Tonight is Twelfth Night. Tomorrow is the Epiphany. This is supposed to be the apex of the Christmas season. Twelve days of Christmas? Anybody?!
I gave up and took the Christmas music off the phone system. All this week I have had folks reminding me. Some like they caught me doing something wrong. Some apologetically. And while I'm not even a very religious person, I just would like to keep Christmas around for a little longer than December 25th. Apparently no one would question it if we had Christmas hold music on November 1. But it's no good now. Ah well. I fought the man.
So let's look at some happy music stuff. I'm cleaning the house out to shuffle some stuff around for the Puddin'. And I found my case of cassette tapes. About half of them are dubs. But they're a fun little trip down memory lane. Come along with me ...
Akira soundtrack
pj harvey
The Beatles - Abbey Road, White album and various other mixes
Huey Lewis and the News
Dire Straits
David Lee Roth
Genesis
Crowded House
Crash Test Dummies
Civil War soundtrack (from NPR - used for sound bytes in mixes)
The Cranberries
Richard Thompson
Blues Traveler
The Damned
Depeche Mode
Doc Watson
Fame Soundtrack
John Lee Hooker
Living Colour
George Harrison
Hoodoo Gurus
Harry Chapin
Jim Croce
Star Wars radio show (again for sound bytes)
King Missile
Kingston Trio
Les Miserables
The Lightning Seeds
Matthew Sweet
Meatloaf
Michael Penn
Monty Python
All the Steve Martin vinyls on one tape
Bobby McFerrin
38 Special
The Dead Milkmen
Stevie Ray Vaughan
RUSH
Phish
Muddy Waters
Ramones
The Nighthawks
Van Halen
REM
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Devo
Robyn Hitchcock
The Smithereens
The Smiths
The Sundays
Meryn Cadell
Morissey
Eric Clapton
(random classical music)
Jerry Garcia
Ray Charles
Elvis
Bobby Darin
The Church