Thursday, December 28, 2017

Sylvester songs (part 1)

Songs about Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve, Oudjaarsavond, the Seventh Day of Christmas ('Seven Geese A'Laying'), the day when the year turns. I asked for suggestions, you send me a bunch. Here's 15 suggestions (another 16 coming up later, to make it 31):
From this year, written on January 1st of this year, dream(-y)pop:


Same vein, from this year also, bit more indie, VERY nice song:


From 2017, very tender, lyrically a take on 'Last Christmas':


Power pop sensation Catholic Action released this in April, and revamped it for Christmas:


"It's New Year's Day, it's all the same, you're on parade, while I'm cleaning up". With bells, and fine girlie voices:


Cure-meets-Wire-guitars and Californian pop perfection:


Australian electronic greatness:


VERY VERY nice Americana-/folk song:


OK, this song could be about the end of summer too, but I just love to post a Cousteau track here:


Probably one of the bestest songs about New Year's Eve ever written:


This one should ALWAYS be in a list about this theme:


From the album 'Brand New Year', which has a title track, this is the closing track, called Another Brand New Year, by Americana-powerhouse Bottle Rockets:


LOVE this band, love this track:


GREAT modern day crooning:


And finally, from this year too, this great Elvis Costello-y track:

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