HAPPY NEW TEARS VOL. 6 - HOLIDAY EDITION

12/22/23

Hello Fine People,

Here is a holiday edition of the Happy New Tears playlist. Hope you’ll enjoy it as I do. I actually found making this harder to compile than I anticipated. Some obvious & some necessary & some aren’t holiday songs at all but feel like ‘em. I was also repulsed several times over by the shameless covers I regrettably discovered this morning. I must say, your traditional Christmas songs made me violent. All my love to everyone else…

1. Hermine - Happy Holidays

2. Psychic TV - White Nights

3. Francoise Hardy - Song of Winter

4. Vashti Bunyan - Coldest Night of the Year

5. Cristina - Things Fall Apart

6. Slowdive - Star Roving

7. The Ocean Blue - Love Doesn’t Make It Easy on Us

8. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Birthday

9. Felt - My Darkest Light Will Shine

10. Sad Lovers and Giants - Christmas on Easter Island

11. Low - Just Like Christmas

12. Broadcast - Winter Now

13. The Legendary Pink Dots - Frosty

14. Saint Etienne - Teenage Winter

15. The Fall - (We Wish You) A Protein Christmas

16. Xmal Deutschland - Xmas in Australia

17. The 6ths - Winter in July

18. The Magnetic Fields - Have You Seen It In The Snow

19. Mark Lanegan - Strange Religion

20. Nico - Winter Song

21. John Cale - Child’s Christmas in Wales

22. Lou Reed - New Sensations

23. The Velvet Underground - Jesus

24. Julian Cope - Christmas Morning

25. Alan Vega - No More Christmas Blues

26. Smog - Rock Bottom Riser

27. Cerberus Shoal - Make Winter a Driving Song

28. Tindersticks - Snowy in F# Minor

29. Earth - Divine and Bright

30. Spiritualized - Always Together With You

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Hermine’s “Happy Holidays.”

Leaving the city, lock ourselves in homes
Go crazy with no time to rest
Four walls of concrete, and a door upon the street

Come with me, come with me
Come with me, come with me
Traffic, trains and aeroplanes
Headlights always shining on the room
TV, holocaust and hurricanes
Murders going on outside the door
Let’s not be logical twenty-four hours a day
Leave the sirens blaze on down the road
Police oppressors that disrupt our daily lives

Laugh with me, laugh with me
Laugh with me, laugh with me
It can’t be that home
There’s no rooms, there’s no space
A walk on the street is nobody’s dream
Why do we drag each other into traps?

We need each other like a flower needs the rain
Be with me, be with me
Be with me, be with me
Let me take you far away
On holiday, happy holiday
Let me take you far away
On holiday, happy holiday