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12 October 2005

MeCha music afficionados! →[More:]Last night at work, we were playing around with the digital music service we have and stumbled across a Halloween music channel. I expected it to be pretty hokey, but it had a fantastic range of everything from Ministry to Ozzy to movie scores and dialog cuts to Jazz Funeral to vaudeville/camp to Oingo Boingo nuttiness.

So. The point of this post is twofold:

First, I'm in dire need of two songs I don't have or cannot find in my collection that I'm hoping someone here can help out with:

"Oogie Boogie's Song" by Ken Page from the Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack

"Good Times Roll" cover by Powerman 5000

Second, if you were making a Halloween mix, what would you put on it? I'd love to see the whole spectrum, from the obvious to obscure, 'cuz while K-Tel can be fun, I'm pretty sure they never stepped up to the likes of Diamanda Galas.

post by: Frisbee Girl at: 17:55 | 41 comments

Nightmare on My Street - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
Mind Playin' Tricks on Me - Geto Boys
Witchcraft - lots of versions to choose from
I Put a Spell on You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Jay's whole shtick is really Halloween-friendly, and there are certainly other songs to choose from.)
Spooky - I like the Lydia Lunch version, personally.
Thriller - Michael Jackson
And, last but not least, both of DJ P's 'Hell on Wheels' mixes have a lot of good stuff to offer.

posted by box 12 October | 18:13

I can hook you up with the PM5K, check your email.

posted by sciurus 12 October | 18:16

sciurus, if you haven't seen my offer of belly rubs, etc. in the warm and fuzzy thread already, know that I owe you twice over for that!

Palabra.

posted by Frisbee Girl 12 October | 18:19

I can hook you up with the Oogie Boogie, but not till tonight when I get back from the pool. See email around eleven eastern time.

posted by dame 12 October | 18:20

I used to have the nightmare soundtrack many harddrives ago. Sigh. I did manage to find that track on Soulseek though.

I can't find that powerman song though. My sister has that cd though. Sorry.

posted by puke & cry 12 October | 18:21

dame! Excellent and thanks so much!

p & c, no worries, I think these guys have me covered. Connecting to p2p's on my current set up is about as much but as repeatedly putting a hot poker in my eye and my downloading non-existent in that sense.

We simply had so much fun last night during family meal laughing and talking about the music, I thought it would be just as fun to share some ideas with people whose musical tastes and backgrounds I've grown to both relish and respect. Namely, all y'alls.

posted by Frisbee Girl 12 October | 18:36

A Halloween nix would contain these for certain (too lazy to type out all info):

Mussorgsky - Gnomus
Mussorgsky - Night on Bald Mountain
Gounod (?) - Funeral March of a Marionette
Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire - Serenade (Sick Moon as well)
Bach - Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor
Stravinsky - Sacrificial Dance
Mahler - Symphony Number One, Third Movement

for the heck of it

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 12 October | 18:43

I can't find my Halloween mix from days gone by, but I recall it had:

-"Bela Legosi's Dead" by Bauhaus
-"Halloween" by the Shaggs
-theme from the Munsters
-"Everyday is Halloween" by Ministry
-"I Was A Teenage Werewolf" by the Cramps
-"With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" - Kingston Trio
-"Halloween" by the Misfits
-Dave Edmunds - "Creature from the Black Lagoon"
-the Who - "Boris the Spider"
-Bo Diddley - "Bo Meets the Monster"
-"Halloween" by the Dead Kennedys
-"Jack the Ripper" by Screaming Lord Sutch

posted by Slack-a-gogo 12 October | 18:44

I can't believe I forgot "The Witch" by the Sonics. And what about "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield. What's scarier than the Excorcist?

posted by Slack-a-gogo 12 October | 18:50

Maybe some Birthday Party, like "Release the Bats" or "Deep in the Woods."

posted by goatdog 12 October | 18:58

You gotta have Helloween's Halloween.

The March to the Scaffold from Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique? Saint Saens' Danse Macabre? Night on Bald Mountain? Hall of the Mountain King? Savatage's Prelude to Madness riffing off the Grieg?

posted by Wolfdog 12 October | 18:58

How about some Goblin? "Witch" from the soundtrack to Suspiria.

posted by goatdog 12 October | 19:02

Creatures of the Night by Kiss? Eh, maybe not.

Goblin - Strive AFter Dark
I'll second Bela Lugosi's Dead as well.
Switchblade Symphony - Wicked

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 12 October | 19:13

Something like this or this, I think.

posted by kenko 12 October | 19:43

Oogie Boogie's Song for everybody else since I uploaded it before noticing Dame's post.

Somebody's Watching Me

Nature Trail to Hell

Other possibilities:

Oingo Boingo - No one Lives Forever
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
Whodini - Haunted House of Rock (heh)

I am tempted to do a big Halloween themed mp3 post now. Mmfph.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 12 October | 19:43

A classic period piece: Bob McFadden and Dor - The Mummy. The last line is funny as hell.

posted by jonmc 12 October | 20:20

Not Halloween-oriented (although it's weird enough, so who the hell knows) here's a great spoof on Cold War politics, Nikita the "K" - Go Go Radio Moscow. Bonus points to anyone who can identify all the song samples/parodies within and who can tell me what the artists name is a reference to.

posted by jonmc 12 October | 20:25

OK jonmc, I'll play. His name is a reference to Murray the K (or, for Rutles Fans: Bill Murray the K)

I spotted parodies of Frankie Valli's "Tell It To the Rain", The Seeker's "Georgy Girl", and the Blues Magoos' "We ain't Got Nothin' Yet".

That whole sketch reminds me of an early rock and roll radio parody called "KAOS Radio" that captured most of the rock/teen culture cliches in under four minutes. It was a fave of mine from Doctor Demento when I was in Jr High. Sadly, the Dr Demento MP3 fansite has been shut down, otherwise I'd try to trap the cut and post it here.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 12 October | 20:51

Give that man a cheroot. The old guys I meet in bars around here are always impressed that I know who the K was. I even have a copy of one of his "Golden Gasser," LP's, I forget which year, but Chuck Jackson's "Any Day Now," is on it.

posted by jonmc 12 October | 20:57

...and just to continue on with the rdaio/doctor/dementia thing going here's Travesty Ltd. with "Rock And Roll Doctor."

posted by jonmc 12 October | 21:10

I have this Fabulosos Cadillacs album, which is quite good and Day Of The Dead-themed available if you're interested.

But yeah, like Wolfdog I'd throw the Berlioz on there. Nothing like the Dies Irae to send a shiver down your spine.

posted by cali 12 October | 21:14

Skull by The Misfits
I'd go grindcore, maybe Eye Hate God or Assuck.
The third Neurosis album just about scares the hell out of me.

posted by omiewise 12 October | 21:33

Last year's mix + 2.

posted by Eideteker 12 October | 21:43

Hey, thanks, weretable. I actually had a total pain in the ass workout so I'm actually fine not to upload now.

posted by dame 12 October | 22:21

Cool beans, dame. And now, more music:

Halloween Theme (the flick)

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Goblin - Strive After Dark

Chris Deburgh - Don't Pay the Ferryman

Almost appropriate for Halloween, but not quite:

Blue Oyster Cult - Veteran of the Psychic Wars

Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell on You

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 12 October | 22:52

Add to the classical list: Franz Liszt's Totentanz.

posted by agropyron 12 October | 22:55

Oingo Boingo - No One Lives Forever

Danse Macabre

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 12 October | 23:07

I've never heard György Ligeti's "Le Grand Macabre", but, come on, look at the title, people.

posted by kenko 12 October | 23:11

Funeral March of a Marionette

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 12 October | 23:33

Madness-One Step Beyond

posted by amberglow 12 October | 23:35

I did a Halloween mix a couple of years ago based around a "drive-in movie" theme, that was made up of:

The Fuzztones- Strychnine (for the cool, spooky organ)

The Damned- Nasty (about horror movies!)

The Ramones- Pet Sematary

Roky Erickson & The Aliens- Creature With The Atom Brain

Rob Zombie- Dragula

Clint Ruin & Lydia Lunch- Don't Fear The Reaper

Shriekback- Black Light Trap

Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians- My Wife And My Dead Wife

Tom Waits- Black Wings

The Cure- Lullaby ("the spider-man is having me for dinner tonight...")

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Red Right Hand

The Rocky Horror Show- Science Fiction Double Feature

Sparks- Eaten By The Monster Of Love

posted by BoringPostcards 12 October | 23:54

Present - Souls for Sale, Strychnine for Christmas, or The Limping Little Girl.

posted by kenko 13 October | 00:15

Just one, before I go to sleep:

Round Robin - I'm the Wolfman

posted by box 13 October | 00:24

Vander/Top/Blasquiz/Garber - `Nëneh (Këhr), if you want a weird tribalistic feel. With creepy chant-like invocations.

posted by kenko 13 October | 00:31

I've looked everywhere in my messy office/music room and can't find it anywhere, but there's a comp CD called Halloween Hootenenany that's pretty damn good. Lots of garage bands doing Halloween songs. My fave being the Swinging Neckbreakers doing a song called "No Costume, No Candy".

posted by Slack-a-gogo 13 October | 08:28

Wow, this was a great list to come home to guys! And, Eideteker, that's an impressive game you did there last year.

posted by Frisbee Girl 13 October | 09:27

I wish Mike could have stayed this cool:

Off the Wall

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 13 October | 11:26

PIL's Second Edition can be pretty scary.
How bout some Coil? Scatalogy maybe?
There's some awesome rocakbilly song with just screaming over the music. Anyone help with that?
There's also a Mikey Dread song with the same screaming idea, I can't remember the name, but I'm pretty sure it's on this record. I'll check when i get home.
There's some sorta scary stuff on Scientist's "Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires"
You might want to look into some horrorcore stuff, particularly The Gravediggaz and Necro.
And Charly Manson's LIE: The Love & Terror Cult is pretty good for a spooky listen.
Beatles - Revolution #9.
Angelblood - Labia Minora
Current 93 (lots of creepy songs with children singing).
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Einsturzende Neubauten - Morning Dew
Judas Priest - The Ripper
Dr. Dooom - Apartment 223
Scorn - Logghi Barogghi is kinda scary
full-on irony - The Smiths - Cemetary Gates
Peter Murphy - Socrates the Python
Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf
SPK - Leichenschrei
Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth (especially the "can the world be as sad as it seems" song)
Suicide - Frankie Teardrop has a great scream in it and is generally creepy.
Laibach - Let it Be
Nick Cave - Your Funeral, My Trial, Mercy Seat (the songs)
Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Monster Mash

okay, back to work...

posted by Hellbient 13 October | 15:39

Oh yeah, and there's alway Carmina Burana and Tibetan Monk chants.
And the soundtrack to Forbidden Planet is pretty creepy and great.

okay, back to work...

posted by Hellbient 13 October | 15:44

Frisbee Girl: And that's sadly just the tip of the iceberg. It's good to know I'm appreciated, though. A life spent in devotion to music has not been spent entirely in vain. There are plenty that weren't guessed... feel free to take a stab (LOZL!) at any you think you know.

posted by Eideteker 13 October | 18:06

so anyway, that rockabilly/psychobilly song i mentioned above is called "Scream!" by Ralph Neilsen and The Chancellors.

posted by Hellbient 17 October | 18:12

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