WFMU: Bedtime Stories with Emily L.: Playlist from December 25, 2019

Listener comments!
	♥ 12:03am mariano: Hey Emily - thanks for regaling us with music on Xmas Eve/Day!
	♥ 12:06am Emily L: MERRY XMAS ALL!! Thnx thnx thnx for tuning in
	12:08am JakeGould: Nice way to blast into Christmas.
	12:17am nachurall: Merry Christmas Emily, enjoyed last weeks show on the holiday commute earlier.
	12:19am khd: aww, i just missed depressed christmas. how depressing.
	♥ 12:20am coelacanth∅: greetings Emily and others
	♥ 12:27am chresti: Hi, holiday tidings!
	♥ 12:36am Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, pals. I'm working on a catchy little ditty called "I Wanna Woof Moo Christmas!"
	♥ 12:38am mariano: I had no idea there was an earlier Go Go's. This Max Eider just reminded me something I saw yesterday, a YouTube clip of Nirvana doing Teen Spirit on Top of the Pops. By that point he was so sick of that song that he started singing it like Morrissey, was hilarious! And a really good impression.
	12:46am JakeGould: Ho! Ho! Ho! Look at how kids in were ripped off on the phone talking to “Santa” back in the day. Only 69 cents per minute? Nice. youtu.be...
	♥ 12:46am Emily L: Ha! Amazing.
	12:49am JakeGould: I am hyperventilating from this other 1-900 Santa commercial; it’s even more amazing. “I’ll tell you how to hey a ‘Woopie’ from my Christmas collection!” youtu.be...
	12:50am JakeGould: Pay like $3 to “talk” to Santa and then get a cotton ball with goggly eyes from his “collection.”
	♥ 12:51am Emily L: So dark!
	12:53am JakeGould: Full confesh: I called those lines on like 1982 or so. Flipped my dad out.
	♥ 12:59am mariano: What happened? Did you talk to Santa or was it a recording?
	1:06am pp: Basement 5 = UK version of Flipper
	♥ 1:07am Emily L: Woah, totally
	♥ 1:10am mariano: So apparently Henry Rollins and Cyndi Lauper dueted "Rise Above" recently.
	1:14am JakeGould: @mariano: Prerecorded message. Clearly on tape. With encouragement to press buttons on the phone to hear more stories. To this day I still regret doing it because there was a $4-5 extra charge on my dad’s bill.
	♥ 1:17am coelacanth∅: chemicals has an early devo sound
	♥ 1:17am coelacanth∅: (shoulda said that before it was over)
	♥ 1:18am mariano: Oh, that's a drag @Jake.
	1:25am matt: doctor who sucks
	♥ 1:29am Emily L: Dr. Whom?
	1:30am nathaniel: Love the Beatles x-mas recordings...try to listen to them every year. Thanks for playing Emily. Great show!
	♥ 1:31am mariano: Yeah, @nathaniel, this is a treat.
	♥ 1:34am mariano: I wonder if Nick's Psychedelic Breakfast was originally part of Pink Floyd's Christmas fanclub release.
	♥ 1:38am coelacanth∅: pink floyd had a xmas fanclub record?
	1:39am Hubig Pie: He ta'mie Francoise Hardy
	1:40am Hubig Pie: Lou Reed moi aussi
	♥ 1:41am coelacanth∅: (i can use "a xmas" because xmas is pronounced christmas right?)
	♥ 1:44am mariano: @coela: No, was just musing. Would be a hoot if they did!
	♥ 1:52am coelacanth∅: hey you never know! they were at emi when the beatles were and their label didn't understand what they were doing. out of the sheer ignorance of their label they could've been told to make one for promotional purposes.
	1:54am Mike Wolf: Santa got my letter i only wanted to hear Bow Wow Wow on the radio
	1:55am Hubig Pie: A merry Can Christmas
	♥ 1:55am mariano: Haha! I can see the execs doing that, @coela. I'm imagining a voice-over like in Spinal Tap's Christmas With the Devil: "This is Spinal Tap, wishing you and yours the very happiest of Holiday seasons."
	♥ 1:56am Emily L: And a happy Can-ukkah to all!
	♥ 1:58am Emily L: Almost played Christmas With the Devil! Pairs will with King Diamond's No Presents for Christmas
	♥ 2:00am mariano: That would be an excellent pairing, Emily!
	♥ 2:03am mariano: No presents for Christmas because the rats ate them, there's real narrative continuity between the two.
	2:04am nathaniel: Cool version of I Won't Hurt You! I've only heard the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band version.
	♥ 2:05am chresti: I think you pronounce xmas like cross-mass
	2:05am Colin in Durham, England: I hate that The Take aren’t on Spotify and now I have to rip it off YouTube and steal it like in the olden days
	2:05am greatbarrington: Holly holy to all! thanks for helming this slot Emily L!
	2:06am greatbarrington: I had that Take on a Aus/NZ no wave comp... Ever so good
	♥ 2:07am Emily L: Australia/NZ post punk always delivers in spades
	♥ 2:07am coelacanth∅: haha i don't think so chresti!
	2:08am greatbarrington: Indeed it's like cold water, never goes bad
	2:09am Colin in Durham, England: This is all excellent
	2:10am greatbarrington: @Colin Micah had me on mediafire earlier, it felt like I good way to end the decade :)
	♥ 2:10am coelacanth∅: ..."x" is just a shorthand version of "christ", or "christos" in the greek alphabet; pronounced as we say those words. ...i might not be completely accurate! but it's something like that. ...christ is still in xmas!
	2:11am Hubig Pie: St Etienne is the patron saint of groovy music
	2:12am greatbarrington: i think it has something to do with Kris Kross, the duo
	♥ 2:13am coelacanth∅: and not Chris Cross, from ultravox!?
	2:14am greatbarrington: I was trying to explain Kris Kross to some modern day youngsters and they thought the concept was not fully iterated, that one should only wear their jacket backward and the other wear his pants backward
	2:14am Colin in Durham, England: I take back the last thing I said
	♥ 2:14am mariano: When you get caught between the moon and New York City...
	2:15am greatbarrington: Nor Christopher Cross coela! :)
	2:16am greatbarrington: I owe you a Coke mariano!
	2:16am flashbazbo: I need to turn it up to hear Alan. Hope it’s not an mistake
	2:16am greatbarrington: X-Clan
	♥ 2:18am coelacanth∅: now i wonder if either (or any?) of the bands named "x" did it as a reference to the x in xmas
	♥ 2:20am mariano: We owe each other a Coke, greatbarrington! @coela: If so, then they'd be called Chi ;P
	♥ 2:21am coelacanth∅: god damnit this is very inconvenient! can i at least smoke out back, by the propane tanks?
	2:22am greatbarrington: i will just assume they all meant Christmas
	2:22am Hubig Pie: It's smokers night here at the fabulous Kmart lounge
	2:23am greatbarrington: XTC? Christmas
	♥ 2:23am coelacanth∅: right mariano, i was just reading about that. so it's more like...if it was "shorthanded" in english terms, it'd be "cmas". (pronounced "christmas)
	2:24am kt: Emily! We love u out here in Oakland CA. Thank you for fabulous tunes... Merry Christmas, happy holidays and all that rot. Your encyclopedic knowledge lays the algorithms to waste! xo
	♥ 2:24am coelacanth∅: i thought every night was smokers night, and tonight was cherries jubilee night!
	2:25am greatbarrington: corncob pipe vibes
	♥ 2:25am coelacanth∅: ...i'll never get it right. -so when the hell is crack night?
	♥ 2:26am mariano: If you have to ask...
	♥ 2:26am Emily L: Thank you, KT! Very Merry Christmas!! :)
	2:28am greatbarrington: now it's more like shatter night
	2:29am Bob from Toronto: Your fill-in show has been great!
	♥ 2:29am coelacanth∅: this is what i heard just before the ocean liner fell apart at the seams over atlantis
	♥ 2:30am mariano: I'm in tatters (shadooby).
	2:30am greatbarrington: Agreed. Hitting all the notes as usual
	2:44am greatbarrington: Great document of the Everly Brothers morphing from a brief flirtation with psych (like everyone else) to a more country flow
	♥ 2:45am Emily L: Absolutely. Love them at any speed
	2:46am greatbarrington: Oh me too! Including a 45 at 33 rpm!
	2:53am ignatatus666: Sorry I just tuned in I’ll catch the show on the archives Yuletide Greetings all
	♥ 2:54am mariano: Thanks so much, Emily, Merry Xmas!
	♥ 2:55am Emily L: MERRY XMAS TO ALL! Thank you so much for tuning in! <3
	♥ 2:59am coelacanth∅: Thanks Emily! Happy xmas, cmas, xxx, xtc, etc to all; and to all a good night.

Bedtime Stories with Emily L.: Playlist from December 25, 2019

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Approx. start time
M Ax Noi Mach	Walking at Night "Walking at Night" by "M Ax Noi Mach"	On the Edge	Alter	2016	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Isolation Ward	Dangerous "Dangerous" by "Isolation Ward"	FM-BX Society Tape 001	S-S Records	2010	0:02:21 (Pop-up)
The Fall	No Xmas for John Quay (Peel Session)	Complete Peel Session		2005	0:06:17 (Pop-up)
House Hunters	Snow Queen "Snow Queen" by "House Hunters"	Feeding Frenzy	Hollow Planet	1988	0:10:32 (Pop-up)
Sparks	Throw Her Away (And Get A New One)	Big Beat	Island Records	1976	0:12:27 (Pop-up)
Culturcide	Depressed Christmas "Depressed Christmas" by "Culturcide"	Santa Claus Was My Lover 7″	N/A	1986	0:15:22 (Pop-up)
Lorna Logic	Wonderful Offer "Wonderful Offer" by "Lorna Logic"	12"	Rough Trade	1981	0:17:58 (Pop-up)
Skeptics	And We Bake "And We Bake" by "Skeptics"	Amalgam	Flying Nun	1990	0:22:32 (Pop-up)
Adam and the Ants	Bathroom Function (Decca Demo)	Adam and the Ants Box Set	Columbia	2000	0:26:55 (Pop-up)

The Go Go's	I'm Gonna Spend My Christmas With a Dalek	7"		1964	0:33:18 (Pop-up)
The Porchistas	Pine Needles "Pine Needles" by "The Porchistas"				0:35:00 (Pop-up)
Max Eider	My Other Life "My Other Life" by "Max Eider"	The Best Kisser In the World	Big Time	1987	0:35:58 (Pop-up)
Roderick Falconer	Play it Again "Play it Again" by "Roderick Falconer"	New Nation	United Artists Records	1976	0:38:40 (Pop-up)
Little Suzy	Who Put the Gum in Santa's Whiskers				0:43:11 (Pop-up)
Tom of England	Song of the Sex Monk	Sex Monk Blues	L.I.E.S. Records	2019	0:44:14 (Pop-up)
Brygada Kryzys	Fallen, Fallen is Babylon	Brygada Kryzys	Tonpress	1982	0:53:30 (Pop-up)
Joy Division	These Days (Live in France 12/18/79)	Les Baines Douches		2001	0:58:57 (Pop-up)
Basement 5	Last White Christmas "Last White Christmas" by "Basement 5"	7"	Island Records	1980	1:02:47 (Pop-up)
So Be It	Elected "Elected" by "So Be It"	An Opera	Deep Six Records	2017	1:07:30 (Pop-up)
Parasites of the Western World	Chemicals	Substrata	Match Box Records	1980	1:12:20 (Pop-up)
Current 93	Happy Birthday "Happy Birthday" by "Current 93"	Looney Runes	Durtro	1990	1:16:08 (Pop-up)
Marc Riley & the Creepers	Favourite Sister	7"	In-Tape Records	1983	1:19:52 (Pop-up)

Pantomime	Everywhere It's Christmas	Beatles Fanclub Release		1966	1:28:36 (Pop-up)
Françoise Hardy	Le Crabe "Le Crabe" by "Françoise Hardy"	Françoise Hardy	Sonopresse	1970	1:34:22 (Pop-up)
Lou Reed	Coney Island Baby "Coney Island Baby" by "Lou Reed"	Coney Island Baby	RCA	1975	1:37:11 (Pop-up)
John Fahey	Silent Night, Holy Night	The New Possibility: John Fahey’s Guitar Soli Christmas Album	Takoma	1968	1:43:56 (Pop-up)
Lee Hazelwood	Califia (Stone Rider)	The LHI Years: Singles, Nudes & Backsides (1968-71)	Light in the Attic	2012	1:47:00 (Pop-up)
Bow Wow Wow	Fools Rush In (Peel Session)			1980	1:49:29 (Pop-up)
Can	Silent Night "Silent Night" by "Can"	7"	Virgin	1976	1:51:49 (Pop-up)
Maximum Joy	Mouse an' Me "Mouse an' Me" by "Maximum Joy"	Station M.X.J.Y.			1:54:53 (Pop-up)
The Take	Summer "Summer" by "The Take"	Little Bands		1980	1:59:32 (Pop-up)
Neo Maya	I Won't Hurt You "I Won't Hurt You" by "Neo Maya"	7"	Pye Records	1967	2:02:38 (Pop-up)
St. Etienne	Nothing Can Stop Us Now	Foxbase Alpha	Heavenly Records	1991	2:05:10 (Pop-up)
Merzbow	Silent Night "Silent Night" by "Merzbow"				2:09:17 (Pop-up)
Alan Vega	No More Christmas Blues	A Christmas Record	ZE Records	1981	2:14:15 (Pop-up)

Liquid Skulls	Nancy "Nancy" by "Liquid Skulls"	Nancy	Stellar Kinematics	2013	2:22:39 (Pop-up)
Ralph Lundsten	Ghostly Ball "Ghostly Ball" by "Ralph Lundsten"	Horrorscope	CBS	1988	2:25:44 (Pop-up)
Samhain	Mother of Mercy (acapella)				2:29:26 (Pop-up)
Klaus Nomi	Silent Night "Silent Night" by "Klaus Nomi"				2:33:04 (Pop-up)
Royal Trux	Mercury "Mercury" by "Royal Trux"	7"	Drag City	1994	2:34:28 (Pop-up)
Everly Brothers	Lord of the Manor	The Everly Brothers Show	Warner Bros. Records	1970	2:38:20 (Pop-up)
Randy and the Goats	N.Y. Survivor	On the Lam	Broken Records	1981	2:43:23 (Pop-up)
Ross Johnson	Cut Your Head on Xmas				2:47:10 (Pop-up)

Omar Khorshid	Sidi Mansour "Sidi Mansour" by "Omar Khorshid"				2:54:11 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 12:03am mariano: Hey Emily - thanks for regaling us with music on Xmas Eve/Day!
	♥ 12:06am Emily L: MERRY XMAS ALL!! Thnx thnx thnx for tuning in
	12:08am JakeGould: Nice way to blast into Christmas.
	12:17am nachurall: Merry Christmas Emily, enjoyed last weeks show on the holiday commute earlier.
	12:19am khd: aww, i just missed depressed christmas. how depressing.
	♥ 12:20am coelacanth∅: greetings Emily and others
	♥ 12:27am chresti: Hi, holiday tidings!
	♥ 12:36am Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, pals. I'm working on a catchy little ditty called "I Wanna Woof Moo Christmas!"
	♥ 12:38am mariano: I had no idea there was an earlier Go Go's. This Max Eider just reminded me something I saw yesterday, a YouTube clip of Nirvana doing Teen Spirit on Top of the Pops. By that point he was so sick of that song that he started singing it like Morrissey, was hilarious! And a really good impression.
	12:46am JakeGould: Ho! Ho! Ho! Look at how kids in were ripped off on the phone talking to “Santa” back in the day. Only 69 cents per minute? Nice. youtu.be...
	♥ 12:46am Emily L: Ha! Amazing.
	12:49am JakeGould: I am hyperventilating from this other 1-900 Santa commercial; it’s even more amazing. “I’ll tell you how to hey a ‘Woopie’ from my Christmas collection!” youtu.be...
	12:50am JakeGould: Pay like $3 to “talk” to Santa and then get a cotton ball with goggly eyes from his “collection.”
	♥ 12:51am Emily L: So dark!
	12:53am JakeGould: Full confesh: I called those lines on like 1982 or so. Flipped my dad out.
	♥ 12:59am mariano: What happened? Did you talk to Santa or was it a recording?
	1:06am pp: Basement 5 = UK version of Flipper
	♥ 1:07am Emily L: Woah, totally
	♥ 1:10am mariano: So apparently Henry Rollins and Cyndi Lauper dueted "Rise Above" recently.
	1:14am JakeGould: @mariano: Prerecorded message. Clearly on tape. With encouragement to press buttons on the phone to hear more stories. To this day I still regret doing it because there was a $4-5 extra charge on my dad’s bill.
	♥ 1:17am coelacanth∅: chemicals has an early devo sound
	♥ 1:17am coelacanth∅: (shoulda said that before it was over)
	♥ 1:18am mariano: Oh, that's a drag @Jake.
	1:25am matt: doctor who sucks
	♥ 1:29am Emily L: Dr. Whom?
	1:30am nathaniel: Love the Beatles x-mas recordings...try to listen to them every year. Thanks for playing Emily. Great show!
	♥ 1:31am mariano: Yeah, @nathaniel, this is a treat.
	♥ 1:34am mariano: I wonder if Nick's Psychedelic Breakfast was originally part of Pink Floyd's Christmas fanclub release.
	♥ 1:38am coelacanth∅: pink floyd had a xmas fanclub record?
	1:39am Hubig Pie: He ta'mie Francoise Hardy
	1:40am Hubig Pie: Lou Reed moi aussi
	♥ 1:41am coelacanth∅: (i can use "a xmas" because xmas is pronounced christmas right?)
	♥ 1:44am mariano: @coela: No, was just musing. Would be a hoot if they did!
	♥ 1:52am coelacanth∅: hey you never know! they were at emi when the beatles were and their label didn't understand what they were doing. out of the sheer ignorance of their label they could've been told to make one for promotional purposes.
	1:54am Mike Wolf: Santa got my letter i only wanted to hear Bow Wow Wow on the radio
	1:55am Hubig Pie: A merry Can Christmas
	♥ 1:55am mariano: Haha! I can see the execs doing that, @coela. I'm imagining a voice-over like in Spinal Tap's Christmas With the Devil: "This is Spinal Tap, wishing you and yours the very happiest of Holiday seasons."
	♥ 1:56am Emily L: And a happy Can-ukkah to all!
	♥ 1:58am Emily L: Almost played Christmas With the Devil! Pairs will with King Diamond's No Presents for Christmas
	♥ 2:00am mariano: That would be an excellent pairing, Emily!
	♥ 2:03am mariano: No presents for Christmas because the rats ate them, there's real narrative continuity between the two.
	2:04am nathaniel: Cool version of I Won't Hurt You! I've only heard the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band version.
	♥ 2:05am chresti: I think you pronounce xmas like cross-mass
	2:05am Colin in Durham, England: I hate that The Take aren’t on Spotify and now I have to rip it off YouTube and steal it like in the olden days
	2:05am greatbarrington: Holly holy to all! thanks for helming this slot Emily L!
	2:06am greatbarrington: I had that Take on a Aus/NZ no wave comp... Ever so good
	♥ 2:07am Emily L: Australia/NZ post punk always delivers in spades
	♥ 2:07am coelacanth∅: haha i don't think so chresti!
	2:08am greatbarrington: Indeed it's like cold water, never goes bad
	2:09am Colin in Durham, England: This is all excellent
	2:10am greatbarrington: @Colin Micah had me on mediafire earlier, it felt like I good way to end the decade :)
	♥ 2:10am coelacanth∅: ..."x" is just a shorthand version of "christ", or "christos" in the greek alphabet; pronounced as we say those words. ...i might not be completely accurate! but it's something like that. ...christ is still in xmas!
	2:11am Hubig Pie: St Etienne is the patron saint of groovy music
	2:12am greatbarrington: i think it has something to do with Kris Kross, the duo
	♥ 2:13am coelacanth∅: and not Chris Cross, from ultravox!?
	2:14am greatbarrington: I was trying to explain Kris Kross to some modern day youngsters and they thought the concept was not fully iterated, that one should only wear their jacket backward and the other wear his pants backward
	2:14am Colin in Durham, England: I take back the last thing I said
	♥ 2:14am mariano: When you get caught between the moon and New York City...
	2:15am greatbarrington: Nor Christopher Cross coela! :)
	2:16am greatbarrington: I owe you a Coke mariano!
	2:16am flashbazbo: I need to turn it up to hear Alan. Hope it’s not an mistake
	2:16am greatbarrington: X-Clan
	♥ 2:18am coelacanth∅: now i wonder if either (or any?) of the bands named "x" did it as a reference to the x in xmas
	♥ 2:20am mariano: We owe each other a Coke, greatbarrington! @coela: If so, then they'd be called Chi ;P
	♥ 2:21am coelacanth∅: god damnit this is very inconvenient! can i at least smoke out back, by the propane tanks?
	2:22am greatbarrington: i will just assume they all meant Christmas
	2:22am Hubig Pie: It's smokers night here at the fabulous Kmart lounge
	2:23am greatbarrington: XTC? Christmas
	♥ 2:23am coelacanth∅: right mariano, i was just reading about that. so it's more like...if it was "shorthanded" in english terms, it'd be "cmas". (pronounced "christmas)
	2:24am kt: Emily! We love u out here in Oakland CA. Thank you for fabulous tunes... Merry Christmas, happy holidays and all that rot. Your encyclopedic knowledge lays the algorithms to waste! xo
	♥ 2:24am coelacanth∅: i thought every night was smokers night, and tonight was cherries jubilee night!
	2:25am greatbarrington: corncob pipe vibes
	♥ 2:25am coelacanth∅: ...i'll never get it right. -so when the hell is crack night?
	♥ 2:26am mariano: If you have to ask...
	♥ 2:26am Emily L: Thank you, KT! Very Merry Christmas!! :)
	2:28am greatbarrington: now it's more like shatter night
	2:29am Bob from Toronto: Your fill-in show has been great!
	♥ 2:29am coelacanth∅: this is what i heard just before the ocean liner fell apart at the seams over atlantis
	♥ 2:30am mariano: I'm in tatters (shadooby).
	2:30am greatbarrington: Agreed. Hitting all the notes as usual
	2:44am greatbarrington: Great document of the Everly Brothers morphing from a brief flirtation with psych (like everyone else) to a more country flow
	♥ 2:45am Emily L: Absolutely. Love them at any speed
	2:46am greatbarrington: Oh me too! Including a 45 at 33 rpm!
	2:53am ignatatus666: Sorry I just tuned in I’ll catch the show on the archives Yuletide Greetings all
	♥ 2:54am mariano: Thanks so much, Emily, Merry Xmas!
	♥ 2:55am Emily L: MERRY XMAS TO ALL! Thank you so much for tuning in! <3
	♥ 2:59am coelacanth∅: Thanks Emily! Happy xmas, cmas, xxx, xtc, etc to all; and to all a good night.

Bedtime Stories with Emily L.: Playlist from December 25, 2019

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