poptimists | The Poptimists Wobs Advant Garda Gala Day 14

Jeff W. commented yesterday (on the hot topic of DUDLEY DOGG JR) that we were entering

sukrat territory. Well, I disagree: this is more like

sukrat territory. And yet, in a funny way, it isn't...

Sisterhood - The Rocking Disco Santa Claus

Sisterhood aren't a band as such, they're a pen name for anonymous musicians in the song-poem genre. The web is stuffed with explanations of song-poems but in brief: they were a kind of vanity publishing where you would send your lyrics, and some money, and they would knock up a tune and press a bunch of singles. Most are slush, some are excellent, many have fallen under the unfortunate banner of 'outsider art'. The motivations for "The Rocking Disco Santa Claus" are lost to us but I like to imagine it as the product of a mother whose family are divided between liking rock and liking disco - so along comes Santa Claus to play "rocking disco" and the family are united. The lyrics obviously set 'Sisterhood' the task of imagining what "rocking disco" might sound like - how do they do? Judge for yourself.

I very strongly recommend you download this one - from tomorrow we're into the last 10 days of the advent calendar and I'll be picking my personal Top 10 Wobs favourites, with occasional bonus oddities when there's a song that everyone in the world has (my tastes are pretty trad).