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Mayhem’s 12 Days Of Christmas 2025 – Day 12 – Bob Sinclair December 24, 2025

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Here it is, the final day of Mayhem’s 12 Days of Christmas series for 2025.. The ten posts so far have featured the Apocalypse Disco, Radiohead, Black Box Recorder, Shrub, the Postal Service, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Bring Me The Horizon, Muse, the Doors and R.E.M. Many of you will know by now that this years theme has not been not very festive and is almost certainly our darkest theme so far. But with all the crap in the world at the moment much of it driven by Dementia Don in the partly demolished and fake gold encrusted White House I thought I would celebrate Chrimbo this year with songs about the end of the world. These are twelve fabulous tracks despite the rather savage theme. Music has, and will always accompany me wherever I go, even if that is into the heart of the forthcoming (???) Armageddon!

I have decided to end the series on a relatively hopeful note. So I have chosen “World Hold On (Children Of The Sky)” by Bob Sinclair. The uplifting music and positive lyrics will hopefully make us all feel good. Words such as “Right here, spread love, everybody join together now. One race, one heart, love and unity, everybody sing. Yeah!” It was released as the second single from Sinclair’s ‘Western Dream’ album, in April 2006. It was a hugely successful track and it charted in many countries, particularly in dance charts, it also made the UK singles top 10. I love that whistling hook too.

I promised you a surprise for the day 12 post and click here to check it out. It is a rather excellent demo suggested to me by Boss Caine himself a.k.a. Dan Lucas. It is called “The End Of The World (Lo-Fi(Solation) Blues demo)” and you can take a listen over at Bandcamp, just click here!

I also promised you an end of the world playlist based on this series, you can find that below! Twelve songs making up almost an hour of Armageddon tunes!

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Mayhem’s 12 Days Of Christmas 2025 – Day 7 – Johnny Cash December 19, 2025

Filed under: Christmas,Uncategorized — justwilliam1959 @ 10:34 pm
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Mayhem’s 12 Days of Christmas posts are now at day 7. The six posts so far have featured the Apocalypse Disco, Radiohead, Black Box Recorder, Shrub, the Postal Service and Tom Waits. This years theme is not very festive and is perhaps our darkest theme so far. But with all the crap in the world at the moment much of it driven by Putin’s Pedo Pet in the partly demolished White House I thought I would celebrate Chrimbo this year with songs about the end of the world. These are twelve fabulous tracks despite the rather savage theme. Music has, and will always accompany me wherever I go, even if that is into the heart of the forthcoming (???) Armageddon! Maybe I need to make them into a playlist, what do you think? Some of you have contacted me with a resounding yes to the playlist. It will appear when we post the final installment a.k.a. day 12.

Today’s track is from Johnny Cash and the song is “The Man Comes Around”. The song gives itself to the title of the album it was featured on, ‘American IV: The Man Comes Around’. This was the fourth Johnny Cash album produced by Rick Rubin. It was the first in the American Recordings series to make the UK chart, it peaked at number 40 after its release in 2002. The song was released as a single in 2002 but failed to make the charts. The series produced six albums and lasted from 1994 until 2010. The lyrics reference the biblical book of revelations and were written by Cash years before this recording and they were updated for this record. The titular ‘man’ is most likely Jesus Christ. In my opinion this is a worthy part of our end of the world series!

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On This Day Ron, Toni, Andy And Archie Poured Sugar On The Charts! November 14, 2025

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On 14th November 1969 “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies entered its fifth week at No.1 on the UK singles chart. It went on to top the charts for eight weeks. The single became the longest running One Hit Wonder in the UK. It was the first No.1 performed by cartoon characters. It reached the top spot in fifteen countries including the USA. The song was written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim. Ron Dante provided the lead vocals, accompanied by Toni Wine and the other co-writer, Andy Kim. This was also the first single that I ever bought, from Uxbridge market when I was just ten years old. Check out the dancing in the second video!

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