Allo Darlin’ “Will You Please Spend New Year’s With Me?”

When I feel kinda like a giant useless slump
Ready to be taken to the rubbish dump
You call me up on your red telephone
Make me happy again and then you have to go

But I’ve been trying to think positively
About taking up new activities
I’ll do yoga and learn Chinese
Play accordion and eat my peas

But will you spend New Year’s Eve with me?
We can hide in my bedroom and watch cartoons all night

Everybody else will be out drinking
But I don’t feel like drinking
Do you wanna stay in and hang out with me
We could play some Monopoly

It’s embarrassing to think that at 25
I’m not doing something more wild with my life
There’s a party over here, a party there
But my favourite party is in my bed

So will you please spend New Year’s with me?
We can hide in my bedroom and watch cartoons all night

We can play Nintendo if you’d let me win
But you’re super competitive with these things
That’s okay, i don’t mind, let’s make popcorn
Do you feel like watching Harold and Maude

You’re the greatest the friend that i’ve ever had
I want you to know that i’m grateful for that
I won’t let our acquaintance ever be forgot
Happy New Year, I love you, you’re the best of the lot

So will you please spend New Year’s with me?
We can hide in my bedroom and watch cartoons all night

animalnitrate:

sonic youth -“santa doesn’t cope out on dope”

120memories:

The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl “Fairytale of New York” video featured on 120 Minutes, 1988

The absolute best Christmas song ever! This is how you successfully pull off a sentimental Christmas song that makes even the most jaded soul get misty-eyed. There’s not a dry eye in the house by the time the third verse ends!

(See “Christmas Shoes” as a textbook example of how to epically fail at evoking sentimentality in your listeners.)

Dar Williams “The Christians and the Pagans”

Amber called her uncle, said “We’re up here for the holiday,
Jane and I were having Solstice, now we need a place to stay.”
And her Christ-loving uncle watched his wife hang Mary on a tree,
He watched his son hang candy canes all made with red dye number three.
He told his niece, “It’s Christmas Eve, I know our life is not your style,”
She said, “Christmas is like Solstice, and we miss you and its been awhile,”

So the Christians and the Pagans sat together at the table,
Finding faith and common ground the best that they were able,
And just before the meal was served, hands were held and prayers were said,
Sending hope for peace on earth to all their gods and goddesses.

The food was great, the tree plugged in, the meal had gone without a hitch,
Till Timmy turned to Amber and said, “Is it true that you’re a witch?”
His mom jumped up and said, “The pies are burning,” and she hit the kitchen,
And it was Jane who spoke, she said, “It’s true, your cousin’s not a Christian,”
“But we love trees, we love the snow, the friends we have, the world we share,
And you find magic from your God, and we find magic everywhere.”

So the Christians and the Pagans sat together at the table,
Finding faith and common ground the best that they were able,
And where does magic come from? I think magic’s in the learning,
‘Cause now when Christians sit with Pagans only pumpkin pies are burning.

When Amber tried to do the dishes, her aunt said, “Really, no, don’t bother.”
Amber’s uncle saw how Amber looked like Tim and like her father.
He thought about his brother, how they hadn’t spoken in a year,
He thought he’d call him up and say, “It’s Christmas and your daughter’s here.”
He thought of fathers, sons and brothers, saw his own son tug his sleeve, saying,
“Can I be a Pagan?” Dad said, “We’ll discuss it when they leave.”

So the Christians and the Pagans sat together at the table,
Finding faith and common ground the best that they were able,
Lighting trees in darkness, learning new ways from the old, and
Making sense of history and drawing warmth out of the cold.

Happy Solstice, everyone!

katydidnot:

El Perro Del Mar “Auld Lang Syne”

Well, it’s now 2011 in the Eastern part of the United States, so…

The Lucksmiths “Get-to-Bed Birds”

A New Year’s song by the Lucksmiths. From the Matinée Grand Prix compilation, and also released as a single.

HAPPY 2011, EVERYONE!

(Also, I can’t believe this was a featured track on Pitchfork.)

katydidnot:

piazza:

Allo Darlin - Will You Please Spend New Years With Me?

Finally an appropriate time of the year to post this! Elizabeth’s voice is always gorgeous but it’s especially lovely and vulnerable on this one (available for a free download on the Fortuna Pop! website as a B-side to The Polaroid Song).

very very appropriate

I was going to post this myself. I wish I could have a New Year’s like the one in the song. (And yes, I wouldn’t just let you win at Nintendo. I wouldn’t rub your losses in, though. It’s just a game.)