Dear Lord, why am I posting? I swear to God we're closed. Well, I guess you can take the boy out of Christmas but you can't take the Christmas out of the boy.......or something.
Over the years, going through so much Christmas music to find the good stuff, most of it becomes a blur (even the good stuff). But a very few artists and tunes stick (that's the really really good stuff). So, when this email arrived at my In-Box, I paid attention. Because "No Mean Christmas" by The Paperback Throne stuck with me.
I came across the tune in 2015 and it was good enough to make the Stubby's Christmas mix that year. The song, I believe, dates to a few years earlier but 2015 saw the release of a full Christmas EP ("All Best Intentions") from the Glasgow based Alt Folk/Dream Pop group. You can read my write-up on the EP here.
"All Best Intentions" was a free download from Bandcamp, at the time (and you can still get it that way). But it is now also available as a hard copy CD-EP. And I do loves my hard copies. I've softened my stance in my old age, but I used to say, "If it ain't physical, it ain't real." And, to be honest, if it was a $7 EP or a $5 EP or something, I probably still wouldn't mention it. But "All Best Intentions" is just ONE British Pound Sterling (about a buck forty at present). And, for that price--to have "No Mean Christmas" on hard copy--well, brother, I consider that a steal.
If you like the tune, or any of the other three on the EP, and are someone who, like me, prefers hard copy to digital--or if you just missed it when we covered it back in 2015--check it out.
Over the years, going through so much Christmas music to find the good stuff, most of it becomes a blur (even the good stuff). But a very few artists and tunes stick (that's the really really good stuff). So, when this email arrived at my In-Box, I paid attention. Because "No Mean Christmas" by The Paperback Throne stuck with me.
I came across the tune in 2015 and it was good enough to make the Stubby's Christmas mix that year. The song, I believe, dates to a few years earlier but 2015 saw the release of a full Christmas EP ("All Best Intentions") from the Glasgow based Alt Folk/Dream Pop group. You can read my write-up on the EP here.
"All Best Intentions" was a free download from Bandcamp, at the time (and you can still get it that way). But it is now also available as a hard copy CD-EP. And I do loves my hard copies. I've softened my stance in my old age, but I used to say, "If it ain't physical, it ain't real." And, to be honest, if it was a $7 EP or a $5 EP or something, I probably still wouldn't mention it. But "All Best Intentions" is just ONE British Pound Sterling (about a buck forty at present). And, for that price--to have "No Mean Christmas" on hard copy--well, brother, I consider that a steal.
If you like the tune, or any of the other three on the EP, and are someone who, like me, prefers hard copy to digital--or if you just missed it when we covered it back in 2015--check it out.
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