On the Right Side of Christmas 2012

    Yes, it's time for another compilation of Christmas music.  I don't know if it flows quite as well as some

of the previous Xmas compilations (which are still available to download here), but it's a little more mainstream - probably the one you could play with the least amount of complaints at a holiday party.  

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Christmas Is Quiet	Wild Colonials
Get Down for the Holidays	Jenny O.
Go Where I Send Thee	Kenny Burrell
You'll Never Find My Christmas	Bishop Allen
Born In Bethlehem	Lonnie Donegan
Gift X-Change	Calexico
Away In A Manger	Buddy & Julie Miller
The First Snowflake	The Boy Least Likely To
The Bells Of St. Mary's	Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans
I Want A Boy For Christmas	Del-Vets
Christmasville USA	Jimmy Charles
Merry Christmas Loopy Lu	The Kaisers
Jingle Bells	Paul Franklin
California Christmas	Sleepy Rebels
Deck Us All With Boston Charlie	Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Blue Christmas	Heartless Bastards
The Gift Of Giving	Bill Withers
Sweet Secret Peace	Neil Finn
Please Come Home For Christmas	Willie Nelson
Silent Night	Tom Waits
I Saw Three Ships	Nat King Cole
Little Drummer Boy	Miracle Legion
O Holy Child	Dusty Springfield
Auld Lang Syne	The Black On White Affair

A Real Cool Time in Hoboken

      Well, I'm about halfway moved into the new digs, so I'm finally able to post something.  I mentioned my fondness for the soundtracks to Married to the Mob and Something Wild when I posted them about two years ago.  I hadn't seen either film, however, in a long time so I had to watch Something Wild again this summer when it was on HBO.  The film still holds up well, imho, and I had forgotten how great the Feelies are in the film as the band at the high school reunion (check it out if it's been a while).  In addition to delving back into the Feelies, I also spent a lot of time listening to other Hoboken bands from the 1980s and 1990s. And since I didn't post anything last week, it's a two disc compilation of said Hoboken bands.  (And I do know that Ben Vaughn was from Philly, but I know he frequently played Maxwell's - the hub of the Hoboken scene.)

Disc One

That Time Is Gone	The dB's
Magdalena	Ben Vaughn
On the Roof	The Feelies
Living In Confusion	The Schramms
George Says	Kate Jacobs
I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City	Richard Barone
Path to Springs	Yo La Tengo
The Undertow	The Feelies
Who Betrays Me	The Cucumbers
If And When	The dB's
Nuts & Bolts	The Bongos
Daddy's Gone For Good	Ben Vaughn
Country Song	Tiny Lights
What Can I Say	Yo La Tengo
Funeral Song	Dave Schramm

Disc Two

Real Cool Time	The Feelies
Ups and Downs	The dB's
How Many Lives	The Schramms
My Siberia	Kate Jacobs
Don’t Say A Word (Hot Chicken #2)	Yo La Tengo
Young And Dancing	The Individuals
Carved In Stone	Ben Vaughn
Loveless Love	The Feelies
Sweet Blue Cage	Richard Barone
Skydiving	The Bongos
Right Here, Right Now	The Cucumbers
Wild and Small	The Schramms
Bad Reputation	The dB's
Some Kinda Fatigue	Yo La Tengo
Vibrato In The Grotto	Ben Vaughn

I just moved...

....so I still haven't hooked up my desktop computer where I have all my music files and such.  As such, there's no mixtape tonight.   I'm hoping to be a little more moved in by Sunday, but damn, I got a lot of crap to sort out. :) 

50,000 Obsessive Elvis Costello Fans Can't Be Wrong

    I'm moving into a new place tomorrow so I don't have much to time to write tonight.  But I do hope you enjoy my collection of Elvis Costello obscurities - I tried to make it a cross-section of stuff from various points in his career.  There's also a lot of good stuff I didn't include, so I may have to make another 1-2 of these at some point.

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Temptation (live)

From Head To Toe

New Rhythm Method

Still Feeling Blue

Blame It On Cain (Honky Tonk Demo)

Peace Like a River

Aubergine (with Jazz Passengers)

The Night Before Larry Was Stretched

A Condemned Man

Sticks and Stones

So You Want To Be A Rock N Roll Star

My Mood Swings

Little Boxes

What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend (Live)

Gloomy Sunday

Impatience

Sad About Girls

That Day Is Done (With The Fairfield Four)

Keep Your Eye on the Road

    I lost (or perhaps a better way to put it is that Time Warner misplaced it) my internet last night, but I've got it back.  And since I live in one of the sections of NYC that never lost power during Hurricane Sandy, I can't complain too much.   Regular readers/downloaders of this blog will remember that I tend to post road song compilations around this time of year and this year it's no different.  The mix below is a little more mellow than usual.  I don't know why exactly - perhaps I'm just mellowing out a bit. :)

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Goin' To Acapulco	Jim James & Calexico
Time For Me To Come Down	Amy Rigby
Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)	Tom Waits
Several Miles	Ron Sexsmith
Eight Days On The Road	Aretha Franklin
The Road Is A Lover	Alison Krauss & Union Station
Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight	Emmylou Harris
Churches off the Interstate	Laura Cantrell
White Line Fever	Merle Haggard
Eye On The Road	Bob Neuwirth
Sheila's On The Road	Tommy Womack
I'm Coming Home	Robert Earl Keen
Wheels	Stars of Heaven
Wayfaring Stranger	Mandy Barnett
Jackson	Lucinda Williams
Northbound	Tim Easton
Nevada Moon	Rosalie Sorrels
The Road to Ensenada	Lyle Lovett
We'll Be Here Soon	Phosphorescent
Goin' Home	Dan Auerbach