I know I am not the first or only person to say this this holiday season and it has been said by many every Christmas time since 1987 but I still need to acknowledge Fairytale of New York by The Pouges as one of the best Christmas songs ever.
If you aren’t on of my Northport High School Choir peeps, this post has very little meaning. If you are, read on.
In light of the upcoming NHS Winter Concert, the resurrected alumni performance and the associated radical spliter group of disgrunted Alumni and thier rennage performance, I thought it might be nice to make recordings of the traditionals available for listening or download. If you are going to attend the concert, use them to practice. If you aren’t, then listen to them and be there is spirit.
All of the following are taken from various recordings during my time in the Choir. (1987-1990)
I think the following was made a traditional during my sophomore year (1987-1988).
Choir Fags unite!
Oh fuck yes!
Billy and the Boingers – I’m a Boinger
Billy and the Boingers – U Stink But I Love U
listening to the Doom – Police Bastard 7″ at the loudest possible volume.
Doom Kills You!
One of my good friends mentioned listening to The Epoxies in a Facebook post today. Since Maura (not to be confused with The Other Maura) lieks the Epoxies, I thought I would lay down a little Portland Punk Rock history and talk about The Automatics.
The most direct connection between the Automatics and The Epoxies would be FM Static. In a previous life, FM Static was known as Jesse Kimball, bass player extraordinaire for The Automatics, one of the better Pop-Punk acts to come out of the early to mid 90’s.
They seem to be somewhat overlooked, which is a shame as The Automatics turned out a lot of great suburban Punk Rock anthems that deserve to be heard.
To that end, enjoy some prime cuts from The Automatics:
The Automatics – Mommy is a Commie
The Automatics – I Just Wanna Kill Myself
The Automatics – I Just Wanna Be With You
The Automatics – Don’t Come Between Us
The Automatics – Hate Your Generation
The Automatics – Will You Go With Me?
The Automatics – I Don’t Love You
If you can’t play the mp3 filesI have come up with a few ways for you to play the songs:
1. You can download and run an exe file that has all the songs and a small mp3 decoder wrapped together. Just download and click to play.
2. Click play on this: