We Met at a Ski Lodge: Transmission 439, 2018 December 23

Here is our closest approach to a "Christmas" episode but of course it is Festivus, or "holidays," or "vacation," or something non-demoninational with a couple of exceptions. "No Cocteau Twins," I promise, though the episode could have done with them. Mostly it's about grievances and foul moods, even though Lady Catharsis is riding along with me on this one. I mangle the segues involving Joan Jett and X-Ray Spex (for the purpose of posting I have cleaned up some of the carnage), and am secretly upset about this for the rest of the evening (though not-so-secretly terse about it immediately after it happened).

My mood must have improved at some point because I do say I am "in good form," but then, probably feeling that the program was a bit rockist for my taste, I attempted a techno block that just did not do anything for me. Is there something wrong with A.R.K. and System 7, or is it depression? These tunes used to make me so happy, and seemed so seasonally appropriate (late-year purchases, probably). Those Eddie Murphy samples, though--they are pretty dated, and I should probably have felt that way a long time ago. Am I just now waking up? At any rate, I would truly have been happy, as I suggested, to play the "interstitial" music until the end of the program. But it's probably better that we played the Velvet Underground and Jesu instead.

Things can only get better--can't they?

BOMBAST playlist, 2018 December 23, 2100-2300:

1. "Real Cool Time" | The Stooges | The Stooges | Elektra
2. "Happy Shopper" | Audio Active | Pay It All Back (Volume 5) | Restless
3. "Nature Story" | Kristin Hersh | Duchess of York UK Live 2009 | not on label
4. "Slippershell" | Kristin Hersh | Crooked Beginnings EP | Yes Dear Music
5. "Sam Hall" | Johnny Cash | American IV: The Man Comes Around | American Recordings - Lost Highway
6. "Wanted Man" | Marc Riley | 'Til Things Are Brighter...A Tribute To Johnny Cash | Red Rhino
7. "Bits and Pieces" | Joan Jett & The Blackhearts | I Love Rock 'N Roll | The Boardwalk Entertainment Co
8. "Warrior In Woolworths" | X-Ray Spex | Germfree Adolescents | Real Gone Music
9. "Drunk" | Vic Chesnutt | Drunk | New West
10. "Gammon People" | Brian Harris | A Question of Balance | self-released
11. "Arthur's Farm" / "All I Want for Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit" | Half Man Half Biscuit | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit
12. "Nine Little Reindeer" | Gene Autry | The Christmas Cowboy | Laserlight Digital
13. "Christmas Skies" | Thin White Rope | The Ruby Sea | Frontier
14. "New Saigon" | Pell Mell | Rhyming Guitars | SST
15. "You Sexy Thing" | Cud | The Peel Sessions | Strange Fruit
16. "I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter" | Connie Francis | The Very Best of Connie Francis | Polydor
17. "Please Come Home for Christmas" | James Brown | Funky Christmas | Polydor
18. "XMAS_EVET10 [120][thanaton3 mix]" | Aphex Twin | Syro | WARP
19. "Listen Up! (Pulsar Mix)" | A.R.K | Listen Up! | Rough Trade
20. "Miracle (Orb Remix)" | System 7 | Volume Two | Volume
21. "Beginning To See the Light" | The Velvet Underground | The Velvet Underground | Verve
22. "Christmas" | Jesu / Yang Li | Christmas EP | Hospital Productions

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