A STINKY CHRISTMAS 2025
Is it already time, for another STINKY CHRISTMAS? With just 22 days to go, we may as well pull the dustcover off this years edition.
Garage Rock is one of the five food groups always included in this series, which is served up in steamin’ slabs by; Bill Robin & Blue Jays, The Doll Squad, and Eddie & The Hotrods.
As usual, some of the fare is left of center; 45 Grave, Tav Falco, & Klaus Nomi, and some is more traditional; The Donnas, Aztec Camera, Nick Lowe, Los Straitjackets, and Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons.
There are always lovable weirdos letting their Christmas Freak Flag Fly: The Puppini Sisters, Southern Culture On The Skids, & Jack Rabbit Slim, and something sweet, which is supplied by The Tiny Boppers, Les Paul, & Fats Domino (playing a Casio keyboard!)
And I like to include at least one Craven Christmas Cash-Grab ("Please pass the money"). This year’s is Christmas At The Oasis (Live) by Maria Muldaur.
Happy Holidays, everyone!
Downloaders are requested to share either the best OR the most disappointing Christmas gift they’ve ever received.
ReplyDeleteI’ll go first. I asked my parents for an all-in-one CASSETTE deck/record player so I could record my albums and make mix tapes. I GOT an all-in-one 8-TRACK deck. Nothing says: "I love you" like an obsolete format.
Here’s A STINKY CHRISTMAS 2025:
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Round neck sweaters. My wife kept buying them every year, Until I finally told her I didn't like them. "why didn't you tell me....". FYI today 3 Dec is our 54th wedding anniversary.
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary to you and Mrs. Lemonflag!
DeleteThank you for taking part, Lemonflag. 54 years! You beat my personal best by 48 years. Congrats!!
DeleteI was expecting an Aurora ho racing set and instead got a foot bath.
ReplyDeleteSlot cars! I think my brother and I were playing hide & seek late one year, and I dove under my parents' bed, which was the same hiding place they had chosen for our big Xmas gift that year, which was a slot car race track and HO scale model train combo. I still remember the conflicting sensations -- excitement mixed with guilt, because I had spoiled the surprise. It was like this set (but without Thomas the Tank Engine):
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That's ROUGH, Cowculator! Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteSlot cars AND trains! That's the vehicular version of an all-in-one stereo system, Jon!
DeleteHappy Holidays Jokonky Crew (I always think of the cool band The Jonzun Crew...LOL) and Richard!!! Best was every year in our family of ten that we all opened last after presents were the fireplace stockings filled with candy AND plenty of smaller wrapped presents stuffed into our oversized needle-point-designed stockings sewed by our Gramma who also used to give us silver coins every year for a good stretch of my early years in a special card designed to hold them all which I still have as do the surviving siblings. Stinky I feel for you (had some years with clothes presents and lesser) having my Panasonic tape deck/radio/phono combo player in grade school (may have been for a Birthday) was such a key gift to me back then...
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Delete(In my best Michael Palin hanging upside down in a dungeon voice:)
"OOOH! I layed awake noights DREAMIN' of a PANASONIC combo player!"
(Mine was from SEARS!)
Well, since you asked. Not long after CDs became the thing, I asked for a ZZ Top CD for Christmas. I wanted something like I heard on the radio from Eliminator, but what I got was The Best Of ZZ Top which didn't sound anything like what I had heard on the radio. I guess they didn't know the difference. Thanks for the music!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ernie. Parents usually don't know much about the music that's important to their kids. Jonder & Berni being the exceptions!
DeleteThe best? The totally unexpected pair of Gordon Banks goalkeeping gloves when I was 10. I wore them all year, even if I was never a goalkeeper.
ReplyDeleteA sweet gift, for any man, Pontyboy! Happy Holidays!
DeleteWell, my cat just walked over the keyboard. so maybe this is twice the same story
ReplyDeleteMy best ever christmas present was when I was 13 and in hospital. I got solid food at christmas, In The Netherlands we don't do christmas we do Sinterklaas on december 5th. Before I went into hospital I got Oor's Popencyclopedie from Sinterklaas. It was the last Sinterklaas because my youngest brother was 7 and he was told the next year that Sinterklaas doesn't exist. After that we rarely did presents.
I've spent enough time in The Netherlands to be aware of Sinterklaas! Happy holidays, Richard.
DeleteWow! Thank you! Worst gift ? - sheesh, too many to mention. Best by far was my banana seat Schwinn Stingray in GOLD! From the late '60's - Kick ass bike!
ReplyDeleteMan did I want that bike, Ex Mixer! With the (stick) shifter like a car has, right?
DeleteYeah man, that was it!! Great ride!
DeleteThat was like a Lamborghini to a 15 year old boy!
DeleteBest: a beautiful Fender acoustic guitar I'd been drooling over...the woman to whom I am married picked up a writing assignment (money was v tight)
ReplyDeleteWorst: senior year of highschool my present from my parents was a suit to wear to graduation, a graduation I had no intention of attending (alas, I did)
Thanks for the Xmas gift!
Thanks Eric. In my family, a suit for Christmas was only acceptable if you had a court date coming up, & someone else had dibs on the "family suit".
DeleteI can't wait to email bomb these to my friends. Thank you.
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DeleteHappy Holidays, all! Gotta run.
ReplyDeleteAll I Want For Christmas Is A Dukla Prague Away Kit
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Similar to Richard we only celebrated Sinterklaas of course. The worst presents were probably socks or similar... The best maybe was when I was very young and I thought my present contained cookies, nice but still... Instead it was a kaleidoscope which was mindblowing for a 5 year old kid!
ReplyDeleteI love the Hot Club of Christ - Aztec Camera song. Just a great song
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Anonymous! Always nice to see you back here! ;)
DeleteI used to date a girl with kaleidoscope eyes, Koen!
ReplyDeleteMemories of good and bad when I was a little kid and Christmas was exciting,
ReplyDeleteThe good was an Airfix Saturn 5 rocket (I was into the space race) and had half built it before my parents got up ... they weren't happy about that.
The bad was as a football (West Ham) fan, I wanted a replica shirt and thought I'd got one but it was a Burnley one, same colours different design. Made worse by several kids at school having the same one, which it turned out had all been supplied by one of the parents selling knock-off shirts cheap.
My first download here by the way, thanks for this :-)
I used to launch rockets as a kid, too, Lee!
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