Not Christmas tunes done in a different style, but original songs.
Most happy melodies (except of course the ones by Suicide/Alan Vega), not always happy lyrics.
A sampler of ZE Records. Strange mixture but all very American Big City sounds.



Again available on cd.

Side one:
1 Material with Nona Hendryx - It's a Holiday [7:12]
2 August Darnell - Christmas on Riverside Drive [5:03]
3 Charlélie Couture - Christmas Fever [4:48]
4 Suicide - Hey Lord [3:25]

Side two:
1 Cristina - Things Fall Apart [4:34]
2 The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping [5:21]
3 Was (Not Was) - Christmas Time in the Motor City [2:55]
4 Alan Vega - No More Christmas Blues 3:13]
5 Davitt Sigerson - It's a Big Country [2:51]

In the same year I bought another sampler Chantons Noël, Ghost of Christmas Past on the Belgium Les Disques Du Crepuscule label. I lost it. Who has a copy?

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Nice heavy Christmas song from the Dickies.
On the back side The Sound of Silence (*NOT*) of Simon & Garfunkel.



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I posted some flexi-discs from the Vinyl magazine.
You may wonder how it looked like.
Well, like this:



You might even wonder how it looked inside, you can download issue 2 as pdf (14MB).
Warning: it is in Dutch, except for the John Cooper Clarke interview and Hamburg article, which are in a kind of English.

Contents:
Blurt - Mute Records - Minioon - Love of Live Orchestra - John Cooper Clarke - Minny Pops - Reggae - the Gap - das Wesen - Pere Ubu - Signals - Svätsox - Cheap 'n Nasty - Willem de Ridder - Delta 5 - Hamburg

[Download Vinyl issue 2 pdf]

List of flexi-discs that came with Vinyl:

V01 - Mekanik Kommando
V02 - Minioon           - Signal(s)
V03 - Tox Modell        - Plus Instruments
V04 - Z'ev              - Soviet Sex
V05 - Nasmak            - Gulf Pressure Ais
V06 - Planung           - T.T.L.
V07 - English Subtitles - Marine
V08 - Minny Pops        - Mental
V09 - Virgin Prunes     - The Higsons
V10 - Nexda             - Pedalenproza
V11 - Cravats           - A Flux in 3D
V12 - Eyeless in Gaza   - Topdogs?
V13 - Cabaret Voltaire  - Tecnoville
V14 - Die Partei        - Schleimer K
V15 - Chris and Cosey   - Minimal Compact
V16 - Gang of Four      - Five or Six
V17 - Theatre of Hate   - Puber KristUs
V18 - The Mekons        - Gdansk
V19 - Palais Schaumburg - The Danse Society
V20 - David Thomas      - Watt
V21 - Thomas Leer       - Cocteau Twins
V22 - Fad Gadget        - Mecano
V23 - Nasmak            - Twice A Man
V24 - Allen Ginsberg    - Niew Hip Stilen
V25 - Mark Stewart      - Pas de Deux
V26 - The Sound         - Ensemble Pittoresque

Does anyone have the flexi(s) of Cabaret Voltaire, Gang of Four, Theatre of Hate, The Mekons, Thomas Leer, Mark Stewart or The Sound?

I know, this lp pops up everywhere these days.
But I digitized it last week, so I share it now. In the Netherlands you don't do any christmas things before 'Sinterklaas' (a Santa Claus look alike), the 6th of December.



Sy Mann did the arrangements, Jean Jacques Perrey the engeneering and the posing on the cover.

Side one:
1 Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer [2:13]
2 Jingle Bells [1:43]
3 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town [2:02]
4 Tijuana Christmas [1:59]
5 My Favorite Things [2:24]
6 The Little Drummer Boy [2:38]

Side two:
1 Christmas Bells [1:51]
2 White Christmas [2:50]
3 Joy To The World [1:04]
4 When Christmas Comes [2:30]
5 Angels We Have Heard On High [1:43]
6 Silent Night [2:07]
7 What Child Is This [2:05]

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Dutch band from Nijmegen. Although I lived in Nijmegen at that time, I managed never to see them. This was a free flexi-disc that came with the first issue of the Dutch modern music magazine 'Vinyl'.



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See also my other Vinyl flexi-discs posts:
Fad Gadget - Untitled (1983, UK, electronic/new wave)
The Danse Society - My heart missed another beat (1982, UK, electronic/gothic)
Chris and Cosey - Night Shift (1982, UK, electronic)
Soviet Sex - Tokyo (1981-1997, NL, electronic/punk rock)
A Flux in 3d - Divide (1982, NL, electronic/new wave)

Flexi from Dutch Vinyl magazine issue 2.
Signal(s) came from the south of the Netherlands (Maastricht, Eindhoven).
The music is, Joy Division like, Doom.



On a French web site they ask 30€ for a copy. Here you can get it for free!

Frank van de Tillaard: vocals, guitar
Hans Nijssen: synthesizer, tapes
Hay Bedaux: bass
Jaques van Erven: drums, vocals, tapes



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Helmut Zacharias is a classical trained German violinist, orchestral leader and arranger. On this lp he assaults some well known pop songs.
I knew him from the wonderful Ultra-Lounge on the Rocks cd samplers and a few days ago I saw this lp for 5€ and I couldn't resist buying it.
Most of these tunes are also available on his cd Respect 1968 Capitol. On previous link you listen to fragments.



Side one:
1 Light my fire (The Doors)
2 Baby love (The Supremes)
3 Little green apples (Bobby Russell)
4 Those were the days (Mary Hopkin)
5 Ob-la-di ob-la-da (The Beatles)
6 Naturally stoned (Avante Garde, James Bond theme)

Side two:
1 Respect (Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin)
2 The house that Jack built (Aretha Franklin)
3 Step inside love (Cilla Black, Lennon-McCartney)
4 I say a little prayer (Burt Bacharach)
5 Brown eyed woman (Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil)
6 Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)

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