Pat Rick Walsh

YouTube video by JJ72 Collection JJ72 - Snow (Official Video)

JJ72 were a short-lived Irish band who released this from their 2000 self-titled debut album. In the song, the weather forecasters predictictions of snow appear to have been wrong. However, they got it right in 2025 as snow has been prevelent throughout Ireland so far:

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YouTube video by TheBanglesVEVO The Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter (Official Video)

It's getting wintry in Ireland, so here's The Bangles doing Simon & Garfunkel. This one goes out to Ireland's state broadcaster, RTE, who have lost the run of themselves because we're getting wintry weather... IN WINTER:

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YouTube video by Stornoway Stornoway - The Only Way Is Up (Official Audio)

I heard this version of The Only Way Is Up by Stornoway on RTE Radio 1 this morning. I was surprised to learn that the 1988 hit by Yazz was itself a cover of a 1980 song by Otis Clay. Seems like a great sentiment for 2025:

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YouTube video by copsafe January - Pilot (remastered HQ audio)

Happy January!

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YouTube video by The Staple Singers The Staple Singers - The Last Month Of The Year (Official Audio)

It's the last day of the last month of the year. Happy 2025 from the Staple Singers:

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YouTube video by The Boy Least Likely To - Topic A Winter's Tale

Here's The Boy Least Likely To with a David Essex number:

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YouTube video by metasulfito Tom Waits - Silent Night & Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis

A Christmas card in the form of a letter to Tom Waits:

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YouTube video by thelanternflared Handsome Family - So Much Wine - McCabe's 2012

I drank too much beer this Christmas, but no wine. I've still got room for rum, though:

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YouTube video by RAY CONCEPCION Frightened Rabbit – "Fake Empire" + "It's Christmas So We'll Stop" – LIve – Midnight Organ Fight

And Christmas is over for another year. Here's Frightened Rabbit prefacing their Christmas tune with a snippet of Fake Empire by The National

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YouTube video by niceandeasy The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

Happy Christmas, y'all:

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YouTube video by alienbu Driving Home for Christmas - Saint Etienne

The bus driver is driving me home for Christmas, yeah. Here's St Etienne doing Chris Rea:

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YouTube video by RHINO Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight) (Official Music Video)

Here's some sage advice from The Ramones:

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YouTube video by Sub Pop Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

It's the Sunday before Christmas, so here's a hymn that's kind of about dreaming of a white Christmas:

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The new album by The Unthanks is called In Winter. Some of the songs are also about Christmas

YouTube video by David Gibbs The Unthanks - 2000 Miles

The Unthanks sing lots of songs about the Winter & I saw them at St Luke's in Cork last month performing most of their new double album of Christmas tunes. They didn't play this old folk song, written by Chrissie Hynde in the late 20th century, a perennial seasonal tune:

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YouTube video by Martin Wakes THE FALL - HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING

After work, I popped down to the local shopping centre. As I listened to this hymn, I saw the true meaning of Christmas: revellers in seasonal jumpers getting the bus into town to drink to excess; shoppers overspending. I almost teared up as the music played.

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YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine NEW * Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt {Stereo} 1953

Here's Eatha Kitt's definitive version of the often-covered Santa Baby:

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YouTube video by Don Giller Darlene Love on Letterman December 16, 1986

Darlene Love singing Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) in 1986

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A vicar in England visited a primary school in England to talk about his friend before dissing the man with the bag:

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YouTube video by Shakeyleg By ElvisMerle Merle Haggard - If We Make It Through December

Buddy, it's cold outside:

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YouTube video by Joni Mitchell Joni Mitchell - River (Official Music Video)

"It's coming on Christmas. They're choppin' down trees. They're puttin' up reindeer. And singing songs of joy & peace"

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YouTube video by juvan baldeo Teenage Fanclub - December

This month, I'm going to post some tunes about December & Winter. First up is Scotland's Teenage Fanclub with a song from their Bandwagonesque called Winter: youtu.be/o8o-wQQs2s8?...