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

Trick or Treat Dancefloor

I've got some time to kill and I'd like it if you'd kill some time with me

1. Plastic Angels - LAKE R▲DIO
2. Hide and Seek - Flowers
3. Bed Dread - Tyrannosaurus Dead
4. Graveyard - Joanna Gruesome
5. Bury Me Now - Oli Spleen
6. Dig Up The Graves - Tullycraft
7. German Ghost Cat - Baby Ghosts
8. Trick or Treat Dancefloor - Cherry Glazerr
9. Gravitron - Au Revoir Simone
10. Here Come The Martian Martians - Jonathan Richman
11. Superstition Has Its Uses - Flipron
12. Frankenstein Twist - Crystals
13. Killing Time - Veronica Falls
14. Just a Ghost - I Am A Man With A St Tropez Tan
15. Who Ya Gonna Call Goatbuster! - The Spook School

Old Friends Are Older Now

Cold Winds Are Colder Now

1. We Are Nothing Alike - The Indelicates
2. Easier To Cry - TV Girl
3. Mosaic - Fear Of Men
4. Endless Drain - Major Leagues
5. Oyster Boy You're A Blast - Tyrannosaurus Dead
6. Nasty Habits - The Wild Ones
7. As Long As I Have You - Alpaca Sports
8. Surfing Cats - The Notes
9. Don't Hang Around - The Death Of Pop
10. Nick's Song - Songs For Walter
11. Heat Wave - The All About
12. Wish You Were Beer - The Great American Novel
13. BRAINS - Mega Emotion
14. Motherquake - DJ Freh & Diplo
15. Purge Your Inner Tory - Colour Me Wednesday
16. We Are All The Lo-Fi Kids - Helen Love
17. (Here's to) The Ghosts Of The Past - Dot Dash
18. This Town (Song For Karen) - The Thlyds

Can I Always Dream with You?

 



































3am and I'm all alone / just a memory and a diet coke

1. Dead Dreamer - Glass Teeth
2. Stamping On Snails - Songs For Walter
3. Diet Coke - TV Girl
4. 1992 - Tynrannosaurus Dead
5. Dreaming - Seapony
6. Pale - Young Romance
7. You Held My Hand - Flowers
8. Buried Alive - Veronica Falls 
9. Welcome to Váxjó - Ballboy
10. Elks Lodge Riot - Tullycraft
11. Dead and Alice - Just Handshakes
12. Antabus - Makthaverskan 
13. The Ghost of Stephen Hawking's Legs - Baby Ghosts
14. Washington Weather - Beach Vacation
15. Fine Fine Fine - The Mentalettes
16. I Don't Want To Get Used To It - Darren Hayman and the Long Parliament
17. Thorns - Winter Villains

My Heart Was Broken Long Before I Met You

There's no money, there's barely any love, but I see you... and you're not alone

1. Asleep - Makthaverskan
2. Not Alone - The Indelicates
3. Gary Glitter Fan Convention - The Bitter Springs
4. We Knew Your Name Until Your Heart Stopped - Tullycraft
5. Nobody's Son - Race Horses 
6. Alchemy - Fever Dream
7. Soft - Tyrannosaurus Dead
8. Concrete - Breathe Out
9. Can You Tell Me One Thing - The Organ
10. When We Were Still Friends - Herman Dune
11. Tina Waymouth - This Many Boyfriends 
12. December 1986 - Lucky Delucci
13. Vesper Two - Trick Mammoth 
14. Bright Lights - Just Handshakes
15. Hymn For The Alcohol - Hefner
16. Roll Me in Cotton - Ooberman
17. The Air - Winter Villains 
18. Colors and the Kids - Cat Power

I Heard You Shagged a Girl in the Record Shop...

...aye, it was quite nice for 15 minutes, but it wasn't half as good as you

1. All The Sad Young Literary Men - The Great American Novel
2. Katy Too - Johnny Cash
3. Ghost Next Door - Baby Ghosts
4. We're Gonna Get Fucked - The Death of Pop
5. Record Shop (MJ Hibbett remix) - The Bobby McGee's
6. Broken Toy - Veronica Falls
7. Runner - Go Violets
8. Popgirly - The Electric Pop Group
9. Put That Girl - Fat Children
10. Let Me Sleep - Island Twins
11. Glitter on Mars - Punks On Mars
12. Avant Garde Music - Ballboy
13. Losing My Glue - Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern
14. Sergio - The Secret History
15. Jean's Waving - Amor de Dias
16. So Sad To Say Goodbye (Baffin Island remake) - Tiny Fireflies 
17. Bad Comedian - Art Brut

A Ghosts Broken Heart

I was busy getting my Discotheque on when people were posting their best of 2012 mixes so here's a late mix with some good shit that I enjoyed last year. 2013 is already promising great things with the return of the legen...wait for it...dary Tullycraft, a new album from Veronica Falls, and maybe a new Ballboy LP. So here's hoping that your Discotheques go deep into the mornings. If you like the music buy the records, and Stay off the Crack!!

A Ghosts Broken Heart:

1. Killing Time - Veronica Falls
2. A Ghosts Broken Heart - French for Rabbits 
3. Sisters - Race Horses
4. Cover The Walls - Internet Forever
5. Just For Fun - Alpaca Sports
6. You Make Me Sick (Like The American Dream) - PRIS
7. If I Wanted a Job (I'd Have Been Born a Cunt) - The Thlyds
8. Tendons - Shrag
9. Wrath of God - Crystal Castles
10. Superstition Has Its Uses - Flipron
11. Shithead - Potty Mouth
12. Cut and Run - Flowers
13. Don't Lie - Hannah Lew
14. I Wonder Who She's Kissing Now - TV Girl
15. Friday Afternoons (Down The Union) - Just Joans
16. Free - Dexys
17. Tougher Than a Soldiers Boots - Songs For Walter
18. Cats Run Free - Tigercats
19. Another Bed - The Twilight Sad
20. Care - Westkust
21. Swollen Hearts, Bitten Tongues - Young Romance 
22. Heart On Fire - Hedgehog
23. Plastic Angels - LAKE R▲DIO (ft Paislienne)

Download mix here or listen here:

A Ghosts Broken Heart - Best of 2012 from PopMiwsig on 8tracks Radio.