Tag: Higher

Tried to avoid any Christmas frivolity this year but the pull towards festive nonsense was too great.

Plus, the repeated-lyric-reworking of Slade’s “Merry Xmas Everybody” put us in mind of an equivalent deconstruction someone performed on The Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me” a few years ago.

Direct download: The Joint – 15 December 2018

And here’s the playlist in full…

• “SLADE”  –  Merry Xmas Everybody (But All The Lyrics Are ‘Are You Hanging Up Your Stocking On Your Wall’) *
• DJ NARCISO & NUNO BEATS  –  Hino Rs
• MEEK MILL  –  What’s Free (featuring Rick Ross & Jay Z)
• ANGELIC MILK  –  When The Limousines Pass By
• PRESSURE  –  Militant
• DJ EARL  –  LIKE THT
• THE MIGHTY SPARROW  –  Slave
• BORED IN COLOMBIA – Dreaming Of Turkey And Ham (featuring Red Headed Roy The Butchers Boy)
• SLOWTHAI  –  Doorman
• SHIT & SHINE  –  Sunrise Sam
• J DILLA  –  The Throwaway (Yancey Boys featuring Frank Nitt)
• THE GIST  –  Love At First Sight
• ROSE DROLL  –  Boy Bruise
• DANIEL AVERY  –  Diminuendo
• AESOP ROCK & TOBACCO ARE MALIBU KEN  –  Acid King
• THE HIGHER  –  The Core
• BELLE & SEBASTIAN – The 12 Days Of Christmas
• LIFE IN SODOM  –  The Stains (Alessandro Adriani Remix)
• RIVAL CONSOLES  –  Persona
• CONFIDENCE MAN  –  Santa’s Comin’ Down The Chimney
• PLEASURE PLANET  –  Evaporate
• CROOKED MAN  –  Long Time Dead
• PRESSURE  –  Vex Riddim
• V/VM – Christmas Stuffing Fanfare
• MIRRORED LIPS  –  Falling In Love Again (Can’t Help It)
• BONE HEAD  –  Soft Power
• IC3PEAK  –  Смерти Больше Нет
• HIPSWAY  –  Main Theme From The Film “Ask The Lord”
• SILVERBACKS  –  Just In The Band
• THE ALCHEMIST  –  E Coli (featuring Earl Sweatshirt)
• UNLOVED  –  Love
• PETE SHELLEY  –  Homosapien (Elongated Dancepartydubmix)

* The source of this week’s lyrical heading.