01 Season Of The Witch / Karen Elson
02 Me And The Devil / Gil Scott-Heron
03 Te Ni Nee Ni Nu / Slim Harpo
04 She's Not There / Neko Case
05 Hitting The Ground / PJ Harvey
06 Spellbound / Siouxsie
07 9 Crimes / Darmen Rice
08 Cold Grey Light Of Dawn / Nick Lowe
09 Hell's Bells / Cary Ann Hearst
10 Gonna Be A Darkness / Jakob Dylan
11 What You Do To Me / Blakroc
12 Paradise Circus / Massive Attack
13 And When I Die / The Heavy
14 Bad Things / Jace Everett
01 Howlin' For My Baby / M. Ward
02 Evil (Is Going On) / Jace Everett
03 Bad Blood / Beck
04 How To Become Clairvoyant / Robbie Robertson
05 Shake And Fingerpop / Jr. Walker
06 Frenzy / Screamin' Jay Hawkins
07 Kiss Like Your Kiss / Lucinda Williams
08 Gasoline And Matches / Buddie & Julie Miller
09 You Did / Chuck Prophet
10 You're Gonna Miss Me / 13th Floor Elevators
11 Fresh Blood / Eels
12 Forgotten People / Thievery Corporation
13 New World In My View / King Britt
14 Beyond Here Lies Nothin' / Bob Dylan
01 Bad Things / Jace Everett
02 Bleed 2 Feed / CC Adcock
03 Lake Charles / Lucinda Williams
04 Give It Up / Lee Dorsey
05 Swampblood / Legendary Shackers
06 Play With Fire / Cobra Verde
07 Just Like Heaven / Watson Twins
08 Christine's Tune / Flying Burrito Brothers
09 Two / Ryan Adams
10 Strange Love / Slim Harpo
11 From A Whisper To A Scream / Allen Toussaint
12 I Don't Wanna Know/ Dr. John
13 The Golden State / John Doe
14 Bones / Little Big Town
The movie, "Son of Dracula" was a product of Ringo Starr's imagination, starring himself and Harry Nilsson - who also wrote the soundtrack. The movie had a short run in 1974 and was shelved. That was probably a good decision although I found several sites with the movie. I don't think the soundtrack made it to cd - so I consider this a rarity (thanks to the original uploader).
This is campy, goofy and fun, plus it's Harry Nilsson. Enjoy!
01 Is It He Who Will Be King
02 Daybreak
03 At My Front Door
04 Count Down Meets Merlin And Amber
05 The Moonbeam Song
06 Perhaps This Is All A Dream
07 Remember Christmas
08 Intro - Without You
09 The Count's Vulnerability
10 Down
11 Frankenstein, Merlin & The Operation
12 Jump Into The Fire
13 The Abdication of Count Down
14 The End (Moonbeam)
This is exactly what the album tittle says, a story about a ghost. However the story can be taken in many ways; a creative muse, a person's struggle to stay true to who they are, or literally about a ghost. Although not heavy on the jam's Phish is known for, they successfully weave together a blend of styles for an accessible jazzy-rock-bluegrass-funky style album that's tinged with lyrics that are complicated just enough to keep me listening. Phish has got to be one of the most under talked about bands of this century. Enjoy!
01 Ghost 02 Birds of a Feather 03 Meat 04 Guyute 05 Fikus 06 Shafty 07 Limb by Limb 08 Frankie Says 09 Brian and Robert 10 Water in the Sky 11 Roggae 12 Wading in the Velvet Sea 13 The Moma Dance 14 End of Session
"If you thought the musical relationship between Henry Mancini and Audrey Hepburn was all champagne kisses and caviar dreams, then you haven’t heard his utterly creepy score for WAIT UNTIL DARK."
Mancini's score helped to make the movie, Wait Until Dark, the successful, suspense thriller that it was. For the main theme, Mancini used 2 pianos, one of which was slightly off key, to produce results that were out of kilter enough for a surreal edge without completely loosing touch with reality (the dialog has been taken out). It works; just try going about an average day while this score is playing in the background. It's eerie. Enjoy!
This is destined to be a Halloween classic. It's also excellent for grinding on the nerves of ex-hippies (which my nephew likes) or for anyone else who hates the Bee Gee's. I found it over at Manchester Morgue blogspot.
01 Main Title from THE SON OF DRACULA 02 Theme from THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN 03 Shooting Stars from THIS ISLAND EARTH 04 Treacherous Trek from THE MOLE PEOPLE 05 Main Title from THE HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN 06 Dracula's Feast Of Blood from THE HORROR OF DRACULA 07 The Monster Attacks from THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON 08 Visitors From Space from IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE 09 Stalking The Creature from THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US 10 Winged Death from THE DEADLY MANTIS 11 Theme from TARANTULA 12 Main Title from THE HORROR OF DRACULA 13 Main Title from THE REVENGE OF THE CREATURE 14 Main Title from THIS ISLAND EARTH
Dracula and Frankenstein are given the chance to tell us their own story, from their perspective, with wonderful accents and sound effects. "Who can say madmen are wrong just because they are mad!"
And the low budget, campy B movie thriller soundtrack, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things from 1972 - is complete with music and dialogue. The soundtrack is enough to follow the story without the actual movie but then you'd miss the over acting. What this movie lacks in production, it makes up for with creativity and great one liners. If you can't find the movie locally, I found it online here (with a few other classics). "It's Orville's coming out party. He's been in the underground, you know".
COMING. Cox can't seem to hold an internet connection for 2 minutes tonight. (It took 12 hours)
02 Arrival At The Island - dialogue 03 Through The Woods - music and dialogue 04 The Graveyard 1 - music and dialogue 05 The Graveyard 2 - music and dialogue 06 The Abandoned Cottage - music and dialogue 07 Breaking In - music and dialogue 08 Inside The Cottage - dialogue 09 Upstairs Window View - music and dialogue 10 Ghosts and Rats - dialogue 11 Trunkfull Of Goodies - dialogue 12 The Spellbook - dialogue 13 Orville's Grave - music and dialogue 14 Coffin Surprise - dialogue 15 I Peed My Pants - dialogue 16 The Joke's Over - dialogue 17 Dried Infant's Blood - music and dialogue 18 The Preparation - music and dialogue 19 Alan's Incantation - music and dialogue 20 Val's Incantation - dialogue 21 Orville's Coming Out Party - dialogue 22 The Wedding - dialogue 23 Filling In The Graves 1 - music and effects 24 Disgusting - dialogue 25 Apologizing To Orville - dialogue 26 Filling In The Graves 2 - music and effects 27 Deck The Halls With Bones Of Orville - dialogue 28 Anya Calmed Down - dialogue 29 The Dead Arise - music and dialogue 30 We're Leaving - music and dialogue 31 They're Coming - dialogue 32 Attack Of The Dead - dialogue 33 Val's Plan - dialogue 34 Confrontation With The Dead - dialogue 35 Feasting On Paul - music and effects 36 The Counterspell - music and dialogue 37 Second Escape Attempt - music and dialogue 38 Orville's Revenge and Finale - music and effects 39 Theatrical Trailer
The original trailer for Children Shouldn't Play with the Dead
Along Came A Spider is a concept album telling the story of a serial killer and some songs are exceptionally creepy. Just as Stephen King has an unnatural insight into people's worst fears - so does Alice Cooper. The album hangs together best as it was produced, as a story, then every track falls into place.
Alice Cooper: Along Came a Spider (2008) 01 Prologue: I know where you live 02 Vengeance is mine 03 Wake the dead 04 Catch me if you can 05 (In touch with) your feminine side 06 Wrapped in silk 07 Killed by love 08 I'm hungry 09 The one that got away 10 Salvation 11 I am the spider: epilogue
"Monster Magnet's style and material are heavily influenced by 1970s space rock bands such as Hawkwind and Captain Beyond. Their live shows occasionally feature Stacia-esque nude dancers, a fact which has landed them in trouble with the law in some American cities." -- Wikepedia
I discovered Monster Magnet through one of my favorite Halloween songs, Space Lord. At first listen, they were not my usual taste. But that's why trying new stuff really pays off. The musicianship is excellent, the lyrics are complex and full of subtle irony. Perfect, and just when I make up my mind about them, they do something unexpected. Besides, I needed the song, Dead Christmas on my playlist soon.
01 Crop Circle 02 PowerTrip 03 Space Lord 04 Temple Of Your Dreams 05 Summer 06 Baby Götterdämerung 07 19 Witches 08 3rd Eye Landslide 09 See You In Hell 10 Tractor 11 Atomic Clock 12 Goliath And The Vampires 13 Your Lies Become You
01 Tractor 02 Medicine 03 Dopes To Infinity 04 Melt 05 Spacelord 06 Powertrip 07 Atomic Clock 08 Heads Explode 09 Bummer 10 Negasonic Teenage Warhead 11 Dead Christmas 12 Silver Future 13 Black Balloon 14 Crop Circle 15 Kiss Of The Scorpion 16 Space Lord (Intergalactic 7'' Remix) 21 Unsolid 22 Big God 23 Into The Void 24 I Want More.mp3
"The tradition of the annual halloween mashup CD began in 2004 when Legendary Boston Based producer DJBC released the first CD 'Monster Mashup'."
... and the rest is history. There have been several annual mashups since, widely posted over the internet and for good reasons; a wide variety of styles and tastes, spooky, frightening, surprising, inventive and some very funny. The dozens of trailers posted on YouTube from these mixes are worthy of their own film festival. Enjoy!
"A terrifying 1 hour continuous mashup up of Halloween Favourites, horror film quotes and spooky sounds for 2009. The ideal soundtrack for any Halloween Party!!" -- from Laptop Punk.
Pepper's Ghost is an illusory effect used by theaters, magicians and haunted houses to create morphing or ghostly images and serves as the theme behind the seven tales on Arena's 6th album by the same name. The album was inspired by elements from Marvel comics and comes with a comic book by the same artist that did the cover. This is a departure for Arena by being not quite neo progressive, nor is it fully progressive metal either, but lands somewhere in the middle with more rock beats and a surprise - a medieval folk sound. Arena is still guitar and keyboard heavy with lush lyrics that I find worth listening to. And I've been doing that a lot to Pepper's Ghost lately. Enjoy!
I think the best part of Halloween is the limitless music that seems to apply. So it's time for my annual Halloween mix. As usual, it's a wide variety of genres, non-traditional songs as well as more familiar classics - new and old. I think it flows pretty well without being predictable. Hope you enjoy it.
Sacrifices by bonfire. Moonlit rituals. All that good stuff."
If you think Halloween is all about cute little black kitties, funny pumpkins, silly costumes and Disney, then this site probably isn't for you. Although it's not a big site, Occult Rock Blog has posted well-thought out and interesting selections - which just as the name implies, focuses on the occult (satanism, rituals, witchcraft, magic). Isn't that a lot of what Halloween's about? The site includes older bands (1969), as well as current ones. Just reading some of the descriptions sent chills down my spine (black mass anyone?), i.e. a REAL scary Halloween.
Black Sunshine (Feat Iggy Pop) Blitzkrieg Bop Brickhouse 2000 (Feat Lionel R) Demon Speeding Dragula Feed The Gods Feel So Numb Girl On Fire Hands Of Death (Burn Baby Burn) Im Your Boogie Man Living Dead Girl More Human Than Human Never Gonna Stop Pussy Liquor Super Charger Heaven Superbeast The Greatest American Nightman Thunder Kiss 65 Two Lane Blacktop
VA: Rock 'n' Horreur (1990) 01 Mort Au Volant - Crab 02 Amazones from Outer Space - Batmobile 03 Babe You're a Nightmare - Washington Dead Cats 04 Vendredi 13 Pour Beurki Crado - Dead Ox Gulch 05 Ballad of John Lee Hopper - Rocco & the Boys 06 Flat Twin Woman - Burial Party 07 The Girl in the Red Leather Coat - Living in Tx 08 Nervous Man - Happy Drivers 09 Seul - Wampas 10 Witches Revenge - Los Mescaleros 11 Kleopatra - Hi Grip
Plan 9 from Outer Space is a science fiction/horror movie written, produced and directed by Edward Wood in 1959. It's also been called the worst movie ever made because of the bad script, acting and cheap special effects (like seeing string the space ships are hanging from). However, it's so bad it's hilarious. Plus the movie has the classicVampira in it, who defined the role of vampiress.
"The plot of the film is focused on a race of extraterrestrial beings who are seeking to stop humans from creating a doomsday weapon that would destroy the universe. In the course of doing so, the aliens implement "Plan 9", a scheme to resurrect Earth's dead as zombies to get the planet's attention, causing chaos." -- from Wikipedia
This is the original soundtrack and it's great music for atmosphere. There also seems to be a remake of Plan 9 from Outer Space in the works, scheduled for release on ... can you guess? 09/09/09.
Prelude Main Title The Shadows Of Grief Gravediggers Lost Roses Of Her Cheeks Tragic! Police Squad I'm A Big Boy Now, Johnny Patio Talk, Jeff & Paula Clay Stalked And Killed Plan 9 Interlude The Bell Has Rung Saucers Over Hollywood Col. Edward's Big Decision Saucer Fire Your Pillow Biside Me The Old Ghoul Walks Mac Calls Paula Cemetery Chase, Clay Rises The Old Ghoul Retreats Graveyard Marionettes Kelton Lights A Match Drop Your Electrode Gun!
There's Something Out There Clay Abducts Paula Eros, Do We Have To Kill Them Someday It'll All Be Gone Kelton & Larry Enter Ship Fight, Fire, Finale God Help Us In The Future
Here's another Halloween playlist, 40 Spooky Singles from the blog Indie Ducky. It's a great addition because there's only one song duplicated from my earlier Halloween list and includes mostly independent artists (yeah!). Not only is the list good listening but it's a great way to hear some bands you might not be familiar with.
This blog is my little corner of the web. My intention is to explore creative, obscure, overlooked, or out-of-print non-mainstream music. Let me know what you think, have anything to add, or run into any problems with the links, Enjoy!
