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Dear YorkeDaddy

Thank you for the gift of “Modal soul” by Nujabes. It started off well but by the third track in I was stultifyingly bored. I bloody hate jazz and this just left me totally cold. I'm sorry to say I stopped listening as it did not appeal to me in the slightest. I don't see the beauty you seem to see, sorry. For me it was not quite torture, but not far from it.

Thanks anyway. Have a great Christmas.
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Pet_Sounds

I'd like to see it, if only for ideas when I need something to listen to.

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Yeah, I'll need to see it. Whenever you have the time. Thanks.

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Urban Hat€monger ?

I hadn't realised you'd listened to Gram Parsons & Kevin Ayers, you did it when I wasn't around.
Glad you liked both of them, great write up of Grievous Angel. I'd highly recommend you listen to The Flying Burrito Brothers album The Gilded Palace Of Sin. It's a bit more rock and a little less country.
I would have thought Soft Machine would be a bit too jazz influenced for your tastes and Kevin Ayers only played on their first album. I'd be interested to see what your take is on some of Robert Wyatt's stuff. You should give Rock Bottom a spin and see what you think of that.

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YorkeDaddy

I actually thought the third track was when you'd start to like it ;_;

You really hated this one?



Talk about a strikeout :P But yeah the album changes a lot, track 2 is very jazzy but that's one of the few that are notably like that. I knew it was a shot in the dark though, I just decided to take the chance because I don't think you'd try an album like that in any other context

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Dear Mordwyr
Thanks for the gift of Kishi Bashi's “Lightight”. At first I really didn't like it, although I loved the opening track. But I ended up having to listen to something else (Nickelback, I'm sure you understand the importance of a new album from The Chad!) and stopped halfway. I went back to it today and, well, I must say I really liked it second, or first-and-a-halfth time around. It's very poppy, kind of gave me a boyband feeling, but the violin really adds something, and I realised I knew one of the songs. Yes, I have to say I'm impressed and I really like this now.

Have a Happy Christmas!
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Hey! Where'd you get such a WEIRD Christmas song?

Yeah, there are some odd ones out there, to be sure, and over the last month or so I asked for your oddest, strangest, most disturbing and downright weird Christmas songs. Now I'm going to talk about them, in

Note: Anything that was suggested but which I don't think is weird or different enough is not getting included, but there's no need for the blown gasket, Charlie, it just didn't fit in, okay?

I was originally going to rank them, but fuck me, they're all pretty off-the-wall, and who is to say which is weirder? So instead I'm just going to list them in the order they were suggested. Which means we kick off with this:


Seasoned greetings (The Residents) from the debut album “Meet The Residents”, 1974

A weird little instrumental which sounds like they either listened to a lot of Waits, or he to them. Strange instruments with a thick bass backing track and something that sounds like fingers being scraped across a blackboard, psychedelic little noises, sax and horn, but no vocals which makes this really only a Christmas song in name. Oh wait, there they are, right at the end. Meh. Still a bit of a disappointment really. On we go.



Santa Claus has got the AIDS this year (Tiny Tim) 1980

Anyone who knows of Tiny Tim will remember him for the ukulele-accompanied hit “Tiptoe through the tulips”, but that was in 1968, and this was written twelve years later, as the AIDS epidemic began to make itself known and spread across the world. Sources indicate that Tim did not know how serious the disease was, and of course he had no idea how many lives it would claim, so you can perhaps forgive him for his making a joke (and a buck or two) out of it, but even so it does seem incredibly ill-timed and insensitive, given what we know now. Of course, it's easy to be judgemental with hindsight. Fun, too.

The fact that he uses the word “the” in front of AIDS, rather than the single acronym as was very quickly adopted as the disease took a deathgrip on the world is an indication of how little he knew about this curse on mankind. I have to say though, it's not really funny. It's not even a good song. Perhaps in 1980 you could laugh, but here and now it just seems crass in the extreme. Definitely a case of an old washed-up has-been trying to cash in on human misery to make a few dollars. Bah! Humbug! Next!



Fuck Christmas (Tankard) from the album “The Tankard”, 1995

Yeah, this is more like it: a straight-ahead, metal extended finger to the holiday season. Noddy Holder, eat your heart out! Love the line ”Christmas time is here again/ Time to give your cash to them!” Right on guys! The end line is great too: “He was fucking born in August anyway!”

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Dear Chrysalis,
Thanks for the gift of “I can hear the heart beating as one” by Yo La Tengo. I had never heard them before, beyond a lovely cover version WWWP did, but I must say I was very impressed. I don't think there was any song I didn't like, and I loved quite a lot of them. Think I'll be checking into them more in the future. Quite a surprise, and a pleasant one at that.

Thanks again and Happy Xmas!
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Josef K

YLT are great and they have a lot of really good albums. Glad you liked that one!

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Dear bob
Thank you for the gift of “Dream dances in the land of the known unknown” by Skull Defekts. It sounds as weird as the name does! But a good kind of weird. I don't recall any specific tracks per se but I also don't remember hating anything; if I had to use a single word to describe the music I guess it would be “hypnotic”. Very interesting and quite stimulating. Good pick.
Have a great Christmas!
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