Every year, my roommate and I put out a Christmas single for the seven or so people who can actually stand to put up with our lame attempts at making music. It started in 2001, with a version of Dominick The Donkey that I sang into a tape recorder while Ethan beat time on the dashboard of my Accord. We recorded it, I’m pretty sure, in a parking lot outside a gym in Gales Ferry, Connecticut. Since then, we’ve done either a single or an EP every year, and often invited other people to help out. Sometimes we sing songs together (under the name The Gloomy Pharmacists) sometimes he does songs by himself (as Glove Compartment) and sometimes I do solo stuff (as The Glueguns.) This year, the single is a Glueguns track, a medley of traditional holiday favorites including Adeste Fideles, Away In A Manger, and Y Control. It’s available at gloomypharmacy.com, along with a selection of our other holiday singles from over the years. Or just click below for some Yuletide treats.
The Glueguns, Christmas Medley 2007
The Glueguns, Christmas Medley 2007 (Karaoke Version)
Bonus Tracks:
The Glueguns, It’s Snowing Men (2006)
The Gloomy Pharmacists, Masters In This Hill (2006)
The Glueguns, Santa Baby (2004)
Glove Compartment, Deck The Halls (2002)
The Gloomy Pharmacists, The Egg Nog Song (2001)
Taking a break from the endless countdown to put up this week’s mix, which features a couple of songs from this year but lots of sixties-themed stuff, including the Bristols and Death By Chocolate covers. I might as well say now that nothing from Thurston Moore’s solo album made my top 100 this year, but only because I didn’t actually listen to it until the other day. I like it a lot, and it’s especially good to listen to when you go to bed and have no heat.
As always, if you like the music, you should go out and buy it. If you live in Providence, you might want to do that at Tom’s Tracks. After 23 years, they’re closing down at the end of the month and everything in the store is 25% off. There’s bound to be good stuff in there, especially since all the Brown students don’t buy physical copies of music anymore. Also, that’s going to only leave four (four!) independent places to buy music in the whole state.
