Christmas at the Sanatorium

The Great Eastern has a tradition of 'Christmas at the San' and we are honoring that by being ultra-sick; but I lift a festive fist out of the plague pit. With Music. I found the folder of last year's xmas musical discoveries! The Christmas Unicorn walks through the smokey air, again!


This little fucker gnaws at your very soul


A funky Motown melody


"Hallelujah, Noel be it heaven or hell The Christmas we get we deserve" As mentioned in a previous post in the Tower of Song, songs about justice/karma hit a powerful place in me.


"The most brutally honest Christmas carol in human history." - A youtube commenter


Back to Britain for Frankie's #1 hit Xmas in 1984 "Keep the vampires from the door"


The parade of Christmas fabulousity climaxes with the arrival of the "hysterically American" Christmas Unicorn. I understand why some don't like a repetitively chaotic 12 minutes song but when the Joy Division's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart Again' drops at the 7 and a half minute mark my face lights up and I experience synaesthesia.  "You may dress in the human uniform, child, but I know you're just like me"


Boney M. - Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord (12'' version 1978) - The best part of Christmas at Grandma Kay's was the Boney M christmas tape, playing it felt like a subversive act. Now it so intertwined into my Christmas memories that it is sentimental pop joy.


12 days of Christmas can be a hard song to sit through so finding this engaging jazzy rendition was a pleasure.


Mogwai - Christmas Song (1999)


Mogwai: Christmas Steps (1998)


2019 Walking in the air *Cyberdesign & T.Wojtowych finished Remix*

http://gporter.net/great/episodes/ge_nye_94.mp3
http://gporter.net/great/episodes/ge_s3_12.mp3
http://gporter.net/great/episodes/ge_s3_13.mp3
http://gporter.net/great/episodes/ge_s4_ep_16_dec_20_97.mp3
http://gporter.net/great/episodes/ge_s5_ep_14_dec_12_98.mp3
http://gporter.net/great/episodes/ge_s5_ep_15_dec_19_98.mp3

These are the holiday episodes of the CBC Radio's great comedy program, The Great Eastern. ['Dead Dog Cafe' also used to air in this same era]

A 1000 stand-up comedians working a 1000 'debaters' microphones could not produce 1/10000 of the delight this show does. I have listened to these shows every christmas for nearly 20 years and I still just getting some of the more esoteric jokes (the more newfoundland and canadian history you know the more you laugh).

It's a Canadian 1990s version of 'Firesign Theatre', [and if you get that reference you are smarter than I was, I heard this on CBC multiple times before I finally understood it wasn't really a re-broadcast 'Newfound cultural program' but a scripted comedy]