Don't look at the video. Just listen to the music.
― With Oatmeal Sauce (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Saturday, 3 January 2009 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
You know what still rules? Christmas Wrapping, that's what.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUOxmXPo69w
― ★彡☆ ★彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Hell yes!
I got "Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful" for free bcz the guy at the record counter thought I shouldn't be listening to it. His loss!
― look at my plastron (Abbott), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 03:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I would have happily paid the $2 they were asking.
Oh god there is GOD AWFUL spice girls cover of christmas wrapping on youtube. My poor ears. wow.
― ★彡☆ ★彡 (ENBB), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 03:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I was just jamming this (the original)!
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
god, i love this song.
― jed_, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 04:06 (fourteen years ago) link
♥
― 9. WDYLL (Feat. Nice & Smooth) (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 04:15 (fourteen years ago) link
god, i love this song band.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I heard "Christmas Wrapping" in a store last week and thought, "Ahh, now Xmas is really here...I wonder when the Waitresses thread will get revived on ilx?"
I still listen to them an inordinate amount. I wish they made videos for "No Guilt" and "Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful".
― kate78, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 07:56 (fourteen years ago) link
This actually isn't too bad. Brett Anderson almost has the same kind of sly, laconic presence needed to pull it off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRTU0wrW5Dc
― james cameron gargameled my boner for life (Pancakes Hackman), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Christmas Wrapping has to be my favourite Christmas song but I do love both the albums too. Make the Weather is probably my favourite track of theirs.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
That song just came up on my Pandora Waitresses station.
― kate78, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
such a fucking tune
― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
My roommate made eggnog last night and poured me a glass, but before I drank it I was all "Oh no... wait wait!" and ran to put on "Christmas Wrapping." Pretty cool times.(ok, I actually put on Mary X-Mas Everybody by Slade *first*)
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
They're one of those bands I love that I wish had put out a few more albums. It's so unsatisfying just having two albums by an artist I really like, see also Kenickie, Cristina , Yazoo and Earl Brutus.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
The Waitresses are one of the best bands of the '80s, and "Christmas Wrapping" is pretty much, like, the best Christmas song ever. Sad that they won't ever reunite. RIP Patty Donahue.
― Zoo Snickers (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I might find her grave next time I go home to Cleveland...
― kate78, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i last played this on 17 july. festive.
― Dean Gaffney's December (history mayne), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
You know what still rules? Christmas Wrapping, that's what.― ★彡☆ ★彡 (ENBB), Monday, December 14, 2009 10:32 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― ★彡☆ ★彡 (ENBB), Monday, December 14, 2009 10:32 PM (11 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Still true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEztz6nY9Q
― ˙❤‿❤˙˙❤‿❤˙ (ENBB), Monday, 13 December 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I just listened to two Waitresses records this afternoon including the fabulous song above. I literally just navigated to ILM New Answers from the Discogs page for them because I was looking for any B-sides I might have missed (there don't seem to be any, but there is a King Biscuit live disc!)
― sleeve, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I put "Christmas Wrapping" on a Christmas mix for a co-worker today. Still amazing--best punchline ever, along with Grin's "Lost a Number." That video with the house is great.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 December 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Man this song is a JAM! I've never ever heard it before!
"I know what boys like" was pretty popular in Aus in the 80s tho.
― Sookie G Stackedgarten (Trayce), Monday, 13 December 2010 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Where can I shot mp3 of this awesome tune.
― Sookie G Stackedgarten (Trayce), Monday, 13 December 2010 07:53 (thirteen years ago) link
check yer ilx mail
― sleeve, Monday, 13 December 2010 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
sleeve u r a gem.
― Sookie G Stackedgarten (Trayce), Monday, 13 December 2010 08:04 (thirteen years ago) link
hmmm no mail yet. Maybe it takes a while.
― Sookie G Stackedgarten (Trayce), Monday, 13 December 2010 08:06 (thirteen years ago) link
grr it didnt mail me. my name at the gmail will work tho.
― Sookie G Stackedgarten (Trayce), Monday, 13 December 2010 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait I found it on emusic all good nm!
― Sookie G Stackedgarten (Trayce), Monday, 13 December 2010 09:43 (thirteen years ago) link
oh good!
and what the hell, there's a great unreleased live concert that I might as well put up.
Leonardo Music Journal -- Awesome!!
― sleeve, Monday, 13 December 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
The minute I first hear this around the beginning of December.
Christmas is on like Donkey Kong.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 14 December 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"...but they are going to be famous. I just know they're going to be the new Eagles. Ha..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROz_pFW6DDI
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 December 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, love the segue halfway through "I Know What Boys Like" into "music score by Tom Scott." Or is that "special musical material by Paul Shaffer?"
― He stayed true to what he is. Now he murders deer! (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 16 December 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Was introduced to the Spice Girls cover of 'Christmas Wrapping' this year. It's everything you could possibly imagine, much like ENBB said upthread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Bg9BT82sQ
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 30 December 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
their track 'the Comb' from the Akron compilation is totally gnarly
http://www.electricadolescence.com/2009/11/07/the-waitresses-%E2%80%93-the-comb/
― (+) (+ +), Thursday, 30 December 2010 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Never heard that, thanks!
Reissue labels, give me a 2-CD complete Waitresses set NOW!
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 31 December 2010 05:44 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtS9FiZw9NE
― Maltodextrin, Friday, 31 December 2010 07:47 (thirteen years ago) link
haha. the spice girls really can't keep up with the fast singing on that version.
― i love it when a suggest ban comes together (cajunsunday), Friday, 31 December 2010 08:02 (thirteen years ago) link
WTF is wrong with me that I never heard this before
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 31 December 2010 08:13 (thirteen years ago) link
― sleeve, Monday, December 13, 2010 4:17 AM (2 weeks ago)
"Hangover 1/1/83" is a neat instrumental track that was the b-side to the UK 12" release of "Christmas Wrapping.
the band's very first single was "Slide" b/w "Clones", both with Chris Butler on vocals. it's basically Tin Huey under a new name.
some other rareties are listed here with annotations by Chris Butler.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Friday, 31 December 2010 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znab15H3O08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnQeka6x6rk
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Friday, 31 December 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Those lyrical changes in the Spice Girls version -- world tour? aeroplanes? Christmas with my mates this year? -- are truly smdh-inducing. ¯\(°_°)/¯
― Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Friday, 31 December 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
wow "No Guilt" is amazing
― lorde willin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 October 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
done:
http://omnivorerecordings.com/the-waitresses/
― open letter to an open letter to a fanzine (fact checking cuz), Friday, 11 October 2013 22:28 (ten years ago) link
argh it doesn't have the first single or "The Comb" or the two Bowling Balls From Hell tracks, but this band deserves everything they get.
― money, chicken and other DNA (sleeve), Saturday, 12 October 2013 04:10 (ten years ago) link
I prefer Patty to Debbie tbh
― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 12 October 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
G Kenny on Butler's Easy Life:
http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/some_came_running/2014/03/chris-butler-easy-life-.html
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 March 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
Smog Veil press release:SONGS FOR UNSUNG HOLIDAYS NEW ALBUM BY THE INIMITABLE CLEVELAND MUSICIANS RALPH CARNEY (TIN HUEY, THE WAITRESSES, SERIOUS JASS PROJECT) AND CHRIS BUTLER (TIN HUEY, THE WAITRESSES) STREETS SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 ON SMOG VEIL RECORDS Album features songs commemorating fun and far fetched holidays like "Cheese Ball Day," "Polka Day," " Bubble Wrap Day," and "Buffet Day."
July 11, 2018 (Cleveland, Ohio) – Smog Veil Records is set to release on September 7, 2018 the highly unique, comedic album titled, Songs For Unsung Holidays, by two of Northeast Ohio’s best loved musicians Ralph Carney and Chris Butler. The album is a collection of songs that are deliberately silly and absurd about goof ball/off-the-wall holidays. They take a page from the songbooks of artists like Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Captain Beefheart, Tom Lehrer, Randy Newman, XTC, The Who, The Grateful Dead.
Carney and Butler set the tone for wild, fun and funny use of instruments and arrangements early in their careers, first with innovators Tin Huey and later with The Waitresses. They have performed with artists like Tom Waits (whom Carney both recorded and toured with), B-52s (Carney became thee go-to New Wave horn player), Kronos Quartet, Run DMC, The Smithereens, and They Might Be Giants. Ralph Carney recently helped his nephew Patrick Carney of the Black Keys record the theme song for the Netflix series Bojack Horseman. His signature horn playing on this recording is unmistakable. Chris’ signature composition, “I Know What Boys Like” recently was heard in an episode of the second season of the Netflix series GLOW.
Butler explains how the project came together with a call from Carney asking “How come there are no more silly bands? Let’s do a project!” And so they brainstormed and wrote songs about obscure holidays. "We'd pass tracks back and forth, and bingo…we soon had enough material for a whole record!"
"I had the good fortune of writing “Christmas Wrapping” while in The Waitresses," Chris Butler recounts, "and folks have always urged me to write other holiday songs. Like for Easter, or Thanksgiving. Nah. No fun in that. But National Salami Appreciation Day? Or National Polka Day? That’s more like it!"
All songs were written and produced by Chris Butler and Ralph Carney and were recorded in their respective home studios. The record was mastered by Gary Hobish at Armin Hammer Productions.
All noises on the album were made/played by Ralph Carney and Chris Butler, except iPad synthesizer played by Christine Repella on “Lobster Day,” and on “Hippie Day” The Hippie Crowd is Becky Sue Armstrong, Tim Daugherty, Verne Davis, Scott Shepard and Tracey Thomas Shepard.
The eighteen tracks on the CD version of Songs For Unsung Holidays are 1. “Tapioca Pudding Day,” 2. “Bald and Free Day,” 3. “Cheese Ball Day,” 4. “Introduce A Girl To Engineering Day,” 5. “Polka Day,” 6. “Bubble Wrap Day,” 7. “Penguin Awareness Day,” 8. “Gorilla Suit Day,” 9. “Day of the Dead,” 10. “Buffet Day,” 11. “Salami Appreciation Day,” 12. “Bath Safety Day,” 13. “Hippie Day,” 14. “World UFO Day,” 15. “Lobster Day,” 16. “Blessing of the Bikes Day,” 17. “Bath Safety Day (radio edit),” 18. “Lobster Day (radio edit).” The color vinyl LP ends with the track “Hippie Day” and includes the remaining tracks as a freebie download.
The album is dedicated to Ralph Carney who died unexpectedly late last year and is missed by all who knew him and whom he touched with his music and charisma.
― dow, Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:38 (five years ago) link
Ralph Carney recently helped his nephew Patrick Carney of the Black Keys
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― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Thursday, 12 July 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link
Bread And Butter is so great
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 14 May 2023 02:49 (eleven months ago) link
Shut up! Not yet! Don't interrupt!
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 14 May 2023 04:38 (eleven months ago) link
Somehow hadn't been conscious of the Tin Huey connection. Had been aware of the Television one since Billy Ficca was on drums.I picked up a good Tin Huey compi a few years ago. Have been into the Cleveland scene for years so thought I'd pick up something by contemporary fellow Ohioans and it is pretty good.
― Stevo, Sunday, 14 May 2023 08:51 (eleven months ago) link
Another one gone. RIP Mars Williams.
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 07:09 (four months ago) link
OK the we can start listening early this year :/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nud2TQNahaU
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 21 November 2023 09:59 (four months ago) link