Monday, December 2, 1935
SUPPLEMENT TO THE DAILY NEBRASKAN
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SONGS from Page 3
"Little Drummer Boy"
VJoan Jett and the Blackshirts.
I'm not sure if Jett would have
been able to sneak in on the
nativity scene with her bubble gum
bangs and black eye shadow, even if
she said she was one of the exotic
Magi, but it's interesting to note
that she sings this as if she wanted
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to attend. Try getting a life-size
promotional cut out of Jett and
setting it in with the other figurines
on the lawn of the church. See if
anybody notices.
Saw Jesus in
VMcDonald's at Midnight"
by Mojo Nixon. Whirly headed
Mojo and his schizoid washboard
player have a religious experience
at the local pod-food emporium.
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Apparently Mojo caught his Mom in
the midst of flagrant delictii
with Santa and has run off to find
the real mening of Christmas. Usual
childhood trauma aside, this must
have been pretty hard on poor Mojo.
This frantic re-working of everything
from Jonathan Richman's
"Roadrunner" and John Lee
Hooker's "Boogie Chillum" to
"Sister Ray" by the Velvet
Underground, with a dose of the
movie, "It's a Wonderful Life"
thrown in for good measure, is
certainly proof that what happens in
the first years of one's life can
effect you forever.
"Do They Know it's
I Christmastime?" by Band
Aid. For sheer musical power
you can use the Lionel Richie
imitation of this as a pizza pan. "We
Are the World" is a display of ego
and envy. "Do They Know it's
Christmastime?" by Saint Bob
Geldof and Ultravox's Midge Ure is
purely an act of love and caring. The
song is moving and ethereal, a little
off-kilter at the best of British
music is and it certainly has the
oddest assortment of coal pipes ever
drawn into one studio. Give Geldof
the Nobel, the Pulitzer, canonize
him, invite him to Christmas dinner,
offer to have his children. God bless
us everyone.
lOver)" by John Lennon and
The Plastic Ono Band.
Speaking of saints, the patron saint
of overreaction, John Lennon and
chanteuse, Yoko Ono, make a
listing, if somewhat generic
contribution to the brethernhood
that should abound on or around
Dec. 25. Yoko of course is squalling
in the background, doing what the
B-52's vocalists did years later with
a sense of humor and to better
effect. As far as this new-found
belief on the part of rock critics
that Yoko can sing, dance, write,
play every known instrument and
walk on water, I refer you to the
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little tale of "The Emperor's New
Clothes . . . ."
f$"Christmas is Coming" by
rf?The Payolas. From the great
undiscovered classic LP
"Hammer on a Drum," "Christmas is
Coming" is another tale of
Christmas loneliness but like all the
songs on this album, Paul Hyde
sings and writes of transcendence,
of working-class phoenix rising
above the unemployment lines, the
dead-end job and the sense of urban
anomie. In this song, Christmas
represents the end of a long year
without having caved in to the
streets and losing hope. Lovely and
sacred as any hymn you might sing
by rote, The Payolas remember
Christ was born in the humblest of
circumstances.
f"Meriy Christmas,
Darling" by Chuck Berry.
Berry mellows out to some fine
old blues on this one, a dream for
nuzzling near a fire on Christmas
Eve, about midnight, when not a
creature is stirring. Nothing hot and
heavy, just a little something to
make sure your his-and-hers
sweaters like each other.
One has got to love Berry for
singing this one like he means it.
All he's got to give this woman on
Christmas is himself. Don't buy this
new, make sure it has some familiar
crackles and popping on it. Treat it
like an old friend, not like the new
"Duran Duran" release. You can hug
it, kiss it, leave the sleeve off and
nuzzle around it.
rtj"Santa Claus is Coming
vjHo Town" by Bruce
Springsteen. There's something
a little phony about this, but The
Boss is having such a good time that
I won't bicker. No rock 'n' roll
Christmas could really be complete
without it. Probably real good for a
dance up at the ski lodge.
Springsteen is a little omnipresent
these days, so you might want to
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wait a few Christmases before you
try and get into this tune.
'Chipmunk Song" by The
v4chipmunks. You gotta love
&f Alvin and his little pals even
if they are helium addicts. Some
might say this is evidence that
Christmas is too commercialized.
Well, you can all just take your
Anita Bryant Christmas albums and
listen to them in a corner
somewhere. Alvin wants presents,
presents, presents, but don't think
he doesn't know the meaning of it
all. Even chipmunks have hearts.
C "Run, Rudolph, Run" by
.Dave Edmunds. The weather
outside may be frightful, but
Edmunds builts a healthy little fire
around this Chuck Berry riff. Johnny
B. Goode meets all eight shiny
bucks and Santa, too. Edmunds
isn't omnipresent, so put this one
on the tape this year instead of The
Boss.
."Jingle Bell Rock" by
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iwavne wewton. uiv. so no one s
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going to nominate this howler
to the rock 'n' roll hall of fame' but
some spiked egg nog can make it
funnier than any inebriated relative
in a lampshade. Newton has three
or four Christmas stockings stuffed
in his cheeks, a suit that looks like
the National Christmas Tree and the
voice of a choirboy. That Newton
would even put the word "rock" in
the title is such a screamer you
might not even need to play the
record.
"White Christmas" by
!Throbbing Gristle. Throbbing
Gristle never recorded "White
Christmas" but when my editor said
not to put only "weird" music on this
list, I asked him what music that
wasn't "weird" he wanted to be on
the list.
for instance. Put that on the list."
I said, "Oh, yeah, 'White
Christmas' by Throbbing Gristle.
Great song."
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