...tequila.
And by "timeless holiday tradition", I of course mean "growing increasingly dated every year that I trot this out".
(You see, kids, back in the early naughts, Mariah Carey... oh, nevermind.)
Photo by David Blackwell
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Artist | Title | Album | Comments | New? |
Justin Beiber | U Smile (Slowed down 800x) | From the Interwebs | ||
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno) | Tank! (Live @ Shibuya AX) | Cowboy Bebop CD Box | ||
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno) | The Real Folk Blues (Live @ Shibuya AX | Cowboy Bebop CD Box | ||
Kid Icarus | A Good Place to End | Imaginary Songs & Aluminum Hits | * | |
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno) | Blue | Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack | You're gonna carry that weight. |
Artist | Title | Album | Comments | New? |
Joel Martin Kohn | Jazz Concepts with Buckminister Fuller | Good Radio / Bad Radio (Irwin's 2005 WFMU Marathon premium) | ||
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno) | Tank! | Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack | ||
The Divine Comedy | The Complete Banker | Bang Goes the Knighthood | * | |
Mates of State | Second-Hand News | Crushes: The Covers Mixtape | * | |
DEVO | Human Rocket | Something for Everybody | * | |
LCD Soundsystem | I Can Change | This Is Happening | * | |
New Young Pony Club | We Want To | The Optimist | ||
Twink | Catnip | Twink | ||
Oleg Kostrow | Playing Marilyn Monroe | Lego for Four | ||
tinypixel | Sloop John B | Hippocamp Ruins Pet Sounds | ||
Guitar Vader | Bird Ship | Dawn | ||
Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation) | ||||
Basement Jaxx | Good Luck | Kish Kash | ||
Ed Shepp | Pumpkin Cake Recipe | Images of Rapture from the Boggle Woggle | ||
GLaDOS and Jonathan Coulton | Still Alive | The Orange Box: Original Soundtrack | ||
The Fiery Furnaces | Cut the Cake | I'm Going Away | ||
Wilco | You and I | Wilco (the Album) | ||
Yoko Ono with the Polyphonic Spree | You and I | Yes, I'm a Witch | ||
Silver Apples | You and I | Silver Apples | ||
Tilly and the Wall | You and I Misbehaving | Wild Like Children | ||
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players | Singing a Song | Adventures in Middle America, Volume 2 | ||
Yo La Tengo | Pass the Hatchet, I Think I'm Goodkind | I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | ||
Viva | Moons of Jupiter | Electric Cabaret Volume One & Volume Two | ||
Tom Waits | Get Behind the Mule | Glitter & Doom Live | ||
Talking Heads | I Zimbra | Fear of Music | Roman Grecco Theme Continuation Moment | |
Robyn Hitchcock | The Devil's Radio | Moss Elixir | ||
Laura Veirs | Sun is King | July Flame | ||
Jim White | Static on the Radio | Drill a Hole in that Substrate and Tell Me What You See | ||
Sufjan Stevens | Chicago | Come On Feel the Illinoise | ||
Eels | Railroad Man | Blinking Lights and Other Revelations | ||
Elvis Costello | Down Among the Wines and Spirits | Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane | ||
Guided By Voices | Sons of Apollo | Half-Smiles of the Decomposed | ||
Joanna Newsom | In California | Have One on Me | * | |
Mostly Other People Do the Killing | Forty Fort | Forty Fort | ||
Frank Black | I'm Not Dead (I'm In Pittsburgh) | Fast Man, Raider Man | ||
Randy Newman | Laugh and Be Happy | Harps and Angels |
Artist | Title | Album | Comments | New? |
The WUSR Jupiter Theatre of the Air | Electroman Episode 1: Electroman Meets Panelman | The very worst of WUSR | ||
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno) | Tank! | Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack | ||
Mates of State | Long Way Home | Crushes (The Covers Mixtape) | * | |
Steve Burns | Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues | Steve Burns Live at the Casbah 7-27-2004 | ||
The Sw!ms | Take the Monorail | Sw!ms EP | ||
The Young Fresh Fellows | Lamp Industries | I Think This Is | ||
Self | Dead Man | Gizmodgery | ||
of Montreal | Disconnect the Dots | Satanic Panic in the Attic | ||
DEVO | Don't Shoot (I'm a Man) | Something for Everybody | * | |
ceo | Love and Do What You Will | White Magic | * | |
Smoosh | We Are Our Own Lies | The World's Not Bad | * | |
LCD Soundsystem | One Touch | This Is Happening | * | |
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players | (It Must Be) Somebody's Birthday | Adventures in Middle America, Volume 2 | ||
They Might Be Giants | Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head | They Might Be Giants | ||
The Fiery Furnaces | Chief Inspector Blancheflower | Blueberry Boat | ||
The Like | I Can See It In Your Eyes | Release Me | * | |
Stars | The Passenger | The Five Ghosts | * | |
The Flaming Lips | Watching the Planets | Embryonic | ||
The Apples in Stereo | Dream About the Future | Travellers in Space and Time | * | |
The Syrup | Love is Sad | The Syrup Best | ||
Shuggie Otis | Strawberry Letter 23 | Inspiration Information | ||
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players | Military Open Mic Night (Christian Terror) | Adventures in Middle America, Volume 2 | Since I was finally able to score a copy of this after, like, five years, I might as well play another track. | |
Eels | Flyswatter | Daisies of the Galaxy | ||
Rilo Kiley | Dreamworld | Under the Blacklight | ||
Talking Heads | Television Man | Little Creatures | ||
YACHT | The Afterlife | See Mystery Lights | ||
The Rosebuds | Border Guards | Life Like | ||
Passion Pit | Little Secrets | Manners | ||
Kaki King | Can Anyone Who has Heard This Music Really Be a Bad Person? | Dreaming of Revenge | Roman Grecco Theme Continuation | |
Mostly Other People Do the Killing | St. Mary's Proctor | Forty Fort | ||
Joanna Newsom | Occident | Have One On Me | * | |
Emi Meyer | Kaigara | Passport | ||
Supercell feat. Miku Hatsune | Melt | This Week's Magic Miku Moment | ||
Wilco | Bull Black Nova | Wilco (the Album) | ||
Sonic Youth | I Love You Golden Blue | Sonic Nurse | ||
Yo La Tengo | Spec Bebop | I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One | ||
Lali Puna | Faking the Books | Faking the Books | ||
Tom Waits | Long Way Home | Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards |
Artist | Title | Album | Comments | New? |
Holger Hiller | Fresh Young Girls in Commercials | |||
Seatbelts (Yoko Kanno) | Tank! | Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack | ||
LCD Soundsystem | Home | This Is Happening | * | |
Smoosh | Aaarplane Song | The World's Not Bad (I'm just gonna stick with this title) | * | |
The Eames Era | Fake DoGooders | Heroes & Sheroes | ||
Bat For Lashes | Moon and Moon | Two Suns | ||
Sean Lennon | On Again, Off Again | Friendly Fire | ||
The Fiery Furnaces | My Egyptian Grammar | Widow City | ||
Stars | He Dreams He's Awake | The Five Ghosts | * | |
St. Vincent | The Neighbors | Actor | ||
marble | Mebae Drive | Hidamari Sketch Season 1 opening theme single | ||
I'm From Barcelona (feat Loney, Dear) | This Boy | Let Me Introduce My Friends | These two songs are irrevocably linked in my mind now. | |
ceo | No Mercy | White Magic | * | |
Pops McGonigle: Driving in the Slow Lane (encore presentation) | ||||
of Montreal | Art Snob Solutions | The Sunlandic Twins (Bonus EP) | ||
The Apples in Stereo | Nobody But You | Travellers in Space and Time | * | |
New Young Pony Club | Chaos | The Optimist | ||
Caribou | Bowls | Swim | ||
Stereo Total | Barbe à Papa | Baby Ouh! | * | |
The xx | Heart Skipped a Beat | xx | ||
The Sw!ms | Busload of Art Students Forced to Watch Hollow Man | Welcome to the Back of Beyond | ||
Joanna Newsom | '81 | Have One On Me | * | |
Lucky Stiffs | If It Weren't For Drugs | Lucky Stiffs 2 | ||
Jim's Big Ego | Pascagoula Pawn and Gun | free* | ||
Johnny Cash | Sam Hall | American IV: The Man Comes Around | ||
Tom Waits | Step Right Up | Small Change | ||
Jenny Lewis (feat. Elvis Costello) | Carpetbaggers | Acid Tongue | ||
They Might Be Giants | Experimental Film | The Spine | ||
Art Brut | Summer Job | Art Brut vs. Satan | Roman Grecco Theme Continuation | |
Cub | Summer Samba | Betti-Cola | ||
The Snow Fairies | Summer in Japan | Feel You Up | ||
Kalmaria feat. Miku Hatsune | Summer Days | Sugar Particle | This week's Magic Miku Moment | |
The Chris Stamey Experience | The Summer Sun | A Question of Temperature | ||
YACHT | Summer Song | See Mystery Lights | ||
The Smurfs | Smurfin' Summertime | Best of Friends | ||
DEVO | March On | Something For Everybody | * |
Playlists and commentary for a college radio show with only two (sometimes three) listeners, and soon a podcast with only one (sometimes two) subscribers - stay tuned.