Brian Eno brings you “Seasons Greetings”
21 December, 2009
Season’s Greetings CD & christmas card, John Brown Publishing, 1996
John Brown Publishing is a lively English magazine publisher, whose stable includes the notorious Viz (adult comic) and Bizarre (a glossy Weekly World News type look at the extremes of culture). Its eponymous owner happened to live next door to a certain B. Eno, so when the company decided to release a CD of Christmas songs and messages as their 1996 corporate Christmas card, who better to arrange it all than the next door neighbour?
So here we have it… a couple of vaguely listenable Christmas songs with Mr Eno’s emminently recognisable voice prominent in the mix, plus a sprinkling of quite frightful corporate messages, all in a nicely designed gatefold. The staff scribbled their names on them and sent them out to clients and friends; best guess would be that there were maybe 250-500 of these made.
Note: It’s all ripped as one track, but sure you could extract the meagre musical content with ten minutes’ wrangling on a sound editor. You’ll only be sitting around bored all Christmas time.
1. Season’s Greetings from John Brown Publishing (7:27)
Updated link [MU] and link [MF]
Sorry Megaupload is saying file is unavailable!
Regards/
Erm, no it isn’t now. Must have been a temporary thing. Try it again.
Still getting that message
Regards/
Not sure what’s going on then – we just checked again, and again it is working for us. But ’tis the season and all that, and we’re fans of yr blog too, so we added a second location.
Stefan M—
Hi all, I downloaded the .zip file (both links work) but my win zip would not extract it. I have a typical PC and typcial winzip. Bruce
Hi there. I thought I’d drop a hint. For PCs, certain symbols (like “:” or “*”) cannot be included in a file- or folder- name, thus the .rar is not extractable. I’ve tried some tricks around it but it didn’t worked. Thanx for this rarity anyway, just keep the above in mind.
OK OK OK, shut up now.
For all you owners of primitive mid-Noughties computers that cannot cope with punctuation in file names, of all the outlandish concepts, we have out of the kindness of our (OK, somewhat chilly) hearts re-archived this and re-upped it.
Apologies for causing you all so much stress and embarrassment. We’ll try to remember you sorry saps when zipping files in future, but cannot promise.
Bah humbug, etc etc. :-)
Thanx for the MF link!
Regards/
Thanks for the file and cover pics!!
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Me wanna thank Big Mac users. When pici dies, me buy Big Mac too. Me stop talking other pici users, they stupid, har har. Uggh.
Seriously now, thanx. All Eno rarities welcome anytime.
Ugh ugh back at ya :-)