Ready for the Christmas guests to arrive at noon. #christmas #christmasdinner #table #tablesetting #tablesetting #christmasdecor #christmasdecorations #wintersolstice #solstice #Friends #family #friendsandfamily #entertaining #christmasdinner #christmasmeal #hosting #hosts #host
Here we go #JukeboxFridayNight, the playlist for #FriendsAndFamily
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZe9K6g9lwnSitrsyCXIIDh2yDFjO9l37
198 great tunes for this time of year. And only a few of them are festive! \o/
For #JukeboxFridayNight #friendsandfamily:
Liz Lawrence - None of my Friends
Astonishing close-to-the-bone yet funny lyrics and a *great* video.
Today's top ten tag trends:
10: #FursuitFriday
9: #VendrediLecture
8: #WindowFriday
7: #afd
6: #FensterFreitag
5: #magdeburg
4: #musk
3: #FriendsAndFamily
2: #JukeboxFridayNight
1: #holidayfoodasongorpoem
James Brown - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag
https://song.link/i/1444490037
I was going to go with just the Dandys, but then I remembered this exists:
We Used To Be Intergalactic Friends - The Beastie Boys vs. The Dandy Warhols
The White Stripes - We're Going to be Friends
Pantera - Good Friends and A Bottle of Pills
https://song.link/i/838351657
Carla Thomas - (Mama, Mama) Wish Me Good Luck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QACQ4buNTh8
I just adore her voice. Happy 82nd birthday for tomorrow!
Signing off with some of the lyrics that I like, where someone sings frankly about a friend:
"My friend's flesh and blood
She lies overtime
You'd nail her if you could
But she says
Love me for my mind
In my time …"
This track just gets my soul every time … it's Phil Mananera's signature power chords!
Roxy Music, "Flesh and Blood" (1980)
Cymande - Friends
This song is about the complications of friendship, relationships, love … should match the theme of "Friends and Family":
"I'm gonna fall
I probably should
Well catch me
You never could
I planned out the distance
From where you stood
When I hit the ground
I'm gonna laugh out loud
and lay there a while
And stare at the clouds …"
Nathaniel Rateliff, "Falling Faster Than You Can Run" (2013; live in studio May 2014)
#FriendsAndFamily as part of #JukeboxFridayNight
I instantly think of this song, as it reminds me of when I lived in a tiny studio flat on a meagre wage - and it was my friends that made that (very necessary, yet difficult) moment of growing up more bearable.
Groove Armada and My Friend.
Every so often … all right, I'll face up to it … quite often I'll post a song by Goldie Boutilier, but only because I think she's worthy of our attention.
So for "Friends and Family" on Jukebox Friday Night:
"Daddy I'm in trouble, think I fell in love
with a cowboy, a gangster, a politician …"
Goldie Boutilier, "Cowboy Gangster Politician" (2024)
Last from me tonight, a classic about friendship
Bill Withers - Lean On Me
https://youtu.be/dtC1W-6hwIU
And a tribute to Bill Withers and as a fundraiser for Canada's Red Cross during Covid.
ArtistsCAN - Lean on Me
https://youtu.be/athd5_CW_z0
Sticking with "Hey Grandma", but this is the song written by Skip Spence for Moby Grape, but the version I know and like is –
Mick Ronson, "Hey Grandma" (1976, released 1999)
Okay, the lyrics are meaningless …
"Hey Grandma, you're so young
Your old man's just a boy
It's been a long time this time, pow pow pow …"