About Mark

This author has not yet filled in any details.
So far Mark has created 320 blog entries.

Best Christmas Songs – Christmas is Cancelled

Best Christmas Songs - Christmas is Cancelled "Christmas is Cancelled" by The Long Blondes is my lucky 13th song of my 25 Days of Christmas song list. Christmas is Cancelled - The Long Blondes The Long Blondes formed in Sheffield, United Kingdom in 2003. Things were going really well for them until 2008 when songwriter and lead guitarist Dorian Cox suffered a massive stroke. He was 27, that weird age when a lot of musicians have passed on. Brian Jones, Jimi [...]

Best Christmas Songs – Christmas is Cancelled2023-11-16T00:57:08+00:00

Best Christmas Songs – If I Get Home On Christmas Day

Best Christmas Songs - If I Get Home On Christmas Day I missed posting about the best Christmas songs yesterday so here's the first of two for December 8. Elvis' "If I Get Home on Christmas Day," from the 1971 album Elvis Sings The Wonderful World of Christmas. If I Get Home On Christmas Day - Elvis What's Christmas without Elvis? Blue, I tell you. Blue. Although not as popular as his first Christmas album, the aptly named Elvis' Christmas [...]

Best Christmas Songs – If I Get Home On Christmas Day2023-11-16T00:57:40+00:00

Best Christmas Songs – All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue

Best Christmas Songs - All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue Okay I'm behind a few days. The weekend was slam-packed. Day 11 of my 25 Days of Christmas songs is "All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue" by Over the Rhine. All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue - Over the Rhine Over the Rhine is a Cincinnati, Ohio based band. They got their name from the Cincinnati, Ohio neighborhood Over-the-Rhine. Makes sense. They started out as a [...]

Best Christmas Songs – All I Ever Get For Christmas Is Blue2023-11-16T00:57:07+00:00

Best Christmas Songs – “Just a Sad Xmas”

Best Christmas Songs - "Just a Sad Xmas" I'm heading into the vault for this one. I posted it last year so you know it deserves to be on your best Christmas songs playlist. "Just a Sad Xmas" by The Soul Duo is one of the finest soul Christmas tracks ever recorded. "Just a Sad Xmas" by Soul Duo Oh baby is this an out-of-sight song. Soul Duo was Ida Sands and Joe Webster, otherwise known as Little Ida and Little Daddy. [...]

Best Christmas Songs – “Just a Sad Xmas”2023-11-16T00:57:06+00:00

Best Christmas Songs – This Time Of Year

The Best Christmas Songs - This Time Of Year I'm counting down what I think are the best Christmas songs in what I like to call  25 Days of Christmas songs. Today is day 9 and I bring you "This Time of Year" by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones. This Time Of Year This is a fantastic song with a great message, if you'll allow me to be sappy. Forget all the presents, the shopping, and all the other commercial crap that [...]

Best Christmas Songs – This Time Of Year2023-11-16T00:57:05+00:00

Best Christmas Songs – A Great Big Sled

Best Christmas Songs - A Great Big Sled It's Day 7 of my yearly 25 Days of Christmas list, in which I list what I feel are the best Christmas songs to move your holiday a bit out of the old traditional chestnuts. A Great Big Sled - The Killers "A Great Big Sled" by The Killers is a -- excuse the pun -- a killer song. It was recorded in November 2006. The song features Toni Halliday, former lead vocalist of [...]

Best Christmas Songs – A Great Big Sled2023-11-16T00:56:57+00:00

Best Christmas Songs – 8 Days of Hanukkah

Best Christmas Songs - 8 Days of Hanukkah Well, Day 6 of my 25 Days of Christmas Songs, in which I count down what I think are the best Christmas songs, has to take a brief detour. Today is the first day of Hanukkah so I thought I'd go with a Hanukkah song today. Now Hanukkah isn't known for its songs. In fact, none of the Jewish holidays are known for catchy songs. So the pickings are pretty slim. But I found [...]

Best Christmas Songs – 8 Days of Hanukkah2023-11-16T00:56:57+00:00

Best Christmas Songs – It’s Christmas and You’re Boring Me

Best Christmas Songs -It's Christmas and You're Boring Me It's been a bust Saturday and I'm about to go to The Nutcracker so I'm picking yet another song from last year's list. But even if i wasn't busy this song would be on my Best Christmas Songs list for 2015. It's Christmas and You're Boring Me "It's Christmas and You're Boring Me" is a great song for everyone who's bitter at this time of year. The song is by the English duo [...]

Best Christmas Songs – It’s Christmas and You’re Boring Me2023-11-16T00:56:56+00:00

Best Christmas Songs – Slashed Wrists This Christmas

Best Christmas Songs -Slashed Wrists This Christmas Since Fridays are my therapy days I thought I'd post a song I posted last year in my 25 Days of Christmas list. Slashed Wrists This Christmas - Gruff Rhys Oh sure, the holidays are all holly and jolly but where are the songs for the manic depressants? The songs for people like me who suffer from a mental illness or two? (Last count I was at four. I'm like a Vegas buffet of [...]

Best Christmas Songs – Slashed Wrists This Christmas2023-11-16T00:56:55+00:00

Best Christmas Songs – What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas

Best Christmas Songs -What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas It's Day 3 of my 25 Days of Christmas song list so that means it must be "What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas" by The Emotions. This gem is surely one of the best Christmas songs out there. What Do The Lonely Do at Christmas - The Emotions The Emotions is a girl group from Chicago made up of the Hutchinson sisters Wanda, Sheila, and Jeanette Hutchinson. Their first hit [...]

Best Christmas Songs – What Do The Lonely Do At Christmas2023-11-16T00:56:54+00:00
Copyright 2013 Mark Brown Writer | All Rights Reserved | Powered by three hamsters and WordPress | Theme Fusion
Toggle Sliding Bar Area
Go to Top