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Welcome to PTBN Pop's Video Jukebox Song of The Day! Every weekday will be featuring a live watch of a great and memorable music video. This week, we are celebrating Christmas with a super-sized theme week of great Christmas songs. On today's episode, Keith Langston is watching “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)” by John Lennon from 1971. The YouTube link for the video is below so you can watch along! https://youtu.be/Xbdyg51MVbg
John Lennon sang "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)". Für uns könnte der Untertitel diese Woche heißen: "Happy Christmas (Corona Is Still Going)". Wir hätten euch gerne ein besinnliches Thema in dieser Weihnachtswoche serviert, aber ihr kennt uns ja: Wir schrecken nie vor einer kleinen Kontroverse zurück und deswegen haben wir euch in der stillen Jahreszeit noch mal eine ganz klassische zwischenschicht-Corona-Folge aufgenommen. Litti und Ollschgich in trauter Zweimsamkeit sprechen über - is' doch klar - das Impfen und wie wir nur wieder rauskommen aus dieser nie endenden Geschichte. Zwei Jahre Corona und, wie Litti sagt: "Das soziale Miteinander steht einfach komplett Kopf!" Sind alle, die jetzt noch nicht geimpft sind, Coronaleugner? Wie will man eine Impflicht mit demokratischen Mitteln durchsetzen? Und wie viel Puste hat die Pflege noch? Denn, selbst wenn kein kompletter Pflexit kommt, setzt sich doch zunehmend ein großer Zynismus gegenüber ungeimpften Patientinnen und Patienten durch, beobachtet Litti. Darf das sein? Und ist es gleichzeitig nicht verständlich? Oder lassen wir uns täuschen von ein paar sehr lauten Trollen im Internet und eigentlich ziehen alle an einem Strang? Wir wünschen euch trotz allem entspannte Feiertage und zumindest ein paar Momente, in denen ihr nicht an die Seuche denkt. Nach dem Hören der Folge natürlich ;-)
A “Year In Review” for a year like 2020 was a rough thing to sort out. 2020 sucked. No denying that, right? Well, at least on the Bobcast, 2020 was a great year. Starting out with the conclusion of the Danzig Trilogy and ending with the Paul Tremblay interview, mix in a ton of incredible songs by incredible bands, I can’t complain about 2020 from the podcast point of view. Here’s what you’re getting in this fun-filled episode - Excerpts from the Danzig Series conclusion, the Joe Wood interview, the James Baldwin episode, the Katie Burr interview and the Paul Tremblay interview. A ghost story by Gared O’Donnell of Planes Mistaken For Stars from the very first Bobcast “Ghost Stories” episode. Songs by Lost Avenue, Sarchasm, Le Saboteur, The Bollweevils, Dillinger Four, Get Married and The Hybrids. Sense Field closes this “Best Of…” episode out with a cover of the song “Happy Christmas (War Is Over”. Happy New Year and here’s to a MUCH better year in 2021.
Below The Belt Show (www.belowthebeltshow.com) presents our first of three Christmas shows to get you in the Holiday Spirit! Our special guest this week is actress Liliana Tandon who can be seen in Up TV's Holiday Rom Com s "A Ring For Christmas." Liliana talks to us about writing and starring the the Holiday feature about a woman who wants to get married by Christmas just to receive her trust fund! We also talk to Liliana about her award nominated web series "Period Piece", working opposite Mira Sorvino in the film "Indiscretion" and much more! Don't miss another great interview! BTB’s host with the most Al Sotto and co-host Chachi McFly bring to you another entertaining program! On the joyful panel we back "The Adorable One" Ali Dash and "The Once and Future King" Martin Lopez. So expect all the late-breaking news on pop culture, entertainment, and more! Listen to our gut busting humor, insightful commentary, and thought provoking opinions on the world of entertainment uncensored only on Below The Belt Show (www.belowthebeltshow.com)! Song Credits Classic Christmas Cut: John Lennon "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" Cool Christmas Cut: Meg and Dia "Winter Wonderland"
YWD Show #198 Opens with John Lennon's Happy Christmas (War Is Over). We first talk about John Lennon's death 40 years ago and his impact on us all. We then talk to Tina Anderson for some holiday advice - then we speak with astronomy expert Professor Andrew Fraknoi about the weekend meteor shower, the moon and more. We then discuss our fave and least fave Christmas song. Lastly we offer up Steve Martin's & Paul Simon's Silver Bells and our Holiday Home Messages. LINKS: John Lennon Music
YWD Show #198 Opens with John Lennon's Happy Christmas (War Is Over). We first talk about John Lennon's death 40 years ago and his impact on us all. We then talk to Tina Anderson for some holiday advice - then we speak with astronomy expert Professor Andrew Fraknoi about the weekend meteor shower, the moon and more. We then discuss our fave and least fave Christmas song. Lastly we offer up Steve Martin's & Paul Simon's Silver Bells and our Holiday Home Messages. LINKS: John Lennon Music
WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES AGAIN 15 APRIL 2019WHEN CHRISTMAS COMES AGAIN 15 APRIL 2019 When I was a kid I voraciously tore through biographies of the Beatles instead of text books. Even then I had little faith in being educated by people whom I thought were stupid. That's a Bootstrap Theory type of thing caused by reading too many damn John Lennon interviews. Humility would hit hard later. One thing both Lennon and Paul McCartney would talk about was that, being songwriters, they wanted to write songs for occasions that had a chance to become standards. That's why they wrote their Christmas songs, "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" for John and "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time" for Paul. Both of them songs cut to the essence of them fellas for real. You wonder what each might have added to the other's but that's a recipe for a lifetime of WTF. In College Park I was writing a rock opera with my buddy Joel Baily. We were in a band called Love and Hate. We changed our name to Forgotten Sons when that crap hair band Love/Hate started getting played on MTV. Joel and I wrote together all the time. We made a point of it. We wanted to be rock stars. As far as we were concerned we already WERE rock stars so we wrote us a song for the occasion of the winter solstice. Dig - this is pretty much the song we wrote. It stuck with me all these years. If a song sticks with me for decades I eventually record it, or try to anyway. This was around the time of "Do They Know It's Christmas" - all that pre-internet troglodytal ignorance of the cultures that aren't derived from the Anglo-Saxons. I honestly didn't know that the entire world wasn't celebrating Santa and Jesus on December 25th. Holy fucking shit how the fuck did we exist? I think a big deal was when the Cold War ended and then China started reengaging with the world. Collectively the human race began remembering that there were other parts of the globe besides where one is born, lives, and dies. Around the time of the 9/11 terror attacks (which happens to be my fucking birthday) I added the stuff about"embrace all of the faiths that would love to kill me." You know, channelling my inner peacenik. You can add American Christians to that list as well. In general that's a spiteful and mean segment of my beloved Americans. That sentence right there hints at my own unrealized bigotry. It's a constant battle. Chances are you've already heard this song. I release it every year in December on whatever social media site is available. I'm very proud of it. Recording wise we did the sleigh bells and the tuned water glasses but my favorite part is at the end when the acoustic guitar doubles the mandolin riff. These things happen during recording. The way I have always operated, or tried to, is that you roll the tape and see what happens during overdubs. That's the funnest part - the spontaneity. I was anxious to hear how Paul melded together the everything plus the kitchen sink approach I enjoy during recording and fuck if he didn't impress the living shit out of me with this mix. That's something I learned from Brian - trust the guy mixing. HE'S the one spending all the time sorting through vague ideas and sculpting a whole. So I hope you like this one. The arbitrariness of the release is maybe my favorite thing about this song at present. Quickly - I purposely avoided any talk of the origins of what for all intents and purposes is an ancient celebration based on the movements of the stars. "Ancient" means, judging by the latest discoveries in anthropology, 100,000-200,000 years old. That deficiency of knowledge outside of one's own lineage is the sticking point that unscrupulous leaders use to aquire and sustain power. It's a useful tool. I have grown profoundly dissappointed in the reaction of the free peoples of the Earth to the vast networks of interwebs. I had mostly assumed that people were generally thoughtful and reasonable where as, if this past decade is taken as a sample of the reaction of civilization to new technologies that are inherently complicated to understand and yet superlatively easy to use, most people are easily swayed and governed by predjudice and place. I'm still astounded that the great experiment of the fouding fathers has survived this long because, clearly, as I sit here on 16 April 2019, the idea is better than the species to which it was gifted in hopes of a better world. Have a great Christmas this spring!
This week: an amazing interview with John Lennon & Yoko Ono from the mid ‘70s. John talks about his rivalry with Paul McCartney, why he recorded “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)” and who REALLY deserved a songwriting credit on “Imagine”. When Joe Walsh talked to us in 1978, he was not only a very successful solo artist (“Life’s Been Good”) but also a full-fledged member of The Eagles. Joe talks about why being in a band is so much better than being solo. A very interesting and fun interview. John Kay told us about the heyday of Steppenwolf when he visited us in 1979. The stories are crazy. We also have two clips from producer Phil Spector that are, in a word, bizarre. One of them is only 10 seconds long – and those ten seconds are weird and chilling. Finally, Tom presents us with more Cool Song Facts – this time it’s the original names of very famous bands. From Soft White Underbelly to Naked Toddler. Trust us, you have to hear these!
In today's episode Nicky P & Lizzie examine Happy Christmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon. I know we said we needed more lyrics but give us this one, it’s a political christmas song. That’s a pretty tall order, leave it to the commies to ruin Christmas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flA5ndOyZbI This week in I Heard This Happened: some another deep dive into 90’s pastiche and some Ruski piano. Nicky’s album this week is House Plants by House Plants. Imagine if you will, pavement meets The Ataris, with a lil Dashboard Confessional, Built To Spill & The Walkmen stirred in for measure. House Plants has one of my favorite qualities music can have. It makes me feel as though I'm 14 again and lamenting that girls aren't interested in me...despite not being sure what a relationship at that age would even look like. Also, don't hate me but I'm a sucker for wordy kinda crappy lyrical phrasing...I like to call it conversational. These guys are atonal in the way this music requires. It gives it the Joe everyman turned punk-rock songmeister cred. I'll add this to my running list of music that could have been on Daria, so it definitely gets my stamp of approval. http://houseplantstx.bandcamp.com/album/house-plants Lizzie brings us Android’s Lust by KikiMoon, the kind of album that can get you through chores, which is a solid litmus test. All the tracks are short which helps if you don't normally have the patience for instrumental music. It's soft and tinkly throughout as if it’s taking you on a fantastical journey, albeit a low key one. It’s conversational in a different way than the aforementioned album; like the half-audible dialogue of an indie chick flick if you will. https://kikimoon.bandcamp.com/album/androids-lust No interview this week, instead Lizzie and I talk about the economics of Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas. A classic Jim Henson Christmas special. We also take a look at the various ways in which the War On Christmas...Music is being waged. We Recommend Bribing Santa - Nick Piccone https://nickpiccone.bandcamp.com/track/bribing-santa-feat-donald-pelc Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas https://www.amazon.com/Emmet-Otters-Jug-Band-Christmas-Nelson/dp/B075ZDJD8B/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1545189783&sr=8-1&keywords=emmett+otters+jug+band+christmas Sign up for Freedom Song 365 before Jan. 1st http://www.freedomsong365.com Find all the episodes at ancapmusic.com http://www.ancapmusic.com Check out the show’s spotify soundtrack here: https://open.spotify.com/user/22e3bbur2ndqo5u3en4l472uq/playlist/3EftahIIlomHdfFCHXkI5o?si=hWDBlec6TsOaxeoN9ArmvQ Click here to sign up for email list: https://www.getdrip.com/forms/539468008/submissions/new For full unedited interviews, bonus material, merch, music and more join The Freedom Choir here: http://www.patreon.com/sllpodcast
It has turned into a tradition, the BDJ Christmas remix; in the past 4 years, a Christmas special was posted here, often lasting for 30 mins or more. This year, the Cellar received numerous requests for remixes, as a follow up to the broadcast of remixes in the Fab4Cast 64 and 65. (listen at http://web.avrotros.nl/podpourri/luisteren/fab4cast.aspx) Some requests were for remixes with songs by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), others requested remixes using the Beatles Christmas records (issued to members of the Beatles fanclub in the 60's). As a stroke of genius, we decided to combimne all requests, and mash-up ELO with the Beatles Christmas records. The result may not be the finest tune you've ever heard, but it is still more pleasing than Happy Christmas (War Is Over), or Wonderful Christmas Time. Only Ding Dong Ding Dong comes close......
John Lennon interpreta "Happy Christmas War Is Over", es el mensaje que John nos da."La guerra terminó, únete a nosotros".
John Lennon interpreta "Happy Christmas War Is Over", es el mensaje que John nos da."La guerra terminó, únete a nosotros".
It’s our Christmas program — an audio service of lessons and carols of sorts — it’s a little quirky, but full of heart. Music "Watching NASA Channel At Your Apartment At Christmastime" by Bob Fields "All Out of Darkness" by Uncle Owen Aunt Beru "December 26th" by Foxchase Excerpts from "A Christmas Carol" by 20th Century Fox "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" by The Canadian Brass "Fairytale of New York" by Paleface "Mele Kalikimaka" by Albert Adams Excerpts from "Seinfeld" by Sony Home Entertainment "The Christmas Guest" by Johnny Cash "Christmas Time Is Here" by Vince Guaraldi "I'll Be Home For Christmas (But Only In My Dreams)" by Bing Crosby "Because the Night Is Long" from Music From The Gathering Church "Hark The Herald Angels Sing" by Vince Guaraldi "Beautiful Star of Bethlehem" from Music From The Gathering Church "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" by Gladys Knight and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir "Apollo 8 Christmas Message" courtesy of NASA "To Build a Home" by the Cinematic Orchestra "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" by John Lennon
w/ new in- & outro. Happy Christmas (War Is Over?!)