Setlist from last night (25 December)

Hope all my TP colleagues have had a truly marvelous holiday season!

"Come On, Christmas" – Cheap Trick
"Step Into Christmas" – The Wedding Present
"The Season's Upon Us" – Dropkick Murphys
"God Rest Ye Metal Gentlemen" – Boston
 
"Not Another Christmas Song" – Blink-182
"Christmas Treat" – Julian Casablancas
"O Come, O Come Emmanuel" – House of Heroes
"Christmas Wrapping" – The Waitresses (by request)
 
"Father Sgt. Christmas Card" – Guided By Voices
"All I Wanted Was a Skateboard" – Super Deluxe
"Gloria" – Elastica
"Alone on Christmas Day" – Phoenix
"Punk Rawk Christmas" – MxPx
 
"Christmas May Have to Be Postponed" – Carly Jamison
"Christmas List" – Redambergreen
"No Presents for Me" – Pandemonium
"Hating You for Christmas" – Everclear
 
"3 Ghosts (A Modern Xmas Carol)" – Boss Martians
"City of Christmas Ghosts" – Goldblade, featuring Poly Styrene
"Ghosts of Christmas" – Manic Street Preachers
 
"Hey Santa Claus" – The Chesterfield Kings
"I Want an Alien for Christmas" – Fountains of Wayne
"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" – Wizzard
"Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" – The Darkness
"O Come All Ye Faithful Surfer Girls" – The Chevelles
"Holidaze ('Scuze Me, I've Got Gifts to Buy)" – Bob Rivers
 
"Merry Xmas Everybody" – Slade
"Holy Holy" – David Bowie
"The Christmas Song" – Weezer
"Oi to the World" – The Vandals
 
"Father Christmas" – The Kinks
"Run Rudolph Run" – The Smithereens
"The North Pole Express" – Nick Lowe
"Back Door Santa" – Jet
"Santa Claus Is Foolin' Around" – Bob Rivers

Thank you for playing "I Want an Alien for Christmas" – Fountains of Wayne

That and "Hackensack" have been among the songs on repeat for me last couple weeks

RIP Adam Schlesinger

"Christmas Wrapping" is awesome, and annoying, and ridiculously catchy all at once.

Good playlist and good comments!

-I agree, Adam Schlesinger was one of the toughest losses to COVID. Too young . Major songwriting talent.

-zoo is so right about ‘Christmas wrapping’. I think (too me, anyway) it comes from a similar alley to where ‘wordy rapping hood’ came from and it ultimately wins me over every time.

-I want to thank you for playing Elastica... one of the brighter spots of the 90s for me.
( the 90s are an odd decade. Sometimes, the harder I search, the better the decade was musically. Other times, the yuckier it was).

-didn’t recognize the Sade song. Then I put on my dollar-store reading glasses. Remember the Motels song “take the L out of Lover”? Take the L out of Slade and it’s Sade.

Thank you for Cheap Trick, Poly Styrene, Slade, The Kinks and Nick Lowe - it was like having old friends over for the holidays.

And Bowie’s Holy Holy made for a delightfully unexpected stocking stuffer...

Ace show all around!

I'm glad to know my seasonal show went over so well, with so many of you.

> Bowie’s Holy Holy made for a delightfully unexpected stocking stuffer...

That's the only song I know from Bowie that could be taken even as remotely seasonal ... apart from his duet with Bing Crosby. (I enjoy that one, but I tried adding it to "Twenty Flight Rock" one year, and found it didn't fit well at all.)

> I want to thank you for playing Elastica... one of the brighter spots of the 90s for me.

For me too, Bip. Their self-titled album is truly all killer, no filler. And their live show at the Mercury Café in Denver was top-drawer too.