DJ Jack Rabid and DJ Jim (song: Vince Guaraldi and Lee Mendelson’s “Christmas Time is Here”)
The Treacle (AKA The Rats) – Stop, Get A Hold of Myself (The Rise And Fall Of Bernie Gripplestone And The Rats From Hull); recorded 1969, released 1995; Van McCoy song; Mick Ronson band
Healees – Side Eye (Coin de l’œil) brand new
Dropkick – Primary Colours (Primary Colours) brand new
Maxïmo Park (with Vanessa Briscoe Hay) Dormant ‘Til Explosion (Stream of Life) new; with Pylon singer
The Effigies – Everything’s Coming Off (Burned) brand new
Big John Greer – We Wanna See Santa Do the Mambo (b-side “Wait ‘Til After Christmas”) 1954
“Big Jimmy Cratchfield” (Relatable Grooves) – Fightin’ Around the Christmas Tree (single) brand new
DJ Jack Rabid
The Replacements – Anywhere’s Better Than Here (Matt Wallace remix) (Dead Man’s Pop version, Don’t Tell a Soul LP) recorded 1989, remixed 2019; R.I.P. Bob “Slim” Dunlap (1951-2024) age 73
Cochlear Kill – Exits (single) brand new
The Cure – A Fragile Thing (Songs of a Lost World) brand new
Sharp Pins – Race for the Audience (Radio DDR) brand new
The Weeklings – Christmas Keeps Coming Around (Christmas) brand new
The Weeklings – Christmas Time is Here Again (Christmas) brand new; Beatles cover
Del Reeves – Be Quiet Mind (single) 1961
Cheech & Chong – Santa Claus and His Old Lady (single) 1971
DJ Jack Rabid
Four Bands Interviewed in the Brand New Big Takeover Issue 95!:
Mo Dotti – Whirling Sad (Opaque) new
Close Lobsters – Stepping Across (Stepping Across EP) new
Dead Horse One – That Day (Seas of Static) new
John Cale – Child’s Christmas in Wales (Paris 1919) 1973; reissued now
Love Sculpture – In the Land of the Few (Forms and Feelings) 1969; Dave Edmunds band
Benny Goodman Orchestra (vocals: Peggy Lee and Alan Lund, AKA Art London) – I Love the Winter Weather (single) 1941; Ticker Freeman/Walter Earl Brown song
MadTV – Raging Rudolph (single) 1996
DJ Jack Rabid
The Snake Oil Willie Band – Gift Card (single) 2015
Bloococoon – Into the Sunset and Fade (Bloococoon) new
Cathedral Ceilings – All You Cowards (La La La…Whatever!) new
Signals Midwest – The Curse of Rocky Colavito (Burn the Blueprints) 2009; R.I.P. baseball’s Rocky Colavito (1933-2024), age 91
Party Battleship – The Holly And the Ivy (single) 2023; traditional song
Barrington Levy & Jah Thomas – Once a Year/Dub Part 2 (single) 1980
Eric Idle – Fuck Christmas (single) 2006
DJ Jack Rabid
The Mills Brothers – On This Christmas Eve (single) 1949; Joe Graydon song
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