Favoriting The Funhouse with Harry Parmenter: Playlist from December 24, 2023 Favoriting

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Favoriting December 24, 2023: NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL CHRISTMAS MUSIC!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Format New Approx. start time
The Stranglers  The Waltzinblack (Intro)   Favoriting The Gospel According To The Meninblack  EMI  1981  LP     
Lambrini Girls  Mr. Lovebomb   Favoriting You're Welcome  Big Scary Monsters  2023  Other  *   0:00:50 (Pop-up)
 
Johnny Thunders  New York   Favoriting   YouTube.com  2022  Other    0:03:50 (Pop-up)
Calvin Russell  Play With Fire   Favoriting   Amazon Music  1997  Other    0:09:13 (Pop-up)
Chuck Prophet  Rise   Favoriting The Hurting Business  Cooking Vinyl  2000  Vinyl    0:12:57 (Pop-up)
Steve Gibbons Band  Down in the Bunker/Eddy Vortex   Favoriting Down in the Bunker  Polydor Records  1978  LP    0:18:46 (Pop-up)
Ani DiFranco  Shy   Favoriting Not a Pretty Girl  Righteous Babe Records  1995  CD    0:23:57 (Pop-up)
Alabama Shakes  Boys and Girls   Favoriting Boys & Girls  Music Brokers  2012  CD    0:28:49 (Pop-up)
Emma Ruth Rundle  Darkhorse   Favoriting On Dark Horses  Sargent House  2018  LP    0:31:52 (Pop-up)
The Kills  New York   Favoriting God Games  Domino  2023  CD  *   0:38:04 (Pop-up)
Jane's Addiction  Then She Did   Favoriting Classic Girl  Warner Bros.  1991  CD    0:42:27 (Pop-up)
 
Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill  Fairy Tale of New York   Favoriting Shane MacGowan's Funeral  youtube.com  2023    *   0:53:09 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Harry Parmenter:

Xmas Eve! If anyone shows up I'll be shocked.
  9:01pm
rychurd:

here we are! we're all heathens!!
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Fatherflot:

Merry Xmas Eve, Harry. Thanks for manning your post for us
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doctorjazz:

Not sure how long I can hang for, but here now. Merry Christmas all!
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coelacanth∅:

Greetings Harry and fun housepeople
Avatar 9:02pm
Harry Parmenter:

gentlemen! thx for stopping in. it's xmas eve! please feel no obligation to hang in but appreciate the show out.
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Harry Parmenter @8:54
i hope you consented to that arrangement!
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doctorjazz:

Actually better for me, as I don't have the early Monday morning wake up...
Avatar 9:03pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ coelacanth∅ @9:02
absolutely
Avatar 9:05pm
Motobro:

Merry Christmas HP, F2 and Funhiuse crew.
Avatar 9:06pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Motobro @9:05
Hey Motobro! Welcome and Merry Christmas to you and everyone.
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Song: "New York" by "Johnny Thunders"
a bit of spoonful
Avatar 9:08pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ coelacanth∅ @9:07
right! don't think i recognized at first. absolut
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Motobro:

↳ coelacanth∅ @9:07
But bad ass
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coelacanth∅:

↳ Motobro @9:08
true true
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:12pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Play With Fire" by "Calvin Russell"
I like this. Just ducked in to the Flot cave. Finishing dinner and Mrs. Flot has Christmas Carols upstairs.
Avatar 9:12pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:12
Hark the Herald Angels Sing!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:14pm
Fatherflot:

I like the one about the fat incel bastard --- you know, "Round John Virgin"
Avatar 9:15pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:14
LOL. Those HS kids you're instructing probably like that one too
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:17pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:15
except the Chads, Stacy's and Beckys
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:17pm
coelacanth∅:

been more than a minute since i've heard this old chestnut
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:18pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Fatherflot @9:17
strike apostrophe
  9:23pm
Roy White:

Good show Harry. Dug those opening songs. Whoever suggested them knows their stuff.
Avatar 9:24pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Roy White @9:23
yeah i've had em in my collection forever
  9:28pm
Roy White:

now hae to get excited about broncos - pats
Avatar 9:29pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Roy White @9:28
unwatchable just due to denver unis. meanwhile dallas prove themselves pretenders once again.
  9:30pm
Roy White:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:29
the Denver unis look like an old bucs uniform and a college uniform had sex and this was the resuilt
Avatar 9:32pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Roy White @9:30
no comment. sorry to see Jets killer kicker destroy your team's comeback
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Fatherflot:

↳ Roy White @9:30
Good to see the big D back on the helmet. I hate the 90's crocodile horsey almost as much as the John Kerry face Pats helmet -- surely the worst in NFL history
  9:33pm
Roy White:

well, I kind of want them to lose. Not for a draft pick just so the new owners can fully appreciate the rebuilding job in front of them
Avatar 9:35pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:33
good point and it was! love the old school Boston Pats helmets and uniforms
  9:36pm
Roy White:

like darkhorse
Avatar 9:36pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Roy White @9:33
yes total rebuild. and yeah this is atmospheric good stuff
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:37pm
Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:35
Steve Grogan era Pats unis were perfect
Avatar 9:37pm
Harry Parmenter:

btw roy white and anyon else out there: if you didn't catch Flot's Spot 48 hours ago check out link below. amazing dylan thomas recitation:
wfmu.org...
Avatar 9:37pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:37
loved him. and Plunkett!
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:37
Thanks Harry. I will probably listen again late tonight, with some good brown liquor in a snifter.
  9:38pm
Roy White:

Damn, I was playing The Kills last night. We are on same wavelength
Avatar 9:41pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Roy White @9:38
indeed
Avatar 9:42pm
Harry Parmenter:

this next best song in set tonight. again, thx everyone for listening.
  9:44pm
Roy White:

Merry Christmas!
Avatar 9:45pm
Harry Parmenter:

Merry Christmas to all!
  9:45pm
Roy White:

And a Festivus for the rest of us
  9:46pm
Roy White:

What are the odds that one of the greatest Seinfeld episodes can also be the worst Dictators song ever?
Avatar 9:49pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Roy White @9:46
beyond comprehension.
Avatar 9:51pm
Motobro:

Still listen in the garage !!
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Fatherflot:

↳ Motobro @9:51
I got it on in the Flot Cave while wife and kid watch Xmas DVDs upstairs
  9:52pm
Roy White:

I'm the Spider-Man!
Avatar 9:52pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Motobro @9:51
alright!!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:51
Flot Cave! Excellent.
Avatar 9:52pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Roy White @9:52
yes you are!
  9:54pm
Roy White:

Ah yes. Many a Christas Eve in the Dublin House on 79th Street comes to mind with this one.
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Fatherflot:

↳ Song: "Fairy Tale of New York" by "Glen Hansard and Lisa...
nice!
Avatar 9:55pm
Harry Parmenter:

↳ Roy White @9:54
Amen.
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ Fatherflot @9:54
carrying on the DT spirit...
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:55
Yeah, I was just thinking that. I just read the book about his last years, mostly in the US -- touring the college circuit, but based out of NY.
Avatar 9:57pm
Harry Parmenter:

read some R Frost last night...you inspired. that poetry website is wonderful
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks Harry!
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Fatherflot:

↳ Harry Parmenter @9:57
Cool!!!
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Harry Parmenter:

↳ coelacanth∅ @9:57
thank you!! appreciate it. Merry Christmas to all.
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Fatherflot:

Thanks man. Happy Holidays
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