TTT #64: The Christmas Hearth

TTT #64 Playlist


I'm going to make this a super short one.  You should be spending the last few days of the Holiday season with loved ones, wishing those around you a good day or just soaking up the Spirit.

Ever since I started working at Walmart it seems that the Christmas season (even though they start it in October) just flies by.  My house currently doesn't feel "Christmas-y" at all.  No decorations.  No Tree.  Why you ask?

I love them.  I do, but I miss having a Christmas Tree.  It has been a while since it has truly felt like Christmas for me and I miss just sitting in the dark watching the lights on the tree twinkle.  This is actually the type of playlist I would love for just such an occasion.

So get near a fire place, pour a cup of tea, cider, cocoa or your preferred hot comforting beverage.  Put this playlist on and try and remember what Christmas felt like when you were a kid.  The magic, the anticipation.  No stress.  No shopping.  Just pure unadulterated Christmas Joy.

I miss that.

Have a Merry Christmas out there this year.  Enjoy it.

KKNY signing off.

BONUS CHRISTMAS STORY:

TTT #63: Songs You Forgot Existed

This week's list is going to be a good one I think.  I think this is an interesting list of songs that give you that "Holy shit, I haven't heard that in years" feeling.

Some of them have to be given the chance to get around to the chorus.  There were some pretty forgettable songs unfortunately.

On with it.


TTT #63 Playlist
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What do I do right?

Do Right - Jimmie's Chicken Shack

This song is not by any means forgotten for me.  I have always liked this quasi reggae song and it still gets a fair amount of play for me even all these years later.

I think every guy has asked himself this question once or twice...




Amish Paradise?

Fantastic Voyage - Coolio

This song popped up on my Slacker Radio mix the other day.  It was a nice throw back so I decided to bring the early 90's rap scene to you fine folks.  I do think that it might be time for Coolio to let the hair thing go.  I know how attached folks can be to hair, trust me. 

But sometimes:

Just sayin.



No Vegans

New Age Girl - Deadeye Dick

I think everyone knows this song as either Mary Moon or "don't eat meat but she sho' like the bone".  I can't recall ever hearing any other song from this band.  I definitely remember thinking this song was awesome in that Benny & Joon-Wayne's World era.

butshesholikethebone




Not Allowed

Mama's Room - Under The Influence of Giants


Not too terribly old of a song.  As far as old songs go.  This little jam from 2006 has one of the simplest, yet completely sonically addictive, bass lines in all of music.  It has just that right amount of funk-disco that was getting so popular in the mid aughts.

Yeah, aughts.



Speaking of Addictive

Move Your Feet - Junior Senior

You may not recognize these guys on sight, I know I don't.  BUT you may remember the 8 bit video:

Classic.



Misery does, in fact, love company.

Misery - Soul Asylum

Soul Asylum was one of the mid 90's bands that I liked more than most people did.  It was an era of casse-ingles.  You only knew that one song.  This song always jammed for me.  I think I even like it more than Runaway Train.  You can still hear Runaway Train on the radio every now and then.  You will never hear Misery.

I'm taking it back.



Am I the One?

Tiny Meat - Ruby

I am not really sure what this song is about.  It's not one I want to delve any deeper into also.  It might warp the meaning for me, and I can't have that.

I think there couldn't be a more stereotypical 90's picture though.  At least in that MTV independent woman style.




Do You Even Know This Song?

Super Bon Bon - Soul Coughing

I never listened to Soul Coughing.  I had a friend that was obsessed with them though.  He thought they were the greatest band that had ever walked the Earth.  The only song I can remember is Super Bon Bon because it is the only song I can think of that uses the word mezzanine. 

That could actually be where I learned the word.  Huh.  How about that?  Not every day you remember where and when you learned a new word.



Let it get to the Chorus

Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil

You know it.  Just let it get to the chorus. 

I know, but you do  know it.  You've heard it before. 


I promise.





That's it for this week folks.  Sorry for the shortness of this blog.  I am still quite sick and feeling bleck.  Need sleep...and food.  Sleep and food.  Food, then sleep.  Yeah. 

KKNY signing off.

TTT #62: It's New To Me This Week

This has been one hell of a week.  I have been sick (thanks Beebs), yesterday I had the worst migraine I have ever had in my life (thanks Brain), the coughing from said illness is causing rapid unannounced flash migraines AND I broke my girlfriend's car (then promptly had to fix it).  Erin is away in Lafayette training it up for her new job and I'm just sitting here alone with the cats wondering if you can overdose on Excedrin Migraine.  Since you can overdose on water, I'm assuming yes.  Just for the record that was me wondering, not the cats.  I thought about editing but meh.

Anyway, you didn't come here for my ailments, I was merely letting you know that I shall be brief.  Again.  =\

On with it.


TTT #62 Playlist
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DubDubDub

The Wire - HAIM

This is by far my favorite new song/band this week.  I am really digging their quasi old school sound.  It definitely has a feel I can get behind.  Good catchy melodies and electronic-ness gets me every time.

Plus they do a pretty good cover (IMO) of Strong Enough by Sheryl Crow.



Walmart Radio

Wake Me Up - Avicii

This is one of those songs that plays at work that I hear three times a night.  It has spent the past week in my head.  It will not go away whether I like it or not.  There are a couple of songs on here that are ear worms brought on by not having my headphones in at work.

Forgetting headphones can be a horrible, horrible occurrence when it is the only thing that gets you through the day.




Are You Not Entertained?!

Glory & Gore - Lorde

This is my current favorite Lorde song.  Royals got overplayed by the radio in a hurry.  Tennis Court was quickly overplayed by yours truly.  I just have to give a month or so without hearing it so I can normal out.

Ya know?


The Walmart "Spark"

Safe & Sound - Capital Cities

I already knew the song Kangaroo Court by Capital Cities.  It was featured way back in Thuper Thong Thurthday #16:  Apartment Dancing!  Which is still something that I love doing btw.  A good apartment/house dance when no one is home is freeing.  Anyway, I was unaware this song was Capital Cities when I went hunting for it.

I only had Safe and Sound and that little horn break to go on.

That dude still has a bitchin' beard.



 Not Walmart

Midnight City - M83

I have no idea where I first heard this song.  I recognize the little electronic riff bit at the beginning, so I know I have heard a bunch of times.

I don't think it was Walmart.  At this point I really can't tell.  It's jamming little track though. *bobs head*



Kinda Creepy

Turkish Delight - Susanne Sundfor

This song is obviously about the tasty treat that nearly brought about the ruin of Narnia and had Edmund Pevensie eating out of the White Queen's hand.  If you have no idea what I'm talking about, it is from The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.  Great book.   This song has a creepy lilt to it.  I can't tell if it makes me happy or sad.  It is definitely chilly either way.



Marketing

Say Something - A Great Big World & A Diva (But Not Here)


This is a very good song.  I don't think it would be even remotely popular if Christina Aguilera wasn't singing on it.  If you call Xtina you call her for the pipes, not the subdued background vocals.  Not that she does a bad job, or that I dislike Christina Aguilera.  Neither is true.  She is a great singer.  I just feel somewhere along the line she was tacked on to this track in order to make A Great Big World popular.

I am sure she likes the song, it's a good song.  I just smell PR all over this.  There is a version out there with some other chick that sang it just as well.  Might even have been her possible big break.  Christina is a front woman.  Not a background singer.  It's just fact.

Still love the song though.  It's just the business I don't like.



Weird

Gypsy (Live @ The AMPYA Moment) - Lady Gaga


Lady Gaga's look wavers from normal to hot to strange to terrifyingly creepy.  I will post the video for this.  It should be watched.  I will, however, warn you that she wears a mustache for the whole video.  It does detract from it.  But she has some pipes.

This is a great song (IMO as a fellow Gypsy) and she does an amazing job belting it out.  Especially the choruses.  She has an amazing amount of control and I like this version better than the album version.  She does lose me about 4 minutes in when she starts the I My My I My My stuff.  Not really my thing.  But hey, she's an artist, it's her bag.  Just thought I'd share because I really like this version.

Video (you have been warned about the mustache.)



That's it for this week folks.  Next week I'll be bringing back some long lost musical favorites that you probably haven't thought about in years.  Ooooo it's gonna be good.

See ya then.  KKNY signing off.