issue 013

December 2007 archive

New Young Pony Club - Ice Cream

dave on December 28, 2007 4:39 PM *#_

I can give you what you want. I can make your heart beat short. I can make you ice cream We could be a sweet team Melting in your vice dreams, sport. Tahita Bulmer seems to be promising that...

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Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

on December 25, 2007 7:00 AM *#_

I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two Lying awake intent at tuning in on you. If I was young it didn't stop you coming through. It appears this (very old) man once heard this subject back on...

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Twelve Days of Christmas

on December 23, 2007 6:43 PM *#_

The Twelve Days of Christmas - contributing mere hundreds to Britains 95m unwanted presents each year. Tom explains...

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Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas?

dave on December 22, 2007 7:00 PM *#_

Dave takes a weary look at this, the hippest of the hip (and probably the most undeserving song we've ever done but I digress) of the songs on this site.

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The Pogues ft. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

on December 21, 2007 10:13 PM *#_

It was christmas eve babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me, wont see another one And then he sang a song The rare old mountain dew I turned my face away And dreamed about you Storytime...

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Paul McCartney - Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time

dave on December 20, 2007 7:00 PM *#_

The moon is right the spirits up were here tonight and that’s enough simply having a wonderful Christmastime simply having a wonderful Christmastime Paul McCartney, when observing the moon, seems to remark to himself that the moon is looking...

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Winter Wonderland

on December 19, 2007 7:00 PM *#_

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening, In the lane, snow is glistening A beautiful sight, We're happy tonight. Walking in a winter wonderland The question posed here is that of whether or not we are choosing to listen to sleigh...

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Christmas Carols - I Saw Three Ships

dave on December 18, 2007 7:00 PM *#_

I saw three ships : Lyrics I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas Day in the morning. Well! It seems our un-named narrator has seen...

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Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

on December 17, 2007 7:00 PM *#_

In which tom takes a wry look at that mariah carey christmas classic - wherein she just wants a slave baby. Essentially.

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Anonymous - Good King Wenceslas

dave on December 16, 2007 7:02 PM *#_

Good King Wenceslas looked out on the feast of Stephen. When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even. Brightly shone the moon that night, though the frost was cruel, When a poor man came in sight, gathering...

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Like, Everyone Ever - Santa Baby

on December 15, 2007 5:54 PM *#_

Santa Baby, Just slip a sable under the tree For me Been an awful good girl Santa Baby, So hurry down the chimney tonight According to many sources out there, a “sable” is some sort of brush. Now, I would...

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Bing Crosby - White Christmas

dave on December 14, 2007 7:59 PM *#_

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where the treetops glisten, and children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow Well I don’t know exactly who wrote this song (I haven’t bothered...

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Slade - Merry Christmas Everybody

on December 13, 2007 8:36 PM *#_

Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall? It's the time that every Santa has a ball Does he ride a red nosed reindeer? Does a 'ton up' on his sleigh Do the fairies keep him sober for...

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Wham! - Last Christmas

dave on December 11, 2007 11:21 PM *#_

Last Christmas, I gave you my heart But the very next day, You gave it away This year, to save me from tears I'll give it to someone special George Michael it would seem, has at some point learned the...

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You Say Party! We Say Die! - Oppurtunity

on December 8, 2007 12:45 PM *#_

Opportunity is a woman she is always with child and her babies are beautiful if you saw them you would know what I mean Opportunity IS a woman, eh? It appears that Ms Ninkovic is a feminist and so...

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Busted - Year 3000

dave on December 5, 2007 12:35 PM *#_

One day, when I came, home at lunchtime, I heard a funny noise Went out, to the back yard, to find out, if it was one of those rowdy boys. Stood there, was my neighbor, called Peter, And a Flux...

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Album Covers #1: Nirvana Et Al

dave on December 1, 2007 2:17 PM *#_

Juicebox - Popcorn 69 I don’t know what this band was thinking of when they came up with this. Maybe one of the members had a nightmare about this theme of giant monkey chefs. Maybe they just designed this...

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