Man Getting Hit by Football by Molly Lambert You know that Simpsons episode with a crossover appearance from Jon Lovitz as The Critic where Mr. Burns decides to make a movie and when Steven Spielberg is busy Burns hires his non-union Mexican equivalent, Señor Spielbergo? Peter Jackson, Lord Of The Onion Rings Well I guess I needed to [...]

It's that time of year that feels less and less like that time of year. In short, I'm very ready to die. What's left? We here at LETTHEREBENIGHT are prepared to deliver you a great new year. We started this blog only a few months ago, and thus far, have enjoyed minimal success, success nonetheless. A new year, new artists; 2008 will be a good year, and hopefully we will be there to sift through bad, to deliver the goods. As for now, I wish all our satisfied readers and friends [...]
Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime Miles Davis & Bob Dorough - Blue Xmas Aretha Franklin - Winter Wonderland The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping James Brown - Funky Christmas Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin' Run DMC - Christmas In Hollis Wham! - Last Christmas Elastica - Gloria
"'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring — except for the four assholes coming in the rear in standard two-by-two cover formation." - Theo, in Die Hard (1988) Ahh Die Hard , what Christmas would be complete without a viewing or two of this all-time Christmas classic? Die Hard ?! Got that right. You may not agree, but in my opinion it's one of the best Christmas movies ever made; however, lucky for you, I'm not compiling a list of [...]

Jag lovade ju faktiskt att hålla mig undan från de gamla sliskiga jullåtarna, och Wham 's Last Christmas hör väl till de allra mest uttjatade. Men. När Erlend Øye sjunger den med sin sammetsmjuka röst på det där blyga, nästan lite ursäktade sättet som bara han kan, är det omöjligt att värja sig. Man faller pladask. Jag har nog aldrig riktigt reflekterat över texten tidigare, men Erlend upplyser mig om hur tårdrypande sorglig och vacker den faktiskt är. Konstigt. Erlend Øye - Last Christmas Andra [...]

Wow, that's a mouthful, isn't it? The contrast podcast's festive fifty countdown turned out to be 54 songs, making three 18-song podcasts, the first of which is up today. You can download and/or listen to it right here . I don't appear in this week's edition, but I'll introduce two songs next week, so please come back and look for them then. Give you something to look forward to, eh? Aside from Christmas and all that other stuff. *insert wink emoticon* [...]
There's a Christmas song on here, but it's a really bleak one. In similarly-related news, if you're in the UK, perhaps you might want to buy the new Malcolm Middleton single today? It's really good, actually. If you like the music, you should use some of your hard-earned money to buy it. If you're in Rhode Island, maybe you might want to do that at Tom's Tracks, which is closing after 23 years on Thayer Street. The whole store's half off. 1. Tom Vek, Nothing But Green Lights [...]
DOWNLOAD: Wham - Last Christmas (MP3) DOWNLOAD: ABCQ - It's Christmas Time (MP3) DOWNLOAD: ABCQ - lumen de lumine (MP3) DOWNLOAD: ABCQ - Snowbus (MP3) DOWNLOAD: ABCQ - I wish you love (MP3) Download a few mellow Christmas songs for your non-ironic holiday mix, courtesy of A Band Called Quinn . Kind of Rilo Kiley & St. Etienne [...]
This week's mixtape starts off with a classic that I've been searching a long time for, from the Comsat Angels...hope you dig it as much as I have throughout the years. And special thanks to BC for tracking it down for me... Will You Stay Tonight - The Comsat Angels Renegades Of Funk - Rage Against The Machine No Need To Cry - Neko Case [...]

Carman posed me the titular question recently, and I was surprised to learn that it was a song I'd never actually heard before: "Everything She Wants" by Wham! , the George Michael project of "Wake Me Up before You Go-Go" fame. What a song it is. One tends to forget that the end result of disco was an adult contemporary hybrid of dance music and utter schlock; " Everything She Wants " is a monument to this. Over light hi-hat clasps, sparely thumping bongos, and deliriously cheesy synth stabs, Michael intones a lyrical psychodrama of soap operatic [...]

Her Favourite Tipple Davy H over at The Ghost of Electricity had a recent post which named his wifes favourite Saturday night record. I was going to name a track in a comment about what I suspected Mrs Vicar might suggest as her own favourite. However, I thought it might be better to ask her first ........ Well, I got the understandable 'on the fence' reply about changing tastes and mood etc, but I managed to whittle away until I got the following mixed [...]

Finally! Spring is here! Like our last mix , only this time we're celebrating the absolutely beautiful weather outside today. Download the songs below, take off the rest of the afternoon, hit up one of this city's great parks and enjoy the sun! Phoenix "Summer Days" /// Theo Wham! "Heartbeat" /// Nghia Blonde Redhead "Spring and Summer by Fall" /// [...]

Ah, Chernobyl in the springtime… The sunsets are to die for, until you realize that you're facing eastward, and the faint glow on the horizon is due to fission, not fusion. Recently, I've been burning up a lot of free time playing STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl for the PC. The game, which had been in development so long that some were starting to write it off as vaporware, is an open-ended RPG/FPS hybrid best described as a cross between Fallout and the Elder Scrolls games. The premise of STALKER was [...]

For some reason the "I Shot Ya (Remix)" by LL featuring everybody has been looping in my mind all week, so here's a few tracks that were sampled by Mr. Ladies Love and a waaay too young to be talking about her ill na na, Foxy Brown. Speaking of "I Shot Ya", what ever happened to the dope hip-hop posse cut? 1. Steve Arrington - " Nobody Can Be You " from LL Cool J - "Nobody Can Freak You" 2. Angela Winbush - " I'll Be Good " [...]

Covering Wham!'s 'Last Christmas' seems to be a holiday favourite. There have been trance versions, a Disney-Pop one, even an acoustic rendition. How many different ways can that famous chorus be heard in? How about 118?! Amazingly, Last Christmas has a collection of 118 versions (and counting) of the 1984 single. I've gone through about half of them, and before I grow sick of the song, these are my favourites. MP3: Wham! - Last Christmas The original. George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were onto something [...]
I've come home for Christmas after a week long Christmas celebration in Edinburgh which always suprises me by being tastefully decorated. The parties did mean me getting a couple of photos censored on Facebook though, but nevermind Anyway, in contrast to most the other indie blogs about which will be doing some kind of Indie [...]

Neil Diamond "Sweet Caroline" (Live) Mark Holder "Sweet Caroline" Wham! "Careless Whisper" Ben Folds & Rufus Wainwright "Careless Whisper" (Live) Last weekend I managed to rock the karaoke mic two nights running. At a Friday night party, friends had set up their computer as a karaoke system, and I got to warm up for an already planned, full-on Saturday night session at a box karaoke joint in the basement of a Koreatown mall. It was [...]

Sixteen Candles is another one of those classic 80s movies that practically everyone in my generation has seen a million times and can quote endlessly. It was the film that basically kicked off Molly Ringwald 's career and energized the teen comedy trend. It's possibly my favorite John Hughes film from that era. Even after seeing it so many times, it never gets old. Sixteen Candles tells the story of Samantha, who is celebrating her sixteenth birthday. The problem? Her family has completely forgotten about it, mostly due to [...]
Could Wham be about to reform for a secret one-off reunion gig - complete with Pepsi and Shirlie (although not, sadly, Dee C Lee)? We doubt it - especially if it's meant for Christmas, as surely rehearsals would be well under way by now? - but some people seem convinced it's going to happen. music wham george michael andrew ridgeley pepsi and shirely
Okay, George Michael, maybe it's time to think about not driving if you're not capable of walking. Police are trying to trace him after his 4X4 smashed into parked cars near his house. That's how caned Michael must have been - he appears to have believed he was a farmer or something and needed an all-terrain vehicle in the middle of Kensington. A police spokesman says: “At 8.10am, police were informed of a Range Rover being in collision with a number of cars in Hornsey Lane, Highgate. The vehicle was [...]