Notes for 12.20.05
Ho Ho Howdy!
Again, apologies for the late post.
This was my Christmas show. I intentionally only played Christmas music, and no music for any of the other holidays, because the only other timely song I have is Adam Sandler's The Chanukah Song, and I know Utopia hates that song. So I dug through my vast music library and found that I had over 5 hours of Christmas Music. I figured that's too long for a single show, so I cut it down to 1.5 hours of music. You can view the entire play list here. I pulled most of the songs from three albums, Maybe This Christmas Tree, Just Say Noel, and Hi-Fidelity Holiday. The rest were just songs I felt like playing.
The first album to have a song played was Hi-Fidelity Holiday. I picked it up for $3.00 from Half Price Books. It's a compilation CD with a wide variety of artists, spanning quite a few genres. There are 15 songs, I played 8 of them. The disc was exclusively distributed by Starbucks back in 1998. That's the thing about holiday music: it's timeless. I can play this CD in another 7 years, and the music will be just as good.
The next album to have songs featured from it was Just Say Noel, Sire's Christmas sampler from 1996. Like Hi-Fidelity Holiday, it has mulitple genres covered by the 12 artists. I played 5 of them. Actually, Thanks For Christmas, by XTC, was from this album, but it also appeared on Hi-Fidelity Holiday, only XTC went by The Three Wise Men.
The last album I used was Nettwerk's 2004 Christmas compilation Maybe This Christmas Tree. Again, 12 songs on the disc, I used 7. The artists are listed by allmusic.com as "...indie rock and pop/rock favorites...." Death Cab for Cutie is on it, and they're doing really well, popularity-wise. The Polyphonic Spree also has a track on it. They're originally from Dallas (mostly). My wife really got into them last year, and we went to their annual Christmas concert in 2004. We missed it this year due to a variety of reasons.
I've uploaded my entire Christmas music library to the Mango Radio server so that Mango and Will Thrasher can use it for The MangoRadio Holiday Party. Since compiling and airing my show, I've added some more Christmas tunes to my library, including Christmas In The Stars (the Star Wars Christmas Album). It's bad. Seriously bad. I hope they play it.
Again, apologies for the late post.
This was my Christmas show. I intentionally only played Christmas music, and no music for any of the other holidays, because the only other timely song I have is Adam Sandler's The Chanukah Song, and I know Utopia hates that song. So I dug through my vast music library and found that I had over 5 hours of Christmas Music. I figured that's too long for a single show, so I cut it down to 1.5 hours of music. You can view the entire play list here. I pulled most of the songs from three albums, Maybe This Christmas Tree, Just Say Noel, and Hi-Fidelity Holiday. The rest were just songs I felt like playing.
The first album to have a song played was Hi-Fidelity Holiday. I picked it up for $3.00 from Half Price Books. It's a compilation CD with a wide variety of artists, spanning quite a few genres. There are 15 songs, I played 8 of them. The disc was exclusively distributed by Starbucks back in 1998. That's the thing about holiday music: it's timeless. I can play this CD in another 7 years, and the music will be just as good. The next album to have songs featured from it was Just Say Noel, Sire's Christmas sampler from 1996. Like Hi-Fidelity Holiday, it has mulitple genres covered by the 12 artists. I played 5 of them. Actually, Thanks For Christmas, by XTC, was from this album, but it also appeared on Hi-Fidelity Holiday, only XTC went by The Three Wise Men. The last album I used was Nettwerk's 2004 Christmas compilation Maybe This Christmas Tree. Again, 12 songs on the disc, I used 7. The artists are listed by allmusic.com as "...indie rock and pop/rock favorites...." Death Cab for Cutie is on it, and they're doing really well, popularity-wise. The Polyphonic Spree also has a track on it. They're originally from Dallas (mostly). My wife really got into them last year, and we went to their annual Christmas concert in 2004. We missed it this year due to a variety of reasons. I've uploaded my entire Christmas music library to the Mango Radio server so that Mango and Will Thrasher can use it for The MangoRadio Holiday Party. Since compiling and airing my show, I've added some more Christmas tunes to my library, including Christmas In The Stars (the Star Wars Christmas Album). It's bad. Seriously bad. I hope they play it.
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