmas was on tele every Christmas from what I can remember being a kid in the ’80s. It came out nearly two decades before my time n’all so I’d imagine it was part of the childhood of most people. I don’t think there’s another song that makes me feel as childlike-nostalgic about Christmas as this.
Timothy J. Fairplay ‘Sleighride / Bilzzard (Andrew Weatherall Remix)’
(2012)
I first heard this at a Noel Gallagher gig at Christmas when the DJ played a few songs before Noel came on stage. Shazam was the saviour here as I’d never heard it before or anywhere since. A remix by the late, great Andrew Weatherall of electronic DJ, Timothy J. Fairplay’s ‘Sleighride / Blizzard’. A funky sleighbell toe-tapper.
Fairplay has loads of interesting instrumental tracks to his name, worth looking up. Weatherall is a legend! I went to see him at the Warehouse Project around five years ago and he tore the smaller room a new one. Glad I did n’all because he died in 2020.
The Coral ‘Walking in the Winter’
(2010)
One of my favourite bands who are still kicking out top albums as a band (Coral Island, 2021), as side projects (Serpent Power) and as solo artists (Bill Ryder-Jones, Paul Molloy and Ian Skelly). They’ve even got their own label, Skeleton Key Records, which has some decent lesser known bands on there (The Fernweh, Cut Glass Kings).
‘Walking in the Winter’ has a nice folk feel to it. Reminds me of a girl I knew from round my way who I gave a letter to when I left for uni. Years later she’s married with a kid but we got back in touch for a short time recently and she told me she still has that letter in her parents’ loft that she reads from time-to-time. Nice to know and, despite the fact we’ll never be together, that’ll do for me!
Tammar ‘Frost Meter’
(2011)
Granted, this isn’t very Christmassy (there is a feint sleighbell in the background), but just good to get a cold-weather themed song in by a band that should have become so much more than they were. This London outfit came out with one album (Visits) in 2011 and were never seen again. The whole album is worth a listen; a post-punk/Krautrock belter!
The Bees ‘Lying in the Snow’
(2001)
My all-time favourite band! ‘Lying in the Snow’ is the one non-Summery track from their 2001 debut album Sunshine Hit Me, it’s also arguably the best track on that album (which was recorded in a garden shed). When the horns come in: eyes shut and hairs stand on-end level good. What a song, what a band!
Vince Guaraldi Trio ‘Christmas Time is Here (Vocal Version)’
(1965)
Charlie Brown’s Christmas was on tele every Christmas from what I can remember being a kid in the ’80s. It came out nearly two decades before my time n’all so I’d imagine it was part of the childhood of most people. I don’t think there’s another song that makes me feel as childlike-nostalgic about Christmas as this.
RobMCFC
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I’ve put the above songs in a Spotify playlist.
mancity2012_eamo
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First listen with a cuppa this morning.
All very pleasant and inoffensive.
But truthfully I feel you are holding back here PC.
In fact you are being very PC for Christmas.
First track does nothing for me at all. Second two are pleasant.
The Bees is the standout. You’ve put that up before on the ABC music thread I did at the start of lockdown and I subsequently put it up on a ‘best of that thread’ playlist I was putting together, which I play a lot. ( I only got up to G I think, but really chilled list)
This list is chilled too. Easy listening. I do feel you’re holding back though.
All very pleasant and inoffensive.
But truthfully I feel you are holding back here PC.
In fact you are being very PC for Christmas.
First track does nothing for me at all. Second two are pleasant.
The Bees is the standout. You’ve put that up before on the ABC music thread I did at the start of lockdown and I subsequently put it up on a ‘best of that thread’ playlist I was putting together, which I play a lot. ( I only got up to G I think, but really chilled list)
This list is chilled too. Easy listening. I do feel you’re holding back though.
I’ve been mulling over this, going back-and-forth whether to do a Christmas playlist or not. I didn’t want to waste my go doing a playlist of Slade and Mariah Carey (as if!), but I decided that I couldn’t really not with it being the last playlist before Christmas. Plus I’m sure there’ll be an opportunity to get another go in the future.
I'm so glad you did. Not that I am a fan of Christmas songs, but given the timing, as you say, bit of an open goal.
And also as I had the same thoughts myself, when my turn comes. Had completely different songs in mind to put forward, till I knew which week it was. Felt I had to take the timing and context into account.
Mancitydoogle
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Thanks PC this playlist is definitely one I can play that the wife will like,
she loves her Christmas song.I’ve only heard the Vince Guaraldi one before.
she loves her Christmas song.I’ve only heard the Vince Guaraldi one before.
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You’ve probably described it spot on, there; I have held back.First listen with a cuppa this morning.
All very pleasant and inoffensive.
But truthfully I feel you are holding back here PC.
In fact you are being very PC for Christmas.
First track does nothing for me at all. Second two are pleasant.
The Bees is the standout. You’ve put that up before on the ABC music thread I did at the start of lockdown and I subsequently put it up on a ‘best of that thread’ playlist I was putting together, which I play a lot. ( I only got up to G I think, but really chilled list)
This list is chilled too. Easy listening. I do feel you’re holding back though.
My first love is house+techno but I didn’t think a playlist of that would go down all that well, so if I was just going to go for some bands I thought I couldn’t not do a Christmas one.