Train of Thought (Music)
Fri Dec 21st 2012 3.00am–5.00am
R=listener request.
N=music new at the station.
L=local music. Your
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Time zone: central
3:01am | Frightened Rabbit “It's Christmas So We'll Stop” from It's Christmas So We'll Stop - Single (FatCat Records 2008)Buy it! |
3:07am | The Raveonettes “The Christmas Song (Alternative Version)” from The Christmas Song - Single (Beat Dies Records 2011) —(note to self: stop playing The Raveonettes every week so that people think you like other bands)Buy it! |
3:09am | Girl In a Coma “I'll Be Home For Christmas” from A Blackheart Christmas (Blackheart)Buy it! |
3:12am | Sullen “Riverbottom Nightmare Band” from Better Than Fruitcake (Sound System) —If you haven't lately, please go watch Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas. It will make you happy.Buy it! |
3:15am | They Might Be Giants “Santa's Beard” from Holidayland - EP (Idlewild Recordings 2001) —Massive bass line.Buy it! |
3:17am | Save Ferris “Christmas Wrapping” from Santa's Swingin Sack (KROQ 1998) —This rock station in LA used to put out a charity comp every year, well, from 97-05 or so. They started off great, trailed off towards the end...Buy it! |
3:26am | The Futureheads “Christmas Was Better In The 80s” from Christmas Was Better In The 80s - Single (Dovecote Records 2010)Buy it! |
3:29am | Tom Waits “A Christmas Card From A Hooker in Minneapolis” from Used Songs (1973-1980) (Rhino 2001) —One of the greatest Christmas songs of all time.Buy it! |
3:33am | The Highway Matrons “Got The Blues For Christmas” from A Very Bert Dax Christmas Volume 3 (The Bert Dax Cavalcade Of Stars) L —Such awesome discs. Not a stinker in this series.Buy it! |
3:40am | Downtime “Santa Is Your Daddy (take 9)” from Downtime's Christmas Catheter (Faulty Codpiece Records 1999) L —This is the one with the trumpet solo. Tremble.Buy it! |
3:44am | Cadillac Voodoo Choir “Ho, Ho, Home For Christmas” from Local Licks Yule Rock (KLBJ) —Great guitar licks.Buy it! |
3:48am | The Humpers “Run, Run Rudolph” from Happy Birthday, Baby Jesus (Sympathy for the Record Industry www.thedetroitcobras.com 1995) —This version of the song makes me want to play guitar.Buy it! |
3:51am | The Ramones “Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)” from Christmas A Go Go (Wicked Cool www.wickedcoolrecords.com 2008)Buy it! |
3:53am | The Kinks “Father Christmas” from Come Dancing With the Kinks - The Best of the Kinks 1977-1986 (Remastered) (Velvel 2000)Buy it! |
3:57am | Miss Jubilee and The Humdingers “Give Me A Kiss For Christmas” from KDHXmas Vol. 2 (KDHX kdhx.org 2012) N L —Check this out, good stuff: http://kdhx.org/about/news/ring-the-bells-and-bang-the-drums-kdhxmas-2012-is-hereBuy it! |
3:59am | Black Prairie “(Everybody Is Waiting For) The Man With The Bag” from Holidays Rule (Hear Music 2012) N Buy it! |
4:09am | Mike Doughty “Holiday (What Do You Want?)” from Ear Candy Holiday Compilation Volume One (Ear Candy 2012) N —Pay-what-you-want download: http://earcandy.bandcamp.com/album/ear-candy-holiday-compilation-volume-oneBuy it! |
4:11am | The Fantasy Four “How I Spent My Christmas Vacation” from A Very Bert Dax Christmas, vol. 1 (The Bert Dax Cavalcade Of Stars) LBuy it! |
4:14am | Grace Basement “A Kiss for All the World” from KDHXmas Vol. 2 (KDHX kdhx.org 2012) N LBuy it! |
4:17am | Run D.M.C “Christmas In Hollis” from A Very Special Christmas (A&M 1992) —Nothing rings my holiday bells like this song. Learn it, sing it to your kids, find a horn section to follow you around.Buy it! |
4:20am | Treacherous Three “Xmas Rap” from soundtrack to 'Beat Street' (Sugarhill 1984) —If memory serves this scene in the movie is Doug E Fresh's break out moment.Buy it! |
4:26am | Guster “Donde Esta Santa Claus?” from Donde Esta Santa Claus? - Single (Reprise 2004) —This tune is 50 or so years old.Buy it! |
4:29am | The Mighty Mighty Bosstones “X'Mas Time (It Sure Doesn't Feel Like It)” from We Won't Be Home for Christmas - EP (Hip-O)Buy it! |
4:31am | The Boy Least Likely To “Christmas Isn't Christmas” from The Christmas Special (The Boy Least Likely To 2010)Buy it! |
4:35am | The Eels “Everything's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas” from Useless Trinkets-B Sides, Soundtracks, Rarieties and Unreleased 1996-2006 (Geffen) —Yes it is.Buy it! |
4:38am | The Descendents “Christmas Vacation” from I Don't Want To Grow Up (SST 1985) —The melodic side of Milo.Buy it! |
4:41am | Gentleman Auction House “On The Rooftop” from Christmas In Love - EP (Emergency Umbrella 2008) —This song kicks ass.Buy it! |
4:44am | Paul Westerberg “Always In a Manger” from D.G.T (Dry Wood 2009)Buy it! |
4:46am | Hem “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” from Do You Hear What I Hear? (Nettwerk)Buy it! |
4:49am | Sum 41 vs Tenacious D “Things I Want” from Swallow My Eggnog (KROQ)Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate.
Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.
