Re: Flex's 25 Days of Christmas (Songs)
Posted: 14 Dec 2016, 2:54pm
More great picks everyone (can never go wrong with Paranoid Visions Christmas music, had never heard the Iggy White Christmas, and good lord that Go Go's cut...)
I missed yesterday due a busy schedule which culminated in seeing the Brian Setzer Orchestra do their Christmas concert, which was fabulous. So, here's a makeup song plus today's:
Day 13: Brian Setzer Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
Original Release: Boogie Woogie Christmas
Year: 2002
Been listening to this danged Christmas album since High School, apparently. Brian Setzer has basically created his own Christmas-Industrial Complex with three Christmas studio albums, a live album, a greatest hits, and a live DVD. They're all varying degrees of good, but his best is still probably this first foray and this cut is a favorite. He did an insanely good version last night, with incredible instrumental work added in. Great showmanship and skill. Plus, tons of fun.
Day 14: John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Original Release: Happy Xmas (War is Over) b/w Listen, the Snow is Falling
Year: 1971
We did Paul last year, so how about Lennon's Christmas song this year? I still remember getting chastised in 2001 for playing this song at the sandwich shop where I worked, as some patron didn't find anti-war sentiment appropriate in the wake of our 9/11 bloodlust. Fuck 'em.
I missed yesterday due a busy schedule which culminated in seeing the Brian Setzer Orchestra do their Christmas concert, which was fabulous. So, here's a makeup song plus today's:
Day 13: Brian Setzer Orchestra - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
Original Release: Boogie Woogie Christmas
Year: 2002
Been listening to this danged Christmas album since High School, apparently. Brian Setzer has basically created his own Christmas-Industrial Complex with three Christmas studio albums, a live album, a greatest hits, and a live DVD. They're all varying degrees of good, but his best is still probably this first foray and this cut is a favorite. He did an insanely good version last night, with incredible instrumental work added in. Great showmanship and skill. Plus, tons of fun.
Day 14: John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Original Release: Happy Xmas (War is Over) b/w Listen, the Snow is Falling
Year: 1971
We did Paul last year, so how about Lennon's Christmas song this year? I still remember getting chastised in 2001 for playing this song at the sandwich shop where I worked, as some patron didn't find anti-war sentiment appropriate in the wake of our 9/11 bloodlust. Fuck 'em.
