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

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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.

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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.

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This week thanks go to Pete, Tom and Frank.

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

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

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
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A Britney ‘Blackout’ demo, Amy Dopehead, an old-skool mashup off of the Soulwax remixes album, a man talking about fish. All the ingredients you need.

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

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
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This episode is a little overdue, sorry, and there’s been quite a bit of pop action in the meantime, so we have a backlog of stuff you might not have heard. (Though probably have). There’s new Kylie. You’ve all heard the Britney right?

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

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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
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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.

send us the pop that’s getting you excited poptimism.podcast@googlemail.com

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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Thanks this week to Pete, Jeff and Alan (guess which one was his!). Keep your submissions coming in to poptimism.podcast@googlemail.com, and see you all at Poptimism on Saturday!

Example – You Can’t Rap

Chemical Brothers – Burst Generator

Yo Majesty – Club Action (Sailing To Baltimore mix)

Miley Cyrus – East Northumberland High

Justice – New Jack

Dragonette – Take It Like A Man

Kendal Carson – I Like Trucks
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Congratulations this week to Alan and Emma on the birth of baby Harry! What better way to celebrate than a bumper crop of cracking tunes courtesy of our generous contributors – you know who you are! Keep sending your current favourites to poptimism.podcast@googlemail.com…

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 poptimism.podcast@googlemail.com I will HAVE to fill it up with Natasha Bedingfield! Thanks this week to Mitya, Alan and Jeff. Keep it coming!

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The Podcast will be back next week - after the new management return from a certain gathering in Somerset - so now is your chance to submit some superlative songsmithery. Without your contributions the podcast will be 0 seconds long, so please remember to send your mp3s to poptimism.podcast@googlemail.com. Cheers!

Ain’t No Other Man – Aguilera, Christina
Not This Year – Aly & AJ
Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne
Me & You – Cassie
Don’t Let Stars Get Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson remix) – Cortney Tidwell
Age Age Every Night – DJ Ozma
I Get Around – Dragonette
Something Kinda Ooooh (Tony Lamezma Mix) – Girls Aloud
Who Likes Who – Jordan Pruitt
D.A.N.C.E – Justice
Я – робот – Катя Чехова
Since U Been Gone – DJ Earworm (Kelly Clarkson vs Depeche Mode via Rex the Dog)
Gravity’s Rainbow (Van She Remix) – Klaxons
With Every Heartbeat – Kleerup ft Robyn
Balance Gal – Lord Kossity
Back to Discos – Loto
Boyz – M.I.A.
Perfect Exceeder – Mason Vs Princess Superstar
Electric – Melody Club
I Know U Like Me – Mr Skillz And His Crazy Girls
Are You The One? – The Presets
Maximize – Rex The Dog
Umbrella – Rihanna
What Else Is There (Trentemøller remix) – Röyksopp ft Knife Bird
Coup De Boule – Sebastien and Emmanuel Lipszyc
Tits & Acid – Simian Mobile Disco
Tony The Beat (Rex the Dog mix) – The Sounds
Dollar Sign – Sticky feat Lady Stush
Shine – Take That
White n Nerdy – Weird Al
It’s Not Easy – WestBam ft Superpitcher
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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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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
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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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Breakin’ Dishes – Rihanna

Uptown – Pleasure

Burning Up – Madonna

Fiddy Fiddy Fiddy Fiddy – dunproofin.com (Kaisers v 50 Cent)

Knights – Crystal Castles

Tomoko – Hafdís Huld

Pull Up Your Hands – Bass Medium Trinity

The Clapping Song – The Belle Stars
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Thanks to Tom, Grace, Steve M, someone on the League of Pop, and the internet. (I can’t recall where the Uptown track came from, sorry whoever pointed me at it.).

Life begins at 40, and so next week there are going to be some changes to celebrate YEAR ONE of the podcast. I can’t tell you what now, because, well because I make this up as I go along and have no real idea. Except to repeat what I said last week, that unless I receive a massive number of new things to play I will supplement the usual sounds with a run down of my favourite tracks that we’ve featured in a super long edition.

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Length: 11:00 Played: 916

Boyz – M.I.A.

Grip Like A Vice – The Go! Team

Miss Popularity – Jordan Pruitt

Play Wid Punks – Anthony B

Heavyweight Champion – Reverend and the Makers

Fett – Nachlader

Living On Video – Trans X

Stress – Justice
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Thanks to Grace, Tom and misc League of Pop ppl for this weeks sounds. Lots of new stuff here which i was close to saving up – but that would be against the whole point of the exercise. I think.

A fortnight from today (June 1st, coinciding with a Poptimism at the Union Tavern) will be exactly a year of these podcasts, and I’m hoping to bring you a bumper edition then. And if it’s not bursting with new stuff from you, I’m simply going to indulge myself with repeats of my favourite tunes from over the preceding 40-odd episodes.

But I still need stuff for next week’s regular podcast. So send stuff to: poptimism.podcast@googlemail.com

Length: 12:34 Played: 831

Where Were You in 92? – MIA

Atlantis To Interzone – Klaxons (Hadouken! ‘Remix’)

Letter from God – Scroobius Pip and Dan Le Sac

I Am Somebody – DJ Mehdi (Switch remix)

Make the Logo Bigger – Burn Back
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My thanks to Tom and Rob da Bank. Really subscribe to the Sunday Best podcast, it’s great. Not so much of the ‘pop’, but all the same. Not so much of the ‘pop’ on here either – and I blame you! Send me some now.

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Length: 8:22 Played: 949

D.A.N.C.E – Justice

Shine – Booty Luv

Le Disko – Shiny Toy Guns

Dismissed – Uffie

Close To Konichiwa Bitches – A plus D (Robyn vs. The Cure)

Love Loves to Love – Lulu
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37. Bl00dy h3ll. My age. In years. Thanks mostly to arch poptimist Grace this week. Ed Banger reckids too i spose.

Give me more pop now! poptimism.podcast@googlemail.com

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Me And My Imagination – Sophie Ellis-Bextor (Tony Lamezma Remix)

Super Star – S.H.E

Love Today – Mika (Rob Mello Remix)

Please – Robert Smith & Paul Hartnoll

Heart Of Gold – Boney M

Typical – Frazier Chorus
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Back after a little rest – I feel so much better for it. (Yes, even though Mika and Fat Bob are putting in appearances). Thanks this week to Tom and Grace. Probably someone else I’ve forgotten since the submissions came in over a week ago now.

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Length: 7:54 Played: 827

Earth Intruders – Bjork (Mark Stent Extended Edit)

Touch Your Toes – Armand Van Helden ft. Fat Joe and Bl

(Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime) I Need Your Loving – Baby D

End Of Days – Seeed ft. Maya Dela Gwada

You’re So Vain – The Black Neon

Get What You Deserve – Bertine Zetlitz

Black Gloves – Goose
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Thanks to Grace, Alix, Tom and Joe Macare (League of Pop) this week. I nearly did an all covers edition, but the others can wait for next week. You do get Baby D’s 1995 ragga-middle-8′d update to the earlier breakbeats cover by NRG, a ‘Robot Voice’ cover of You’re So Vain (we love us some robots here at FT), and the Poptimism bosh-favourite Life on Mars cover. Or is it all A COMA INDUCED DREAM?

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I Wanna Have Your Babies – Natasha Bedingfield

Balance Gal – Lord Kossity

Release – Timbaland ft Justin Timberlake

Jimmy Mack’s Sweet Escape – pheugoo.com bootleg

Umbrella – Rihanna ft Jay-Z

Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby – Buster Brown

I Feel Love (Album version) – Messiah
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Thanks as usual to Grace, Kat and Tom. You know what, the single version of Messiah’s cover is much much better, sorry about that.

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Au Arbres Citoyens – Yannick Noah

Get Down – Groove Armada ft Lady Stush (Calvin Harris Remix)

Stop Me – Mark Ronson / Daniel Merriweather

Head Over Heels – Tears For Fears

Fergie vs The Fray – She Is Glamorous – dj lobsterdust

Oh Timbaland – Timbaland
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Apart from my hankering for Head over Heels, thanks are entirely due to Grace this week! A great mix of stuff — ex tennis players, Amerie, Lady Stush again YAY!, and that Smiths cover you all seem to despise.

Send me stuff to poptimism.podcast@googlemail.com to get it on here, or it’s Woman in Chains next week. (Not really, but you get the idea.)

Length: 8:02 Played: 811

CC3 You Ain’t Ready – Yummy Bingham

CC2 More Than Friends (That’s Right) – 3LW

Sumthin’ Serious – Audio Club

PP1 Ladino Song – Oi Va Voi

CC1 Set Out Running – Neko Case

PP2 Ali-gholi – BarobaX

Don’ Give It Up – Siobhan Donaghay
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This week we join up with the League of Pop over on the poptimists LJ forum. It’s week 1, and here you have the 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed songs in each league: the Pumpin’ Pop Premiership (PP) and the Chillin’ Chart Championship (CC)

A couple of regular submissions too as a half-time and full-time treat. Thanks to Tom, all the league contributors and, as ever, Grace.

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12 Bar Acid Blues – Siobhan Donaghy

Song 4 Mutya – Groove Armada

Sexy Twilight Back – Justin Timberlake v 2 Unlimited

Dancing With Tears In My Eyes – Novaspace

Vampires Are Alive – DJ Bobo

Duel – Propaganda

Are You The One? – The Presets
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Thanks to Grace, Seattle Mary, Pete and Jeff. Thanks are also due to Jeff for his contributions last time round.

‘Thirty Something’. I was this ][ close to putting Carter in this time – stop me someone. Mail me stuff! poptimism.podcast@googlemail.com

Length: 9:22 Played: 726

Tango – Lady Sovereign

Give It To Me (Dirty) – Timbaland Feat. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake

Discotheque – Young Love

Redneck Woman – Gretchen Wilson (D-Bop Radio Edit)

Never Marry a Railroad Man – Shocking Blue

Free Your Soul – Supercar

Don’t Let Stars Get Us Tangled Up – Cortney Tidwell (Ewan Pearson remix)

Konichiwa Bitches – Robyn (Trentemoller Remix)

Peter Gunn Mambo – Jack Costanzo And His Orchestra

Yeah Yeah Yeah What’s Going On – Flying White Dots bootleg

Have You Never Ever? – Margaret Berger

Sleepy Time – Raymond Scott
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Thanks this week to Tom, Pete and Grace. Plus to mark number 30 I thought I’d go the extra (four minute) mile. Yes I’ve sprung for a proper version of Audio Hijack making this the first podcast over 10 minutes long. Woo. So there’s extra stuff found recently on LJ. I still couldn’t bring myself to put on Indian War Whoop. Sorry Tom. Hope you like it.

Submissions as usual please! Don’t let me feel like a fool blowing my audio-wad this week, only to get nothing for next week.

Length: 11:59 Played: 771

Shine – Take That

Get Lucky – Dragonette

Dream on – Robyn & Ola Salo

Say It Right – Nelly Furtado

XR2 Turbo – MIA

Goldrush – Yello
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Pop is back! The That! The ‘life! All the ladies. Thanks this week to Mary, Kat and Grace.

I wonder if I should be doing something for podcast THIRTY?! If you want to contribute to this mil(l|e)stone in internets podcasting get in touch – send me stuff – at poptimism.podcast@googlemail.com

Love Hammer – Layo & Bushwacka! v MC Hammer (Outlaws bootleg)

Rattled Little Clam – Lullaby Baxter

Oh, MJ! – The Little Ones (stereolab vocal remix)

Painted By Numbers – The Sounds

Living By Numbers – New Musik

Black Ships Seen Last Year South of Heaven – Current 93
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Pop is dead! But, lo! Here comes Avril to save the day. Hem hem. Thanks to Dr T, Tim and Jeff. (Grace is on a pop break caused by the Paris Angels.) Lollards take note – one ‘!’ in an artist, and one in a title.

More stuff to the usual address please.

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