The Big Takeover Show - Number 309 - December 21, 2020 - Homebound Edition XL

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DJ Jack Rabid and DJ Jim
Solomon Burke – I Said I Was Sorry (b-side of “Go On Back to Him”) 1963
The Black Watch – The Lonesome Death of Mary Hansen (Fromthing Somethat) brand new
Gretchen’s Wheel – Shapeshifiters (Such Open Sky) new
The Chills – You’re Immortal (single) brand new
Sensible Gray Cells – Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn Ya (Get Back Into the World) brand new
Death Cab For Cutie – Fall on Me (The Georgia EP) brand new; R.E.M. cover
Alton Ellis – Praise Jah It’s Christmas (Various – Christmas Greetings From Studio One) 2002
Martin Mull – Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope (single) 1972
DJ Jack Rabid
Four bands interviewed in the new Big Takeover 87:
Ride – Unfamiliar (Live at Brixton Academy, 3/27/92; DVD bonus disc, Going Blank Again 20th Anniversary Edition) recorded 1992, released 2012; for Mark Gardener interview
Flower – Glass Brick Window (None Is (But Once Was) new
Savage Republic – Film Noir (single) 1983; Bruce Licher guitar
Tanya Donelly & the Parkington Sisters – Days (Tanya Donelly & the Parkington Sisters) brand new; Kinks cover
Sleaford Mods – Shortcummings (Spare Ribs) brand new
Horatio Sanz & Jimmy Fallon (with Chris Kattan and Tracy Morgan) – I Wish it Was Christmas Today II (Saturday Night Live) 2001
Merle Haggard & the Strangers – If We Make it Through December (single, Merle Haggard’s Christmas Present, and If We Make it Through December) 1973
DJ Jack Rabid
The Sonics – Don’t Believe in Christmas (various – Merry Christmas) 1965
Bad Religion – Father Christmas (single) 2013
Maxïmo Park – I Don’t Know What I’m doing (Nature Always Wins) brand new
The Both (Aimee Mann & Ted Leo) – You’re a Gift (single) 2015
Drew Citron – Dead on Arrival (Free Now) brand new
The Reds, Pinks and Purples – We Won’t Come Home at Christmas Time (You Might be Happy Someday)
Del Shannon – Conquer (The Further Adventures of Charles Westover) 1968
DJ Jack Rabid
Paul McCartney – Find My Way (McCartney III) brand new
Ballzy Tomorrow – Cheri (Various Artists – Action Now: 20/20 Re-Envisioned) brand new; 20/20 cover
Animals That Swim – Faded Glamour (single, I Was the King, I Really Was the King) 1996
Dean & Britta – Happy Xmas (War is Over) (single) new; John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band cover
eRIC uSOUND – Across the Universe (single) brand new; Beatles cover
Fawns of Love – Sally’s Song (single) brand new; A Nightmare Before Christmas cover
Charley Pride – Distant Drums (single) 1966; Jim Reeves cover; R.I.P. 1934-2020, aged 86.
DJ Jack Rabid
Glen Campbell – Turn Around Look at Me (single) 1961

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