Christmas Advent #17 – Countdown To Christmas

Christmas is only a week away. So here's the epic Glam Chops, featuring Eddie Argos and the boys getting their Glam out for Christmas like Wizard spinning upside down on a barrel of Crumpton Oaks in the corner of the best discotheque ever.

Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers

Merry Christmas to the Drunken Lovers.
Side 1      Side 2

1. Christmas Eve - Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
2. Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers - Ballboy
3. Little Baby Hefner's Xmas Song for Holland - Hefner 
4. Countdown to Christmas - Glam Chops
5. Merry Christmas (I don't want to fight tonight - The Ramones
6. I Mugged Santa Claus - The Thlyds
7. Hark The Herald Angel Sing - The Fall
8. All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit
9. Santa from Santa Fe - Lawrence Welk and his Champaign music
10. Red Santa - Lucky Lucky Pigeons 
11. Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket - Jonathan Richman
12. Frosty The Snowman - The Ronettes
13. Santa’s On His Way - The Pipettes
14. Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses
15. Outer Space Santa - Lawrence Welk and The Lennon Sisters 
16. December Boy - The Loves
17. The Christmas Wars - Darren Hayman
18. December 1986 - Lucky Delucci
19. Christmas Teardrops Neath’ Mistletoe - Just Joans
20. Heavenly Christmas - A Smile and a Ribbon
21. I Believe In Father Christmas - Keith TOTP & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band
22. All I want for Christmas is an Action Man - Jonny Cola and The A-Grades
23. Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas - Lovely Eggs
24. Lonely This Christmas - Carter USM
25. Stop the Revelry - Shrag
26. Just Like Christmas - Low

The Star You Fell In Love To Comes Out On Christmas Eve (Christmas Mix)

Christmas is in the air along the frosty river banks, the grass sparkles like the stars with the morning frost, our mortality shines clearer and brighter than them all at this time of year. In the ice, reflections of Christmas’ past stare back; scalextrics with dodgy transformers, Frank Fish with his latex waders shagging that snow-woman he built after one too many candle-wax-whiskies, family members no longer swimming in our waters doing the rounds on Christmas day, pints of Baileys going down the hatch like cold cans of lilt, aching hearts wandering the streets searching for that feeling lost somewhere along the way as ever familiar landscapes whisper in the darkness.

I was young once
I was seduced by
The rebellion
Of youth

I was young once
I was seduced by
The rebellion
Of you 

String together some threads, sing, drink, and dance to the ghosts of the past and things that don’t last!

The Star You Fell In Love To Comes Out On Christmas Eve:

1. Fast Sledge Past Blurred Robin - Symphonika
2. Pray for Murderers - Ballboy
3. Christmas Eve - Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci
4. Santa from Santa Fe - Lawrence Welk and his Champaign music
5. Mele Kalikimaka - Bing Crosby
6. Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses
7. Countdown to Christmas - Glam Chops
8. I’m Getting Pissed for Christmas - Peter and the Test Tube Babies
9. Come Round Here On Christmas - I Like The Go Go
10. Red Santa - Lucky Lucky Pigeons
11. The Christmas Wars - Darren Hayman
12. December 1986 - Lucky Delucci
13. Christmas Teardrops Neath’ Mistletoe - Just Joans
14. Heavenly Christmas - A Smile and a Ribbon
15. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl
16. Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket - Jonathan Richman
17. Outer Space Santa - The Lennon Sisters
18. I Believe In Father Christmas - Keith TOTP & His Minor UK Indie Celebrity All-Star Backing Band
19. Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas - Lovely Eggs
20. Don’t believe in Christmas - The Junior Varsity
21. Boogie Woogie Santa - Swing Republic
22. All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit - Half Man Half Biscuit
23. Lonely This Christmas - Carter USM
24. Stop the Revelry - Shrag
25. This Town - The Thlyds

You Can't Hide Your Glam Away, Get It Out For Christmas

Christmas is upon us and stockings fill with the melancholy of absent friends and family members perhaps no longer with us, faces of ghosts we thought we’d slain flicker in the lights and haunt our Christmas Eve dreams.

Yet for all of these reasons Christmas is beautiful and magical, other ghosts appear from nowhere, people remember and tell stories of those gone, and Christmas lights sparkle and make even the shadiest shithole shine.

So don’t cry yourself to sleep at Christmas, put on your finest threads, kife your grannies Baileys, download the Christmas mixtape, and get your Glam out for Christmas!

Don’t be glum, be Glam!!

Fast Sledge Past Blurred Robin - Symphonika

Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes

Countdown to Christmas - Glam Chops

Red Santa - Lucky Lucky Pigeons

Santa’s on his way - The Pipettes

Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket - Jonathan Richman

Santa from Santa Fe - Lawrence Welk and his Champaign music

The Christmas Wars - Darren Hayman

And The Salvation Army Band Plays - Helen Love and Ricardo Autobahn

Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas - Lovely Eggs

Don’t believe in Christmas - The Junior Varsity

Winter on the Moon - Lucky Delucci

I Took Some Time for Christmas - Belle and Sebastian

We Dress Up Like Snowmen - The Wave Pictures

Come On! Let’s Boogey to the Elf Dance - Sufjan Stevens

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Other Day - Glam Chops

Boogie Woogie Santa - Swing Republic

Outer Space Santa - The Lennon Sisters

Heavenly Christmas - A Smile and a Ribbon

Stop the Revelry - Shrag

Christmas Teardrops Neath’ Mistletoe - Just Joans

Its Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas - Half Man Half Biscuit

Christmas Eve - Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci

Merry Christmas to the Drunks, Merry Christmas to the Lovers - Ballboy

Fairytale of New York - The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl

 

Countdown to Christmas

There’s nothing quite like snow covered mountain tops at Christmas, it’s the icing on top of the sweet, sweet cake that is serving up delicious lumps of disbelief amongst the lifeless couch potatoes, starving them of their daily fix of pathetic nothingness as the signal fails to reach the satellite dish.

Whilst people were “moaning at the snow because their cars wouldn’t go” I put together a Christmas mix cd, which contains mostly the same gems as every other year but with a few new sparkling snowflakes that have just reached me.

So go grab your hat and jumper that your granny just made you, go get your friends off the phone to sky, and kick up a fuss and have some fun! And don’t forget to put glitter and a keytar on your Christmas list, because theres no substitute for Glam at Christmas!

Countdown to Christmas!

A Winter Story – Symphonika
Countdown to Christmas – Glam Chops
Frosty the Snowman – The Ronettes
Pipers Piping – Lucky Delucci
Fairytale of New York – The Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl
Merry Christmas (I don’t want to fight tonight) – The Ramones
December Boy – The Loves
Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket – Jonathan Richman
Kiss you in the Snow – The School
Heavenly Christmas – A Smile and a Ribbon
Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas – The Lovely Eggs
Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses
I took some time for Christmas – Belle and Sebastian
I’d like you for Christmas – Julie London
Red Santa – Lucky Lucky Pigeons
Lonely this Christmas – Carter USM
What’s this? – Nightmare before Christmas
Christmas is Cancelled – The Long Blondes
Stop the Revelry – Shrag
It’s Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas – Half Man Half Biscuit
Christmas Teardrops ‘Neath Mistletoe – Just Joans
Santa Claus is coming to town - Crystals
Lords Keep Leaping – Silence At Sea
The Christmas Song - Raveonettes
Run Rudolph Run – Chuck Berry
Hey Turkey – Turkey Basil