Songs You May Have Missed #809

24 Dec 2025 Leave a comment

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Ghost: “Rats” (2018)

Ghost’s 2018 Prequelle album makes use of Europe’s black plague as metaphor, with the lyrical double entendres in the single “Rats” making it clear that the filthy rodents “in times like these” are human.

Ghost’s brand of theatrical rock includes masks, makeup, classic horror camp, graveyard sets and cinematic grandiosity that would make Jim Steinman envious.

Musically it’s classic metal riffs with anthemic, tuneful choruses and stacked harmonies.

Macabre, menacing, and catchy as a case of the Black Death.

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Video of the Week: How They Wrote Classic Christmas Songs

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Video of the Week: Classic John Lewis Christmas Advert 2013–The Bear and the Hare

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Songs You May Have Missed #808

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Edson: “Sunday, Lovely Sunday” (1999)

Pelle Carlberg and Edson make a Scandinavian Sunday afternoon sound like a little slice of heaven.

Sundays are slow
Never pretentious, oh no
Silent and closed
And we don’t really have to know where to go

Holding hands with the one I love
She wears mittens, I wear gloves
There must be someone above
Holding hands with the one I love
We could catch a picture show
Rent a Sunday video
We could stay out in the snow
Sunday slow

Sundays are meant
To let the quilt become a tent
Sundays well-spent
Don’t need a reason, no intent

Holding hands with the one I love
She wears mittens, I wear gloves
There must be someone above
Holding hands with the one I love
We could catch a picture show
Rent a Sunday video
We could stay out in the snow
Order greasy food to go

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Video of the Week: Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder Improvise in 2009, Find the Lost Chord

20 Dec 2025 Leave a comment

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For Moody Blues fans, still mourning the death of John Lodge and disheartened by recent articles suggesting the Moody Blues were never truly friends, this video may bring comfort.

The affection between Mike Pinder and Ray Thomas is clearly genuine as the two sit together for the first time in years and improvise a song.

Songs You May Have Missed #807

19 Dec 2025 Leave a comment

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Ozomatli: “De Paisano A Paisano” (2017)

Grammy Award-winning L.A. Latin rock band Ozomatli put some extra swagger in Los Tigres Del Norte’s “De Paisano A Paisano” (“From Countryman to Countryman”) delivering a message that could not be timelier in 2025.

Check out the lyric video:

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