WFMU: Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from December 22, 2022

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from December 22, 2022

Description: Exuberance/Ebullience, banter, possibly an interview, context and connection, the familiar, the strange.

Find: Symphonies of Treble, Words Of Expectation, stab, skronk, shimmer, sheen, The New Sound of Now, Ideas for Walls, pleasure, pith, Flutter and Wow, Motorik, cowbells, disco akimbo, at least one Cantankerous Singer, The German Language, shards of glass, Ethiopian Punk, organic, synthetic, sawtooths & squarewaves, Library Riffage, yesterday's recipes, the wrong speed, intentional static, floating, ethereal, time and timelessness.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Specials	Life and Times of a Man called Depression	Encore	Universal Music Operations Limited	2019	R.I.P. Terry Hall, (19 March 1959 – 19 December 2022) "Life and Times of a Man called Depression is almost a prequel to Breaking Point. A Terry song, spoken word, rather autobiographical. "One thing I wanted to address was the ups and downs of my head, really," says Hall. "It's me looking back to when I first got properly diagnosed [with bipolar] 11 years ago, looking at that person and seeing how I've changed and how it's now mostly under control, whereas all those years ago it wasn't. It's important, if you've got a voice and people may listen to this, maybe they will understand it a bit more, how you feel – how it all feels, really." The album ends with the glorious We Sell Hope. In recent years the live show encore was All the Time in the World, dedicated to drummer John Bradbury. This is similar and is bittersweet both musically and lyrically. "Looked all around the world, it'd be a beautiful place to live in." "If you look at what the lyrics are saying," says Terry. "It's to be good to each other, because on a basic level, that's all you can do. Treat other people with respect and kindness." The music is exquisite."		0:00:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Specials	Holiday Fortnight "Holiday Fortnight" by "The Specials"	More Specials	Chrysalis Records	1980	Because the Holidays...		0:05:30 (Pop-up)
Essential Logic	Do You Believe In Christmas?	Fanfare In The Garden	Hiss And Shake Records	2003	Prior to the recording of X Ray Spex's debut album, Lora Logic abruptly left the band to follow her own quirky songwriting muse and formed the wonderfully named Essential Logic. Eschewing fast and loud guitars for off-kilter rhythms, "bluesy" sax playing, and forays into dissonance and atonality, Essential Logic created some of the most liberating, exciting music of the early post-punk era. Along with her primitive, exhilarating sax playing, Logic displayed a wildly imaginative vocal style that conflated the subtle eroticism of Patti Smith with the epiglottal spasms of Yoko Ono. Singing, braying, and screeching her implicitly (at times explicitly) feminist lyrics while her backing band crashed and bashed in the background, this was almost a punk version of that most despised of genres, art rock. And while the subjects of most of her songs were serious (alienation, sexism, poverty, urban isolation), there was a bratty tongue-wagging raffishness to Logic (and band) that placed them a cut above the rest."		0:09:52 (Pop-up)
The Pheromoans	A Freak's Xmas "A Freak's Xmas" by "The Pheromoans"	Does This Guy Stack Up?	Upset The Rhythm	2012	THE PHEROMOANS are a six-piece experimental rock band from the South East of England who deal in a deadpan DIY music. Married to the mundane yet surreal reportage of our lives, their music manages to address the truly restless boredom and absurdity of everyday life. The Pheromoans write songs for the end of the queue, songs that prowl the periphery, songs that stand up on the bus and stare out through the window, blasted through with brilliant sprawling sunshine.		0:13:16 (Pop-up)
Barnes & Barnes	I Had Sex With Santa	SICKS	Rhino	1986	Robert Haimer and Bill Mumy were childhood friends who occasionally performed together on their musical instruments. Following the ending of Mumy's role on the TV series Lost in Space, they shot short films with a Super 8 motion picture camera, dubbed "Art Films". The two began calling each other "Art" in joking reference to these films. They formed the band Barnes & Barnes in 1970. They started when they were about 16 with a two track recorder, making goofy tracks, never meant to be shared. Their surname Barnes was taken from a Bill Cosby comedy routine called "Revenge", in which a character called Junior Barnes throws a slushball at Cosby as a child. They first received airplay on The Dr. Demento Show in 1978. Haimer was a fan of the show and convinced Mumy to "pick a couple of songs and do them right" to send in, the results being their songs "Boogie Woogie Amputee" and "Fish Heads" which they re-did on a Teac four track machine. The latter recording was released as a single on their own Lumania Records in 1979 and remains their best-known song, as well as the most requested song in the history of The Dr. Demento Show.		0:15:31 (Pop-up)
The Residents	Fire (Santa Dog) "Fire (Santa Dog)" by "The Residents"	80 Aching Orphans: 45 years of the Residents	Ralph Records	1972	The Residents are an American art collective and art rock band best known for their avant-garde music and multimedia works. Since their first official release, Meet the Residents (1974), they have released over 60 albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects, and ten DVDs. The group also formed Ralph Records at this time, as a small, independent label to release and promote their own work. In 1972, to inaugurate the new business, the group recorded and pressed the Santa Dog EP, their first recorded output to be released to the public. Designed to resemble a Christmas card from an insurance company, the EP consisted of two 7" singles, one song on each side.		0:16:58 (Pop-up)
The Goodies	Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me	Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me 7"	Bradley's Records	1974	Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie were cast members of the 1960s BBC radio comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which also featured John Cleese, David Hatch and Jo Kendall, and lasted until 1973. I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again resulted from the 1963 Cambridge University Footlights Club revue A Clump of Plinths. After having its title changed to Cambridge Circus, the revue went on to play in the West End in London, England, followed by a tour of New Zealand, then on Broadway in New York City (including an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show). They also took part in various TV shows with other people, including Brooke-Taylor in At Last the 1948 Show (with Cleese, Chapman and Marty Feldman). Brooke-Taylor also took part in Marty (with Marty Feldman, John Junkin and Roland MacLeod). In 1968 Brooke-Taylor appeared with Cleese, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman in How to Irritate People. Garden and Oddie took part in Twice a Fortnight (with Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Jonathan Lynn), before Brooke-Taylor, Garden, and Oddie worked on the late-1960s TV show Broaden Your Mind (of which only about ten minutes survives).		0:18:38 (Pop-up)
Goldstein	Kick The Balls Of Patriarchy	Hyrrs - Festive Hymns Made Feminist	Goldstein	2017	Goldstein Music Group is a full-service music production agency in London with unrivalled expertise in all aspects of music composition, music supervision and licensing and sound branding, sound design and mixing. Hyrrs – Festive Hymns Made Feminist was written and produced to raise money for Refuge. Their incredible work provides life-saving support to thousands of women and children across the country. You can listen to the album via Spotify, and most importantly, purchase your copy through iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon.		0:21:53 (Pop-up)
Manginah (Brandeis University)	Hannukah Hey Ya	L'Dor Vador	Manginah Brandeis	2022	Manginah (pronounced mahn-ghee-NAH) is Brandeis University's premier Jewish a cappella group. In Hebrew, the word Manginah is Hebrew for “melody”. Founded in 1994, and partnered with Hillel, Manginah sings a mixture of Jewish, Israeli pop, and English songs. Our mission is to share our love of Jewish music with Jewish communities across the greater Boston area. This song makes me very, very happy.		0:23:15 (Pop-up)
DJ Formaldehyde	Merry Christmas - The Bombshelter Brigade	Christmas At The Bombshelter	Bombshelter	1986	Originally recorded for the Christmas at the Bombshelter compilation, Andreas Gregor and David Rout (!Bang Elektroniks) got together and took some liberties with Daniel Miller's classic Warm Leatherette! Because it was a novelty track, they decided to use the name The Bombshelter Brigade, as that was what a local record store employee called them, whenever they were putting up posters for their label.		0:26:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Kiboomers	Hannukah Oh Hannukah	Hannukah Songs For Preschool and Kindergarten	Kiboomu Kids Songs	2016			0:29:36 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Bela Fleck & The Flecktones	The Hannukah Waltz	Jingle All The Way	Rounder Records	2008			0:32:07 (Pop-up)
Nouvelle Vague feat. Phoebe Killdeer	Sex Beat	Curiosities	Kwaidan Records	2019	Cover of the Gun Club Song. Covered in a Nouvelle Vague way, as Nouvelle Vague do. Keyboards – Marc Collin // Performer [Performed By] – Phoebe Killdeer (Real name: Phoebe Tolmer // Written-By – Jefferey Lee Pierce --- Extra fun fact... This song mentions fucking by a Christmas Tree, as it should.		0:38:57 (Pop-up)
Snapped Ankles	Delivery Van "Delivery Van" by "Snapped Ankles"	Stunning Luxury	The Leaf Label Ltd.	2019	Released March 1, 2019 "Snapped Ankles have taken on the guise of the very agents of their community’s demise – the property developers and brokers who heat the market on the promise of Stunning Luxury. With their adopted warehouse habitat under constant threat, the woodwose have taken this sharp-suited incarnation in order to infiltrate. The resistance starts here."		0:42:21 (Pop-up)
Quintron & Miss Pussycat	Silent Night	Psych-Out Christmas	Cleopatra Records	2013	"Quintron (real name Robert Rolston; born c. 1967 in Germany[1]) is an American musician and leader of the eponymous one-man-band, "Quintron". He is a nightclub organist and inventor, who has patented a number of his own inventions and often performs at his own private club, the Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans. He frequently performs with his wife, musician and puppeteer Panacea Pussycat (also known as Miss Pussycat), co-founder of the 9th Ward's defunct Pussycat Caverns."		0:46:41 (Pop-up)
Katjonband	Do You? "Do You?" by "Katjonband"	Katjonband	Carrot Top Records	2008	:Love The Ex & love the Mekons... What could be better? Crossover between the two projects! Katherine Bournfeld of The Ex & Jon Langford of Mekons (et. al.) Recorded By [With], Mixed By [With] – Ryan Neuschafer // Recorded By, Mixed By – Jon, Kat // Vocals, Drums – Kat Ex // Vocals, Guitar – Jon Langford // Written-By – Langford/ Bornefeld. Lyrics include "Happy Holidays"		0:49:17 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Jingle Bell Rock "Jingle Bell Rock" by "The Fall"	The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004	Castle / Sanctuary Records	1994 / 2005	Written by: Joe Beal, Jim Boothe // "First recording and first release by Bobby Helms (October 29, 1957 / November 1957)" - "The eighteenth session from December 1994 found the group in full, festive mood; and marked the return of two old Fall stalwarts; Karl Burns (last heard on session 9 in 1985) and, remarkably, Brix E Smith (last heard in session 12 in 1988). However, it was to be Craig Scanlon's last [Peel session] appearance with the group."		0:54:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Opium Jukebox	Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" by "Opium Jukebox"	Opium Christmas	Invisible Records	2007	Strangely, this album is not on Discogs, despite the fact it seems to have existed for 15 years. This is the laid-back bangra-inspired project of Martin Atkins. Martin Atkins is currently in the hospital, recovering from major surgery that he had yesterday. Any support sent to support any of his work & endeavours during this time are doubly appreciated. His original message: "Hi Friends, please don't be alarmed by the following... After pain, numbness, an ER visit, and an emergency MRI last week, I have been scheduled for urgent surgery on Wednesday, December 21st to try and fix some problems with the nerves in my spine and begin re-fixing problems with my back. It seems that after years of crazy drumming and touring, my body needs a breather. I’ve had back pain for several years now, and in the last month it’s caught up with me and become critical... Keep Martin the Fck IN Bed! As I hunker down for surgery prep, I know that I’ll be inclined to rush my recovery to get back to action, so we’ve come up with some ways you can support me, the museum, and keep me the fck in bed!... //////////////////// A monthly subscription donation to the Museum - You can choose any amount you'd like, and can change or cancel your subscription at any time. Check out the Subscriptions Here //////////////////// Consider buying some things that are ready to ship from the store - the Museum catalogs are gorgeous & awesome, the RX album, the new FOOK shirt, the new museum coffee, or become a founder of the museum itself (and be included in the next catalog's founders list)! For those of you struggling, yourselves, the 30% discount code is still active - use DISC30. Online Store Here //////////////////// Or purchase a Martin United Tour Pass - they’re all exactly the same, but give you the chance to support in $10, $50, or $100 increments, and the same with a Martin Voodoo Doll - $50, $150, or $250 increments. Keep Martin the F*ck IN Bed Category Here His latest communication to his mailing list, from earlier today: "My health update: A longer than expected first surgery, but a wonderful team is looking after me here, too. Thank you. Home tomorrow, everything else will take a little longer. So much love to everyone! -MA"		0:55:09 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Opium Jukebox	Hark The Herald Angels Sing	Opium Christmas	Invisible Records	2007	Martin Atkins' original message: "...As I hunker down for surgery prep, I know that I’ll be inclined to rush my recovery to get back to action, so we’ve come up with some ways you can support me, the museum, and keep me the fck in bed!... //////////////////// A monthly subscription donation to the Museum - You can choose any amount you'd like, and can change or cancel your subscription at any time. Check out the Subscriptions Here //////////////////// Consider buying some things that are ready to ship from the store - the Museum catalogs are gorgeous & awesome, the RX album, the new FOOK shirt, the new museum coffee, or become a founder of the museum itself (and be included in the next catalog's founders list)! For those of you struggling, yourselves, the 30% discount code is still active - use DISC30. Online Store Here //////////////////// Or purchase a Martin United Tour Pass - they’re all exactly the same, but give you the chance to support in $10, $50, or $100 increments, and the same with a Martin Voodoo Doll - $50, $150, or $250 increments. Keep Martin the Fck IN Bed Category Here His latest communication to his mailing list, from earlier today: "My health update: A longer than expected first surgery, but a wonderful team is looking after me here, too. Thank you. Home tomorrow, everything else will take a little longer. So much love to everyone! -MA"		0:59:34 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Opium Jukebox	Little Drummer Boy "Little Drummer Boy" by "Opium Jukebox"	Opium Christmas	Invisible Records	2007	If you are looking for the interview Martin Atkins graciously did with us, you can find it here... November 3, 2022: An Evening With Martin Atkins... (w/ Interview!!!)		1:04:14 (Pop-up)
Stompin Tom Connors	Merry Christmas Everybody	Merry Christmas Everybody	Ole	2017	Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, he is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has released four dozen albums, with total sales of nearly four million copies. He had a tumultuous relationship with the Canadian music industry and CBC. He was a heavy drinker and smoker, and grew up in the poorest part of St. John, New Brunswick. He put his country first and foremost, and wrote songs about the national identity from the everyman's viewpoint. Though of another time, he remains a national treasure...		1:06:03 (Pop-up)
Anne Murray	Snowbird "Snowbird" by "Anne Murray"	This Way Is My Way	Capitol	1969	Murray was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts and also the first to earn a Gold record for one of her signature songs, "Snowbird". She is often cited as one of the female Canadian artists who paved the way for other international Canadian success stories such as k.d. lang, Céline Dion, and Shania Twain. As with Stompin' Tom...she is a Canadian treasure.		1:08:18 (Pop-up)
John Denver	Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas	Rocky Mountain Christmas	RCA	1975	Farewell Andromeda is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver, released in June 1973. It's distressingly upbeat, one major chord bounding into the next, Denver yodelling a little halfway through the chorus in what seems like a desperate attempt to add a little levity. It's so breezy that nobody has been able to tap into the agony ever since. Given his ain't-life-somethin' reputation, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Denver didn't write "Please, Daddy…" himself. But the original songwriters weren't known for their pitch-black social realism either. The song is credited to Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, the then-married couple best known for fronting The Starland Vocal Band and penning the group's massive, nitrous-happy ode to daytime sex, "Afternoon Delight."		1:10:30 (Pop-up)
Larry Costa	Six Cups Of Eggnog "Six Cups Of Eggnog" by "Larry Costa"	Christmas Crooner	Self-Released	2016	An average of 135 million lbs (61 million kg) of eggnog is consumed every year in America alone. It is derived from a medieval beverage called "Posset". Robert Mitchum has one of the best recipes for this boozy, viscous treat. George Washington has been known to have been a lover of eggnog and would regularly serve it to guests. “One quart cream, one quart milk, one dozen tablespoons sugar, one pint brandy, 1/2 pint rye whiskey, 1/2 pint Jamaica rum, and 1/4 pint sherry.” The Eggnog Riot, a.k.a. The Grog Mutiny, was a Christmas soiree gone very wrong at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1826.		1:13:16 (Pop-up)
Jacob MIller & Inner Circle	All I Want For Ismas	Natty Christmas	Dubshot Records	2015	Jacob Miller was a Jamaican reggae artist and Rastafari from Mandeville, Jamaica. His first recording session was with the famous Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd in the late 1960s. While pursuing a prolific solo career, he became the lead singer for the reggae group Inner Circle. In March 1980, Jacob Miller went with Bob Marley and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell to Brazil, to celebrate Island opening new offices in South America. Not long after returning to Jamaica Sunday, 23 March 1980, Miller and one of his sons died in a car accident on Hope Road in Kingston, Jamaica. Jacob Miller was the cousin of British reggae artist Maxi Priest. Every year his Christmas Album goes on heavy rotation during the holiday season in Jamaica, and is enjoyed amongst Jamaicans abroad as well.		1:15:39 (Pop-up)
Toots & the Maytals	Christmas Feeling Ska	Christmas Greetings From Studio One	Studio One	2002	The Maytals, known from 1972 to 2020 as Toots and the Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group, one of the best known ska and rocksteady vocal groups. The Maytals were formed in the early 1960s and were key figures in popularizing reggae music.Frontman Toots Hibbert, who died in 2020,[was considered a reggae pioneer on par with Bob Marley.His soulful vocal style was compared to Otis Redding, and led him to be named by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 Greatest Singers. Their 1968 single "Do the Reggay" was the first song to use the word "reggae", coining the name of the genre and introducing it to a global audience.The Oxford English Dictionary credits Toots and the Maytals in the etymology of the word "Reggae".According to Island Records founder Chris Blackwell "The Maytals were unlike anything else ... sensational, raw and dynamic."		1:18:37 (Pop-up)
Patrice	Last Christmas "Last Christmas" by "Patrice"	Patrice Presents Rocksteady Christmas	Supow Music	2021	Upon its initial release in 1984, "Last Christmas" spent five consecutive weeks at number two in the UK Singles Chart—it was held off the top spot at Christmas by Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (on which Michael also performed). After many chart runs in subsequent years, which included three more weeks at number two, and which saw the recording become part of RCA Records' catalogue, the song finally reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on New Year's Day 2021. This song is much maligned but it is one of the best holiday tunes ever written. I will die on that hill. Also, if you're playing Whamageedon this year...you are not disqualified because this is a COVER, not the original! ;-)		1:21:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Brute Force Steel Band	Jingle Bells	Brute Force Steel Bands of Antigua	Cook Records	1955			1:32:03 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Doug Walker, Steel Drum Artist	Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer	The Ultimate Reggae, Caribbean Christmas	Panman Productions	2011			1:32:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Gladiators	Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" by "The Gladiators"	Unusual Reggae - Revolution Records 1960-70	Circle Records	2019			1:32:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Bert Kämpfert	Snowbird "Snowbird" by "Bert Kämpfert"	Orange Coloured Sky	Universal Music	1971			1:32:46 (Pop-up)
Gurr (feat. Eddie Argos)	Christmas One and Only	Christmas Business	Duchess Box Records	2018	Second Single from the EP "Christmas Business" by Gurr & Eddie Argos (Art Brut) - Recorded by Andrea Wright in Anton Newcombe's Studio, Berlin mastered by Philipp Welsing [Video shot by Gurr & edited by Guido Giorgi] Gurr feat. Eddie Argos - Christmas One and Only (Official Video)		1:35:20 (Pop-up)
Dolly Mixture	Everything And More	Remember This: The Singles Collection 1980-1984	For Us Records	1982 / 2011	Dolly Mixture was a British post-punk band formed in 1978 by bassist and vocalist Debsey Wykes, guitarist Rachel Bor, and drummer Hester Smith. They started out as complete amateurs (popular rumour had it that they first got involved into the music business as the then girlfriends of The Damned members, though it was only Rachel Bor and Captain Sensible who were a couple). Although they had their taste of Top 40 success as the backing vocals for the Captain Sensible's hit "Wot", as a band they remained neglected by the media and the general public alike. In 1984, near the end of their run, the group self-released a double album of demo tracks, which was re-released in 1995. Debsey and Hester went on to form the band Coming Up Roses, Rachel played with the band Fruit Machine until 1999, and Debsey later collaborated with Saint Etienne and formed the band Birdie.		1:38:00 (Pop-up)
Alice Bag	No Gifts For Nazis "No Gifts For Nazis" by "Alice Bag"	No Gifts For Nazis (Single)	Get Better Records	2019	"Exploring the intersections of punk, queer pop and alternative rock, Chicana punk legend Alice Bag has been active in music since 1977, when she was the lead singer and co-founder of the Bags, one of the first bands to form during the initial wave of punk rock. The Alice Bag Band was featured in the 1981 music doc, The Decline of Western Civilization." -- "Bag is best known for being a member of the Bags, one of the first bands on the L.A. punk scene. The Bags were notable for having two female lead musicians (Patricia Morrison co-founded the group with her school friend, Bag) and for pioneering an aggressive sound and style which has been cited as an early influence on what would become the hardcore punk sound. The aggressive sound that the band had was later noted to have a Mexican/Chicano influence that Bag unintentionally brought along from her childhood"		1:40:53 (Pop-up)
Sufjan Stevens	Christmas In July "Christmas In July" by "Sufjan Stevens"	Songs For Christmas [Boxset: Disc 5: Peace (2006) Vol. V)	Asthmatic Kitty Records	2006	Cello – Maria Bella Jeffers // Drums – James McAlister // Trombone – Ben Lanz // Trumpet – C. J. Camerieri // Violin – Naho Tsutsui, Rob Moose // Vocals, Piano, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Organ [Hammond], Guitar [Electric], Bass, Tambourine, Bells [Sleigh], Shaker, Other [Chestnuts Roasting On Open Fire] – Sufjan Stevens // Vocals, Viola – Marla Hansen // Words By, Music By – Sufjan Stevens		1:42:56 (Pop-up)
Gurr (feat. Eddie Argos)	Christmas Holiday	Christmas Business	Duchess Box Records	2018	First Single from the EP "Christmas Business" by Gurr & Eddie Argos (Art Brut) - Recorded by Andrea Wright in Anton Newcombe's Studio, Berlin mastered by Philipp Welsing [Video shot by Gurr & edited by Guido Giorgi] Gurr feat. Eddie Argos - Christmas Holiday (Official Video)		1:46:12 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Legendary Pink Dots	Warm Bank "Warm Bank" by "Legendary Pink Dots"	The Legendary Pink Dots' Christmas Special 2022	Self Released (Bandcamp)	2022	The night of my (D) 50th birthday we went to see Legendary Pink Dots in our city of Toronto and met & talked to Edward Ka Spel after the show. He was wonderful, taking the time to talk to each & every person who was hoping to get a word in. We hope to interview him soon. Legendary Pink Dots (Bandcamp)	*	1:49:13 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Thibörg	Hymn to the Mall, The Xmas Mall	Snow Day at the Mall, Noël 2022.	Self Released (Bandcamp)	2022	From Montréal, released December 16, 2022. One of my favourite things... "Hymn to the Mall, The Xmas Mall" can be downloaded for free; the entire EP can be downloaded for $1, or the entire discography (3 releases, 2 Xmas themed, 1 Hallowe'en themed) can be purchased for $0.65 CAD or more (35% OFF). I love it when pricing strategies make no sense like that. I also love what this project brings to the Xmas season. The real sounds of Xmas. Thibörg (Bandcamp)	*	1:52:12 (Pop-up)
The Sha La Das	Sha La Da La La (Christmas Time)	Love In The Wind	Daptone	2018	The Sha La Das story begins with William Schalda, Sr., who hailed from Brooklyn, New York and grew up with a love of music. Schalda was a gifted singer and developed a passion for vocal harmonies, and in the early '60s, teenaged Schalda was a member of the Montereys, a popular local doo wop group. At the center of The Sha La Das are the four Schaldas: three talented brothers and the father who taught his boys group harmonies on the stoop of their Staten Island home growing up. The band features a number of the players that have helped define the Daptone Sound including members of The Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley, and Menahan Street Band.		1:57:45 (Pop-up)
U.S. Girls	Santa Stay Home "Santa Stay Home" by "U.S. Girls"	Santa Stay Home Single	Royal Mountain Records	2020	U.S. Girls is a Toronto-based experimental pop project formed in 2007, consisting solely of American musician and record producer Meghan Remy. In this song, Remy recommends that Santa stay home this year because of climate change, the environmental impact of Christmas trees, and the consumerism-driven gift giving. Check it out below. In a statement, Meg Remy explained, “When one stops to really think about it, Santa is creepy and Christmas makes no damn sense.		2:01:01 (Pop-up)
The Raveonettes	Snowstorm "Snowstorm" by "The Raveonettes"	Snowstorm Single	Beat Dies Records	2020	The Raveonettes are a Danish indie rock duo, consisting of Sune Rose Wagner on guitar, instruments and vocals, and Sharin Foo on bass, guitar and vocals. Their music is characterized by close two-part vocal harmonies inspired by The Everly Brothers coupled with hard-edged electric guitar overlaid with liberal doses of noise.Their songs juxtapose the structural and chordal simplicity of 1950s and 1960s rock with intense electric instrumentation, driving beats, and often dark lyrical content (e.g., crime, drugs, murder, suicide, love, lust, and betrayal), similar to another of the band's influences, The Velvet Underground. This is a perfect Blue Christmas song....		2:04:59 (Pop-up)
Cristina	Things Fall Apart "Things Fall Apart" by "Cristina"	Sleep It Off	Island Records	1981	We included this on last years show and we will include it on every subsequent holiday show because IT IS THE BEST CHRISTMAS SONG EVER WRITTEN. Post punk, no wave, new wave, it is the perfect tune to shed a tear and smear your black holiday eyeliner to. You know how the woman in the Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping forgets the cranberries, so she goes back to the shop and meets the guy and brings her Christmas to a very happy ending? Well this is what her unhappy little sister is doing across town on Christmas Eve...Cristina sadly passed away of Covid-19 in April of 2020.		2:07:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: James Last	Kling Gloeckchen Klingelingelling Medley	Christmas Dancing	Polydor	1974	It's not Christmas if I don't play this song.		2:12:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mirror Image	We Three Kings "We Three Kings" by "Mirror Image"	Yuletide Disco	Pickwick	1979			2:15:38 (Pop-up)
William Shatner, Iggy Pop	Silent Night - 2022 Mix	Silent Night (2022 Mix)	Cleopatra Records	2022	So, I guess, somehow, this happened this year... Huh.	*	2:22:19 (Pop-up)
The Specials	Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)	More Specials	Chrysalis Records	1980	""Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)" is a popular song published in 1949, with music written by Carl Sigman and lyrics by Herb Magidson." R.I.P. Terry Hall. In this song he proclaimed "My name is Terry, and I'm going to enjoy myself first"... We truly hope so.		2:25:30 (Pop-up)
The Specials	Enjoy Yourself (Reprise)	More Specials	Chrysalis Records	1980	The Specials' second album started w/ "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)" and ends w/ "Enjoy Yourself (Reprise)", so, it seems doubly important. Once again, we will miss Terry Hall.		2:29:09 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	7:56pm DJ Babs: Hello and welcome beachers, grab a hot toddy and gather round the bonfire it's time for a Yuletide/Kwanzaa/Hannukah celebration!!!
	🏝 8:01pm Kristine: Hiiii!!! How are you both?
	🏝 8:02pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Beach Bums! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	8:03pm DJ Babs: Hi Kristine! Hi Scott! Happy Holidays!!!!!!! Merry Christmas! Frohe Weihnachten!!!!
	8:03pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	8:04pm DJ Babs: Hi there UD! Hello hello
	8:04pm Derek Westerholm: Hello, Kristine!!! Hello! We are both doing well! How about you?
	8:04pm Derek Westerholm: Hey there Scott, Ultra, hello hello all!!! Happy festiveness!
	🏝 8:05pm Kristine: I am doing good! finished up xmas food shopping today so i dont have to go anywhere tomorrow.
	8:05pm Derek Westerholm: It's a good idea not to go anywhere tomorrow in our neck of the woods
	8:05pm DJ Babs: Same! I finished a harrowing last day of work and all I gotta do tomorrow is make potato salad! LOL
	8:06pm Derek Westerholm: Unfortunately I have to travel back & forth half the city to work tomorrow... Rain, Ice, Snow, 100km/hr winds... What could go wrong?
	🏝 8:07pm Kristine: yeah, Wes must do the same. i travel to ottawa on sat to see fam. hopefully it wont be as bad then..?? eek.
	8:07pm DJ Babs: well in the meantime I hope you're all feeling festive!!!!
	🏝 8:07pm Kristine: really digging this tune
	8:07pm DJ Babs: we are taking the train to montreal on Monday...
	🏝 8:08pm Kristine: train, very smart.
	8:08pm Derek Westerholm: Yeah, it's quite the awesome song!
	8:09pm Alli B: Hi guys
	8:09pm Alli B: The Specials and Terry Hall ❤️
	8:12pm Derek Westerholm: Yes, R.I.P. Terry Hall.
	8:13pm ultradamno: A couple more carols to add to last week's list MX-80 Sound - Christmas With The Devil James Chance & The Contortions - Christmas With Satan
	🏝 8:13pm Kristine: yes, essential logic!
	8:13pm DJ Babs: Alli hi hi hi!!!!
	8:13pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Alli, too, btw!
	8:14pm Derek Westerholm: Yes, new Essential Logic album in 2023! First in decades and decades!
	8:14pm DJ Babs: I hope to have a few fun surprises for you UD!
	🏝 8:14pm Kristine: i was lucky enough to see James Chance play in 2007. He did NOT disappoint
	8:14pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, such a good list!
	8:15pm Derek Westerholm: James Chance signed the back of my credit card. I had three different people of note sign the back of three different credit cards. I wanted to do more, but only got around to three...
	🏝 8:16pm Kristine: Derek what?!?
	🏝 8:17pm Kristine: this band has a very Flying Nuns edge to it. I love it
	8:19pm Derek Westerholm: Kristine, I used to leave the back of my credit cards blank and get other people to sign them instead. James Chance was up for it!
	8:19pm DJ Babs: Pheromoans are great Kristine!
	8:19pm ultradamno: This adds to my general concerns about this fat bastard visiting every house globally during a pandemic
	8:20pm ultradamno: RESIS!
	8:20pm DJ Babs: Also did you know there is a gamelan version of this!!!
	🏝 8:21pm Kristine: @babs-face drop. WHAT?? I am obsessed with gamelan
	8:21pm ultradamno: Yes! I was about to mention that! So many versions of this
	8:22pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "I Had Sex With Santa" by "Barnes & Barnes" Hey beachers! Haha, I remember this song was originally called "I Had Sex With E.T." It was really great ("his skin is green, his breath is alien-like/I had sex with ET, when we were on his bike," but they got some kind of cease-and-desist and had to change the lyrics.
	8:22pm ultradamno: ↳ Kristine @8:21 It's on the Dot Com album
	8:22pm DJ Babs: haha Santa not as litigeous as the ET people at Dreamworks LOL
	8:24pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:22 Hello Fab!!!! Ah... Yes, so it goes around, haha.
	8:25pm Derek Westerholm: Nice chat reply functionality! Is it new? I'm sure I've missed a bulletin or two...
	8:26pm Mr Fab: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:25 Yep, just rolled out last Tuesday. Kenzo posted a notice.
	🏝 8:26pm Kat in Chicago: It is new, Derek!
	🏝 8:26pm Kat in Chicago: I haven't even used it yet myself
	8:26pm DJ Babs: HEY KAT! Also I have been laughihng my ass off at this song for days now. DAYS
	8:26pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @8:26 I like it!!!! Hi Kat!!!
	🏝 8:27pm Kat in Chicago: Hello Babs and Derek and all yall
	8:28pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:26 I also enjoy the arrows that take you up to the parent comment or forward to the reply. It's fun!
	8:28pm ultradamno: Reminding of how Outkast kept insisting they weren't going to break up and then put out a feature film in which the two of them shared almost no scenes whatsoever...and then broke up.
	8:28pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:28 HAHA
	🏝 8:29pm Kat in Chicago: WFMU is the only place I listen to Christmas music On Purpose
	🏝 8:32pm Scott67: ↳ Song: "Merry Christmas - The Bombshelter Brigade" by "DJ... A crime against one of my favourite songs. About my least favourite time of year.
	8:32pm Dave: Hey all ! Hope every one is doing well !
	🏝 8:32pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ DJ Babs @8:07 Montreal is warmer than Chicago right now
	8:32pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @8:29 Kat, that sounds like a wise way to go about it, haha.
	8:32pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Dave @8:32 Hello Dave! Yes, indeed! And you?
	8:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ Kat in Chicago @8:29 cuz no one plays Mariah or Wham!
	8:34pm ultradamno: Does the second picture looks like Oksana Baiul is putting out an indie rock album...Oksana & The Jerks maybe? www.instagram.com...
	8:34pm Derek Westerholm: Babs would play the Xmas Wham! (I would definitely not.)
	8:34pm Dave: Thanks for playing that and all the kind words Babs blushes
	8:36pm Derek Westerholm: Dave, thanks so much for that!
	8:37pm ultradamno: I saw Ari Melber doing his usual schtick of quoting Jay Z on MSNBC earlier and I really wished someone had the nerve to say "you mean close personal friend of Kanye West, Jay Z? Do tell what he has to say..."
	8:41pm DJ Nico: Mopping my floors to your show!
	8:41pm Jim: We do not have Swiss Chalet here - That's all yours!
	8:43pm DJ Babs: Hi Jim!! Swiss Chalet is a roast chicken place up here that's kinda legend. Every year they do a 1/4 chicken dinner with a Toblerone bar and it's their "festive special" It's all about the Swiss Chalet sauce and soggy greasy fries tho!!!
	8:43pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Jim @8:41 Jim, hello! And thanks for the confirmation!
	8:43pm DJ Babs: And Dave thank you SO much for sharing that tune!!! It's so great!
	8:44pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @8:43 I always found the sauce gross.
	🏝 8:44pm Kat in Chicago: What's the sauce like?
	8:44pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Nico!!! Hope the music is mop friendly!
	8:44pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @8:44 Tangy dishwater?
	8:45pm DJ Babs: Also yes Nico so so lovely to see you!!!!!
	🏝 8:45pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:44 Can you get it sans sauce?
	8:46pm DJ Babs: Yes the sauce is always on the side....for dipping!!!
	8:46pm DJ Babs: It's kiiinda spicy...kinda sweet. There's nothing that really tastes like it!
	8:46pm Zipperhead7: Hi Babs and Derek! Just jumped into what sounds like a slammin' set
	8:47pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Zipperhead! You did miss the Hannukah version of Hey Ya but more fun to come lol
	8:47pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Zipperhead, yay! Happy to hear you think so! Great to see you! How are "things"?
	8:49pm Zipperhead7: A friend was giving a zoom talk to a library this evening and got zoom bombed. It was awful. Jeezits. Hacker kept assuming other people’s names so he couldn’t be identified. Librarian had to shut the whole thing down
	8:50pm DJ Babs: Well, I'm drinking tonight. OH MY GOD. I give a lot of webinars for my work and that's a nightmare lol
	8:51pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Babs + Derek and others
	8:51pm Alli B: Webinar Queen!
	8:51pm DJ Babs: hello hello Coelacanth!!!
	8:52pm ultradamno: In the vein of Sex Beat, a few movies that I like to recommend with x-mas themes people tend to forget do: Deep Red, Morvern Callar and The Children
	8:52pm DJ Babs: Lol NO more webinars until 2023..
	8:52pm ultradamno: Katjon!
	8:53pm DJ Babs: ah you know this UD! Very cool!
	8:53pm DJ Babs: I am pleased to say this is a pretty low consumption spending Xmas this year. I'm just not buying into it! Literally!
	🏝 8:54pm Kristine: @babs same. No money, ha!
	8:54pm DJ Babs: exactly lol. I'd rather spend my money on good wine! LOLZ
	8:54pm ultradamno: Yep, one of my favorite one-off albums ever
	8:55pm DJ Babs: I am looking forward to derek telling us about it!
	🏝 8:55pm Scott67: Beer for Xmas please!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	8:56pm Zipperhead7: ↳ DJ Babs @8:53 Yeah we're getting some toys for Zipperdawg and that's it for Santa. He'll have them all gutted within an hour. I was gonna cook a goose for xmas but they cost $135!!!
	8:56pm DJ Babs: U know it! Derek surprised me with two bottles of my very favourite wine!!
	🏝 8:57pm Scott67: Predicted to be 34 Celsius Xmas Day here. 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	8:57pm DJ Babs: honestly I got a turkey on sale and I'm so happy! We got meepmoop toys too! He stole the catnip one from me as I was wrapping it and he was freaking out all night LOL
	🏝 8:57pm Kristine: aww HERE IT COMES! Thanks derek
	8:57pm DJ Babs: what's zipperdawg getting from Santa?
	🏝 8:57pm Kat in Chicago: Not sure I need a drink after the work happy hour I went to last night. Considering it is 1 degree F out, maybe I"ll see if I have ingredients for a hot toddy
	8:57pm DJ Babs: hahah Kristine!!
	🏝 8:58pm Kat in Chicago: of course we get a Fall Xmas song! yay
	8:58pm Mr Fab: oooh man, now i gotta hear "No Xmas For John Keys"...
	8:58pm Zipperhead7: ↳ DJ Babs @8:57 I gotta pick 'em out tomorrow. That's the first version of that song I could stand. Good ol' Mark E!
	🏝 8:59pm Kat in Chicago: oh no!
	8:59pm ultradamno: At least MES didn't slag Santa off too badly
	9:03pm DJ Babs: lol can't see why he wouldn't he does love to slag...but I think I remember reading an interview with a friend of his who said that he actually really loved Christmas...
	9:03pm Zipperhead7: I was thinking it would be really neat if all the FMU premium CDs over the years and their tracks would be listed on the website. I treasure all the ones I have. Gary played some great Chinese punk on Bodega Pop last night. It was from a premium he did several years ago
	9:06pm coelacanth∅: if you're going to get locked in something it might as well be a groove
	9:07pm ultradamno: Maybe not that big a surprise, he was an x-tian who disapproved of porn on the grounds 'it's bad for the soul' or words to that effect.
	9:07pm Mr Fab: ↳ Zipperhead7 @9:03 there are some: www.discogs.com...
	9:07pm DJ Nico: Floors are clean. Tummy full. The rain has started outside. Thanks for the tunes so far!
	9:08pm coelacanth∅: Zipper i'm pretty sure i have more bodega pop cds than for any other show, and they're all excellent.
	9:08pm VinylVillainSean: Stompin' Thomas!
	🏝 9:09pm Scott67: I will drink quite a lot of beer, but will remain sober. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	9:09pm coelacanth∅: hmm, yes maybe cocktail hour is upon me
	9:09pm VinylVillainSean: Hope you're all having your fair share of egg nog
	🏝 9:10pm Kristine: trying to reduce my booze intake, can't handle more than a glass or so. drinking lots of good teas, want to try making mocktails one day... but there will ALWAYS be eggnog
	🏝 9:10pm Scott67: Cheers coel! 🍻😎🤙💨🍸🍹
	🏝 9:10pm Kat in Chicago: Not an eggnog fan myself, it might be drinky time though
	9:10pm DJ Babs: Hi Sean!!! Welcome welcome!!!!
	9:10pm coelacanth∅: my father's incredible eggnog may have ruined eggnog for me. i've never tasted any other eggnog that i even want a whole cup of.
	9:10pm DJ Babs: I love eggnog and will jhave one later!!!
	9:11pm Mr Fab: Anchor Steam brewery released their utterly fantastic xmas brew. Every year it's a dif recipe. I'm not a big beer drinker anymore, but was lucky to score a couple six packs. They go fast.
	9:11pm ultradamno: All of you quitting, I will perform the service of taking custody of your alcohol. No questions asked, you are welcome in advance.
	🏝 9:11pm Scott67: I've never had eggnog!
	🏝 9:11pm Kristine: i only have eggnog right on christmas eve.
	🏝 9:12pm Kristine: thanks ultradamno, jealous of all those that can hold their liquor!
	9:12pm DJ Babs: Goddamn snowbird I love this song so much. I'm on my 3rd carton of nog this season LOL. Sean and i shared some coconut nog last week and it's an excellent dairy free alternative!!!
	9:12pm ultradamno: It's actually pretty good. Steak n Shake does a nice eggnog shake.
	9:12pm DJ Babs: mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
	9:12pm Zipperhead7: ↳ Mr Fab @9:07 I have the Sheena 2002, Fab! Great stuff. Will peruse the others
	🏝 9:13pm Kristine: third carton? wowza. do you know if its similar to eierlikor?
	9:13pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Sean! Hello Coelacanth∅!
	9:13pm Mr Fab: well, gotta say...never thought I'd near Anne Murray on this channel, haha.
	9:13pm coelacanth∅: i haven't heard this song since i was little
	9:14pm VinylVillainSean: Hey Babs and Derek! Hope you guys are all having a warm and dry blizzard eve
	9:14pm DJ Babs: yes! Indeed. Glad the blizzard is letting us do our radio show and not knocking out power!
	9:14pm ultradamno: I have seen John Denver live. My sister was OBSESSED...to the point we vacationed in Aspen once, and we do not ski.
	9:14pm DJ Babs: I LOVE ANNE MURRAY
	9:14pm Zipperhead7: It's a happy holiday when no chairs are thrown or tables overturned
	9:15pm DJ Babs: and kristine I'd imagine it's quite close yes!!!
	🏝 9:15pm Kat in Chicago: I never thought I'd hear John Denver on this show! I AM going to the kitchen for drinky time...
	9:15pm DJ Babs: lol this is a dark humour choice for me because my dad got drunk EVERY christmas lol
	9:16pm DJ Babs: THanks to Sean Vinyl Villain I got this tune from him!!!
	9:17pm VinylVillainSean: This 6 cups of eggnog song? That was all you lol
	9:17pm ultradamno: Didn't he chainsaw a bed in two at some point in his marriage? It's always the quiet ones...
	9:17pm Zipperhead7: That John Denver annotation is brilliant
	🏝 9:17pm Kristine: is he putting rum in the eggnog??
	9:17pm DJ Babs: wait it was?!!?!? I have lost count lol
	9:18pm DJ Babs: hahah Zipperhead truth is stranger than fiction....
	9:18pm DJ Babs: Bella this one is for you!!!
	9:19pm DJ Babs: I like a good spiced rum in my nog...but brandy is also good. what's best is Brandy AND Rum
	9:19pm Alli B: Love this song!
	9:19pm DJ Babs: Thought ya might!! ;-)
	9:20pm Mr Fab: ↳ DJ Babs @9:19 Cognac, if you feel like being a big-spender.
	9:20pm Zipperhead7: ↳ DJ Babs @9:18 Did you write that, Babs? "Nitrous-happy" is such a wonderful description. It is etched onto my cerebral cortex
	9:20pm Alli B: I’ve listened to it daily for like a month now 🤣 Never gets tiresome. Makes me move
	9:22pm VinylVillainSean: I haven't heard this toots track before! So good
	9:23pm DJ Babs: lol Zipperhead I sadly did NOT write that!
	9:23pm DJ Babs: I think it was Dangerous Minds blog.
	9:23pm DJ Babs: Christmas Ska is the best!
	9:24pm DJ Babs: I also make no apologies for this because I love ska and I love last christmas and this is perfect LOL. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL
	9:24pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @9:24 Ugh!
	9:25pm Derek Westerholm: Ugh.
	9:25pm Derek Westerholm: Ugh.
	9:25pm DJ Babs: Don't be ughing at me Westerholm LOL
	🏝 9:25pm Kristine: yes Last Christmas! I was in love with Wham since about forever
	9:25pm VinylVillainSean: lol I love Last Christmas too! It's the best
	🏝 9:26pm Kristine: DON'T APOLOGIZE!!
	9:27pm ultradamno: Did Desmond Dekker do an Israelites Christmas you could play?
	9:27pm ultradamno: ....he did have a Christmas Day song www.discogs.com...
	🏝 9:27pm Kat in Chicago: Just returned from the kitchen. Hot chocolate with a shot of The Kraken and three Dandies marshmallows on top
	9:28pm Zipperhead7: ↳ DJ Babs @9:24 I agree! I gave upon being hip decades ago. I do draw the line at McCartney's "Wonderful Christmas," though
	🏝 9:29pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Zipperhead7 @9:28 Don-O already subjected us to that one last week
	9:29pm VinylVillainSean: ↳ Zipperhead7 @9:28 lol it's so bad it's so good though!
	9:29pm Derek Westerholm: Everything is fair play... I just can't stand the song, that's all, haha.
	9:31pm ultradamno: OK...fine...but comparisons to OTIS makes me arch my back.
	9:32pm VinylVillainSean: The nog made me pass out last Fri
	9:32pm Zipperhead7: Someone gave me some almond-flavored Bailey's last week and it tasted like Kaopectate
	9:35pm Alli B: Dandies rule
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: baily's needs whiskey, not almonds (nor chocolate)
	🏝 9:35pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Alli B @9:35 One case where I vastly prefer a vegan thing to the usual thing!
	🏝 9:38pm Scott67: What happened??
	9:38pm coelacanth∅: vegenaisse grapeseed oil mayonnaise is the best in my opinion. (and i grew up with hellman's)
	9:39pm Zipperhead7: coelacanth∅! Has coelamouse returned?
	9:40pm Tyler: Good evining beacheroni's!
	🏝 9:40pm Kat in Chicago: Hey, I knit socks. They're a lot of work. Don't set them on fire
	9:40pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Tyler!!!
	9:40pm coelacanth∅: my hot chocolate is organic pure cocoa, oat milk (preferably oatley), maple syrup and jameson whiskey.
	9:41pm Tyler: Hi Derek!
	🏝 9:41pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:40 that sounds really good!
	9:41pm DJ Babs: lol Sean you passed out HARD!
	9:41pm DJ Babs: Hi Tyler! Welcome welcome! Glad you made it!
	🏝 9:41pm Scott67: I reckon The Thing should be a Xmas Movie.
	9:41pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:40 Yeah, burning the socks seemed uncalled for.
	9:41pm Tyler: Sean is the ghost of Christmas past out :)
	9:42pm DJ Babs: Also coelacanth YES to whiskey with a shot of maple syrup. That is so so good!
	9:42pm DJ Babs: I also second the vegannaise. We've made the switch from Hellmans here. Tho on christmas I make my own home made mayo!
	9:42pm Tyler: Hi Babs. Me too! Just got back from last minute fool's errands.
	9:43pm DJ Babs: Kat we wil not allow your socks to be singed! LOL
	9:43pm ultradamno: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:41 Also, more effort than you might think. Most socks won't go right up, so you really have to want it.
	9:43pm DJ Babs: I did my last minute errands this aft. I accidentally got a little to stoned and had to go buy pickled herring for Derek.
	9:45pm ultradamno: This song reminded me of this Onion piece www.theonion.com...
	🏝 9:45pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Song: "No Gifts For Nazis" by "Alice Bag" ooh this is a good one
	9:45pm DJ Babs: I support all anti fascist Christmas songs even if they are terrible, lol.
	9:45pm coelacanth∅: haha Zipper if coelamouse tries to make it back - 20 miles and the hudson river away - he/she's bound to find food and warmth before getting here... maybe in my sister's house!
	9:45pm Tyler: Pretty much done all my holiday hoo-haw except travelling to my parents tomorrow. It better shape than most years.
	9:45pm DJ Babs: Although Bless Alice Bag!
	9:46pm DJ Babs: Kat i love Alice Bag but that's not one of my more favourite musical versions of her. But the message I am ALL about!
	9:47pm Tyler: Sufjan is sounding pretty New Pornographers on this one...
	🏝 9:47pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Tyler @9:47 I hear that
	9:48pm DJ Babs: Yes this is a very good song. I don't get into Sufjan as much as I should...
	9:49pm Zipperhead7: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:45 My stepson had a groundhog living in his back yard, and he trapped it and drove it way out into the country. Damned if that groundhog didn't make it back to Dumont New Jersey within two weeks! So they adopted it as a pet.
	9:50pm Tyler: ↳ Zipperhead7 @9:49 Dumontaxpony Pete :)
	9:51pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Zipperhead7 @9:49 Seemed destined to be!
	9:51pm coelacanth∅: i didn't quite catch all that eggnog recipe of -was it george washington's? ... but my father's called for something like 1.75 quarts of whiskey, a pint of rum and a quart of brandy. this making a little over 2 gallons...made 3 weeks prior to desired consumption time. it needs to mellow. i made it once, many years ago, probably still have the recipe but. . . it ain't happening.
	9:51pm DJ Babs: omg I would love to have a pet groundhog they are so so sweet!
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: we've got groundhogs here. in the winter they get into the basement and chew away at what holds up my bedroom.
	9:53pm Tyler: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:52 I think those are beavers :)
	🏝 9:53pm Kristine: awwww wish i could have been at the legendary dots show! jelly
	9:54pm Tyler: ↳ Kristine @9:53 Did they play recently?
	9:55pm ultradamno: The way to celebrate twitter.com...
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: Tyler i think they took a class taught by beavers.
	9:55pm Tyler: Awww... crap! Didn't hear about that show...
	9:56pm Tyler: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:55 Rascals :)
	🏝 9:57pm Kristine: ↳ Tyler @9:55 yeah, about a month ago. I had COVID so couldnt go.
	🏝 9:57pm Kat in Chicago: Soof-yan i think?
	9:58pm Tyler: ↳ Kristine @9:57 Drag. Sorry you couldn't go :(
	🏝 9:58pm Kristine: yeah, that's life! oh well.
	🏝 10:00pm Kristine: don't gooooooooooo
	10:01pm VinylVillainSean: This track reminds me of the Mothers
	10:01pm Tyler: Things got pretty weird after the archive cut-off :)
	10:01pm DJ Babs: we arent done yet !!!
	10:02pm VinylVillainSean: ↳ Tyler @10:01 Tyler! lol
	10:02pm Zipperhead7: I have enjoyed this show beyond measure and will play it again Saturday night. Wish I could be here more often on Thursday nights. Babs and Derek are the best! Enjoy your holiday tipple!
	10:02pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @10:00 Yes, bonus content... We're not quite going yet, Kristine, haha!
	10:02pm Tyler: Sha-la-da-la-la...
	10:02pm DJ Babs: Thanks for joining us Zipperhead!!! Merry Christmas to ya!!!
	10:03pm Tyler: ↳ VinylVillainSean @10:02 Hi Sean!
	10:03pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:52 coelacanth∅: "we've got groundhogs here. in the winter they get into the basement and chew away at what holds up my bedroom." --- lol!!!
	10:04pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Zipperhead7 @10:02 Enjoy your holiday, too, Zipperhead!!!
	10:05pm coelacanth∅: glad you're not finished yet
	🏝 10:06pm Kristine: nice track!
	10:06pm coelacanth∅: ...not drinking though. went to the kitchen for a glass but realised i hadn't eaten dinner yet so doing that instead, or first
	10:08pm DJ Babs: yes more prudent to get something in yer belly first Coelacanth!!!
	10:08pm Derek Westerholm: coelacanth∅, we're so happy to be with you, with all of you... It's hard to say goodbye!
	10:09pm coelacanth∅: so what was that song saying, santa's on the brink of exhaustion?
	10:10pm DJ Babs: Santa should stay home because the world is in flames and global warming is a thing...
	10:11pm DJ Babs: Because this song has to be played every year because it is the best christmas song....
	🏝 10:11pm Kristine: ooh are you on until 11? Great name:)
	10:12pm Tyler: Santa's gotta save us from the Martians
	10:12pm Tyler: This song reminds me of The Flying Lizards
	10:13pm VinylVillainSean: Love this!
	10:14pm Derek Westerholm: It's a fantastic song, truly!
	10:14pm DJ Babs: Cristina was theee shiiiiiiitttttt.....
	10:14pm coelacanth∅: is martians code for politicians?
	10:15pm coelacanth∅: yes it's a bit lizardsish -around the same time too
	10:15pm Tyler: Love me some Lizards!
	10:17pm ultradamno: The FL singer became a psycho therapist...practice asking for money came in handy
	10:17pm coelacanth∅: i as well Tyler. it's a shame so many people never listened enough to think of it as anything more than a novelty
	10:17pm Tyler: From Sha-la-da-la-la... to Kling-a-ling-a-ling! Babs & Derek have all the frequencies covered!
	10:18pm ultradamno: Waitresses singer, on the other, died of cancer
	10:18pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @10:17 It would be great if she played that song to her patients at the end of each session :)
	10:19pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @10:18 Yeah, too young.
	10:19pm VinylVillainSean: LMAO
	🏝 10:20pm Kristine: that part is not good babs. the whole song is bad
	10:21pm Tyler: Santa's carbon foot-print must be pretty huge :)
	10:21pm coelacanth∅: haha i agree!
	10:22pm Tyler: I'm picturing Solid Gold Dancers :)
	10:22pm coelacanth∅: but all the plastic lawn decorations are fine!
	10:22pm Tyler: We are Egg-Nogging you on Derek & Babs!
	10:23pm Tyler: William Shatner's Rocket Man is pretty EPIC!
	10:24pm ultradamno: This song is about eating babies. Nothing else explains the adjectives 'tender' and 'mild'
	🏝 10:24pm Kristine: it was awesome! Merry Merry christmas to you all!!
	🏝 10:24pm Scott67: Thanks Babs & Derek! Have a happy & safe whatever it means for you both. 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍹🍸🍷🥂🍾❤️
	10:24pm coelacanth∅: ultra we'll have to consult professor dum dum on that
	10:25pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @10:24 Only way to stop Zombie Jeebus!
	10:25pm ultradamno: They should have thrown in 'savory' while they were at it...I mean it is the savior they're talking about feasting on...
	10:25pm VinylVillainSean: Happy Holidays all!
	10:25pm DJ Babs: Happy Happy Holiays everyone!!!
	10:25pm Tyler: Thanks Babs & Derek! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays! Hope to see soon!
	🏝 10:25pm Kristine: hahahahahaha
	10:26pm Tyler: ↳ VinylVillainSean @10:25 Hope you have a good time on the holidays! See you around the Swan...
	10:26pm coelacanth∅: William Shatner may just be the 2nd coming of our savory savior
	10:26pm DJ Babs: omg this song! THIS SONG.
	10:26pm Derek Westerholm: It really is "something"
	10:27pm DJ Babs: Ah the savory saviour. Every year when we do our family holiday cheese fondue I PRAISE CHEEZUS.
	10:27pm Tyler: I'm picturing Iggy smearing peanut butter all over his chest while singing this...
	10:28pm DJ Babs: lol! Honesty Iggy can do just about anything (except collab with blink 182 and RHCP) and I'll listen.
	10:28pm coelacanth∅: doesn't Martha & the muffins have a song called jesus and gum?!
	🏝 10:28pm Kristine: Tender and mild children tenders
	10:28pm coelacanth∅: hahaha!
	10:29pm DJ Babs: lol. I'm going to go and be sad about Terry Hall and eat a box of Toffeefay.
	10:29pm DJ Babs: Coelacanth earmarked for next years Xmas show!!!
	10:30pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @10:29 :( Toffeefay for the pain
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: i just sold my specials first album today. made me a bit sad.
	10:30pm DJ Babs: oh those happy little toffee cups. Awww coelacanth why!!!
	10:31pm DJ Babs: Gotta say Terry has been with me since I was 13. i will miss him.
	10:31pm coelacanth∅: selling all my records. i have to.
	10:31pm DJ Babs: sigh. That's a hard goodbye Coelacanth!
	10:32pm Tyler: Terry Hall died much too young, but he had a great life. Don't be sad. Celebrate him!
	10:32pm DJ Babs: Team Beachers! Thank you all for joining tonight. You are all amazing. Wishing you all a wonderful wonderful holiday. We'll see you next week for the 2022 wrapup!!!! And yes..celebrations in order! :-)
	10:33pm Tyler: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:31 Sorry, coelacantho. Hope they find good homes.
	10:33pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Derek! Thanks Babs! 'night y'all
	10:33pm Tyler: G'night, all!
	10:34pm DJ Babs: goodnight all!!!!! Stay safe and warm frens!!!!!
	10:34pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you all, sending all the best, always, all ways. Enjoy, festive-ize, however-so you do...

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	New	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Sounds Of The Ocean	Beach Sounds "Beach Sounds" by "Sounds Of The Ocean"	Ocean Sounds	Sounds Of The Ocean	2016			0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Specials	Life and Times of a Man called Depression	Encore	Universal Music Operations Limited	2019	R.I.P. Terry Hall, (19 March 1959 – 19 December 2022) "Life and Times of a Man called Depression is almost a prequel to Breaking Point. A Terry song, spoken word, rather autobiographical. "One thing I wanted to address was the ups and downs of my head, really," says Hall. "It's me looking back to when I first got properly diagnosed [with bipolar] 11 years ago, looking at that person and seeing how I've changed and how it's now mostly under control, whereas all those years ago it wasn't. It's important, if you've got a voice and people may listen to this, maybe they will understand it a bit more, how you feel – how it all feels, really." The album ends with the glorious We Sell Hope. In recent years the live show encore was All the Time in the World, dedicated to drummer John Bradbury. This is similar and is bittersweet both musically and lyrically. "Looked all around the world, it'd be a beautiful place to live in." "If you look at what the lyrics are saying," says Terry. "It's to be good to each other, because on a basic level, that's all you can do. Treat other people with respect and kindness." The music is exquisite."		0:00:07 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Specials	Holiday Fortnight "Holiday Fortnight" by "The Specials"	More Specials	Chrysalis Records	1980	Because the Holidays...		0:05:30 (Pop-up)
Essential Logic	Do You Believe In Christmas?	Fanfare In The Garden	Hiss And Shake Records	2003	Prior to the recording of X Ray Spex's debut album, Lora Logic abruptly left the band to follow her own quirky songwriting muse and formed the wonderfully named Essential Logic. Eschewing fast and loud guitars for off-kilter rhythms, "bluesy" sax playing, and forays into dissonance and atonality, Essential Logic created some of the most liberating, exciting music of the early post-punk era. Along with her primitive, exhilarating sax playing, Logic displayed a wildly imaginative vocal style that conflated the subtle eroticism of Patti Smith with the epiglottal spasms of Yoko Ono. Singing, braying, and screeching her implicitly (at times explicitly) feminist lyrics while her backing band crashed and bashed in the background, this was almost a punk version of that most despised of genres, art rock. And while the subjects of most of her songs were serious (alienation, sexism, poverty, urban isolation), there was a bratty tongue-wagging raffishness to Logic (and band) that placed them a cut above the rest."		0:09:52 (Pop-up)
The Pheromoans	A Freak's Xmas "A Freak's Xmas" by "The Pheromoans"	Does This Guy Stack Up?	Upset The Rhythm	2012	THE PHEROMOANS are a six-piece experimental rock band from the South East of England who deal in a deadpan DIY music. Married to the mundane yet surreal reportage of our lives, their music manages to address the truly restless boredom and absurdity of everyday life. The Pheromoans write songs for the end of the queue, songs that prowl the periphery, songs that stand up on the bus and stare out through the window, blasted through with brilliant sprawling sunshine.		0:13:16 (Pop-up)
Barnes & Barnes	I Had Sex With Santa	SICKS	Rhino	1986	Robert Haimer and Bill Mumy were childhood friends who occasionally performed together on their musical instruments. Following the ending of Mumy's role on the TV series Lost in Space, they shot short films with a Super 8 motion picture camera, dubbed "Art Films". The two began calling each other "Art" in joking reference to these films. They formed the band Barnes & Barnes in 1970. They started when they were about 16 with a two track recorder, making goofy tracks, never meant to be shared. Their surname Barnes was taken from a Bill Cosby comedy routine called "Revenge", in which a character called Junior Barnes throws a slushball at Cosby as a child. They first received airplay on The Dr. Demento Show in 1978. Haimer was a fan of the show and convinced Mumy to "pick a couple of songs and do them right" to send in, the results being their songs "Boogie Woogie Amputee" and "Fish Heads" which they re-did on a Teac four track machine. The latter recording was released as a single on their own Lumania Records in 1979 and remains their best-known song, as well as the most requested song in the history of The Dr. Demento Show.		0:15:31 (Pop-up)
The Residents	Fire (Santa Dog) "Fire (Santa Dog)" by "The Residents"	80 Aching Orphans: 45 years of the Residents	Ralph Records	1972	The Residents are an American art collective and art rock band best known for their avant-garde music and multimedia works. Since their first official release, Meet the Residents (1974), they have released over 60 albums, numerous music videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects, and ten DVDs. The group also formed Ralph Records at this time, as a small, independent label to release and promote their own work. In 1972, to inaugurate the new business, the group recorded and pressed the Santa Dog EP, their first recorded output to be released to the public. Designed to resemble a Christmas card from an insurance company, the EP consisted of two 7" singles, one song on each side.		0:16:58 (Pop-up)
The Goodies	Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me	Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me 7"	Bradley's Records	1974	Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie were cast members of the 1960s BBC radio comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, which also featured John Cleese, David Hatch and Jo Kendall, and lasted until 1973. I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again resulted from the 1963 Cambridge University Footlights Club revue A Clump of Plinths. After having its title changed to Cambridge Circus, the revue went on to play in the West End in London, England, followed by a tour of New Zealand, then on Broadway in New York City (including an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show). They also took part in various TV shows with other people, including Brooke-Taylor in At Last the 1948 Show (with Cleese, Chapman and Marty Feldman). Brooke-Taylor also took part in Marty (with Marty Feldman, John Junkin and Roland MacLeod). In 1968 Brooke-Taylor appeared with Cleese, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman in How to Irritate People. Garden and Oddie took part in Twice a Fortnight (with Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Jonathan Lynn), before Brooke-Taylor, Garden, and Oddie worked on the late-1960s TV show Broaden Your Mind (of which only about ten minutes survives).		0:18:38 (Pop-up)
Goldstein	Kick The Balls Of Patriarchy	Hyrrs - Festive Hymns Made Feminist	Goldstein	2017	Goldstein Music Group is a full-service music production agency in London with unrivalled expertise in all aspects of music composition, music supervision and licensing and sound branding, sound design and mixing. Hyrrs – Festive Hymns Made Feminist was written and produced to raise money for Refuge. Their incredible work provides life-saving support to thousands of women and children across the country. You can listen to the album via Spotify, and most importantly, purchase your copy through iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon.		0:21:53 (Pop-up)
Manginah (Brandeis University)	Hannukah Hey Ya	L'Dor Vador	Manginah Brandeis	2022	Manginah (pronounced mahn-ghee-NAH) is Brandeis University's premier Jewish a cappella group. In Hebrew, the word Manginah is Hebrew for “melody”. Founded in 1994, and partnered with Hillel, Manginah sings a mixture of Jewish, Israeli pop, and English songs. Our mission is to share our love of Jewish music with Jewish communities across the greater Boston area. This song makes me very, very happy.		0:23:15 (Pop-up)
DJ Formaldehyde	Merry Christmas - The Bombshelter Brigade	Christmas At The Bombshelter	Bombshelter	1986	Originally recorded for the Christmas at the Bombshelter compilation, Andreas Gregor and David Rout (!Bang Elektroniks) got together and took some liberties with Daniel Miller's classic Warm Leatherette! Because it was a novelty track, they decided to use the name The Bombshelter Brigade, as that was what a local record store employee called them, whenever they were putting up posters for their label.		0:26:14 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Kiboomers	Hannukah Oh Hannukah	Hannukah Songs For Preschool and Kindergarten	Kiboomu Kids Songs	2016			0:29:36 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Bela Fleck & The Flecktones	The Hannukah Waltz	Jingle All The Way	Rounder Records	2008			0:32:07 (Pop-up)
Nouvelle Vague feat. Phoebe Killdeer	Sex Beat	Curiosities	Kwaidan Records	2019	Cover of the Gun Club Song. Covered in a Nouvelle Vague way, as Nouvelle Vague do. Keyboards – Marc Collin // Performer [Performed By] – Phoebe Killdeer (Real name: Phoebe Tolmer // Written-By – Jefferey Lee Pierce --- Extra fun fact... This song mentions fucking by a Christmas Tree, as it should.		0:38:57 (Pop-up)
Snapped Ankles	Delivery Van "Delivery Van" by "Snapped Ankles"	Stunning Luxury	The Leaf Label Ltd.	2019	Released March 1, 2019 "Snapped Ankles have taken on the guise of the very agents of their community’s demise – the property developers and brokers who heat the market on the promise of Stunning Luxury. With their adopted warehouse habitat under constant threat, the woodwose have taken this sharp-suited incarnation in order to infiltrate. The resistance starts here."		0:42:21 (Pop-up)
Quintron & Miss Pussycat	Silent Night	Psych-Out Christmas	Cleopatra Records	2013	"Quintron (real name Robert Rolston; born c. 1967 in Germany[1]) is an American musician and leader of the eponymous one-man-band, "Quintron". He is a nightclub organist and inventor, who has patented a number of his own inventions and often performs at his own private club, the Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans. He frequently performs with his wife, musician and puppeteer Panacea Pussycat (also known as Miss Pussycat), co-founder of the 9th Ward's defunct Pussycat Caverns."		0:46:41 (Pop-up)
Katjonband	Do You? "Do You?" by "Katjonband"	Katjonband	Carrot Top Records	2008	:Love The Ex & love the Mekons... What could be better? Crossover between the two projects! Katherine Bournfeld of The Ex & Jon Langford of Mekons (et. al.) Recorded By [With], Mixed By [With] – Ryan Neuschafer // Recorded By, Mixed By – Jon, Kat // Vocals, Drums – Kat Ex // Vocals, Guitar – Jon Langford // Written-By – Langford/ Bornefeld. Lyrics include "Happy Holidays"		0:49:17 (Pop-up)
The Fall	Jingle Bell Rock "Jingle Bell Rock" by "The Fall"	The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004	Castle / Sanctuary Records	1994 / 2005	Written by: Joe Beal, Jim Boothe // "First recording and first release by Bobby Helms (October 29, 1957 / November 1957)" - "The eighteenth session from December 1994 found the group in full, festive mood; and marked the return of two old Fall stalwarts; Karl Burns (last heard on session 9 in 1985) and, remarkably, Brix E Smith (last heard in session 12 in 1988). However, it was to be Craig Scanlon's last [Peel session] appearance with the group."		0:54:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Opium Jukebox	Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" by "Opium Jukebox"	Opium Christmas	Invisible Records	2007	Strangely, this album is not on Discogs, despite the fact it seems to have existed for 15 years. This is the laid-back bangra-inspired project of Martin Atkins. Martin Atkins is currently in the hospital, recovering from major surgery that he had yesterday. Any support sent to support any of his work & endeavours during this time are doubly appreciated. His original message: "Hi Friends, please don't be alarmed by the following... After pain, numbness, an ER visit, and an emergency MRI last week, I have been scheduled for urgent surgery on Wednesday, December 21st to try and fix some problems with the nerves in my spine and begin re-fixing problems with my back. It seems that after years of crazy drumming and touring, my body needs a breather. I’ve had back pain for several years now, and in the last month it’s caught up with me and become critical... Keep Martin the Fck IN Bed! As I hunker down for surgery prep, I know that I’ll be inclined to rush my recovery to get back to action, so we’ve come up with some ways you can support me, the museum, and keep me the fck in bed!... //////////////////// A monthly subscription donation to the Museum - You can choose any amount you'd like, and can change or cancel your subscription at any time. Check out the Subscriptions Here //////////////////// Consider buying some things that are ready to ship from the store - the Museum catalogs are gorgeous & awesome, the RX album, the new FOOK shirt, the new museum coffee, or become a founder of the museum itself (and be included in the next catalog's founders list)! For those of you struggling, yourselves, the 30% discount code is still active - use DISC30. Online Store Here //////////////////// Or purchase a Martin United Tour Pass - they’re all exactly the same, but give you the chance to support in $10, $50, or $100 increments, and the same with a Martin Voodoo Doll - $50, $150, or $250 increments. Keep Martin the F*ck IN Bed Category Here His latest communication to his mailing list, from earlier today: "My health update: A longer than expected first surgery, but a wonderful team is looking after me here, too. Thank you. Home tomorrow, everything else will take a little longer. So much love to everyone! -MA"		0:55:09 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Opium Jukebox	Hark The Herald Angels Sing	Opium Christmas	Invisible Records	2007	Martin Atkins' original message: "...As I hunker down for surgery prep, I know that I’ll be inclined to rush my recovery to get back to action, so we’ve come up with some ways you can support me, the museum, and keep me the fck in bed!... //////////////////// A monthly subscription donation to the Museum - You can choose any amount you'd like, and can change or cancel your subscription at any time. Check out the Subscriptions Here //////////////////// Consider buying some things that are ready to ship from the store - the Museum catalogs are gorgeous & awesome, the RX album, the new FOOK shirt, the new museum coffee, or become a founder of the museum itself (and be included in the next catalog's founders list)! For those of you struggling, yourselves, the 30% discount code is still active - use DISC30. Online Store Here //////////////////// Or purchase a Martin United Tour Pass - they’re all exactly the same, but give you the chance to support in $10, $50, or $100 increments, and the same with a Martin Voodoo Doll - $50, $150, or $250 increments. Keep Martin the Fck IN Bed Category Here His latest communication to his mailing list, from earlier today: "My health update: A longer than expected first surgery, but a wonderful team is looking after me here, too. Thank you. Home tomorrow, everything else will take a little longer. So much love to everyone! -MA"		0:59:34 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Opium Jukebox	Little Drummer Boy "Little Drummer Boy" by "Opium Jukebox"	Opium Christmas	Invisible Records	2007	If you are looking for the interview Martin Atkins graciously did with us, you can find it here... November 3, 2022: An Evening With Martin Atkins... (w/ Interview!!!)		1:04:14 (Pop-up)
Stompin Tom Connors	Merry Christmas Everybody	Merry Christmas Everybody	Ole	2017	Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, was a Canadian country and folk singer-songwriter. Focusing his career exclusively on his native Canada, he is credited with writing more than 300 songs and has released four dozen albums, with total sales of nearly four million copies. He had a tumultuous relationship with the Canadian music industry and CBC. He was a heavy drinker and smoker, and grew up in the poorest part of St. John, New Brunswick. He put his country first and foremost, and wrote songs about the national identity from the everyman's viewpoint. Though of another time, he remains a national treasure...		1:06:03 (Pop-up)
Anne Murray	Snowbird "Snowbird" by "Anne Murray"	This Way Is My Way	Capitol	1969	Murray was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts and also the first to earn a Gold record for one of her signature songs, "Snowbird". She is often cited as one of the female Canadian artists who paved the way for other international Canadian success stories such as k.d. lang, Céline Dion, and Shania Twain. As with Stompin' Tom...she is a Canadian treasure.		1:08:18 (Pop-up)
John Denver	Please Daddy, Don't Get Drunk This Christmas	Rocky Mountain Christmas	RCA	1975	Farewell Andromeda is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver, released in June 1973. It's distressingly upbeat, one major chord bounding into the next, Denver yodelling a little halfway through the chorus in what seems like a desperate attempt to add a little levity. It's so breezy that nobody has been able to tap into the agony ever since. Given his ain't-life-somethin' reputation, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Denver didn't write "Please, Daddy…" himself. But the original songwriters weren't known for their pitch-black social realism either. The song is credited to Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, the then-married couple best known for fronting The Starland Vocal Band and penning the group's massive, nitrous-happy ode to daytime sex, "Afternoon Delight."		1:10:30 (Pop-up)
Larry Costa	Six Cups Of Eggnog "Six Cups Of Eggnog" by "Larry Costa"	Christmas Crooner	Self-Released	2016	An average of 135 million lbs (61 million kg) of eggnog is consumed every year in America alone. It is derived from a medieval beverage called "Posset". Robert Mitchum has one of the best recipes for this boozy, viscous treat. George Washington has been known to have been a lover of eggnog and would regularly serve it to guests. “One quart cream, one quart milk, one dozen tablespoons sugar, one pint brandy, 1/2 pint rye whiskey, 1/2 pint Jamaica rum, and 1/4 pint sherry.” The Eggnog Riot, a.k.a. The Grog Mutiny, was a Christmas soiree gone very wrong at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1826.		1:13:16 (Pop-up)
Jacob MIller & Inner Circle	All I Want For Ismas	Natty Christmas	Dubshot Records	2015	Jacob Miller was a Jamaican reggae artist and Rastafari from Mandeville, Jamaica. His first recording session was with the famous Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd in the late 1960s. While pursuing a prolific solo career, he became the lead singer for the reggae group Inner Circle. In March 1980, Jacob Miller went with Bob Marley and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell to Brazil, to celebrate Island opening new offices in South America. Not long after returning to Jamaica Sunday, 23 March 1980, Miller and one of his sons died in a car accident on Hope Road in Kingston, Jamaica. Jacob Miller was the cousin of British reggae artist Maxi Priest. Every year his Christmas Album goes on heavy rotation during the holiday season in Jamaica, and is enjoyed amongst Jamaicans abroad as well.		1:15:39 (Pop-up)
Toots & the Maytals	Christmas Feeling Ska	Christmas Greetings From Studio One	Studio One	2002	The Maytals, known from 1972 to 2020 as Toots and the Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group, one of the best known ska and rocksteady vocal groups. The Maytals were formed in the early 1960s and were key figures in popularizing reggae music.Frontman Toots Hibbert, who died in 2020,[was considered a reggae pioneer on par with Bob Marley.His soulful vocal style was compared to Otis Redding, and led him to be named by Rolling Stone as one of the 100 Greatest Singers. Their 1968 single "Do the Reggay" was the first song to use the word "reggae", coining the name of the genre and introducing it to a global audience.The Oxford English Dictionary credits Toots and the Maytals in the etymology of the word "Reggae".According to Island Records founder Chris Blackwell "The Maytals were unlike anything else ... sensational, raw and dynamic."		1:18:37 (Pop-up)
Patrice	Last Christmas "Last Christmas" by "Patrice"	Patrice Presents Rocksteady Christmas	Supow Music	2021	Upon its initial release in 1984, "Last Christmas" spent five consecutive weeks at number two in the UK Singles Chart—it was held off the top spot at Christmas by Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (on which Michael also performed). After many chart runs in subsequent years, which included three more weeks at number two, and which saw the recording become part of RCA Records' catalogue, the song finally reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on New Year's Day 2021. This song is much maligned but it is one of the best holiday tunes ever written. I will die on that hill. Also, if you're playing Whamageedon this year...you are not disqualified because this is a COVER, not the original! ;-)		1:21:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Brute Force Steel Band	Jingle Bells	Brute Force Steel Bands of Antigua	Cook Records	1955			1:32:03 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Doug Walker, Steel Drum Artist	Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer	The Ultimate Reggae, Caribbean Christmas	Panman Productions	2011			1:32:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Gladiators	Jingle Bells "Jingle Bells" by "The Gladiators"	Unusual Reggae - Revolution Records 1960-70	Circle Records	2019			1:32:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Bert Kämpfert	Snowbird "Snowbird" by "Bert Kämpfert"	Orange Coloured Sky	Universal Music	1971			1:32:46 (Pop-up)
Gurr (feat. Eddie Argos)	Christmas One and Only	Christmas Business	Duchess Box Records	2018	Second Single from the EP "Christmas Business" by Gurr & Eddie Argos (Art Brut) - Recorded by Andrea Wright in Anton Newcombe's Studio, Berlin mastered by Philipp Welsing [Video shot by Gurr & edited by Guido Giorgi] Gurr feat. Eddie Argos - Christmas One and Only (Official Video)		1:35:20 (Pop-up)
Dolly Mixture	Everything And More	Remember This: The Singles Collection 1980-1984	For Us Records	1982 / 2011	Dolly Mixture was a British post-punk band formed in 1978 by bassist and vocalist Debsey Wykes, guitarist Rachel Bor, and drummer Hester Smith. They started out as complete amateurs (popular rumour had it that they first got involved into the music business as the then girlfriends of The Damned members, though it was only Rachel Bor and Captain Sensible who were a couple). Although they had their taste of Top 40 success as the backing vocals for the Captain Sensible's hit "Wot", as a band they remained neglected by the media and the general public alike. In 1984, near the end of their run, the group self-released a double album of demo tracks, which was re-released in 1995. Debsey and Hester went on to form the band Coming Up Roses, Rachel played with the band Fruit Machine until 1999, and Debsey later collaborated with Saint Etienne and formed the band Birdie.		1:38:00 (Pop-up)
Alice Bag	No Gifts For Nazis "No Gifts For Nazis" by "Alice Bag"	No Gifts For Nazis (Single)	Get Better Records	2019	"Exploring the intersections of punk, queer pop and alternative rock, Chicana punk legend Alice Bag has been active in music since 1977, when she was the lead singer and co-founder of the Bags, one of the first bands to form during the initial wave of punk rock. The Alice Bag Band was featured in the 1981 music doc, The Decline of Western Civilization." -- "Bag is best known for being a member of the Bags, one of the first bands on the L.A. punk scene. The Bags were notable for having two female lead musicians (Patricia Morrison co-founded the group with her school friend, Bag) and for pioneering an aggressive sound and style which has been cited as an early influence on what would become the hardcore punk sound. The aggressive sound that the band had was later noted to have a Mexican/Chicano influence that Bag unintentionally brought along from her childhood"		1:40:53 (Pop-up)
Sufjan Stevens	Christmas In July "Christmas In July" by "Sufjan Stevens"	Songs For Christmas [Boxset: Disc 5: Peace (2006) Vol. V)	Asthmatic Kitty Records	2006	Cello – Maria Bella Jeffers // Drums – James McAlister // Trombone – Ben Lanz // Trumpet – C. J. Camerieri // Violin – Naho Tsutsui, Rob Moose // Vocals, Piano, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Organ [Hammond], Guitar [Electric], Bass, Tambourine, Bells [Sleigh], Shaker, Other [Chestnuts Roasting On Open Fire] – Sufjan Stevens // Vocals, Viola – Marla Hansen // Words By, Music By – Sufjan Stevens		1:42:56 (Pop-up)
Gurr (feat. Eddie Argos)	Christmas Holiday	Christmas Business	Duchess Box Records	2018	First Single from the EP "Christmas Business" by Gurr & Eddie Argos (Art Brut) - Recorded by Andrea Wright in Anton Newcombe's Studio, Berlin mastered by Philipp Welsing [Video shot by Gurr & edited by Guido Giorgi] Gurr feat. Eddie Argos - Christmas Holiday (Official Video)		1:46:12 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Legendary Pink Dots	Warm Bank "Warm Bank" by "Legendary Pink Dots"	The Legendary Pink Dots' Christmas Special 2022	Self Released (Bandcamp)	2022	The night of my (D) 50th birthday we went to see Legendary Pink Dots in our city of Toronto and met & talked to Edward Ka Spel after the show. He was wonderful, taking the time to talk to each & every person who was hoping to get a word in. We hope to interview him soon. Legendary Pink Dots (Bandcamp)	*	1:49:13 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Thibörg	Hymn to the Mall, The Xmas Mall	Snow Day at the Mall, Noël 2022.	Self Released (Bandcamp)	2022	From Montréal, released December 16, 2022. One of my favourite things... "Hymn to the Mall, The Xmas Mall" can be downloaded for free; the entire EP can be downloaded for $1, or the entire discography (3 releases, 2 Xmas themed, 1 Hallowe'en themed) can be purchased for $0.65 CAD or more (35% OFF). I love it when pricing strategies make no sense like that. I also love what this project brings to the Xmas season. The real sounds of Xmas. Thibörg (Bandcamp)	*	1:52:12 (Pop-up)
The Sha La Das	Sha La Da La La (Christmas Time)	Love In The Wind	Daptone	2018	The Sha La Das story begins with William Schalda, Sr., who hailed from Brooklyn, New York and grew up with a love of music. Schalda was a gifted singer and developed a passion for vocal harmonies, and in the early '60s, teenaged Schalda was a member of the Montereys, a popular local doo wop group. At the center of The Sha La Das are the four Schaldas: three talented brothers and the father who taught his boys group harmonies on the stoop of their Staten Island home growing up. The band features a number of the players that have helped define the Daptone Sound including members of The Dap-Kings, Charles Bradley, and Menahan Street Band.		1:57:45 (Pop-up)
U.S. Girls	Santa Stay Home "Santa Stay Home" by "U.S. Girls"	Santa Stay Home Single	Royal Mountain Records	2020	U.S. Girls is a Toronto-based experimental pop project formed in 2007, consisting solely of American musician and record producer Meghan Remy. In this song, Remy recommends that Santa stay home this year because of climate change, the environmental impact of Christmas trees, and the consumerism-driven gift giving. Check it out below. In a statement, Meg Remy explained, “When one stops to really think about it, Santa is creepy and Christmas makes no damn sense.		2:01:01 (Pop-up)
The Raveonettes	Snowstorm "Snowstorm" by "The Raveonettes"	Snowstorm Single	Beat Dies Records	2020	The Raveonettes are a Danish indie rock duo, consisting of Sune Rose Wagner on guitar, instruments and vocals, and Sharin Foo on bass, guitar and vocals. Their music is characterized by close two-part vocal harmonies inspired by The Everly Brothers coupled with hard-edged electric guitar overlaid with liberal doses of noise.Their songs juxtapose the structural and chordal simplicity of 1950s and 1960s rock with intense electric instrumentation, driving beats, and often dark lyrical content (e.g., crime, drugs, murder, suicide, love, lust, and betrayal), similar to another of the band's influences, The Velvet Underground. This is a perfect Blue Christmas song....		2:04:59 (Pop-up)
Cristina	Things Fall Apart "Things Fall Apart" by "Cristina"	Sleep It Off	Island Records	1981	We included this on last years show and we will include it on every subsequent holiday show because IT IS THE BEST CHRISTMAS SONG EVER WRITTEN. Post punk, no wave, new wave, it is the perfect tune to shed a tear and smear your black holiday eyeliner to. You know how the woman in the Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping forgets the cranberries, so she goes back to the shop and meets the guy and brings her Christmas to a very happy ending? Well this is what her unhappy little sister is doing across town on Christmas Eve...Cristina sadly passed away of Covid-19 in April of 2020.		2:07:40 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: James Last	Kling Gloeckchen Klingelingelling Medley	Christmas Dancing	Polydor	1974	It's not Christmas if I don't play this song.		2:12:02 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Mirror Image	We Three Kings "We Three Kings" by "Mirror Image"	Yuletide Disco	Pickwick	1979			2:15:38 (Pop-up)
William Shatner, Iggy Pop	Silent Night - 2022 Mix	Silent Night (2022 Mix)	Cleopatra Records	2022	So, I guess, somehow, this happened this year... Huh.	*	2:22:19 (Pop-up)
The Specials	Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)	More Specials	Chrysalis Records	1980	""Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)" is a popular song published in 1949, with music written by Carl Sigman and lyrics by Herb Magidson." R.I.P. Terry Hall. In this song he proclaimed "My name is Terry, and I'm going to enjoy myself first"... We truly hope so.		2:25:30 (Pop-up)
The Specials	Enjoy Yourself (Reprise)	More Specials	Chrysalis Records	1980	The Specials' second album started w/ "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)" and ends w/ "Enjoy Yourself (Reprise)", so, it seems doubly important. Once again, we will miss Terry Hall.		2:29:09 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:56pm DJ Babs: Hello and welcome beachers, grab a hot toddy and gather round the bonfire it's time for a Yuletide/Kwanzaa/Hannukah celebration!!!
	🏝 8:01pm Kristine: Hiiii!!! How are you both?
	🏝 8:02pm Scott67: G'day Babs, Derek & Beach Bums! 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	8:03pm DJ Babs: Hi Kristine! Hi Scott! Happy Holidays!!!!!!! Merry Christmas! Frohe Weihnachten!!!!
	8:03pm ultradamno: Babs! Derek! Beach Bums!
	8:04pm DJ Babs: Hi there UD! Hello hello
	8:04pm Derek Westerholm: Hello, Kristine!!! Hello! We are both doing well! How about you?
	8:04pm Derek Westerholm: Hey there Scott, Ultra, hello hello all!!! Happy festiveness!
	🏝 8:05pm Kristine: I am doing good! finished up xmas food shopping today so i dont have to go anywhere tomorrow.
	8:05pm Derek Westerholm: It's a good idea not to go anywhere tomorrow in our neck of the woods
	8:05pm DJ Babs: Same! I finished a harrowing last day of work and all I gotta do tomorrow is make potato salad! LOL
	8:06pm Derek Westerholm: Unfortunately I have to travel back & forth half the city to work tomorrow... Rain, Ice, Snow, 100km/hr winds... What could go wrong?
	🏝 8:07pm Kristine: yeah, Wes must do the same. i travel to ottawa on sat to see fam. hopefully it wont be as bad then..?? eek.
	8:07pm DJ Babs: well in the meantime I hope you're all feeling festive!!!!
	🏝 8:07pm Kristine: really digging this tune
	8:07pm DJ Babs: we are taking the train to montreal on Monday...
	🏝 8:08pm Kristine: train, very smart.
	8:08pm Derek Westerholm: Yeah, it's quite the awesome song!
	8:09pm Alli B: Hi guys
	8:09pm Alli B: The Specials and Terry Hall ❤️
	8:12pm Derek Westerholm: Yes, R.I.P. Terry Hall.
	8:13pm ultradamno: A couple more carols to add to last week's list MX-80 Sound - Christmas With The Devil James Chance & The Contortions - Christmas With Satan
	🏝 8:13pm Kristine: yes, essential logic!
	8:13pm DJ Babs: Alli hi hi hi!!!!
	8:13pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Alli, too, btw!
	8:14pm Derek Westerholm: Yes, new Essential Logic album in 2023! First in decades and decades!
	8:14pm DJ Babs: I hope to have a few fun surprises for you UD!
	🏝 8:14pm Kristine: i was lucky enough to see James Chance play in 2007. He did NOT disappoint
	8:14pm Derek Westerholm: Ultra, such a good list!
	8:15pm Derek Westerholm: James Chance signed the back of my credit card. I had three different people of note sign the back of three different credit cards. I wanted to do more, but only got around to three...
	🏝 8:16pm Kristine: Derek what?!?
	🏝 8:17pm Kristine: this band has a very Flying Nuns edge to it. I love it
	8:19pm Derek Westerholm: Kristine, I used to leave the back of my credit cards blank and get other people to sign them instead. James Chance was up for it!
	8:19pm DJ Babs: Pheromoans are great Kristine!
	8:19pm ultradamno: This adds to my general concerns about this fat bastard visiting every house globally during a pandemic
	8:20pm ultradamno: RESIS!
	8:20pm DJ Babs: Also did you know there is a gamelan version of this!!!
	🏝 8:21pm Kristine: @babs-face drop. WHAT?? I am obsessed with gamelan
	8:21pm ultradamno: Yes! I was about to mention that! So many versions of this
	8:22pm Mr Fab: ↳ Song: "I Had Sex With Santa" by "Barnes & Barnes" Hey beachers! Haha, I remember this song was originally called "I Had Sex With E.T." It was really great ("his skin is green, his breath is alien-like/I had sex with ET, when we were on his bike," but they got some kind of cease-and-desist and had to change the lyrics.
	8:22pm ultradamno: ↳ Kristine @8:21 It's on the Dot Com album
	8:22pm DJ Babs: haha Santa not as litigeous as the ET people at Dreamworks LOL
	8:24pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:22 Hello Fab!!!! Ah... Yes, so it goes around, haha.
	8:25pm Derek Westerholm: Nice chat reply functionality! Is it new? I'm sure I've missed a bulletin or two...
	8:26pm Mr Fab: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:25 Yep, just rolled out last Tuesday. Kenzo posted a notice.
	🏝 8:26pm Kat in Chicago: It is new, Derek!
	🏝 8:26pm Kat in Chicago: I haven't even used it yet myself
	8:26pm DJ Babs: HEY KAT! Also I have been laughihng my ass off at this song for days now. DAYS
	8:26pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @8:26 I like it!!!! Hi Kat!!!
	🏝 8:27pm Kat in Chicago: Hello Babs and Derek and all yall
	8:28pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Mr Fab @8:26 I also enjoy the arrows that take you up to the parent comment or forward to the reply. It's fun!
	8:28pm ultradamno: Reminding of how Outkast kept insisting they weren't going to break up and then put out a feature film in which the two of them shared almost no scenes whatsoever...and then broke up.
	8:28pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ ultradamno @8:28 HAHA
	🏝 8:29pm Kat in Chicago: WFMU is the only place I listen to Christmas music On Purpose
	🏝 8:32pm Scott67: ↳ Song: "Merry Christmas - The Bombshelter Brigade" by "DJ... A crime against one of my favourite songs. About my least favourite time of year.
	8:32pm Dave: Hey all ! Hope every one is doing well !
	🏝 8:32pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ DJ Babs @8:07 Montreal is warmer than Chicago right now
	8:32pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @8:29 Kat, that sounds like a wise way to go about it, haha.
	8:32pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Dave @8:32 Hello Dave! Yes, indeed! And you?
	8:33pm Mr Fab: ↳ Kat in Chicago @8:29 cuz no one plays Mariah or Wham!
	8:34pm ultradamno: Does the second picture looks like Oksana Baiul is putting out an indie rock album...Oksana & The Jerks maybe? www.instagram.com...
	8:34pm Derek Westerholm: Babs would play the Xmas Wham! (I would definitely not.)
	8:34pm Dave: Thanks for playing that and all the kind words Babs blushes
	8:36pm Derek Westerholm: Dave, thanks so much for that!
	8:37pm ultradamno: I saw Ari Melber doing his usual schtick of quoting Jay Z on MSNBC earlier and I really wished someone had the nerve to say "you mean close personal friend of Kanye West, Jay Z? Do tell what he has to say..."
	8:41pm DJ Nico: Mopping my floors to your show!
	8:41pm Jim: We do not have Swiss Chalet here - That's all yours!
	8:43pm DJ Babs: Hi Jim!! Swiss Chalet is a roast chicken place up here that's kinda legend. Every year they do a 1/4 chicken dinner with a Toblerone bar and it's their "festive special" It's all about the Swiss Chalet sauce and soggy greasy fries tho!!!
	8:43pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Jim @8:41 Jim, hello! And thanks for the confirmation!
	8:43pm DJ Babs: And Dave thank you SO much for sharing that tune!!! It's so great!
	8:44pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @8:43 I always found the sauce gross.
	🏝 8:44pm Kat in Chicago: What's the sauce like?
	8:44pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Nico!!! Hope the music is mop friendly!
	8:44pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @8:44 Tangy dishwater?
	8:45pm DJ Babs: Also yes Nico so so lovely to see you!!!!!
	🏝 8:45pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Derek Westerholm @8:44 Can you get it sans sauce?
	8:46pm DJ Babs: Yes the sauce is always on the side....for dipping!!!
	8:46pm DJ Babs: It's kiiinda spicy...kinda sweet. There's nothing that really tastes like it!
	8:46pm Zipperhead7: Hi Babs and Derek! Just jumped into what sounds like a slammin' set
	8:47pm DJ Babs: Hello Hello Zipperhead! You did miss the Hannukah version of Hey Ya but more fun to come lol
	8:47pm Derek Westerholm: Hi Zipperhead, yay! Happy to hear you think so! Great to see you! How are "things"?
	8:49pm Zipperhead7: A friend was giving a zoom talk to a library this evening and got zoom bombed. It was awful. Jeezits. Hacker kept assuming other people’s names so he couldn’t be identified. Librarian had to shut the whole thing down
	8:50pm DJ Babs: Well, I'm drinking tonight. OH MY GOD. I give a lot of webinars for my work and that's a nightmare lol
	8:51pm coelacanth∅: Greetings Babs + Derek and others
	8:51pm Alli B: Webinar Queen!
	8:51pm DJ Babs: hello hello Coelacanth!!!
	8:52pm ultradamno: In the vein of Sex Beat, a few movies that I like to recommend with x-mas themes people tend to forget do: Deep Red, Morvern Callar and The Children
	8:52pm DJ Babs: Lol NO more webinars until 2023..
	8:52pm ultradamno: Katjon!
	8:53pm DJ Babs: ah you know this UD! Very cool!
	8:53pm DJ Babs: I am pleased to say this is a pretty low consumption spending Xmas this year. I'm just not buying into it! Literally!
	🏝 8:54pm Kristine: @babs same. No money, ha!
	8:54pm DJ Babs: exactly lol. I'd rather spend my money on good wine! LOLZ
	8:54pm ultradamno: Yep, one of my favorite one-off albums ever
	8:55pm DJ Babs: I am looking forward to derek telling us about it!
	🏝 8:55pm Scott67: Beer for Xmas please!🍻😎🤙💨🍺
	8:56pm Zipperhead7: ↳ DJ Babs @8:53 Yeah we're getting some toys for Zipperdawg and that's it for Santa. He'll have them all gutted within an hour. I was gonna cook a goose for xmas but they cost $135!!!
	8:56pm DJ Babs: U know it! Derek surprised me with two bottles of my very favourite wine!!
	🏝 8:57pm Scott67: Predicted to be 34 Celsius Xmas Day here. 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	8:57pm DJ Babs: honestly I got a turkey on sale and I'm so happy! We got meepmoop toys too! He stole the catnip one from me as I was wrapping it and he was freaking out all night LOL
	🏝 8:57pm Kristine: aww HERE IT COMES! Thanks derek
	8:57pm DJ Babs: what's zipperdawg getting from Santa?
	🏝 8:57pm Kat in Chicago: Not sure I need a drink after the work happy hour I went to last night. Considering it is 1 degree F out, maybe I"ll see if I have ingredients for a hot toddy
	8:57pm DJ Babs: hahah Kristine!!
	🏝 8:58pm Kat in Chicago: of course we get a Fall Xmas song! yay
	8:58pm Mr Fab: oooh man, now i gotta hear "No Xmas For John Keys"...
	8:58pm Zipperhead7: ↳ DJ Babs @8:57 I gotta pick 'em out tomorrow. That's the first version of that song I could stand. Good ol' Mark E!
	🏝 8:59pm Kat in Chicago: oh no!
	8:59pm ultradamno: At least MES didn't slag Santa off too badly
	9:03pm DJ Babs: lol can't see why he wouldn't he does love to slag...but I think I remember reading an interview with a friend of his who said that he actually really loved Christmas...
	9:03pm Zipperhead7: I was thinking it would be really neat if all the FMU premium CDs over the years and their tracks would be listed on the website. I treasure all the ones I have. Gary played some great Chinese punk on Bodega Pop last night. It was from a premium he did several years ago
	9:06pm coelacanth∅: if you're going to get locked in something it might as well be a groove
	9:07pm ultradamno: Maybe not that big a surprise, he was an x-tian who disapproved of porn on the grounds 'it's bad for the soul' or words to that effect.
	9:07pm Mr Fab: ↳ Zipperhead7 @9:03 there are some: www.discogs.com...
	9:07pm DJ Nico: Floors are clean. Tummy full. The rain has started outside. Thanks for the tunes so far!
	9:08pm coelacanth∅: Zipper i'm pretty sure i have more bodega pop cds than for any other show, and they're all excellent.
	9:08pm VinylVillainSean: Stompin' Thomas!
	🏝 9:09pm Scott67: I will drink quite a lot of beer, but will remain sober. 🍻😎🤙💨🍺🌻
	9:09pm coelacanth∅: hmm, yes maybe cocktail hour is upon me
	9:09pm VinylVillainSean: Hope you're all having your fair share of egg nog
	🏝 9:10pm Kristine: trying to reduce my booze intake, can't handle more than a glass or so. drinking lots of good teas, want to try making mocktails one day... but there will ALWAYS be eggnog
	🏝 9:10pm Scott67: Cheers coel! 🍻😎🤙💨🍸🍹
	🏝 9:10pm Kat in Chicago: Not an eggnog fan myself, it might be drinky time though
	9:10pm DJ Babs: Hi Sean!!! Welcome welcome!!!!
	9:10pm coelacanth∅: my father's incredible eggnog may have ruined eggnog for me. i've never tasted any other eggnog that i even want a whole cup of.
	9:10pm DJ Babs: I love eggnog and will jhave one later!!!
	9:11pm Mr Fab: Anchor Steam brewery released their utterly fantastic xmas brew. Every year it's a dif recipe. I'm not a big beer drinker anymore, but was lucky to score a couple six packs. They go fast.
	9:11pm ultradamno: All of you quitting, I will perform the service of taking custody of your alcohol. No questions asked, you are welcome in advance.
	🏝 9:11pm Scott67: I've never had eggnog!
	🏝 9:11pm Kristine: i only have eggnog right on christmas eve.
	🏝 9:12pm Kristine: thanks ultradamno, jealous of all those that can hold their liquor!
	9:12pm DJ Babs: Goddamn snowbird I love this song so much. I'm on my 3rd carton of nog this season LOL. Sean and i shared some coconut nog last week and it's an excellent dairy free alternative!!!
	9:12pm ultradamno: It's actually pretty good. Steak n Shake does a nice eggnog shake.
	9:12pm DJ Babs: mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
	9:12pm Zipperhead7: ↳ Mr Fab @9:07 I have the Sheena 2002, Fab! Great stuff. Will peruse the others
	🏝 9:13pm Kristine: third carton? wowza. do you know if its similar to eierlikor?
	9:13pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Sean! Hello Coelacanth∅!
	9:13pm Mr Fab: well, gotta say...never thought I'd near Anne Murray on this channel, haha.
	9:13pm coelacanth∅: i haven't heard this song since i was little
	9:14pm VinylVillainSean: Hey Babs and Derek! Hope you guys are all having a warm and dry blizzard eve
	9:14pm DJ Babs: yes! Indeed. Glad the blizzard is letting us do our radio show and not knocking out power!
	9:14pm ultradamno: I have seen John Denver live. My sister was OBSESSED...to the point we vacationed in Aspen once, and we do not ski.
	9:14pm DJ Babs: I LOVE ANNE MURRAY
	9:14pm Zipperhead7: It's a happy holiday when no chairs are thrown or tables overturned
	9:15pm DJ Babs: and kristine I'd imagine it's quite close yes!!!
	🏝 9:15pm Kat in Chicago: I never thought I'd hear John Denver on this show! I AM going to the kitchen for drinky time...
	9:15pm DJ Babs: lol this is a dark humour choice for me because my dad got drunk EVERY christmas lol
	9:16pm DJ Babs: THanks to Sean Vinyl Villain I got this tune from him!!!
	9:17pm VinylVillainSean: This 6 cups of eggnog song? That was all you lol
	9:17pm ultradamno: Didn't he chainsaw a bed in two at some point in his marriage? It's always the quiet ones...
	9:17pm Zipperhead7: That John Denver annotation is brilliant
	🏝 9:17pm Kristine: is he putting rum in the eggnog??
	9:17pm DJ Babs: wait it was?!!?!? I have lost count lol
	9:18pm DJ Babs: hahah Zipperhead truth is stranger than fiction....
	9:18pm DJ Babs: Bella this one is for you!!!
	9:19pm DJ Babs: I like a good spiced rum in my nog...but brandy is also good. what's best is Brandy AND Rum
	9:19pm Alli B: Love this song!
	9:19pm DJ Babs: Thought ya might!! ;-)
	9:20pm Mr Fab: ↳ DJ Babs @9:19 Cognac, if you feel like being a big-spender.
	9:20pm Zipperhead7: ↳ DJ Babs @9:18 Did you write that, Babs? "Nitrous-happy" is such a wonderful description. It is etched onto my cerebral cortex
	9:20pm Alli B: I’ve listened to it daily for like a month now 🤣 Never gets tiresome. Makes me move
	9:22pm VinylVillainSean: I haven't heard this toots track before! So good
	9:23pm DJ Babs: lol Zipperhead I sadly did NOT write that!
	9:23pm DJ Babs: I think it was Dangerous Minds blog.
	9:23pm DJ Babs: Christmas Ska is the best!
	9:24pm DJ Babs: I also make no apologies for this because I love ska and I love last christmas and this is perfect LOL. I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL
	9:24pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ DJ Babs @9:24 Ugh!
	9:25pm Derek Westerholm: Ugh.
	9:25pm Derek Westerholm: Ugh.
	9:25pm DJ Babs: Don't be ughing at me Westerholm LOL
	🏝 9:25pm Kristine: yes Last Christmas! I was in love with Wham since about forever
	9:25pm VinylVillainSean: lol I love Last Christmas too! It's the best
	🏝 9:26pm Kristine: DON'T APOLOGIZE!!
	9:27pm ultradamno: Did Desmond Dekker do an Israelites Christmas you could play?
	9:27pm ultradamno: ....he did have a Christmas Day song www.discogs.com...
	🏝 9:27pm Kat in Chicago: Just returned from the kitchen. Hot chocolate with a shot of The Kraken and three Dandies marshmallows on top
	9:28pm Zipperhead7: ↳ DJ Babs @9:24 I agree! I gave upon being hip decades ago. I do draw the line at McCartney's "Wonderful Christmas," though
	🏝 9:29pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Zipperhead7 @9:28 Don-O already subjected us to that one last week
	9:29pm VinylVillainSean: ↳ Zipperhead7 @9:28 lol it's so bad it's so good though!
	9:29pm Derek Westerholm: Everything is fair play... I just can't stand the song, that's all, haha.
	9:31pm ultradamno: OK...fine...but comparisons to OTIS makes me arch my back.
	9:32pm VinylVillainSean: The nog made me pass out last Fri
	9:32pm Zipperhead7: Someone gave me some almond-flavored Bailey's last week and it tasted like Kaopectate
	9:35pm Alli B: Dandies rule
	9:35pm coelacanth∅: baily's needs whiskey, not almonds (nor chocolate)
	🏝 9:35pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Alli B @9:35 One case where I vastly prefer a vegan thing to the usual thing!
	🏝 9:38pm Scott67: What happened??
	9:38pm coelacanth∅: vegenaisse grapeseed oil mayonnaise is the best in my opinion. (and i grew up with hellman's)
	9:39pm Zipperhead7: coelacanth∅! Has coelamouse returned?
	9:40pm Tyler: Good evining beacheroni's!
	🏝 9:40pm Kat in Chicago: Hey, I knit socks. They're a lot of work. Don't set them on fire
	9:40pm Derek Westerholm: Hello Tyler!!!
	9:40pm coelacanth∅: my hot chocolate is organic pure cocoa, oat milk (preferably oatley), maple syrup and jameson whiskey.
	9:41pm Tyler: Hi Derek!
	🏝 9:41pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:40 that sounds really good!
	9:41pm DJ Babs: lol Sean you passed out HARD!
	9:41pm DJ Babs: Hi Tyler! Welcome welcome! Glad you made it!
	🏝 9:41pm Scott67: I reckon The Thing should be a Xmas Movie.
	9:41pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kat in Chicago @9:40 Yeah, burning the socks seemed uncalled for.
	9:41pm Tyler: Sean is the ghost of Christmas past out :)
	9:42pm DJ Babs: Also coelacanth YES to whiskey with a shot of maple syrup. That is so so good!
	9:42pm DJ Babs: I also second the vegannaise. We've made the switch from Hellmans here. Tho on christmas I make my own home made mayo!
	9:42pm Tyler: Hi Babs. Me too! Just got back from last minute fool's errands.
	9:43pm DJ Babs: Kat we wil not allow your socks to be singed! LOL
	9:43pm ultradamno: ↳ Derek Westerholm @9:41 Also, more effort than you might think. Most socks won't go right up, so you really have to want it.
	9:43pm DJ Babs: I did my last minute errands this aft. I accidentally got a little to stoned and had to go buy pickled herring for Derek.
	9:45pm ultradamno: This song reminded me of this Onion piece www.theonion.com...
	🏝 9:45pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Song: "No Gifts For Nazis" by "Alice Bag" ooh this is a good one
	9:45pm DJ Babs: I support all anti fascist Christmas songs even if they are terrible, lol.
	9:45pm coelacanth∅: haha Zipper if coelamouse tries to make it back - 20 miles and the hudson river away - he/she's bound to find food and warmth before getting here... maybe in my sister's house!
	9:45pm Tyler: Pretty much done all my holiday hoo-haw except travelling to my parents tomorrow. It better shape than most years.
	9:45pm DJ Babs: Although Bless Alice Bag!
	9:46pm DJ Babs: Kat i love Alice Bag but that's not one of my more favourite musical versions of her. But the message I am ALL about!
	9:47pm Tyler: Sufjan is sounding pretty New Pornographers on this one...
	🏝 9:47pm Kat in Chicago: ↳ Tyler @9:47 I hear that
	9:48pm DJ Babs: Yes this is a very good song. I don't get into Sufjan as much as I should...
	9:49pm Zipperhead7: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:45 My stepson had a groundhog living in his back yard, and he trapped it and drove it way out into the country. Damned if that groundhog didn't make it back to Dumont New Jersey within two weeks! So they adopted it as a pet.
	9:50pm Tyler: ↳ Zipperhead7 @9:49 Dumontaxpony Pete :)
	9:51pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Zipperhead7 @9:49 Seemed destined to be!
	9:51pm coelacanth∅: i didn't quite catch all that eggnog recipe of -was it george washington's? ... but my father's called for something like 1.75 quarts of whiskey, a pint of rum and a quart of brandy. this making a little over 2 gallons...made 3 weeks prior to desired consumption time. it needs to mellow. i made it once, many years ago, probably still have the recipe but. . . it ain't happening.
	9:51pm DJ Babs: omg I would love to have a pet groundhog they are so so sweet!
	9:52pm coelacanth∅: we've got groundhogs here. in the winter they get into the basement and chew away at what holds up my bedroom.
	9:53pm Tyler: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:52 I think those are beavers :)
	🏝 9:53pm Kristine: awwww wish i could have been at the legendary dots show! jelly
	9:54pm Tyler: ↳ Kristine @9:53 Did they play recently?
	9:55pm ultradamno: The way to celebrate twitter.com...
	9:55pm coelacanth∅: Tyler i think they took a class taught by beavers.
	9:55pm Tyler: Awww... crap! Didn't hear about that show...
	9:56pm Tyler: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:55 Rascals :)
	🏝 9:57pm Kristine: ↳ Tyler @9:55 yeah, about a month ago. I had COVID so couldnt go.
	🏝 9:57pm Kat in Chicago: Soof-yan i think?
	9:58pm Tyler: ↳ Kristine @9:57 Drag. Sorry you couldn't go :(
	🏝 9:58pm Kristine: yeah, that's life! oh well.
	🏝 10:00pm Kristine: don't gooooooooooo
	10:01pm VinylVillainSean: This track reminds me of the Mothers
	10:01pm Tyler: Things got pretty weird after the archive cut-off :)
	10:01pm DJ Babs: we arent done yet !!!
	10:02pm VinylVillainSean: ↳ Tyler @10:01 Tyler! lol
	10:02pm Zipperhead7: I have enjoyed this show beyond measure and will play it again Saturday night. Wish I could be here more often on Thursday nights. Babs and Derek are the best! Enjoy your holiday tipple!
	10:02pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Kristine @10:00 Yes, bonus content... We're not quite going yet, Kristine, haha!
	10:02pm Tyler: Sha-la-da-la-la...
	10:02pm DJ Babs: Thanks for joining us Zipperhead!!! Merry Christmas to ya!!!
	10:03pm Tyler: ↳ VinylVillainSean @10:02 Hi Sean!
	10:03pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:52 coelacanth∅: "we've got groundhogs here. in the winter they get into the basement and chew away at what holds up my bedroom." --- lol!!!
	10:04pm Derek Westerholm: ↳ Zipperhead7 @10:02 Enjoy your holiday, too, Zipperhead!!!
	10:05pm coelacanth∅: glad you're not finished yet
	🏝 10:06pm Kristine: nice track!
	10:06pm coelacanth∅: ...not drinking though. went to the kitchen for a glass but realised i hadn't eaten dinner yet so doing that instead, or first
	10:08pm DJ Babs: yes more prudent to get something in yer belly first Coelacanth!!!
	10:08pm Derek Westerholm: coelacanth∅, we're so happy to be with you, with all of you... It's hard to say goodbye!
	10:09pm coelacanth∅: so what was that song saying, santa's on the brink of exhaustion?
	10:10pm DJ Babs: Santa should stay home because the world is in flames and global warming is a thing...
	10:11pm DJ Babs: Because this song has to be played every year because it is the best christmas song....
	🏝 10:11pm Kristine: ooh are you on until 11? Great name:)
	10:12pm Tyler: Santa's gotta save us from the Martians
	10:12pm Tyler: This song reminds me of The Flying Lizards
	10:13pm VinylVillainSean: Love this!
	10:14pm Derek Westerholm: It's a fantastic song, truly!
	10:14pm DJ Babs: Cristina was theee shiiiiiiitttttt.....
	10:14pm coelacanth∅: is martians code for politicians?
	10:15pm coelacanth∅: yes it's a bit lizardsish -around the same time too
	10:15pm Tyler: Love me some Lizards!
	10:17pm ultradamno: The FL singer became a psycho therapist...practice asking for money came in handy
	10:17pm coelacanth∅: i as well Tyler. it's a shame so many people never listened enough to think of it as anything more than a novelty
	10:17pm Tyler: From Sha-la-da-la-la... to Kling-a-ling-a-ling! Babs & Derek have all the frequencies covered!
	10:18pm ultradamno: Waitresses singer, on the other, died of cancer
	10:18pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @10:17 It would be great if she played that song to her patients at the end of each session :)
	10:19pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @10:18 Yeah, too young.
	10:19pm VinylVillainSean: LMAO
	🏝 10:20pm Kristine: that part is not good babs. the whole song is bad
	10:21pm Tyler: Santa's carbon foot-print must be pretty huge :)
	10:21pm coelacanth∅: haha i agree!
	10:22pm Tyler: I'm picturing Solid Gold Dancers :)
	10:22pm coelacanth∅: but all the plastic lawn decorations are fine!
	10:22pm Tyler: We are Egg-Nogging you on Derek & Babs!
	10:23pm Tyler: William Shatner's Rocket Man is pretty EPIC!
	10:24pm ultradamno: This song is about eating babies. Nothing else explains the adjectives 'tender' and 'mild'
	🏝 10:24pm Kristine: it was awesome! Merry Merry christmas to you all!!
	🏝 10:24pm Scott67: Thanks Babs & Derek! Have a happy & safe whatever it means for you both. 🌏☀️🍻😎🤙💨🍺🍹🍸🍷🥂🍾❤️
	10:24pm coelacanth∅: ultra we'll have to consult professor dum dum on that
	10:25pm Tyler: ↳ ultradamno @10:24 Only way to stop Zombie Jeebus!
	10:25pm ultradamno: They should have thrown in 'savory' while they were at it...I mean it is the savior they're talking about feasting on...
	10:25pm VinylVillainSean: Happy Holidays all!
	10:25pm DJ Babs: Happy Happy Holiays everyone!!!
	10:25pm Tyler: Thanks Babs & Derek! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays! Hope to see soon!
	🏝 10:25pm Kristine: hahahahahaha
	10:26pm Tyler: ↳ VinylVillainSean @10:25 Hope you have a good time on the holidays! See you around the Swan...
	10:26pm coelacanth∅: William Shatner may just be the 2nd coming of our savory savior
	10:26pm DJ Babs: omg this song! THIS SONG.
	10:26pm Derek Westerholm: It really is "something"
	10:27pm DJ Babs: Ah the savory saviour. Every year when we do our family holiday cheese fondue I PRAISE CHEEZUS.
	10:27pm Tyler: I'm picturing Iggy smearing peanut butter all over his chest while singing this...
	10:28pm DJ Babs: lol! Honesty Iggy can do just about anything (except collab with blink 182 and RHCP) and I'll listen.
	10:28pm coelacanth∅: doesn't Martha & the muffins have a song called jesus and gum?!
	🏝 10:28pm Kristine: Tender and mild children tenders
	10:28pm coelacanth∅: hahaha!
	10:29pm DJ Babs: lol. I'm going to go and be sad about Terry Hall and eat a box of Toffeefay.
	10:29pm DJ Babs: Coelacanth earmarked for next years Xmas show!!!
	10:30pm Tyler: ↳ DJ Babs @10:29 :( Toffeefay for the pain
	10:30pm coelacanth∅: i just sold my specials first album today. made me a bit sad.
	10:30pm DJ Babs: oh those happy little toffee cups. Awww coelacanth why!!!
	10:31pm DJ Babs: Gotta say Terry has been with me since I was 13. i will miss him.
	10:31pm coelacanth∅: selling all my records. i have to.
	10:31pm DJ Babs: sigh. That's a hard goodbye Coelacanth!
	10:32pm Tyler: Terry Hall died much too young, but he had a great life. Don't be sad. Celebrate him!
	10:32pm DJ Babs: Team Beachers! Thank you all for joining tonight. You are all amazing. Wishing you all a wonderful wonderful holiday. We'll see you next week for the 2022 wrapup!!!! And yes..celebrations in order! :-)
	10:33pm Tyler: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:31 Sorry, coelacantho. Hope they find good homes.
	10:33pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Derek! Thanks Babs! 'night y'all
	10:33pm Tyler: G'night, all!
	10:34pm DJ Babs: goodnight all!!!!! Stay safe and warm frens!!!!!
	10:34pm Derek Westerholm: Thank-you all, sending all the best, always, all ways. Enjoy, festive-ize, however-so you do...

Transmissions from Echo Beach with Derek Westerholm and DJ Babs: Playlist from December 22, 2022

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