"48(ish) Vaguely Dysfunctional Hours Of Christmas" On Til Late Christmas Night
Okay, it's on - 48 hours of Altrok's Christmas selection, featuring new and classic songs both reverent and revolting for your holiday listening pleasure. Oh yes, there will be
wassailing...at Altrok 90.5 HD2 on your HD Radio at the Jersey Shore, or
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This really is independent alternative rock radio, visible here at Altrok.com and audible at our web radio station. It has the classic music that fired our passions back in the day - or that we maybe only heard about from our elders - but it's mostly made of the new music that does precisely the same for us now. We're paying attention to scenes all over the world, watching the energy build, and waiting to see what it creates. Wherever it happens, we'll make sure you can hear about it here. We've been slowly building all this since 2001, and now that you've noticed us, we're glad you're here.
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2 Comments:
Oh god, please never play the Spice Girls cover of Christmas Wrapping ever again. I can deal with Save Ferris's awful cover, but the Spice Girls is just the be all end all of awful.
It seemed an interesting footnote to the story of how "Christmas Wrapping" went from an obscure track on an obscure label's Christmas album to being a mainstay of the season. But midway through, despite the reference to Tesco as the provider of the "world's smallest turkey" I realized I felt the same way about it you did - it managed to be more annoying than the original. Eh, it seemed a good idea at the time...
That said, we're also playing another very good track from the Ze Records Christmas Album, August Darnell's "Christmas On Riverside Drive"...but I can't quite bring myself to add the Suicide track. Maybe to make up for the Spice Girls?
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