I WANNNA BE YOUR LOVER, I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER… if you didn’t catch this mornings party tunes, then you’d best go do your homework because I cant get that song out of my head. …Christmas eve continues with more dancing…

This video is quite literal, without being a literal video, so pay VERY close attention. It was also quite cleverly used in Scrubs… remember that? Aren’t they smart.

A Little Respect by Erasure

As well as Erasure and their offerings, we’re going to nail in some Bowie for good measure. The man who in many ways gave birth to Lady Gaga, she just didn’t inherit his rock n roll thing. And then for some reason he did the Christmas song, LittleDrummer Boy, why the hell did he do that? Especially when he could do this…

Let’s Dance by David Bowie

And some Gary Numan, who we saw sing this at Primavera in May. Thousands watched this song and then left.

Cars by Gary Numan

…following the Gary Numan show, we got out our trees to these kinds, who are BRILLIANT LIVE EVERYBODY!!

West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys

The last dance is still to come folks - around 11.45pm this evening, yes!!!!

We ♥ a good Northern style night out in…Clapham!! Brilliant night out in Underdog (:

We also ♥ Blackpool!

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Christmas eve, the party of Christmas pasts, where we all head to our home towns and insist on getting wrecked down the local only to find oursleves surrounded by folks we’ve paid no attention to since we were 14 and suddenly we all remember why.

So with the party spirit and being 14 in mind, we have songs for you. SO TURN UP THE VOLUME ON YOUR INTERNET LISTENING DEVICE.

This song is all about the bass solo, but the whistle is quite good, and the ’mmm, mmm’s and the brass is great to sing along to too, plus Chevy Chase is cool and so very tall. This should be number 1 every week.

You Can Call Me Al by Paul Simon

Now, we all know Daft Punk as pre-cursors to todays versions of dance music, but the Italiens got there first and with a much better concept. Aliens from out of space come and don’t want to be friends. Nor enemies as I have been taught in the 80s. No. They want to be your lover, much like the alien in the film Cocoon where they have inter-species sex in the swimming pool and EVERYONE IS OK WITH THIS??????!!!

I Wanna Be You Lover by La Bionda

God bless the Italiens.

COME BACK SOON, MORE TO COME FROM ME BALLADEERS!!!!!

Look at this lovely Proenza that Debbie just sent through. Droool. Gold, prefect for the party season…maybe in a couple of years

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We take a tour of Hackney in the snow… LOVE the snow - covered palm trees (: Everything looks so beautiful when it’s snow covered!

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It was a promise that I’d deliver the lactose goods so I have committed to a number of top quality musical instalments of tunes that you probably love or probably will love. It’s like a BalladChristmas gift from me, to you. Hopefully these will help to herd off the additional hours that Christmas seems to produce as well. So here comes the Cheese Plate to amuse you. It’s quite the treat.

Starting with a favourite, this is a party starter!

Africa by Toto

Once we’ve had this full, we can move on to something a little, well darker but that you can sing along to. Learn these words
‘I’m so tall, I’m so tall, you raise me… and then you let me fall, …I’m so small, I’m so small, wrap me round your finger, …see me fall!’

Living on the Ceiling by Blancmange

And now a tune that invokes some kind of finger dancing spasm, it’s pretty weird as a phenomenon.

Enola Gay by OMD

AND STAY TUNED TO THE SITE BECAUSE MORE SPECIAL MOMENTS WILL APPEAR ALL DAY TOMORROW!!!!

As merry about Christmas as I am, I can’t believe that My Chemical Romance have covered this song, All I Want For Christmas is You by Mariah Carey. A song so far from alternative and so famous in design that there is no possibility of clever irony and enlightening arrangements, especially from the ‘alternative’ boy band My Chemical Romance. I dyed by hair pink when I was 15, and it wasn’t very cool then, so you see Gerard, to do it now it’s just embarrassing. And to bastardise the weapon that most effectively bastardised Christmas itself is just dumb. And then to attempt to do it in a credible way by warbling vulnerably across the kareoke machine …words escape me.

Anyway, here is the actual song by Mariah herself. Like all big lazy out of touch companies, you’re not allowed to watch the official video.

All I Want For Christmas Is You chosen by BalladOf

But don’t worry. As promised yesterday there are many wads of great tunes to come, throughout the day! Stay tuned champs!

Christmas churns out a shitload of naff stuff. At Christmas I consume a shitload of Cheese. Cheese churns for a shitload of time before it becomes cheese. And this is my justification for many of the cheesey slices that have appeared in the advent calendar. But don’t worry, there’s more sweated out milk related products to come, whole wedges of the stuff far more tangy than you can imagine. And then there is Cyndi Lauper, she whiffs of the next level. She’s pretty cool because she has (or had) yellow hair. The colour of cheese and in fact all of Christmas food, should you believe the Iceland advert.

Girls Just Wana Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper

For added Christmas value, here is The Goonies clip. If you don’t know The Goonies, god help you.

And because cheese is a kind of meat, here is something a bit more MACHO.
Nasa Vs Esa by Chickenhawk

Only a small amount of days until Christmas, but I am unsure what the date is exactly so I can’t really be helpful with any count down, which I realise is the point of this whole exercise. Well, in theory, actually this just an excuse to garble on and play the occasional music video and other youtube treats that I have (re)discovered since returning to university to buy more time before making any real life decision.

Phew!

I went to New York once, it was ok. I went to New Orleans after and IT WAS AMAZING. There’s a lesson in that, mainly about my character. Regardless, i think New York would be more fun if I had been with the Pogues, also if you go in the big elevator at the Marriot or somewhere, that’s pretty good too.

So here we have the next musical advent installment.

Fairytale of New York by The Pogues