Yule Shoot Your Eye Out!

Today's song is not Christmas-specific--it's about walking around outside in the winter (and, duh, making snow angels). Nice to think about while I'm sweating away in this hotbox where the computer is. It's by Marine Research, the band formed from the remnants of Heavenly. This makes today's song the second track I've featured with vocals by the lovely Amelia Fletcher. [the other one]

Angel in the Snow

This song was released in 1999 on the band's Parallel Horizontal CD single (buy it) on K Records.

I chose today's song because I finally saw the Klaus Nomi documentary The Nomi Song (buy it/rent it) last night. Highly recommended.

Recorded in 1979 and given away on cassette as a present to friends, it wasn't officially released until 1998 when the Heliocentric label put out a CD single pairing it with another unreleased track from 1979, "Za Bak Daz."

Silent Night

It has a weird, island kind of vibe to it and the sound quality isn't the best but it's a nice little oddity.

What About George was a band from 'round these parts (Boston). A friend of mine even used to work with George at the ice cream place aound the corner from my place of employment. Anyway, I don't remember ever hearing about them when they were around (mid to late-'90s). I don't even remember how I came across this song. Probably at the radio station, but maybe at the store. I guess that's not even important.

Christmas Day

Rollicking, up-tempo power-poppy goodness with a solid beat and gratuitous sleighbells tagged on the end of the song. It's from an EP released in 1996 called Just a Touch (buy it) and was co-produced by Dave Minehan of the Neighborhoods.