Artist	Song
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company	As Some Day It May Happen
Tom Lehrer	The Elements
The Kingsmen	The Jolly Green Giant
The B-52's	52 Girls
Shonen Knife	Twist Barbie
They Might Be Giants	32 Footsteps
The Jim Carroll Band	People Who Died
The Asylum Street Spankers	Beer
Ian Dury & The Blockheads	Reasons To Be Cheerful Pt. 3
David Byrne	I've Tried (Things to Do)
Violent Femmes	Kiss Off
Ben Vaughn	My First Band
Reunion	Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)
Louis Jordan	Salt Pork, W. VA
Allan Sherman	Scott Cups
Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer With Brave Combo	Spaghetti (Twist And Twirl)
J. Geils Band	Land of 1000 Dances
R.E.M	It's the End of the World as We Know It (& I Feel Fine)
The Nails	88 Lines about 44 Women
Beach Boys	California Girls
Pearl Jam	Wishlist
The Tinklers	The Future
Weird Al Yankovic	Hardware Store
Austin Lounge Lizards	Stupid Texas Song

Comment:

This time of year seems to be top-heavy with lists: Wish lists, Resolutions, Naughty vs. Nice, The Best [high/low/pop culture category of your choice] of the Year, etc. In honor of this, my annual audio holiday card is a mix of songs featuring lists: lists of bands, dances, cities in West Virginia, people who passed on during Jim Carroll's youth,, things that can be put into cups, controlled substances, attributes of Barbie dolls, etc. I've studiously avoided that god-awful Billy Joel song and "My Favorite Things" - and how did a song that mentions winters melting into springs end up being marketed as a Christmas carol anyway?

Title from the opening cut, which is from a 1990 production of The Mikado, in which the obligatory up-dated verse already sounds more dated than anything else in the song.


Happy holidays everyone.


[Note - this is actually a rehash of a mix I made last Dec 24, too late to be last year's holiday card]

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