Playlist 05.12.11

BBC Radio Ulster, 92-95 FM

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Mondays, ten - midnight

I played 'Just Like Christmas' by Low on my first Radio Ulster Xmas, back in 1999. I thought it was a magical tune and I still do. On close inspection, the lyrics aren't especially great - the misadventures of a Midwest American band in Scandinavia. The beds are too small, the weather is inclement. But there's a special little interlude in the middle of it all when the author reveals "we felt so young". And that's essentially all there is. With sleighbells on. A heart-stopping satori in Oslo.

Otis Redding - Satisfaction (Atlantic)

Tom Waits - Satisfied (Anti)

Mayer Hawthorne - Hooked (Universal)

The Rockingbirds - Till Something Better Comes Along (Spring)

Low - Just Like Christmas (Tugboat)

Katie And The Carnival - The First Christmas Since You Broke My Heart (white)

Real Estate - Easy (Domino)

Paul Simon - Dazzling Blue (Universal)

Metronomy - Trouble (Because)

Bjork - Moon (One Little Indian)

Emmy The Great, Tim Wheeler - Marshmallow World (Infectious)

Mercury Rev - Endlessly (V2)

Gruff Rhys - Post Apocalypse Christmas (Turnstile)

Mayer Hawthorne - Dreaming (Universal)

Duke Special - In Memoriam (Reel To Reel)

Tom Waits - Martha (Rhino)

Francois And The Atlas Mountains - Les Plus Beaux (Domino)

Bjork - Virus (One Little Indian)

Joe Henry - Eyes Out For You (Anti)

Real Estate - Wonder Years (Domino)

Tom Waits - Pay Me (Anti)

Cass McCoombs - The Lonely Doll (Domino)

M83 - Reunion (Naïve)