Flex's 25 Days of Christmas (Songs)
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Flex's 25 Days of Christmas (Songs), Day 14: Akim & The Teddy Vann Production Company
Original Release:
Year: Santa Claus Is A Black Man
Year: 1973
As featured on the A John Waters Christmas, ha.
Original Release:
Year: Santa Claus Is A Black Man
Year: 1973
As featured on the A John Waters Christmas, ha.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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We're in a gnarly windstorm today so feeling a bit mellower. Here's a secret, sneaky-good christmas song that has somehow been overlooked in the Canon but is an all-timer for un-cynical, non-irony christmas music:
Flex's 25 Days of Christmas (Songs), Day 15: Ella Fitzgerald - The Secret Of Christmas
Original Release: The Secret of Christmas b/w The Christmas Song
Year: 1959
Interestingly, almost everywhere refers to this as the b-side to The Christmas Song but when I actually look up the single it seems like Secret was the original a-side and maybe Christmas Song just became the more popular of the two tracks. Anyways, this probably got overlooked because it didn't appear digitally until an expanded edition of Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas was released in 2005ish. Ella at Christmas is always great.
Flex's 25 Days of Christmas (Songs), Day 15: Ella Fitzgerald - The Secret Of Christmas
Original Release: The Secret of Christmas b/w The Christmas Song
Year: 1959
Interestingly, almost everywhere refers to this as the b-side to The Christmas Song but when I actually look up the single it seems like Secret was the original a-side and maybe Christmas Song just became the more popular of the two tracks. Anyways, this probably got overlooked because it didn't appear digitally until an expanded edition of Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas was released in 2005ish. Ella at Christmas is always great.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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I can't believe it's take until now to share this gem:
Flex's 25 Days of Christmas (Songs), Day 16: Angry Snowmans - I Love Christmas In the City
Original Release: What We Do Is Festive
Year: 2011
I mean, fuck yeah
Flex's 25 Days of Christmas (Songs), Day 16: Angry Snowmans - I Love Christmas In the City
Original Release: What We Do Is Festive
Year: 2011
I mean, fuck yeah
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Love it! I'm sure Lee Ving approves.
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
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lmao that two inch winky album cover.
Flex's 25 Days of Christmas (Songs), Day 17: The White Stripes - Candy Cane Children
Original Release: Merry Christmas From...
Year: 2002
A pretty early single from the Stripes. Jack White just announced a tour for 2022 so that got me thinking about this single. The b-side is a reading of gify of the magi (one of my favorite holiday stories) and a version of Silent Night. Will probably share it in a future year.
Flex's 25 Days of Christmas (Songs), Day 17: The White Stripes - Candy Cane Children
Original Release: Merry Christmas From...
Year: 2002
A pretty early single from the Stripes. Jack White just announced a tour for 2022 so that got me thinking about this single. The b-side is a reading of gify of the magi (one of my favorite holiday stories) and a version of Silent Night. Will probably share it in a future year.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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I might not be able to keep up over the next several days so blowing my wad now, so to speak...
Wait for it...
Wait for it...
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Father Jack got to No.26 on the uk charts in 1983.
Re: Flex's 25 Days of Christmas (Songs)
"eight hefty maids-a-milking pogo-ing around with the ensuing punk rock uproar"
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
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Hope this hasn't been posted before but either way it's great.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
Re: Flex's 25 Days of Christmas (Songs)
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Re: Flex's 25 Days of Christmas (Songs)
God, what a mess, on the ladder of success
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung
Re: Flex's 25 Days of Christmas (Songs)
I totally forgot I met Richard Simmons once. At LAX when we were visiting SOCAL while still living in Virginia. He was basically just hanging out outside of baggage claim shouting basically aphorisms and motivational lines at people: "looking good!" "hey hey hey, happy Sunday!"
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.