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.
