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Musical Advent 2020 – December 16th – Up Up Down Down – Kirby Krackle

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On 16th December 2020

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A Kirby Krackle is the use of black around a subject to indicate an unknown form of energy, as popularised by the great comic book artist Jack Kirby.

Its also the stage name of an amazing geek music superstar, who has written some amazing songs touching on geek culture, video games, comics and stuff.

This is a really good song, that in the words of Megan, escalates pretty quickly!

Musical Advent 2020 – December 15th – Pizza and Ice Cream – Meri Amber

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On 15th December 2020

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Meri Amber is this wonderful goofball of a singer from down under who does an amazing job a of creating nerdy pop songs that are just so catchy!

We had a couple of her tracks in last years advent calender, and I really recommend picking up Origin Story as it contains a bunch of amazing songs that are really hard to not sing along to.

This particular song is so very much very me, I mean my bikini body is literally made of candy!

Musical Advent 2020 – December 14th – The Quick and The Blue – The Megas

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On 14th December 2020

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Megaman is a videogame franchise which is rather beloved and has been going for over 30 years now.

Back in 2013 Capcom commissioned an album to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the franchise, MM25: Mega Man Rocks, and The Megas contributed their song The Quick and The Blue from their Get Equipped album.

This song is about the fight between Quickman and Mega Man from Mega Man 2 and its a really good song, especially the version they rerecorded for MM25.

Musical Advent 2020 – December 13th – I Wanna Make Out with You at Cons – Misbehavin’ Maidens

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On 13th December 2020

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OK, this one is quite a but not safe for work, its a lovely little filk shanty by the Misbehavin’ Maidens, and I warn you not to listen to their stuff with kids around!

They are a very very sex positive band who sing about femenism, drinking, sex and geek culture, I am a big fan because they are funny as hell. And sometimes you need some filthy filk in your life!

Musical Advent 2020 – December 12th – Spaceman – The Killers

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On 12th December 2020

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Whilst last year I did mostly avoid the bigger bands, but this year I thought why not bring some of those in, and The Killers are pretty big.

Ok a song called Spaceman is pretty obvious to be called a nerdy song, but its got proper cred, was featured on Rock Band, on Fringe, and Planet 51, plus the video is pretty cool.

Musical Advent 2020 – December 11th – Dare To Be Stupid – The Cybertronic Spree

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On 11th December 2020

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Dare to be Stupid is a parody of Devo songs written by Weird Al Yankovich, a pardoy performer who has been around a very long time.

I have tried to avoid including him in this advent because he is pretty cliché and I like some of his stuff, but I am not a huge fan.

But I love this version by the band Cybertronic Spree, so much so that I backed their Kickstarter and go to the studio and recorded professionally the soundtrack to The Transformers movie from 1986, which is still one of the best soundtracks ever written.

Musical Advent 2020 – December 10th – Ramble On – Led Zeppelin

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On 10th December 2020

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A classic from Led Zeppelin II, Ramble On is Led Zeppelins Lord of the Rings song, and was ranked as the 440th best song ever by Rolling Stone.

This song was going to be included on last years list, but it was going to be a Christmas Day special, but I ended up deciding at the last minute not to do one on Christmas Day, probably because my chocolate calendar only went up to 24 🙁

Musical Advent 2020 – December 9th – Martian Girl – Aquabats

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On 9th December 2020

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The Aquabats are one of those amazing nerdy groups, but I sadly have never gotten the chance to actually see them in person, which really annoys me.

So here is Martian Girl from The Return of The Aquabats and Fury of The Aquabats, and I absolutely love it, and who wouldn’t like it.

Musical Advent 2020 – December 8th – Saddam a Go-Go – GWAR

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On 8th December 2020

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One of my favourite heavy metal bands is GWAR and one of my favourite movies is Empire Records, so this song is a no brainier to be featured in the advent.

Used to great effect in the movie to demonstrate the effects of a weed high, its a really good song, although Lindsay and Megan aren’t fans, but then they don’t like a lot of heavy metal.

Musical Advent 2020 – December 7th – Stuck To You – Josh Ritter

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On 7th December 2020

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A hidden track on his self-titled debut album, Stuck To You is a great little song from Americana songwriter Josh Ritter.

Its also called the Science Song and compares ones love for another person to scientific prinicples.

I really love this song and you can hear within it Josh’s influences, artists like Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan.

Anyway give it a listen, its really worth it.

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