Actually I'm feeling a little bit giddy at present due to just having learned that a person I worry about will not be literally spending Christmas in the Hall o' Justice after all. In honor of which I wonder if anyone feels like reviving the Weird Christmas Pop Songs tradition. Got no new contributions myself but maybe others have?
Posted by Martha Bridegam at December 24, 2004 01:34 PMP.S. Maybe this link would have been the better one.
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at December 24, 2004 01:36 PMI have no contributions but I believe I've invented a new Christmas Eve tradition by playing Graham Parker's Squeezing Out Sparks.
Posted by: Bobby Farouk at December 24, 2004 02:13 PMTo be sung by the neighboring tycoons in Reno, or wot?
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at December 24, 2004 02:46 PMOuch. Last I heard he was living in upstate NY. Besides, Squeezing Out Sparks came out in '79. I think he was a London boy then.
Posted by: Bobby Farouk at December 24, 2004 03:18 PMYou mean this album? Never heard it, never heard of it, but as everyone knows I'm a pop culture illiterate. Is it good?
Posted by: Martha Bridegam at December 24, 2004 03:32 PMThat's the one. Not saying it's Christmas music; I just hadn't played it in about five years. It struck me as a strange pick for the eve. Great album. Kind of a punk-glam-funk-rocknroll thang that likely only could have happened in '79.
Posted by: Bobby Farouk at December 24, 2004 04:01 PM