Twas the night before Advent

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I had a marvellous plan for tomorrow which was to interrupt the steady procession of Now polls with the a poll based on NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL CHRISTMAS, seeing as Wobs officially begins TOMORROW and we can start talking about Christmas songs. But it turns out that there isn't really a proper Now Wobs comp - there's a puny single-disc one for 2005 and there's an American version full of BURL IVES. I looked further afield, into the worlds of Best...Evers and I [heart] Xmo and suchlike, but gradually I realised the truth:

There is no such thing as a proper Xmas compilation.

They all miss off something essential, they all include dreary filler, they all leave you with that exact same feeling of deflation that you get when you open the DVD-shaped wrapper and find the one you already bought in the November sales.

In which case, since a perfect Christmas compilation is impossible, why don't we at Poptimists make our own? It will only be as wrong as anyone else's.

I don't think that the ideal Wobs CD would all be good, mind you. I think it should, like the season itself, bring you a mix of comforting rituals, pleasant surprises, boozy enjoyment and embarassing horrors. So I'm not going to ask you just to name a good Wobs track to go on our CD - you have to name a bad one too. We'll use all the good ones and make up space with a sprinkling of the bad.

(Tracklisting and title to appear later, and who knows, if we can think of a time for a Poptimists Christmas Drink we might even MAKE these compilations.)

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Also, if you can think of a great (read: risibly pun-driven) NAME for the Poptimists Xmas Compilation then tell the world in the comments boXoR.

Now 5 YSI requests part two

[dorsalstop.livejournal.com]

A lot less snappy (and a lot less Schnappi) than I remember, but oh: Steve Arrington - "Feel so Real"

And here are those lovely Dutch girls [no, the other ones], Mai Tai and "History".

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[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

There was a request for Xmas song suggestions, and obviously I have loads. I'll do two lists - the ones where I can supply MP3s and the ones where I can't.

( Xmas song lists )