Fairytale Of New York – Audrey 3000 & Mr Hopkinsons Computer

All I Want For Christmas Is You – My Chemical Romance

I’m Your Private Santa Claus – Eddy Arnold

I’ll Be Home for Christmas – Aly & A.J.

Christmas On The Block – Go Home Productions (Lopez/McCartney mashup)

Walking in the air – Osymyso (Heathrow expansion mix)

Coldcut’s Christmas Break – Coldcut

Good King Wensleslas – The Roller Disco Orchestra

Last Christmas – Jimmy Eat World

Another Christmas – KinKi Kids

ding-dong – TOKIO

Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town – Joseph Spence

A dozen songs to take you, one a day, over Christmas and to the end of the year. Or, if you are more trad minded (and can wait), from Xmo to Twelfth Night when you take down your sprig of holly. However if you are trad minded, perhaps you shouldn’t listen.

These glad tidings are brought to you by Cis, Tom, Pete, me (Alan) and Frank.

Song 4 Kylie / I’m In Love (With A Girl In A Time Machine) – Fast Ood Rockers

The One – Kylie Minogue

This Is Our Time – Ocelot Mthfckrs

Into the Galaxy – Midnight Juggernauts

Go Dumb – Da Muzicianz

Outta My Head – Ashlee Simpson

Black Jacks – Girls Aloud

Blush – Aly & A.J.

This week thanks go to Pete, Tom and Frank.

Fling – Girls Aloud

Sweaty – Muscles

Guilty Pleasures – Cobra Starship

Clumsy – Fergie

Dat Girl Right There – Usher ft. Ludacris

This Summer Night – Bertrand Burgalat w/ Robert Wyatt

The Question Is What Is The Question – Scooter

Hutch – Rob Gibson

Extra long bit of Fling there just cos. Thanks this time to Pete, Jeff, Cis and Kat.

Because I’m Awesome – The Dollyrots

Breakin’ Up – Rilo Kiley

Whats It Gonna Be – H20 ft Platnum

Cubique – Human Resource Vs 808 State (Soulwax remix)

Weed Bag – Wayne Marshall

Mystical (State Of Grace) – Britney Spears

Not Clean – Ghostigital feat. Mark E. Smith

Damn, You Look Good and I’m Drunk (Scandalous) – Cobra Starship

Thanks to Cis, Carrie, Pete, Starry, Tom and Jeff lots.

Careless Whisper – The Gossip

I Got It From My Mama – Will.I.Am

Headstrong – Ashley Tisdale

Call The Shots – Girls Aloud

Dead Drummers – The Rogue Element

The World Is Outside (Stellasound Remix) – Ghosts

Amigo Vulnerable – Enrique Iglesias

I Like Mike – Jay Spears

Shoppers’ Paradise – Carter USM

Thanks this week to: Pete, Cis, Jeff and Kat!

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Paper Planes – M.I.A.

Can I Get Get Get – Junior Senior

Doing It Right – Go! Team

Me, Myself And (I) – Darren Hayes

Her – Kissy Sell Out

You’re Out – Dead Disco

One More Chance – Candie Payne

Hello again. As you can see Kat and I are sharing the podcasting load — not that it’s all that much of a burden. People send us pop and we put it on here. EASY. Well if people DO send us pop. This week is entirely thanks to just Pete and Me. And it doesn’t feel all that ‘pop’. Darren Hayes exempted — and he’s gone all concept album on us anyway.

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Uffie – Brand New Car

Supermayer – The Art Of Letting Go

Infernal – Vienna

Aly & AJ – Like Whoa

M.I.A. – Paper Planes

Roisin Murphy – Modern Timing

Sham 69 – Hurry Up Harry

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Aly & A.J – Potential Breakup Song

Donna Summer – Heaven Knows

Brant ft Mr Roper – Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me (Ada Mix)

Pepe Deluxe – The Mischief of Cloud 6

Sophie Ellis-Bextor – China Heart

Tegan and Sara – Back in Your Head

Prince – Guitar

Stella – Dreams (Thomas/Geiger Mix)

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Hello my new podcast chums! The podcast is under new management, and unless you send plenty of tasty tunes to [email protected] I will HAVE to fill it up with Natasha Bedingfield! Thanks this week to Mitya, Alan and Jeff. Keep it coming!

37 mins, and 34MB, of my favourite tracks from the last year of podcasts…

Ain’t No Other Man – Aguilera, Christina

Ordered purely alphabetically for that arbitrariness of sequence we all love. I regret leaving some stuff out, and perhaps Rex T Dog is a little over represented — Nah, sod it, I am bias, hear me ROAR. Thanks for listening and thanks to EVERYONE who has fed me the (funky) fresh ammo that keeps this machine gun of pop rattling along each week. Another regular podcast will be along shortly.

In case our bandwidth goes mental I will be downgrading the bitrate (or poss making it mono), so get it while it’s hot and clean. Ta ta, me ducks.

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It’s Alright – East 17

I Know – Fiona

Pengeleng – T.O.K.

Make it Hott – Uffie (Crystal Castles remix)

Burka Blue – Burka Band (B. Morgenstern Mix)

Magnets – Digitalism

Rave Dave – Trash Fashion

Minuit Jacuzzi – Tepr (ft. Grand Marnier)

Hot Nuts (Get ‘Em from the Peanut Man) – Lil Johnson

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Lesson Zero — one year old today. Woo!

Bit of an odd ‘lesson’ to celebrate this week. There’s new stuff and there’s pop — but what’s new isn’t pop, and what’s pop isn’t new. Not that that matters, we’ve had loads of great new pop over the last few weeks anyway.

However, now it’s time for a break. No podcast next week. The week after you’ll get “Year One — The Megamix” and then we’ll be back with the same mission, to bring some regular top poptimist sounds to you, our loyal FT readers.

Lessons are over though.

Thanks this week to The Songwriter, SteveM, Tom and Grace.

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