Christmas Time Is Finally Here

I know, I know. Half the world has already dusted off their MoTab records and wound the tape back into their Bing Crosby cassettes. But not me. I like to hold off on the music until after Thanksgiving.

Of course, that doesn't mean I hadn't already started watching all the Christmas specials. (Charlie Brown is so awkwardly amazing!)

Anyway, so now that it's officially the Christmas Season, here are some awesome songs to start you off.

Christmas without Sufjan Stevens is basically unthinkable.


An old classic and one of my favorite Pogues songs. I actually listen to this song all year round. It's a bit rash for Christmas, but it's really fun to sing along with someone.


If any of you listen to KDKB, you'll be sick of this song by New Year's. But I still love it!


Merry Christmas!

Dear Nora

Not to be confused with the last post, Dear Nora is actually the name of this artist. I am not writing to them. Although I should, just to scold them for disbanding.

Dear Nora was formed in Portland, Oregon in 1999 by Katy Davidson, Marianna Ritchey, and Ryan Wise. Their first album, We'll Have a Time, was released in 2001. Soon after, Davidson moved to Florida, leaving Ritchey and Wise behind in Portland. And that, in my opinion, was the end of that.



Of course, Davidson still recorded under the name Dear Nora until 2008, but... *shudder* It's just not the same.

Here ya go:
'Round and 'Round
Since You Went Away
Number Twelve (instrumental)

Dear Darwin Deez,

I know you're really little now,
but I hope one day you will become popular
so you can be a cameo in some uber-indie film starring one of the Arrested Development alumni.
Also, you should come back to Arizona
so I can see you live
and not be jealous of my sister anymore.

Love forever,
Louise

DARWIN DEEZ

The Dodos

I discovered the Dodos during the summer whilst melting away in my tiny garage apartment. I loved them at first listen.

While researching them, I found this on Wikipedia:
"In an April 2008 interview in the L.A. Record, [Meric] Long revealed the origin of the name of "Visiter". 'The reason it’s misspelled is because it’s from a drawing this kid gave us. We played a show for a bunch of kids in South Central L.A.—Dorsey High. A friend’s sister [Barbara Lempel] is a special-ed teacher there, so we went down there to her class and we played for the kids and it was super fun. Then it came to the kids asking us questions and then one of the kids came up to us and he gave us a drawing with that written on it. The drawing is the cover actually of the album, and just—I dunno we liked it. Actually we used all of the drawings that the kids made in the artwork on the album. It was definitely a fun, interesting venture for us. We’d never played for kids before—we didn’t know what to expect but they were clapping and dancing.'"

That made me like them even more.


Take a listen:
(I'll probably always use Lala.com to post songs. You only get one full-length listen, unless you restart your computer.)
Fools
Walking
Eyelids

And then the song that started it all (for me, at least):