[mp3] You cannot kill us now

Christmas - "Punch And Judy" (mp3)
Frank Tovey - "Sam Hall" (mp3)

Boston pop band Christmas might never have made it big; who can say? But if they ever had a chance, they destroyed it with their second album-- not the music, which is good, but with the cover. Click here to see it. It, uh, kind of speaks for itself, but I'll point out that the habit of spelling 'the' as 'thee' is strongly associated with Genesis P-Orridge and his band Psychick TV (as well as its outgrowth Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth), so even most of the people who thought on first encounter with the record that they knew what was going on probably didn't.

Anyway, Christmas weren't Psychick Gladiatorz; they were just a very, very capricious band playing slightly quirky music. Occasionally they hit on a brilliant idea, though, like casting the old folk song "Sam Hall", with its unrepentant narrator and refrain of "damn your eyes!", as a version of the Punch and Judy story instead. If you don't know "Sam Hall", Frank Tovey's version is linked above as well.

Lead vocals on "Punch And Judy", by the way, are by Liz Cox, known to Magnetic Fields fans as Miss Lily Banquette (the stage name she took when Christmas broke up and two members formed lounge band Combustible Edison).

[And indeed, Amazon is confused about which is the title and which is the artist for this record.]

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What really cool thing should I be doing tonight that I just don't know about yet?

EDIT: "Really cool" = anything other than staying home, with no housemates, conducting
vegetable experiments.