Rapid Eye Movement - Holiday Fanclub Singles (complete)

FLAC UPGRADE, courtesy of Colin

R.  E.  M.

Holiday Fanclub Singles (complete)

1988-2011

ROB SEZ: I can think of no better musical celebration of the holidays than listening to the complete set of fanclub singles issued by R.  E.  M.  After calling it quits, the guys shut down the fanclub in 2011. I've had these posted as high-quality MP3s for many years. A couple of years ago, Colin at the magnificent Dream Remaster blog was able to upgrade nearly all of these to FLAC, with just a few remaining as MP3s. I thought it was past time to share 'em here.

soundboard recordings (sound quality range VG+ to Ex-; many are vinyl rips with attendant pops & a few skips)

First fanclub single, issued in 1988

THANK YOU KINDLY to the original rippers, sharers & posters. HUGE THANKS to Colin!

1988a Parade of the Wooden Soldiers

1988b See No Evil (Television cover)

1989a Good King Wenceslas

1989b Academy Fight Song

1990a Ghost Reindeer In the Sky

1990b Summertime (final seconds cut)

1991a Baby Baby (Vibrators cover)

1991b Christmas Griping

1992a Where's Captain Kirk?
          (Spizzenergi cover)

1992b Toyland

1993a Silver Bells

1993b Christmas Time Is Here

1994a Sex Bomb (Flipper cover)

1994b Christmas In Tunisia

1995a Wicked Game (Chris Isaak cover)

1995b Java (Allen Toussaint cover)

Artwork for 1999 holiday single

1996a Only In America
           (Jay & The Americans cover)

1996b I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor cover)

1997a Live for Today

1997b Happy When I'm Crying
           (Pearl Jam cover)

1998a Lucky (M. Stipe w/Radiohead)

1998b E-Bow the Letter
           (live w/Thom Yorke)

1999a Country Feedback
           (Live w/Neil Young)

1999b Ambulance Blues
          (Live w/Neil Young)

2000a Christmas Time (Is Here Again)

2000b Hastings & Main

2000c Take Seven

2001a Let Me In (Live)

2001b Find the River (rehearsal)

2002a No Matter What (Badfinger cover)

2002b Jesus Christ (LX Chilton cover)

2002c M. Stipe reads Martin Luther King

2003a Country Feedback (Live)

2003b It's the End of the World As We 
          Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Live)

2004a I Wanted to Be Wrong (Live)

2004b She Just Wants To Be (Live)

2005a Turn You Inside-Out (Live)

2005b The Great Beyond (Live)

2006a Tongue (Live) [performed by Tin Cup Prophette]

2006b So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) (Live)

2006c These Days (Live) [performed by The Observatory]

2006d Begin the Begin (Live)

Final fanclub single, issued in 2011

2007a Merry Xmas Everybody
          (Slade cover)

2007b Magnetic North

2008a Living Well Is the
          Best Revenge (Live)

2008b Let Me In (Live)

2008c Just a Touch (Live)

2009a Santa Baby

2009b Crazy Like a Fox
      (Link Cromwell & The Zoo cover)

2010a Christmas
          (Baby Please Come Home)

2010b IHT->U->EDIYTW (Dubmix)

2011a Perfect Circle (Live)

2011b Life and How to Live It (Live)

FLAC (plus a small handful of MP3s)

 

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ARTWORK FOR ALL SINGLES INCLUDED.

Check out the many connections between 
R.  E.  M. and The dB's at THIS earlier post.

For complete fanclub singles discography info, look at these
two great fan sites: HERE and HERE.

   

A Happy, Merry (Very)

A Happy, Merry (Very)

Holiday to Y'All

I'm outta here for 2022, but I do want

to wish everyone happy holidays.

If you're still looking for holiday music, be sure to click

HERE

(takes you to all the holiday-themed posts I've shared over the years)

I'll see you again early in 2023

Los Lobos & friends - Holiday House Party 1992 (FM)

Capitol Recording Studios 
Hollywood, CA 
Oct. 1992 (broadcast Dec. 25, 1992) 
  

DJ-banter-removed version

  
DISC 1
* DJ introduction omitted * 

02 Peace
03 Arizona Skies>
04 Borinquen Patria Mia
05 Canto Veracruz
06 Mario from the Bario (Lalo Guerrero)
07 Pancho Claus (Lalo Guerrero)
08 Beat Angel (Rickie Lee Jones, Leo Kottke 
      & John Leftwich)
09 Running Up the Stairs (Rickie Lee Jones, Leo Kottke 
      & John Leftwich)
10 The Christmas Song
11 One Time, One Night
12 Buffalo River Home (John Hiatt)
13 Drive South (John Hiatt)
14 Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
      (John Hiatt & Los Lobos)

DISC 2
01 Colas
02 El Zapateado
03 La Iguana>
04 La Guacamaya
05 Instrumental Medley:
      (Leo Kottke) 
     Available Space>
     June Bug>
     Vaseline Machine Gun>
     Jack Fig
06 I'll Be Home for Christmas
      (Dave Alvin & Rick Solem)
07 Dry River (Dave Alvin & Syd Straw)
08 Golden Dream (Syd Straw 
      & Dave Alvin)
09 O Holy Night (Syd Straw 
      & Rickie Lee Jones)
10 The Christmas Twist
      (Syd Straw & Los Lobos)
11 La Pistola y El Corazon

12 Kiko & the Lavender Moon

Find more Los Lobos cheer HERE

13 What's Goin' On?
  
ROB SEZ: How about a musical house party for your holiday festivities? Or even if you don't HAVE any festivities to host or attend, this would be a fine substitute. For years, I've been looking for a good excuse to post some Los Lobos music, and now I've got one. Please enjoy — and have an excellent holiday!
  
FLAC
  
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Merry Holidays & Happy Xmas Y'all!

Happy Merry, Very to You

Here are some holiday music posts 

from prior years:

Bruce Cockburn & Friends - Live 1991-1993

The dB's & Other Cool People - Celebrate Xmas!

Kate Rusby - Xmas Show 2011

Shawn Colvin - Holiday Show 1998

R. E. M. - Complete Fanclub Singles

(Colin has an upgraded, partially lossless version at his blog)

See you in 2018...

Bruce Cockburn & Friends - 'Xmas With Cockburn' 1991 + '93

Columbia Records Radio Hour
'Christmas With Cockburn'
1991 + 1993

Bearsville Theatre 
Woodstock, N.Y.
December 15, 1991

FM recordings (sound quality: VG+) 

01 intro + Lovers 
     In a Dangerous Time
02 Silent Night*
03 Dream Like Mine
04 God Rest Ye 
     Merry Gentlemen
05 It Came Upon a 
     Midnight Clear*
06 If a Trees Falls
07 Cry of a Tiny Babe**
08 Waiting for a Miracle*

* w/ Sam Phillips (lead vocal on 05)
** w/ Sam Phillips & T-Bone Burnett

Musicians: David Mansfield, Richard Bell, Miche Pouliot, Colin Linden, John Dymond

Sony Music Studio
New York, N.Y.
December 12, 1993

09 intro
10 Wondering Where 
     the Lions Are 
11 I Saw Three Ships
12 Lament for the Last Days
13 Crystal Ball+
14 All I Want for Christmas+
15 Les Anges Dans 
     Nos Campagnes+
16 God Rest Ye 
     Merry Gentlemen
17 Incandescent Blue
18 Rebel Jesus+
19 Away In a Manger+

+ w/ Jackson Browne (lead vocal on 13 + 18)

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ROB SEZ: Took me a while to get into the spirit of the season, but it finally hit me the other day. This year especially, I want to hear holiday tunes sung by someone with a conscience, so I thought of Bruce Cockburn. (Many thanks to the original tapers & sharers.) I really dig his Christmas album. I think it's a classic.

It's not too late; buy now!

Kate Rusby - Xmas Show 2011

MERRY CHRISTMAS, one & all!!

Kate Rusby & Co. 

Leeds Town Hall
West Yorkshire, UK 
Dec. 9, 2011

audience recording (sound quality VG+)
previously uncirculated

Set 1 [53:52]
1. intro
2. Here We Come A-Wassailing
3. chat, intros to Brass Boys & carol 
4. Joy to the World
5. chat about south Yorkshire carols
6. First Tree In the Greenwood
7. baby announcement & carol intro
8. Shepherds Arise
9. Brass Boys leave stage, chat & band intros
10. Home
11. carol intro
12. The Seven Good Joys of Mary
13. welcome back Brass Boys, carol intro
14. The Wren
15. chat & carol intro

16. While Shepherds Watched (Cranbrook Version)                   

Kate Rusby & friends

                                                                                                Christmas concert 2011

                                                                                                                           (fab photos by Elizabeth Harkin)

Set 2 [65:45]
1. intro chat
2. Kris Kringle
3. chat & carol intro
4. The Holly & the Ivy 
5. chat
6. Hark Hark, What News
7. handover to Brass Boys & tune intros
8. Ricky Rhodes to Ruin - Mr. Buns (medley)
9. chat & carol Intro
10. The Holmfirth Anthem (aka Pratty Flowers)
11. chat & carol intro
12. Diadem
13. chat & challenge
14. Walk the Road
15. chat & thanks 
16. O Little Town of Bethlehem
ENCORE
17. chat & song intro
18. Underneath the Stars
19. chat, carol & Kate intro
20. Sweet Bells

MASSIVE THANKS to kayjaybee for sharing
and to BigDee for the mastering

MP3@320

Musicians:
Kate Rusby
Ed Boyd
Julian Sutton
Duncan Lyle
Damien O'Kane
Brass Boys (Rich, Mike, Matt & Tim)
    

Kate's holiday album The Frost Is All Over is available HERE.

Learn more about the music of Kate Rusby 

at her web site and AllMusic. 

                    

VA - Celebrate Xmas! comp

bumped from a few years ago...

The dB’s (& other cool people)

Celebrate Xmas!

assorted live and studio recordings (none commercially released)
 

variable audio quality
 

Peter plays Father Christmas and Jeff ... he's, um ...
what exactly were you doing, Jeff?!?

01 Christmas Time (Chris Stamey & friends)

02 It's Christmas Time (Yo La Tengo)

03 White Christmas (Patti Smith)

04 Happy Christmas / War is Over (John Hiatt with Los Lobos)

05 Christmas Time Is Here (Shawn Colvin)

06 I Saw Three Ships (Don Dixon)

07 Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree (Marti Jones)

08 Home for the Holidays (The dB's)

09 O Holy Night (The dB's)

10 New Year's Revolution (Graham Parker)

11 Santa Claus Is Back In Town (The Pursuit of Happiness)

12 Silent Night (Tom Waits)

13 It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (Sam Phillips)

14 O Holy Night (Syd Straw & Rickie Lee Jones)

15 Two Thousand Miles (Syd Straw)

16 Feliz Navidad (The dB's)

Rob sez: Many of these come from the Naughty Dog “Upon This Night” Christmas comp — big thanks to you, Naughty Dog! 

TRACK INFO: 
1.  Idiot's Delight radio session Dec. 5, 1993
2.  unknown 
3.  studio recording c. 1978 
4.  Los Lobos Xmas special, FM broadcast Nov. 24, 1992 
5.  FM broadcast 1998 
6 & 7. Birchmere, FM broadcast Dec. 1995 
8 & 9. KCRW-FM "Snap" session Dec. 1987 
10. Idiot's Delight radio session Dec. 18, 1994 
11. The World, NYC Dec. 10, 1988 
12. Austin City Limits c. 1979 
13. FM broadcast Dec. 1991 
14. Los Lobos Xmas special, FM broadcast Nov. 24, 1992 
15. Pretenders cover, Holiday Hayride, The Fez, NYC Dec. 1993 
16. WXRT-FM, Chicago, IL Dec. 5, 1984
 

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Alt. Link

Want a great, fun collection of
holiday music? Look no further!

22 tracks available at Omnivore Recordings
(download or CD). Read spavid's review at his Wilfully Obscure blog.
           

Shawn Colvin - Holiday Show 1998

KGSR-FM Studios
Austin, TX
December 1998 (exact date unknown)
Christmas Radio Special 
 

Shawn Colvin & Band - enjoying pajama time & holiday tunes... 
From a live performance on the Tonight Show, 1998. Enjoy it on Shawn's Polaroids DVD comp.

Holiday fave at Rob's house

01 Even Here We Are

02 You and the Mona Lisa

03 If I Were Brave

04 Sunny Came Home

05 The Facts about Jimmy

06 Christmas Time Is Here

07 In the Bleak Mid-Winter

08 Shotgun Down the Avalanche

09 Little Road to Bethlehem

10 Mary*

11 Love Came Down at Christmas

12 Rocking

13 All the Pretty Little Horses

Simply put: Shawn's got what I like

14 Goodbye*

15 I'll Be Back Again

16 River

17 Have Yourself a 
     Merry Little Christmas

*guest vocalist: Patti Griffin


ROB SEZ: Was starting to think I couldn't pull together a holiday-themed post when this gem of a concert showed up, quite unexpectedly. It's a sweet blend of classic Shawn compositions, seasonal tunes from her just-released holiday album, and choice covers. Added bonuses: a string section & the marvelous Patti Griffin guesting on two songs.

THANK YOU KINDLY to mediaaddict for sharing.
 

Artwork included? But of course...

MUSICIANS:
Shawn Colvin - vocals, guitars, piano
Doug Petty - multiple instruments
Kate Markowitz - background vocals
Lara Hicks, Ames Asbel, Sarah Nelson, Lee Mahoney - strings

TT: 65:59

MP3@320

Learn more about the music of Shawn Colvin 
at her web site and/or AllMusic.