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This Week's Theme: Top 20 Holiday Albums of All Time This year's Radio Faux Show Holiday Music Series wraps up with a Faux household Top 20 countdown. It also serves as the first of several Best Of lists that will wrap up the shows for the rest of the year. As explained in the first … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 3, Number 30: Top 20 Holiday Albums of All Time
This Week's Theme: Most Wonderful Time Of The Year This year's Radio Faux Show Holiday Music Series continues with songs that are familiar to all. If you are over 50 years old then this show is like sitting in your grandparent's or great aunt and uncles' house during a family holiday gathering in the '70s. … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 3, Number 29: Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
This Week's Theme: Rudolph and His Nose Keep Running The next entry in this year's Radio Faux Show Holiday Music Series includes forty different versions of "Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer" and "Run Rudolph Run" by forty different artists. Every year at the Faux household, we select one holiday standard and make a massive playlist … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 3, Number 28: Rudolph and His Nose Keep Running
This Week's Theme: Happy Holidays This is year three of the Radio Faux Show Holiday Music Series. Each year, the Happy Holidays Faux Show is focused on songs that are full of holiday spirit although they may not be as well known. Even if you know the song, it may not be the most traditional … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 3, Number 27: Happy Holidays
This Week's Theme: Merry Funky Xmas While compiling the music for the previous show, I came across so many holiday funk songs that I decided to make a Merry Xmas funk companion show. We love holiday funk tunes at the Faux household, so finding all of these tracks was a great way to start this … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 3, Number 26: Merry Funky Xmas
This Week's Theme: Merry Xmas When it comes to holiday music at the Faux household, we have one simple rule: we only listen to holiday music, and listen to nothing but holiday music, from the morning of Black Friday through the day after Christmas. You can read more about the history of this tradition in … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 3, Number 25: Merry Xmas
This Week's Theme: First of October The First of October is an annual Faux Show theme. To be clear, this is not a show released on October 1 but is a show inspired by the group First of October. The basic concept is to focus the show on music and artists that express joy and … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 3, Number 24: First of October
This week's show is a little different. Happy Halloween! If you want to listen to a mostly scary playlist, I've got that. Amazon Music Spotify If you want to watch a classic Halloween film, I've got that too. Planet of the Vampires! This 1965 Italian/Spanish sci-fi horror film by Italian horror master Mario Bava is … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 3, Number 23: Halloween
The theme for this show is a puzzle I recently completed. The last time I used a puzzle as a theme was back in March 2022. That one was a puzzle of famous album covers. This time around, I've taken a puzzle of vintage tourism posters and maps and created a show where each image … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 3, Number 22: Remarks Puzzle “Vintage Atlas”
2013 is not the greatest year in recording history, but no year seems that important after only ten years, at least not anymore. In 1975, it was easy for critics to look back at 1965 and realize that the recordings of that year were some of the most important in pop music history. We are … Continue reading Radio Faux Show Volume 3, Number 21: 2013 Year In Review
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