Music For Listeners 12/16/2023

1) Beastie Boys-"Country Mike's Theme"  From the compilation album 'Anthology: The Sounds of Science'.
2) Willie Nelson-"Sunday Morning Coming Down (Naked Version)"  From the promo compilation Record Store Day 2009 Edition'.
3) Adorable-"Sunshine Smile"  From the 12" single for "Sunshine Smile".
4) Queen-"Who Needs You"  From the album 'News of the World'.
5) Black Kids-"I'm Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend Who"  From the EP 'Wizard of Ahhhs'.
6) Gently Tender-"Love All the Population"  From the album 'Take Hold of Your Promise'.
7) 808 State-"Pacific State"  From the EP 'Quadrastate'.
8) Kraftwerk-"Europe Endless"  From the album 'Trans Europe Express'.
9) Avalon Emerson-"Sandrail Silhouette"  From the album 'The Charm'.
10) The Tubes-"Prime Time"  From the album 'Remote Control'.
11) The Lemonheads-"It's About Time"  From the album 'Come on Feel The Lemonheads'.
12) The Darling Buds-"It Makes No Difference"  From the album 'Crawdaddy'.
13) Girl Scout-"Do You Remember Sally Moore?"  From the EP 'Real Life Human Garbage'.
14) The Spinto Band-"Pilots"  From the 7" single for "Did I Tell You?"
15) Sugar-"Where Diamonds Are Halos (Live)"  From the 12" single for "A Good Idea".
16) Catherine Wheel-"Mad Love"  From the album 'Wishville'.
17) Neon Waltz-"Bare Wood Aisles (Demo)"  From the EP 'First Light'.
18) The Beatles-"Any Time At All"  From the album 'A Hard Day's Night'.
19) The Jesus and Mary Chain-"Darklands"  From the compilation album '21 Singles 1984-1998'.
20) Kirsty Maccoll-"No Victims"  From the album 'Kite'.
21) The Vaccines-"Wet Suit"  From the 7" single for "Wet Suit".
22) Peter Gabriel-"The Barry Williams Show"  From the album 'Up'.
23) Jose Gonzalez-"Stay in the Shade"  From the album 'Veneer'.
24) Michael Kiwanuka-"Any Day Will Do Fine"  From the 10" EP 'I'm Getting Ready'.
25) Primal Scream-"Star"  From the compilation 'Maximum Rock 'N' Roll Vol. 1'
26) Talking Heads-"Television Man"  From the album '
27) "The Mid-Morning Recording"   Vince Guaraldi Trio-'A Charlie Brown Christmas (Expanded Edition)'
Certainly the first Jazz music I heard as a small child. When people say they don't like Jazz music, I always point to this album, and they always make the exception for it. The funny thing is that a lot of Jazz is this melodic. I don't know of many Jazz albums that are more popular though. It's my favorite Christmas album without a doubt. On its own, "Skating" is one of the best compositions ever made, holiday or not. I've been listening to a good amount of his work this year, as so much of the archives have been released in the past few years. The music brings memories of vanilla Zingers and the holidays, past, present, and future. This one always takes me to November and December. The version we played is the 2012 edition with a couple of extra songs not on the original album, including the amazing traditional composition, "Greensleeves" - Michael - MFL
28) James-"Sayonara" From the album 'Wah-Wah'.