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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Happy Hannukah From Jewremy

The festival of lights begins tonight. Let's hear some noise, Jews!

John Zorn - Hekhal (Most, if not all, of the Masada Ensemble)
T. Rex - Telegram Sam (Marc Bolan)
Sleater- Kinney - Words & Guitar (Carrie Brownstein)
Ramones - Daytime Dilemma (Joey Ramone)

Randy Newman - Louisiana
Phish - Brian and Robert (Mike Gordon)
Simon & Garfunkel - April Come She Will (a two-fer)
Phil Ochs - The Highway Man
The Moldy Peaches - Who's Got the Crack?

Jane's Addiction - Stop (Perry Farrell)
Rush - The Twilight Zone (Geddy Lee)
The Flaming Lips - The Spiderbite Song (Michael Ivins)

Yo La Tengo - Blue Line Swinger (Ira Kaplan)

Silver Jews - Strange Victory, Strange Defeat (Steve Berman)
Tom Waits - Cemetery Polka (Marc Ribot)
Lesley Gore - That's the Way Boys Are
Go Sailor - Long Distance (Rose Melberg)
Jonathan Richman - Since She Started to Ride

Klezmatics - NY Psycho Freylekhs
Danny Elfman - Back to School
Philip Glass - Company Part IV
Leonard Cohen - The Stranger Song

Rabbi Kumin - The Following Two Blessings
New York Dolls - Looking For a Kiss (Sylvain Sylvain)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control (Nick Zinner & Brian Chase)
Vampire Weekend - I Stand Corrected (Ezra Koenig)
The Velvet Underground - Lisa Says (Lou Reed)
Bob Dylan - The Water is Wide

Two Favorite Christmas Songs for the Gentiles Out There:
The Kinks - Father Christmas
The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)

3 comments:

jamie said...

bandwidth/buffering problems kept me from listening. boooo.

but Rodan is ready to make his WVEW debut on January 18th. look out Earth!

Listmaker said...

Rabbi kumin! Sweet!

Crispin H. Glover said...

I'm horribly excited for the debut of rodan. hit me with the theme mr monster. and rabbi kumin indeed made this the jewiest night ever on battle for the earth.