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Fred Schneider & the Superions - Fruitcake (2010)

Hans Kopinski

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Yule Be Sorry

WARNING! This show is for adults. We drink cocktails, have potty mouths and, at least, one of us was raised by wolves.

The Clockwork Cabaret is a production of Agony Aunt Studios. Featuring that darling DJ Duo, Lady Attercop and Emmett Davenport. Our theme music is made especially for us by Kyle O’Door.

This episode aired on Mad Wasp Radio, 12.24.23.

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Playlist:

The Muppet Cast – Scrooge

Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys – Squidmas Don’t be Late

April Smith and the Great Picture Show – Christmas Threw Up All Over You

Gayla Peevey – I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas

Lou Monte – Dominick the Donkey

The Polkamaniacs – Snow Miser Vs. Heat Miser

Asylum Street Spankers – What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Santa Baby

Christina Chong – Fck U 4 Xmas

Murder By Death – I’ll Be Home For Christmas

Holly Golightly – Christmas Tree On Fire

Reverend Horton Heat – Santa Bring My Baby Back

Scythian – I Saw Three Ships

Arlo Guthrie – The Pause of Mr. Claus

The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing – Fox

The Puppini Sisters – Mele Kalikimaka

Ella Fitzgerald – Santa Claus Got Stuck (In My Chimney)

Squirrel Nut Zippers – Santa Claus is Smokin’ Reefer

The Hellblinki Sextet – Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas

Fable Cry – Making Christmas

Katye Kellye and The Interruption – It Simply Isn’t Christmas…

Crash Test Dummies – White Christmas

Fred Schneider & the Superions – Jingle Those Bells

Mojo Nixon & The Toadliquors – Sleigh Ride

GUPPY – A Jew on Christmas

My Morning Jacket – When the Bells Start Ringing (feat. The Head & the Heart)

The Decemberists – Please Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)

Porn Orchard – This Holiday Season

The Bird & the Bee – Carol of the Bells

Feist – Please Be Patient

The Non Non Conformists – So Christmassy… this Christmas

“Weird Al” Yankovic – The Night Santa Went Crazy

Fountains Of Wayne – I Want an Alien for Christmas

The Kinks – Father Christmas

Check out this episode!

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Fred Schneider & the Superions - Santa's Disco 

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GR8 Holiday Albums

These are NOT in any rank order.  I mean how do you compare perfection?

1)  Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas  (IMHO Ella’s best album, and she made A LOT of albums!  Perfect match of singer, style & material.)    

2)  Mahalia Jackson, Christmas with Mahalia.  (I heard her The First Noel on a compilation album as a little kid.  Eventually it opened a world of music for me!  They did not call her the Queen of Gospel for nothing!. )

3) Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass, Christmas Album  (Quite simply, it’s lovely and heartfelt.)

4) John Zorn, A Dreamer’s Christmas,  (This one blew me away!  Zorn is an experimental musician and I expected deconstructed holiday tunes or something avant garde.  This is accessible music and it is so beautiful.  If you can get it, get it!  ***BTW His album that looks like a present is NOT this album***)

5) The Superions, Destination Christmas  (The Superions are fronted by Fred Schneider of the b-52s, so expect fun.  I love fruitcake, they love fruitcake, we all love fruitcake and it’s the catchiest tune on the album!)  

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Listen to Strip Search from Fred Schneider & the Superions’ new album The Vertical Mind out now on Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records (HHBTM)

"Oh, and Noah, Dan, and I love striptease music, lol." - Fred

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1) Favorite Christmas Carol? 2) Christmas Carol you would banish for all eternity?

Last year my neighbors rang the doorbell and I started going up the stairs in case it was the mail or something. I heard singing and I turned around to go back to the basement.

I grew up in a house where Christmas was significant.   My mom was/is a believer in Christmas Miracles, loves all Hallmark movies and Christmas specials.   When you start hearing Andy Williams Christmas songs in June, when there are issues with decorations staying up until Easter, Christmas is one of those things that is great for the economy and makes people happy, and I am not one of them.   I do get a kick out of the trappings, and I do pick up a Christmas record here and there.   When I leave the house in December, I don’t go into retail establishments alone without earbuds.  I don’t want to hear “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” but to every rule there is an exception - comedians Mario Cantone and Gilbert Gottfried sang it as Bette Davis and Tony Curtis on a podcast a few years ago when I was on the way to get my wisdom teeth done, and oh it was a treat.  Will it lose me followers by posting the video? Will some of you hate me for sharing it?  Probably! So let’s do that, Tumblr’s having a bad day anyway.

I was gifted the Greatest Christmas Novelty CD of All Time as a kid - which had Doug & Bob MacKenzie’s “Twelve Gifts of Christmas” (“…and a beer”) as well as Cheech & Chong’s “Santa Claus and His Old Lady,” which was funny as a kid and funnier now that I actually get references to pop culture stuff I didn’t know.  I used to hear these on the radio on Christmas Eve and I really do love them both.  One’s more of a comedy sketch, the other is a comedy sketch plus a song parody.  Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas got me through many a Christmas car ride as a kid, so I will never decry three french toasts, two turtlenecks, and a beer.  It’s very punk rock.

Just this year I finally got (and love) The Superions’ “Destination: Christmas” - which is Fred Schneider’s not-B-52′s side project.  Today during lunch I played their song “Fruit Cake” in the car on the way to lunch, where, sadly, my favorite lunch place was unexpectedly closed for maintenance.   The whole album is really fun, and isn’t overwhelmingly Christmassy.  If you’re in an office and someone wants to play holiday music, this is a keeper.  It’s fun.  I try to find Christmas-themed songs I don’t hate because there are so many I can’t stand - like most people, I assume - I like to dig up things and say “Oh, I like this” as a sort of personal challenge.   It also gives me something to talk about at parties.  (I don’t think I’ve been invited to a Christmas party since 2010, so there you go.)   I know some people don’t like jazz/country/hip-hop… but I know there’s good stuff in every genre.  If you have the time to track it down.  I know these things aren’t carols people go around and sing… but maybe they should be.

I read a thing a couple years ago that said you (yes, you) can define “winning Christmas” by making it to December 26 without hearing the David Bowie/Bing Crosby duet of “Little Drummer Boy,” and I don’t disagree with that sentiment.  I believe Echo has said she hates “All I Want for Christmas Is my Two Front Teeth,” which I’m not crazy about but I do find Spike Jones and his City Slickers to be amazing. (Sigourney Weaver’s uncle was in the band!)  I’m circling the drain on worst carol here, but let’s go with the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas. Why not. Some weirdo loves birds and servants as much as they hate brevity.

Thank you for the ask!

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Happy Birthday Fred Schneider! – singer/songwriter/keyboards/percussion/arranger – best known as the frontman for – The B-52's – group hits include – Love Shack – Rock Lobster – Roam – associated acts include – The Superions – 7/1/1951

#musicalbirthdaynotes #thefrogholler #FredSchneider

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Happy Birthday. Today in 1951 – Fred Schneider, American singer, songwriter and keyboard player (The B-52's and The Superions) was born. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Schneider)

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Exclusive First Listen: Fred Schneider & The Superions, "Real Scary Halloween Story"

We absolutely adore the music of Fred Schneider, and we’re excited to share with you a new track from his band The Superions!  With Hallowe’en just around the corner, he’s got the soundtrack for your night o’fright. The song we’re presenting you today finds “Unkie Fred” telling a fun and amusingly scary tale of a bizarre killer, and we’re sure it will leave a smile on your face for days.

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...a little bit of mace.   (The stuff they spray in your face?!)

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B-52's Frontman Sues ... You Ruined My Christmas Album

B-52's frontman, Fred Schneider, and his side project, The Superions, are suing their record label, claiming it failed to live up to any of the holly jolly obligations of their Xmas album. According to legal docs, the synth rock trio…

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Do the "Fruitcake" with Fred Schneider & The Superions

This just now got on my radar, even though it was released way back in 2010. Whatever! You can't put a date on fun. Fred Schneider (of The B-52's, of course!) & the Superions made a kind-of-sexy, but also perfectly kitschy and weird, super low-budget music video for their song "Fruitcake." Yes, it's a song about fruitcake. I won't say another word, just watch it. New holiday favorite born. 

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Do the "Fruitcake" with Fred Schneider & The Superions

Do the “Fruitcake” with Fred Schneider & The Superions

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Fred Schneider & the Superions - Glitter Gulch -

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Fred Schneider and the Superions - Who Threw That Ham At Me (Official Mu...