Ricardo Autobahn - Christmas Isn't Halloween
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🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Ricardo Autobahn - "Christmas Isn't Halloween," a 2020 single on Banoffee Sound
Today's Song of the Day isn't Ricardo Autobahn's first Christmas hit, not by a long shot. Under his birth name of John Matthews, he had a smash single with his band Cuban Boys in 1999, with the track "Cognoscenti vs. Intelligentsia" reaching #4 on the UK charts on Christmas week, and topping the infamous John Peel's Festive Fifty that year.Â
You may also recognize Autobahn's talents in the projects Barndance Boys and Spray, or in his collaborations with Daz Sampson as Rikki & Daz.Â
Today's featured track takes us back to his 2020 Banoffee Sound Singles Club release. Stay tuned for new music from Autobahn in January, including, what he calls, "assorted variations including the hyper hyper Helen Love remix."
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| 0:00.0 | I don't want to open presents. I don't want to trim a tree and I'm sick of decorations |
| 0:20.0 | blinking on and off of me. I don't want a car for a big knock. I don't want a hurry. |
| 0:25.6 | And in case you catch me smiling, I'm just trying to get a seat. |
| 0:29.6 | The only camera that I'll ever see raises from the grave unspeakable things. |
| 0:37.0 | For me there is no in its dream. |
| 0:41.0 | Blood is red, must is green, but Christmas is a tallowy. |
| 0:48.0 | Where's the danger? Where's the rights? |
| 0:52.0 | In Santa Claus and Son of the night |
| 0:56.0 | the Smetters are of the city |
| 0:59.0 | Christmas isn't |
| 1:02.0 | how the money Christmas is not easy, how I'm running for me. |
| 1:06.0 | Had that me. |
| 1:10.0 | I don't want a piece of fruit cake and love actually no I'll be underground before you'll catch me under mistletoe |
| 1:17.8 | I don't want to make a snow land not unless we let it melt, so imagine all the panic, all the horror |
| 1:24.8 | frosty felt. |
| 1:25.8 | The only carol that I'll have a sake, raises from the grave unspeakable veins. |
| 1:34.0 | For me there is no in that stream. |
| 1:37.0 | Our blood is red and must is green |
| 1:41.0 | by Christmas is a Halloween. |
| 1:45.0 | Where's the danger? |
| 1:47.0 | Where's the bright? |
| 1:49.0 | In Santa Claus and silent nights, |
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