Various Artists - "Psycho-Out Christmas" (2013) - Cleopatra Records
Smoke 'em if you got 'em tonight friends!
Great LP compilation of some really twisted xmas tunes.
Seventeen whacked-out songs to help make your late night holiday chill-out sessions a bit more merry & bright.
SIDE A
1. Intro - Christmas Monster Party (Len Maxwell)
2. Christmas Time (Is Here Again) - Elephant Stone
3. It s Christmas Day - The Cosmonauts
4. Silent Night - Quintron & Miss Pussycat
5. Jul Song - Dark Horses
6. What Child Is This? - Sleepy Sun
7. No More Christmas Blues - The Vacant Lots
8. Time of the Season - Sons of Hippies
9. Santa Claus - The Fuzztones
SIDE B
1. Christmas Tears - Eli Cook
2. Little Drummer Boy - The Movements
3. Jingle Bell Rock - Quintron & Miss Pussycat
4. Frosty The Snowman - The Candy Store
5. Run Rudolph Run - Psychic Ills
6. Mele Kalikimaka - Dead Meadow
7. Jingle Bells - HE 5
8. White Christmas (Guitar Stooge Version) - Iggy Pop
There's some melody-laced Beatles-influence (Montreal's Elephant Stone); VU-inspired guitar rock (California's The Cosmonauts); whacked-out exotica-tinged noise rock (Quintron); warm and cozy dream pop (England's Dark Horses); Pink Floyd-inspired psychedelic jams (California's Sleepy Sun); shoegazing-indie rock (Burlington, Vermont's The Vacant Lots and Sarasota, Florida's Sons of Hippies); and some good ol' fashioned three chord garage rock (NYC's legendary Fuzztones covering a Sonic's classic!)
And that's just Side One!
Side Two contains even more eclectics with some OKAY modern blues courtesy ofBilly Gibbons Eli Cook; some more noisy space rock (The Movements, Quintron, Dead Meadow); some Phil Spector-inspired pop (The Candy Store); and some more retro-sounding garage rock (Psychic Ills & HE 5).
Everything comes to stunning conclusion thanks to Iggy Pop's crooning take on the Irving Berlin Classic, "White Christmas".
Yowsa! For a second we thought the record was playing on too slow a speed, but that's just Iggy's inimitable baritone (plus whatever drinks we've been ingesting!)
There's plenty of guitars, spacey keyboards, weird sound effects and beats to keep your after hours holiday party rolling deep into the nigh. This record is a must hear especially for fans of Pink Floyd, space rock, The Flaming Lips, Spiritualized and early 90's indie rock.
As Merry Monster MC Len Maxwell states in the intro to the LP, "you should not play this record when the sun is up!" Agreed! Who plays records during the day anyways?
Great LP compilation of some really twisted xmas tunes.
Seventeen whacked-out songs to help make your late night holiday chill-out sessions a bit more merry & bright.
SIDE A
1. Intro - Christmas Monster Party (Len Maxwell)
2. Christmas Time (Is Here Again) - Elephant Stone
3. It s Christmas Day - The Cosmonauts
4. Silent Night - Quintron & Miss Pussycat
5. Jul Song - Dark Horses
6. What Child Is This? - Sleepy Sun
7. No More Christmas Blues - The Vacant Lots
8. Time of the Season - Sons of Hippies
9. Santa Claus - The Fuzztones
SIDE B
1. Christmas Tears - Eli Cook
2. Little Drummer Boy - The Movements
3. Jingle Bell Rock - Quintron & Miss Pussycat
4. Frosty The Snowman - The Candy Store
5. Run Rudolph Run - Psychic Ills
6. Mele Kalikimaka - Dead Meadow
7. Jingle Bells - HE 5
8. White Christmas (Guitar Stooge Version) - Iggy Pop
There's some melody-laced Beatles-influence (Montreal's Elephant Stone); VU-inspired guitar rock (California's The Cosmonauts); whacked-out exotica-tinged noise rock (Quintron); warm and cozy dream pop (England's Dark Horses); Pink Floyd-inspired psychedelic jams (California's Sleepy Sun); shoegazing-indie rock (Burlington, Vermont's The Vacant Lots and Sarasota, Florida's Sons of Hippies); and some good ol' fashioned three chord garage rock (NYC's legendary Fuzztones covering a Sonic's classic!)
And that's just Side One!
Side Two contains even more eclectics with some OKAY modern blues courtesy of
Everything comes to stunning conclusion thanks to Iggy Pop's crooning take on the Irving Berlin Classic, "White Christmas".
Yowsa! For a second we thought the record was playing on too slow a speed, but that's just Iggy's inimitable baritone (plus whatever drinks we've been ingesting!)
There's plenty of guitars, spacey keyboards, weird sound effects and beats to keep your after hours holiday party rolling deep into the nigh. This record is a must hear especially for fans of Pink Floyd, space rock, The Flaming Lips, Spiritualized and early 90's indie rock.
As Merry Monster MC Len Maxwell states in the intro to the LP, "you should not play this record when the sun is up!" Agreed! Who plays records during the day anyways?
RATING: 4 it just doesn't feel like christmas until iggy pop sings white christmas out of 5
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