Friday Music Day

FMD: Christmas Eve Eve, 2011

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Next Friday is the 30th of December. The penultimate day of 2011. That's late enough for my "Best of 2011" list. Maybe you'll want to share yours that day, too. If so, start thinking about it... now. Or, y'know, after Christmas.

19 thoughts on “FMD: Christmas Eve Eve, 2011”

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    1.“A Song and a Christmas Tree” – Andy Williams, The Andy Williams Christmas Album
    2.“It Came upon a Midnight Clear” – The Salvation Army Brass, Christmas in Brass 2009
    3.“Comfort and Joy (Thomas)” – The Salvation Army Brass, Christmas in Brass 2008
    4.“Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” – Mannheim Steamroller, A Fresh Aire Christmas
    5.“Break Forth, O Beauteous Heav’nly Light” – Glad, An Acapella Christmas
    6.“Jingle Bells” – BĂ©la Fleck & the Flecktones, Jingle All the Way
    7.“The First Noel” – Tom Stacy, The nu-view Christmas
    8.“Holly and the Ivy” – Jon Anderson, 3 Ships
    9.“Variations on the Kanon by Johann Pachelbel” – George Winston, December
    10.“Angels We Have Heard on High” – London Philharmonic Orchestra, Chex Holiday Classics

  4. '1901' - Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
    'Mixed Emotions' - Rolling Stones Jump Back...
    'Tonight She Comes' - The Cars Complete Greatest Hits
    'Dance Naked' - John Mellencamp Words and Music
    'Uncle Johns Band' - Grateful Dead The Very Best of The Grateful Dead

    'The Hardest Button To Button' - The White Stripes Elephant
    'Street Choir' - Van Morrison His Band and Street Choir
    'Effigy' - Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy and the Poor Boys
    'The Middle' - Jimmy Eat World Bleed American
    'Private Eyes' - Hall and Oates Ultimate Hall and Oates

    here is Mumford & Sons with Ray Davies singing a couple of old Kinks tunes 'Days' and then into one of my favorites 'This Time Tomorrow'
    httpv://youtu.be/CJOliU6z4cQ

  5. 1. $100 Groom -- Paul Westerberg
    2. Boy with a Problem -- Elvis Costello
    3. Phantom Train -- Charlie Pickett
    4. Hunting Bears -- Radiohead
    5. Meltodwon -- Slobberbone
    6. Sweetside -- Lucinda Williams
    7. Videotape -- Radiohead
    8. You Can't Be Too Strong -- Graham Parker
    9. Release -- Aztec
    10. All Around the World -- The Jam

    Bonus: Color of Her Eyes -- Gear Daddies

    As a Christmas present to everyone here is a video of Wilco and Nick Lowe playing Cruel to be Kind from their recent tour together.

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF95jZq6otU

    CRAP, why can't I do vids? Here is the link:

      1. The thing is I am pretty sure I am doing that.

        Anyway I know, I love that clip. It was practically the highlight for me when I saw Wilco a couple of weeks ago. I talked to a friend from church who also went and the first thing we said to each other was that we were blown away by Nick Lowe and Wilco playing Cruel to Be Kind.

        1. Fixed your post. you just put the url like you have on the bottom, with the v right before the semicolon. Don't use the img tag.

  6. The Next Time You Say Forever - Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
    We're Just Friends - Wilco - Summerteeth
    Zurich is Stained - Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
    For Tonight You're Only Here to Know - The Distillers - Coral Fang
    I Don't Hurt Anymore - Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave

    Perfect Disguise - Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
    Ride Me Down Easy - Billy Joe Shaver - Restless Wind
    Ode to LRC - Bando Of Horses - Cease to Begin
    Brand New Cadillac - The Clash - London Calling
    Hesitating Beauty - Billy Bragg and Wilco - Mermaid Ave

    Sanguine - The Avett Brothers - The Gleam EP

    I have now listened to every single track on my iPod on this trip to Ireland. 2.4 days of time have elapsed over 968 individual songs, and now the odometer has turned over to start again.

    1. No skipping? No playing exactly what you wanted at a given moment?

      Also, I have 63 days of music in my iTunes. Some of that is my wife's.

      1. I hit shuffle the other day (like a week ago... give or take) and the tracks rolled from there. I'm assuming that the iPod doesn't repeat on shuffle until everything has been played. I may be wrong on that front, but according to my play count everything has at least one. I didn't skip anything as an experiment in giving chance a chance.

        2. Cool. My Nano doesn't repeat on shuffle.
          I once did that, alphabetizing by song title, so I could drop it and pick it up as needed.

  7. Of those 63 days, here's the first ten that come up randomly:
    1. The Weeknd "Wicked Games (screwed)" House Of Ballons (Screwed)
    2. Seefeel "Crowded" Faults
    3. Cypress Hill "Rap Superstar (Alchemist Remix)" Stash
    4. Colin Stetson "The Righteous Wrath Of An Honorable Man" New History Warfare Vol.2: Judges
    5. Current 93 "Whilst The Night Rejoices Profound And Still" Birdsong In The Empire
    6. Eleanor Friedberger "My Mistakes" Last Summer
    7. Linfinity "Magdalena" Live At Marcata: Demos
    8. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss "Polly Come Home" Raising Sand
    9. Antony & the Johnsons "Virgin Mary"* C93 Split 7", PanDurtro 008
    T. Plastikman "Afrika" Arkives 1992-2010, Disc 15: Extrakts
    E. Jess Mills "Vultures (Photek's Dub Remix)"* Vultures EP

    Notes:
    9. Nice job, iTunes! Sacrilegious Christmas song two days before Christmas.
    E. This is a remix that Photek could have deserved a 2011 Grammy nom for (vs. his Daft Punk remix), although the track that I was really thinking of was his original song "Sleepwalking" (which has vocals from Linche, which is why I thought it was a remix). Oh well, still better he gets a nomination than another cookie-cutter remixer like David Guetta, Carl Cox, Thunderpuss, or Club 69.

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