lacking.orgTwisted Xmas 2024
KAFM Grand Junction, 9pm - 12am
Every ten years or so, this late-Tuesday gig lands on Christmas Eve, and it’s about the right frequency to dust off and update the Organization’s Twisted Xmas playlist, two hours of familiar yet unexpected holiday-season music. The Final Hour, for all intents and purposes, remained its usual cheer-free self, you’ll be glad to hear.
| Song | Artist | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
Baby It’s Cold Outside | Asylum Street Spankers | Only Christina and Wammo could do it this way | |
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Song For The Girl With Two Of Everything | Carolyn Mark | At one time with Neko Case in The Corn Sisters | |
Have Yourself A Quiet Little Christmas | The Blue Hawaiians | Les Baxter wishes you some tiki cheer | |
The Happy Elf | Harry Connick Jr. | Because I’m a sucker for the New Orleans beat | |
The Inexcelsis Polka | Continentals | Must have polka! | |
Who Are You? | The Evaporators | Inexcusably from Canadia | |
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We Wish You A Hairy Chestwig | Ren + Stimpy | Merry Yaksmass to all of you. | |
Heat Miser | George S. Irving | A classic, yes | |
Jingle Bells (Dan The Automator Remix) | Dean Martin | Dan vs. Dean | |
Carolina Christmas | Squirrel Nut Zippers | It’s what Xmas in Xarolina is like. | |
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Jingle Jane | Divide & Kreate | Not the mash-up I would have expected | |
Sleigh Ride | Jaymz Bee + the Royal Jelly Orchestra | Orchestral twang twist | |
Jingle Bell Rock | Los Straitjackets | Lucha libre on guitar! | |
It Just Wouldn't Be Christmas | The Loud Family | Slippery and twisting | |
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Santacide | Toadies | Isn’t this menacing? | |
7-Eleven Christmas | Toothpaste 2000 | 24-Hour Holiday Cheer | |
Erotic Xmas (Home For The Holograms) | Emperor Penguin | Weird Jingle! | |
Xmas Curtain | My Morning Jacket | Howling lonely holidays | |
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Schlepp The Halls With Loaves Of Hallah | The Three Weissmen | Strange how klezmer this melody sounds now | |
Give Da Jew Girl Toys | A plus D | Hey, Trio! | |
Goyim Friends | The LeeVees | AKA Guster | |
Fifty Kilowatt Tree | The Bobs | Check your neighborhood | |
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Lonely Little Elf | Toenut | Like a gift-wrapped broken mirror | |
Christmas Is Going To The Dogs | Eels | Wouldn’t you enjoy spending the holidays with E? | |
Sun Valley Ski Run | Esquivel | Going out to Millard, who is not editing video | |
Fireside Ki Ho'alu | George Kuo | Beaches and firelight | |
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Zat You, Santa Claus? | Asylum Street Spankers | Nobody handles the voodoo like they do | |
Santa Claus Is Skaing To Town | The Granville Williams Orchestra | Pick it up, pick it up! | |
Mambo Santa Mambo | Enchanters | Afro-cuban! | |
Rudolph The Manic Reindeer | Los Lobos | Norteña! | |
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Fairytale Of New York | The Pogues | A modern classic | |
Deck The Halls | The Wave Benders | Hang fifteen | |
Santa's Beard | They Might Be Giants | Once a year, my friend puts on a red suit | |
Hot Christmas | Squirrel Nut Zippers | More from the Zippers | |
Jingle Bells | Flat Duo Jets | Doesn’t get more straightforward than that | |
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1960 | MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS | Muy Neu | |
After Hours | Delicate Steve | The still of the night | |
Tonight’s Episode | Yo La Tengo | Background grind | |
From Catnap To Coma | The Royal Arctic Instittue | All the way, possibly back | |
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Riverside Drive | Gachupin | Get the beat going | |
Ara Pacis | Heaters | Howling from a distance | |
The Turns | The Telescopes | At its own pace | |
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Take the Red Pill | B. Fleischmann | Side effects unknown | |
Salsa + Microchips | DJ Me DJ You | The extra crunch is silicon | |
Angry Girl (CHAI Version) | Confidence Man | What’s your problem? | |
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Gemini Acoustic | Nick Cave & Warren Ellis | Heaping waves | |
- A plus D
- Asylum Street Spankers
- B. Fleischmann
- The Blue Hawaiians
- The Bobs
- Carolyn Mark
- Confidence Man
- Continentals
- Dean Martin
- Delicate Steve
- Divide & Kreate
- DJ Me DJ You
- Eels
- Emperor Penguin
- Enchanters
- Esquivel
- The Evaporators
- Flat Duo Jets
- Gachupin
- George Kuo
- George S. Irving
- The Granville Williams Orchestra
- Harry Connick Jr.
- Heaters
- Jaymz Bee + the Royal Jelly Orchestra
- The LeeVees
- Los Lobos
- Los Straitjackets
- The Loud Family
- MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS
- My Morning Jacket
- Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
- The Pogues
- Ren + Stimpy
- The Royal Arctic Instittue
- Squirrel Nut Zippers
- The Telescopes
- They Might Be Giants
- The Three Weissmen
- Toadies
- Toenut
- Toothpaste 2000
- The Wave Benders
- Yo La Tengo
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