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Because It's Christmas

2011-12-02T09:18:00.000-08:00

each of the past seven years, i've made a christmas mix as a gift to all my friends. if you don't know the history already, you can get the full story here.

so with Christmas comes Tim McMahon's Rockin' Christmas Eve. volume eight. i can hardly believe it's been going that long.

i've also put all the former mixes up. so if you've lost your original, or never got it in the first place, you can also get the older mixes. they've come a long way.

so a merry christmas to everyone. feel free to share the links and spread the joy.

and with that:

Tim McMahon's Rockin' Christmas Eve vol. VIII - the official, one and only TMRCE

TMRCE presents Stone Coal Christmas - this years supplement. a soulful joint.

the archives:

TMRCE vol. VII - this one ended up as quite a winter-y mix. i'm fine with that.

TMRCE presents Fab La La La La - 2010 supplement. the title refers not to fabulous interior design, but rather the idea of a fab christmas party in the middle of the american century. i don't know if that makes sense, but just listen. the last song, for the end of the party, gets me every time.

TMRCE vol. VI - a bit slapdash, but it did the job. actually, on further reflection, I think it came out really well.

TMRCE presents Have a Blue Christmas - the 2009 supplement. i must confess that several of the songs on this mix came from another, pre-existing mix called Blues, Blues Christmas. full disclosure.

TMRCE vol. V - possibly my favorite to date, if a little eclectic.

TMRCE presents That Olde Tyme Christmas Cheer - 2008 supplement. a bit more traditional. songs from the dustbin of history best enjoyed on a dark and silent night. i'm partial to my original description, which described them as the kind of songs you catch on an odd am station late at night on a lonely road, that makes you wonder if it's a relic radio wave from the past.

TMRCE presents TMRCE vol. IV - a pretty solid showing, i think. a bit of a new leaf.

TMRCE presents Kelly's Kountry Kristmas - the first supplement.

TMRCE vol. III - although there's some gems on the first two TMRCE's, I think this is where it really starts to get interesting.

TMRCE vol. II - the second go round. the start of a tradition.

TMRCE vol. I - the start of it all. a solid mix, although many of the songs will actually be quite familiar to the casual listener.

Download Instructions:

Click the link for the mix you want. This will take you to the appropriate Megaupload download page.
Ignore any and all ads that tell you to click here, and instead look at the top right for a place to enter the given alpha-numeric code into the box. Enter the code and click the orange "download file" button directly below it.
Wait. A timer will show that needs to run for about 30 seconds before the black "Regular Download" button appears. Once it appears, click it.
Choose to save the ZIP file, and choose the save location.
Unzip the file.
Add the mp3 files to your music player of choice. If your software permits, you might want to just add the whole folder.
You should now be good to go.

2011-08-11T11:14:00.000-07:00

gone to tumblr. come use the Wellness Machine

a million miles of highway in between

2011-06-02T09:38:00.000-07:00

michael lundgren

land to sea and back again

2011-06-01T09:11:00.001-07:00

Hey it's me. I guess this will be my journal for now.

2011-05-31T11:00:00.000-07:00

God isnt listening 2 me nemore and he hates me..all the more reason y i should do the same myself. i dont feel like i can go on any longer.

well that helped a lot. im glad i did it. im sry for any1 who read my boring life lol plz dont feel bad for me and well i dunno no1 would prolly read this far neways.i wonder if anyone has gone thru a lot like me.

learning to be you is what hurts most

2011-05-28T13:48:00.000-07:00

carlos nunez

that was hazy cosmic jive

2011-05-27T14:12:00.000-07:00

i've been there. i've been there and it wasn't that great. that other place was much better. much better. i mean, all this is difficult to talk about in an abstract way, but i thought you should know. i thought you should know that it's not all it's cracked up to be.

i'm like those birdies high up in the trees

2011-05-26T14:02:00.000-07:00

if i knew i was going to make it this big someday, i would have put a little more effort into it, so i could have been ready when opportunity came knocking.

his land is biggest and his land is best

2011-01-19T19:37:00.000-08:00

right down the line

2011-01-04T15:09:00.000-08:00

ahndraya parlato

christmas time is here again

2010-11-28T16:38:00.000-08:00

each of the past six years, i've made a christmas mix as a gift to all my friends. growing up, and to this day, my dad is in love with christmas music. and i mean bad christmas music. the worst. it would begin right after thanksgiving, and probably would have started earlier if my mom would let it happen.

as a point of revolt against that, and in hopes of maybe imposing some halfway decent christmas music on him (which failed miserably; he's sticking to the classics), i started putting together the first Tim McMahon's Rockin' Christmas Eve. the main criteria for the songs is that they must be decent songs in their own right, the type you might listen too if they had nothing to do with christmas.

so another christmas is upon us, and with it another Tim McMahon's Rockin' Christmas Eve. We're up to volume 7. since the fourth year, a supplemental mix has been included. that tradition continues this year with a 50s/60s themed mix.

i've also finally got my act together to get almost all the former mixes up. so if you've lost your original, or never got it in the first place, you can also get the older mixes. they've come a long way.

download instructions for those friends and family not familiar with megaupload are included at the bottom of the post.

and with that:

TMRCE vol. VII - this year's mix, the seventh. it ended up as quite a winter-y mix. i'm fine with that.

TMRCE presents Fab La La La La - 2010 supplement. the title refers not to fabulous interior design, but rather the idea of a fab christmas party in the middle of the american century. i don't know if that makes sense, but just listen. the last song, for the end of the party, gets me every time.

the archives:

TMRCE vol. VI - a bit slapdash, but it did the job. actually, on further reflection, I think it came out really well.

TMRCE presents Have a Blue Christmas - the 2009 supplement. i must confess that several of the songs on this mix came from another, pre-existing mix called Blues, Blues Christmas. full disclosure.

TMRCE vol. V - possibly my favorite to date, if a little eclectic.

TMRCE presents That Olde Tyme Christmas Cheer - 2008 supplement. a bit more traditional. songs from the dustbin of history best enjoyed on a dark and silent night. i'm partial to my original description, which described them as the kind of songs you catch on an odd am station late at night on a lonely road, that makes you wonder if it's a relic radio wave from the past.

TMRCE presents TMRCE vol. IV - a pretty solid showing, i think. a bit of a new leaf.

TMRCE presents Kelly's Kountry Kristmas - the first supplement.

TMRCE vol. III - although there's some gems on the first two TMRCE's, I think this is where it really starts to get interesting.

TMRCE vol. II - the second go round. the start of a tradition.

TMRCE vol. I - the start of it all. a solid mix, although many of the songs will actually be quite familiar to the casual listener.

so with this, i wish good tidings to you all and happy holidays and so forth. i encourage you all to spread this joy around as you see fit. until next year...

Download Instructions:

Click the link for the mix you want. This will take you to the appropriate Megaupload download page.
Ignore any and all ads that tell you to click here, and instead look at the top right for a place to enter the given alpha-numeric code into the box. Enter the code and click the orange "download file" button directly below it.
Wait. A timer will show that needs to run for about 30 seconds before the black "Regular Download" button appears. Once it appears, click it.
Choose to save the ZIP file, and choose the save location.
Unzip the file.
Add the mp3 files to your music player of choice. If your software permits, you might want to just add the whole folder.
You should now be good to go.

think you're escaping and run into yourself

2010-06-16T12:06:00.000-07:00

digital foils could wrap up the sun

2010-06-14T15:00:00.000-07:00

echos that don't answer back

2010-05-14T10:00:00.000-07:00

jan smith

i like the peace in the backseat

2010-05-13T07:00:00.000-07:00

it can be better than that

2010-05-12T15:49:00.003-07:00

anna verlet

we just won't be defeated. we'll fight until we drop.

2010-05-12T15:36:00.000-07:00

she said just an itchy eye

2010-05-12T09:22:00.000-07:00

it freezes me and i can't feel my ears

2010-05-11T12:32:00.000-07:00

josef hoflehner

look down your shadow's on fire

2010-05-06T15:15:00.000-07:00

haven't we been through this enough times to want to give it up. or are we helpless dependents who will keep returning to our abuser? until it kills us?

sick and tired of being sick and tired

2010-05-06T14:58:00.001-07:00

malerie marder

so if you don't see me that's where i'm gonna be

2010-05-05T09:51:00.001-07:00

some vacations are hard to walk away from. you come back to your daily life even less rested than when you left, and with more to do. but then, there's always more to do. where and when is the vacation from life?

i could tell you a story that would make you cry

2010-04-27T13:19:00.001-07:00

put away your stupid gun

2010-04-27T09:24:00.000-07:00

see the sky in front of you

2010-04-20T14:56:00.000-07:00

sometimes there's a man #6.1

2010-04-16T10:16:00.000-07:00

only time will tell if i'll allow the scenery around to eat me alive

2010-04-14T10:10:00.000-07:00

ben mauze

that's the way i remember her best

2010-03-01T17:38:00.000-08:00

gonna make it home tonight

2010-02-26T16:28:00.000-08:00

josef hoflehner - bus stop, santa barbara

don't you believe them my boy, that story's a lie

2010-02-25T08:32:00.000-08:00

remember the disaster at the Mannington mine

-hazel

i'm hung up on gravity

2010-02-23T09:14:00.000-08:00

when you were young and on your own

2010-02-19T10:35:00.000-08:00

good morning america, how are you?

2010-02-19T06:00:00.000-08:00

american family x

as lovers we did not fail

2010-02-18T07:52:00.000-08:00

it always bothered her, how he would walk a step ahead. made her feel like she was being led, pulled along or left behind. but for him, it was the opposite. he was her guide, her blocker, her protector from the lurking dangers of the city's streets.

passing trains that have no name

2010-02-17T10:44:00.000-08:00

trying to make the best of my time

2010-02-12T12:12:00.000-08:00

sometimes there's a man #6

2010-02-12T10:00:00.000-08:00

i'm really going nowhere

2010-02-11T14:06:00.001-08:00

loomis dean - summer hail and thunderstorm falling on desert

i feel the desert calling my name.

where i end and you begin

2010-02-11T14:01:00.000-08:00

the bad times were passed and past. everything was better with each day that dawned on them.

jesus christ. what happened

2010-02-09T15:32:00.001-08:00

this place is a wasteland of wonder.

comrades! he didn't want nothing for himself--

2010-01-19T16:37:00.000-08:00

i'd like to recommend in dubious battle to anyone who hasn't read it.

ain't no end to the desert i'll cross

2010-01-14T14:55:00.001-08:00

the big picture

every way you look at this you lose

2010-01-13T10:28:00.000-08:00

it's much easier to control people

2010-01-12T16:42:00.001-08:00

doing christmas right this time

2009-12-25T06:00:00.000-08:00

a very merry christmas

2009-12-24T06:10:00.000-08:00

so deck those hall, trim those trees

2009-12-17T12:51:00.000-08:00

each of the past five years, i've cobbled together a christmas mix as a gift to all my friends. by way of background, growing up, and to this day, my dad is in love with christmas music. and i mean bad christmas music. the worst. it would begin right after thanksgiving, and probably would have started earlier if my mom would let it happen.

as a point of revolt against that, and in hopes of maybe imposing some halfway decent christmas music on him (which failed miserably; he's sticking to the classics), i started putting together the first Tim McMahon's Rockin' Christmas Eve. the main criteria for the songs is that they must be decent songs in their own right, the type you might listen too if they had nothing to do with christmas.

so another christmas is upon us, and although it was close this year, there is a new Tim McMahon's Rockin' Christmas, vol. VI, to go along with it.since the fourth year, a bonus disc has been included, and that tradition continues as well. and starting last year, my distribution went digital. so this year, in addition to TMRCE vol. VI, i also would like to present all the former mixes in glorious digital format (via megaupload), for those who didn't have the pleasure of experiencing them the first time around [i'm working on hooking up vols. I-III. check back soon].

behold:

TMRCE vol. VI - this years edition. a bit slapdash, but it'll do.

TMRCE presents Have a Blue Christmas - the 2009 supplement. i must confess that several of the songs on this mix came from another, pre-existing mix called Blues, Blues Christmas. full disclosure.

the archives

TMRCE vol. V - last years edition. possibly my favorite to date, if a little eclectic.

TMRCE presents That Olde Tyme Christmas Cheer - 2008 supplement. a bit more traditional. songs from the dustbin of history best enjoyed on a dark and silent night. i'm partial to my original description, which described them as the kind of songs you catch on an odd am station late at night on a lonely road, that makes you wonder if it's a relic radio wave from the past.

TMRCE vol. IV - a pretty solid showing, i think. a bit of a new leaf.

TMRCE presents Kelly's Kountry Kristmas - the first supplement.

TMRCE vol. III [pending]

TMRCE vol. II [pending]

TMRCE vol. I [pending] - the start of it all. a solid mix, although many of the songs will actually be quite familiar to the casual listener.

so with this, i wish good tidings to you all and happy holidays and so forth. i encourage you all to spread this joy around as you see fit. until next year...

concrete knows no sympathy

2009-12-17T12:34:00.000-08:00

when i first moved to the big city, they told me to be careful. watch your back. and your pockets. don't talk to strangers. keep your doors locked. but i didn't believe them.

i would not run from the blazing light

2009-12-16T21:04:00.000-08:00

josef hoflehner - jet airliner

i miss the comfort in being sad

2009-12-15T16:01:00.000-08:00

worrying about your little world faling apart

2009-12-15T10:50:00.000-08:00

it's gray it's gray

2009-12-14T15:29:00.000-08:00

can't get my head off the ground

2009-12-08T09:00:00.000-08:00

this is a true story. they blew up this donkey's head to make a picture. the birth of instant photography. all it took was 6 oz. of dynamite. and a donkey. but he was worthless.

something worth dreaming of

2009-12-07T16:51:00.000-08:00

you know when you feel like you have something to say and its burning to get out and the only problem is that you don't really have a feel for what it is? you think of songs that evoke it but can't really express it? anyway, it snowed here today.

i am walking the cow

2009-12-07T11:23:00.000-08:00

and i can't close my eyes anymore

2009-12-07T10:46:00.000-08:00

the first time it happened to me, i couldn't hardly believe it. but i double-checked, and it was true. i was flying.

take me to the magic of the moment

2009-12-07T10:30:00.000-08:00

sometimes you see a place from far away, and you know you have been there before. you have been there many times. even if you see it from out of time. some place don't change much in five hundred years.

it rained backwards

2009-11-30T16:29:00.001-08:00

into the dustbin of history

2009-11-19T14:48:00.000-08:00

it must be acknowledged at some point that i can't keep this up forever. although i suppose i could just die a quiet death and no one will be the wiser.

my heroes have always been cowboys

2009-11-11T14:25:00.000-08:00

rodeo stars, strong city, kansas - mike sinclair

this is how the world ends

2009-11-09T16:53:00.000-08:00

we'll ride them someday

2009-11-06T18:42:00.001-08:00

it takes a lot to laugh

2009-11-05T11:35:00.000-08:00

shorpy

halloween

2009-10-31T07:00:00.000-07:00

candy apples and razor blades

2009-10-30T09:00:00.000-07:00

dead cats hanging from poles

2009-10-29T09:00:00.000-07:00

little dead are out in droves

2009-10-28T08:00:00.000-07:00

i remember halloween

2009-10-27T15:49:00.000-07:00

someone's anchor

2009-10-27T11:05:00.000-07:00

give me a spade i'll dig my own hole

2009-10-20T18:14:00.001-07:00

guy sargent

no life singed her

2009-10-19T17:08:00.000-07:00

tom palumbo

to walk on a quiet beach is one of life's great pleasures. those who spend their beach days on cramped strips of sand are missing out. it's worth the time it takes to find those quiet shores, frequented by only a few souls.

saw an earthquake too

2009-10-16T10:00:00.000-07:00

a baby in my universe

2009-10-14T13:33:00.000-07:00

today i am an uncle. my parents are now grandparents. most surprising of all, my brother is now a father. and all a month ahead of schedule. exciting, as you might expect. happy birthday, baby-girl-without-a-name.

through time and space a magical place

2009-10-12T11:16:00.000-07:00

flickr

in the mouth a desert

2009-10-08T12:05:00.001-07:00

turns out cigarettes can kill you

2009-10-07T18:05:00.000-07:00

what's the use?

2009-10-07T18:04:00.000-07:00

built some sky and some clouds

2009-10-07T17:57:00.000-07:00

we will never get it right

2009-10-07T17:55:00.000-07:00

vancouver! vancouver! this is it!

2009-10-02T16:12:00.000-07:00

i lie in the soil and fertilize mushrooms

2009-10-02T15:59:00.000-07:00

we can bring back the old days again

2009-10-02T13:26:00.000-07:00

this is only a guess

2009-10-02T13:20:00.000-07:00

neil krug

i'm my own president

2009-10-01T12:21:00.000-07:00

there the sun burns crimson bright

2009-09-24T16:51:00.001-07:00

peter baker

i'd go the whole wide world

2009-09-24T16:48:00.000-07:00

námafjall, iceland, peter baker

dust gets dead the sun gone down

2009-09-23T17:03:00.000-07:00

flickr

it gets everywhere. in your hair and your teeth and your sinuses. in your navel. places you would never expect. you know you'll be digging it out of your ears for weeks to come, and hope the toothpaste will cut the earthy taste on your tongue.

harley davidson

2009-09-22T15:11:00.000-07:00

what are you supposed to be man? the mother fucking marlboro man or something? you ain't no motherfucking marlboro man motherfucker. no you ain't man. you need to go get yourself straight man. you ain't even a man right now. get yourself straight and honor your mother and father. you got yourself on a fast track to hell right now. that's what you got coming to you. no lie.

the world is full of people

2009-09-15T18:26:00.000-07:00

i had sunshine in my life

2009-09-11T16:00:00.000-07:00

taking the only thing that's mine

2009-09-11T11:59:00.000-07:00

you're trapped in your prison

2009-09-11T09:54:00.001-07:00

nothing will be fine

2009-09-11T05:00:00.000-07:00

stand for nothing, live for me

2009-09-10T20:13:00.000-07:00

i'm running and i won't touch ground

2009-09-10T09:00:00.000-07:00

jeff allen

bury my body out on the highway

2009-09-09T16:39:00.001-07:00

when the images fly through your mind so fast, it's sometimes hard to keep them all straight and remember where they came from. you might feel bad about it, but what can you do. there's no time to be careful.

you have waited, you always wait

2009-09-05T07:00:00.000-07:00

there's no place left to go

2009-09-04T14:00:00.000-07:00

it's just another day

2009-09-04T10:33:00.000-07:00

i make windows

2009-09-03T10:49:00.000-07:00

some people make art. i could never do it. i only make tambourines and frown lines.