Waits for Christmas
Wonderfully pointless, but intriguing just the same.
There is a plan afoot to get Tom Waits’ ‘Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis’ to No. 1 in Ireland for Christmas. (You can hear the divine Neko Case version in my Scarves & Gloves mix).
So, if you can purchase from an Irish download site, why not go for it? It’s a very good track. While you’re there, download ‘Martha’ and ‘Down In The Hole’ (Theme from Season 2 of the fantastic The Wire).
More about this at waitsforchristmas.blogspot.com.
I really hope it makes it…….or Malcom Middleton
I have to check out Malcolm Middleton’s effort. Not looking good for Tom at the moment – nowhere to be found in iTunes chart
Are you looking at the UK chart eguinan?
I have it at 23rd at the moment on the Irish iTunes chart, which isn’t bad going for 3 days of sales (over a weekend when internet usage in Ireland tends to drop off a bit).
Thanks for the mention, by the way. Fingers crossed we’ll have an impact!
Hi Adam,
And yes! There it is at 23! That’s pretty good. Larry Gogan will definitely give it a spin (I remember he played several minutes of Sigur Rós’ Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do -which made for surreal daytime radio when it made the singles chart!), and Rick O’Shea is usually game when it’s blog-related.
What should we choose next year? River by Joni Mitchell? Little Girl Blue by Nina Simone? Something Sufjan?
It’s gone up again Enda – 19th! Fingers crossed it keeps on climbing!!!
Might hit Larry with a press release – never thought of him before – hopefully he’ll get behind us!
Rick O’Shea has given us a big thumbs-up on his blog and I think he may have on his show too… I’ll keep pestering him and thanks for the ideas!
Thumbs up for River, by the way – but something tells me I’ll let someone else kick that one off no matter what this week’s outcome is!
Meanwhile, Radio 1 decides to eviscerate a long-standing Xmas classic:
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2229357,00.html
Not any more! Radio 1 have put the faggot back where it belongs. And possibly the slut too.
Yeah, I saw that too, soon after my above posting. And btw: I really miss Kirsty MacColl.
happy christmas
so? what happened? oh and Happy New year/ Prospero Año Nuevo!!!
Thanks Fwan – sorry for the delay!
Pete: It managed a respectable no 28! Which is rather crazy when you consider that it’s a pretty bleak obscure album track chosen kinda randomly! Any suggestions for next year? Feliz Navidad by El Vez? lol
oh oh oh freddy fender version definately… man that is random old school tex mex for sure.