It's the Notes

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Short notes on songs of note:

Christmas = compilation time! From 'Lost Nog', a comp from Seattle label Small Batch, this fantastic power pop stormer by Graham Winchester (from 2024, but still):

From the yearly Polaroid Memory compilation, this LOUD rock song that namechecks some big stars, but is about 'the anarchist conspiracy theory that Pyotr Kropotkin might be related to Santa Claus':

Polaroid Memory features a strong song by our friend Kristian Noel Pedersen, and so does this Canadian comp. Also on there, probably the first xmas song about the 6-7 hype. Highly charming, by Robots! Everywhere!! and his daughter:

Dutch comedian Roel C. Verburg wrote a song (two years ago) from the perspective of Joseph, feeling superfluous on the day Christ was born. Had not heard this before. It's really really funny (in Dutch):


We do like some synthified Christmas music (see here, and here), and when a song pops up entitled 'Little Synthesizer Boy', we just have to post it. Check the one original (and title) track on this EP too:

Hat tip to Ricco van Nierop for this one, a bluesrock version of Joni Mitchell's River. Sounds risky, no? It is a bold version, but it works:


Make it saxy! Put some saxuality in it! Sax it up! And that's just a few of the puns that popped up whilst listening to this great singalong track by Kansas City's Chase the Horseman:

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