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Look, I’m not into this whole telling-you-what-to-want thing. Have whatever New Year you think is best. With that in mind, songs that see the future in both a positive AND negative light, plus one that doesn’t even address the subject.

* Velvet Underground – All Tomorrow’s Parties
* Jonathan Coulton – The Future Soon
* Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows
* Residents – Boxes Of Armageddon
* ELO – Mr. Blue Sky
* Tubes – Talk To You Later
* Papas Fritas – We’ve Got All Night
* Wink Martindale – Peace In The Valley
* They Might Be Giants – Cloisonné

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It’s the annual Xmas show! Like that thing that Santa lugs around it’s a mixed bag that contains a little of everything. Also, it defies the laws of physics.

* Ventures – Frosty The Snowman
* Harry Nilsson – Cuddly Toy
* Lena Lovich – New Toy
* ? – Dear Santy
* Les Brown and His Band Of Renown – The Nutcracker Suite
* Dandy Warhols – Little Drummer Boy
* Dancer, Prancer and Nervous – Happy Reindeer
* Al Caiola And Riz Ortolani – Holiday On Skis
* Claudine Longet – I Don’t Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
* Maynard Williams – Christmas Dream (From THE ODESSA FILE)

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The only holiday that matters, Halloween! Really, it’s always Halloween here at Dark Meat Central, but once a year we get to make it explicit. Put this show on a loop at your Halloween Party. Warning: like the thing that wouldn’t leave, the show is a little long this week. If you’re in a hurry, it’s your worst nightmare.

* Kevin Ayers – Confessions Of Dr. Dream
* Tom Waits – The Ocean Doesn’t Want Me Today
* Leonard Cohen – Who By Fire
* Kinks – Wicked Annabella
* The Bird and The Bee – Witch
* Doug Duke – Witchcraft
* Stan Ridgway – Monsters of the Id
* Sparks – Eaten By The Monster Of Love
* David Bowie – Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
* Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Song of Joy

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Happy 4th of July everybody! It’s the annual Dark Meat Independence Day special, which I’m remembering to put out BEFORE Independence Day this year. This year’s theme is “what America means to me” and  I may follow it up next week with “what show themes mean to me”.

* Bitter/Sweet – The Bomb
* Ani DiFranco – To The Teeth
* Brian Wilson – Heroes And Villains
* Ragtime – Henry Ford
* Standard Oil Company – I Love A Salesman
* Joe Jackson – It’s All Too Much
* Dave Frishberg – Van Lingle Mungo
* Rupert Holmes – Our National Pastime
* The Folksmen – Old Joe’s Place

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Time to bid g’bye now to 2010 and heya there to 2011. Dark Meat, for one, welcomes the arrival of our new decade overlords!

* They Might Be Giants – Older
* The Folksmen – Old Joe’s Place
* Jethro Tull – Living In the Past
* Talking Heads – New Feeling (for more on Talking Heads, see below)
* Tom Waits – New Coat of Paint
* Joe Jackson – Only the Future
* Sparks – Throw Her Away (And Get A New One)
* Jonathan Coulton – Brand New Sucker
* Squibb Pharmaceuticals – The New Generation
* Amanda Palmer – Another Year

* May I call your attention to a free Talking Heads tribute record? Naive Medley: This Must Be The Coverville Tribute to the Talking Heads is now available over at the Coverville blog, and it’s as good as can be. Especially when you consider how free it is.

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It’s the annual Xmas show! Like a fruitcake, it’s a supposedly desirable thing that you probably would just as soon not get. Then again, at least it’s just a show, and not an actual fruitcake.

Them things is nasty.

* Alvin Stoller – Rudolf The Red-Nosed Reindeer Mambo
* Wayne Newton – Jingle Bell Rock
* Jonathan Coulton – Christmas Is Interesting
* Jonathan Coulton – Chiron Beta Prime
* The San Sebastian Strings – Everyday Was Christmas
* Max Headroom – Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You’re A Lovely Guy)
* The Dandy Warhols – Little Drummer Boy
* Claudine Longet – I Don’t Intend to Spend Christmas Without You
* Harry Groener- I Don’t Remember Christmas
* Les Brown and His Band Of Renown – The Nutcracker Suite
* Spinal Tap – Christmas With the Devil

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From September 2006, a desperate plea from a guy who needs to get out more. Anticipate your holiday traveling with songs about vacations and stuff. (Note: as with all the reruns, don’t bother writing to that email address. Send your complaints to podcast@darkmeat.name).

* Go-Gos – Vacation
* Brian Wilson – On A Holiday
* The Who – Glow Girl
* Beatles – Magical Mystery Tour
* Dolly Parton – Travellin’ Through
* Kraftwerk – Autobahn
* Stan Ridgway – Down the Coast Highway
* Nick Drake – Road
* Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath
* Talking Heads – Road To Nowhere

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You’re from somewhere. Maybe you still live there, maybe you moved to Los Angeles where you’re adrift, cut off from the people who love you and surrounded by shallow plastic Stepford people who don’t give a damn if you live or if you die.

Uh, or something.

Anyway, this is a show about that place you’re from.

* Joe Jackson – Home Town
* Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Wicked Little Town
* ELO – Down Home Town
* Pat Boone – Paradise City
* Dramarama – Emerald City
* Rod McKuen – There Are No Beaches In Magic City Texas
* The Humans – I Live In The City
* Kinks – Waterloo Sunset
* Dave Frishberg – Sweet Kentucky Ham
* Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Curse of Millhaven

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