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Post by franklinmarsh on Jan 11, 2008 14:35:23 GMT
Now you've done it, Sean!
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
New York Dolls - Frankenstein
The Dickies first two Albums Incredible Shrinking ... and Dawn Of ...
and I even forgot to mention Alice Cooper!
Doh!
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jan 11, 2008 14:50:32 GMT
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Ramones (also Pet Semetary)
Halloween - Dead Kennedies
Michael Myers - Meteors
The Bollock Brothers camp disco Goth phase even included a song called Horror Movies - but you can't beat their punk yobbery Count Dracula - Where's Yer Troosers?
Gorillaz Dracula and the Dickies Booby Trap both sampled Bela Lugosi.
And for Metaaaaaaaaaaaaalheads there was Warfare's Hammer Horror tribute album.
Three cheers for Thomas Dolby and Tim Spall's The Devil Is An Englishman (under the name Screamin' Lord Byron) from Ken Russell's Gothic. Yeah!
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Post by redbrain on Jan 11, 2008 17:26:07 GMT
A great horror hit (well - it should have been a hit, anyway) is:
Daphne & Celeste: Peek-A-Boo
It's on their We Didn't Say That! album. (Well - to be honest - it's their only album.) Incomprehensibly, the album has been deleted - but you can pick up copies on EBay.
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Post by carolinec on Jan 11, 2008 18:23:29 GMT
... and then, of course, there's that band from Norway or somewhere like that who won Eurovision the other year - Lordi (for those who don't know, they dress up as zombies and the like). And has anyone mentioned Michael Jackson's "Thriller"? OK, now I know I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 12, 2008 9:26:49 GMT
Here's the original thread on the old board started by Franklin. Halloween Coven were contemporaries of Black Widow and their Witchcraft album (1969) concludes with the thirteen minute Satanic Mass. Lead singer Jinx Dawson is still tirelessly hawking their official merchandise on her My Space page. I Had Sex With John Merricks Remains had a tribute to Sawney Beane ("Messiest eater I ever seen"). Last time I looked they were still going although they'd dropped the 'I Had Sex With'. Leon Payne - Psycho. I only have the Elvis Costello version, but it's wonderful stuff. Spurned boyfriend offs his ex, her new boyfriend, a household pet and sundry others and warns his mum that she'd "better let them lock me up." She doesn't listen in time. "Oh, don't hand me Johnny's pup, momma/ for I might squeeze him to die ....". Payne was reputedly a shade depressed when he wrote it. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers. Total gothic melodrama from Peter Hammill and the boys, this one occupies the entire second side of their Pawn Hearts album. Ostensibly the story of how the lonely lighthouse keeper is lured to his doom by the ghosts of his past and the drowned dead, "The hollowed faces and the mindless grins/ only intent on destroying what they've lost". I've said it before, I'll say it again: Hammill is the Edgar Allan Poe of rock. Turkey Bones & The Wild Dogs - Raymond. "Policemen, they wanna take you away/ They say that you have probably gone off of your head". Raymond's mum tries to reason with her son to surrender his knife. Extremely unhinged and laugh-out-loud funny epic from unashamed Birthday Party fans' classic Purple Noise Sandwich ep. Sean's already mentioned Nick Cave's wonderful Murder Ballads and who can forget Nick bashing our Kylie with a rock in the Where The Wild Roses Grow video? The opening track, Song Of Joy is genuinely disturbing. The Curse Of Miilhaven has a fifteen year old serial killer drool over her exploits - it was reputedly inspired by a Peter Straub story - against some kind of weird skiffle backdrop. The sweary cover of Stagger Lee is staggering. Nick has plenty of previous right back to the old Birthday Party days, perhaps most notably on the Junkyard album and the Bad Seed and Mutiny! ep's. Worse to follow ...
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Post by sean on Jan 12, 2008 11:03:02 GMT
Damn, that older thread contains some good songs, several of which I was about to mention... Nice to see John Cale, Syd Barrett and Frank Zappa there.
With 'The Curse of Milhaven', I think the Straub connection is that Milhaven is a fictional town he uses, rather than the song being a nod towards any specific story.
A few more:
Roxy Music - The Bogus Man
The Birthday Party - Deep in the Woods
Slint - Nosferatu Man
Alice Donut - Cows Placenta to Armageddon
Sonic Youth - Stereo Sanctity (several lines of which are ripped directly from Philip K Dick)
Creaming Jesus - Guilt by Association (the LP, due mainly to the samples used between songs, including bits from 'Aliens' and 'Blue Velvet)
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Post by dem bones on Jan 12, 2008 21:25:06 GMT
The Birthday Party - Deep in the Woods The best. Sidelined for my funeral. Neil Young - Revolution Blues: Young's take on events leading up to the Tate-La Bianca murders as told from the perspective of a fried, increasingly frustrated Charles Manson. Culminates in the Family descending on Laurel Canyon in their dune buggies. Sonic Youth & Lydia Lunch's raucous Death Valley 69 covers similarly nasty territory. Top pop songs but not exactly easy listening. Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life: Another cheery toe-tapper from Peter (I can feel a separate thread coming on) and cronies! Scientists have finally discovered a cure for death but could you take immortality? Like so many vampires before him, the narrator craves the death that's denied him. "But now the nuptial bed is made The dowry has been paid The toothless, haggard features of eternity Now welcome me between the sheets To couple with her withered body
My wife ....
Hers forever ..."And people insist on calling Hammill "depressing". Lovable vampyre goths Nosferatu have several horror related numbers including Abominations, Inside The Devil, just about everything on their debut, The Hellhound ep, and a "legendary" unreleased cover of Alice Cooper's peerless I Love The Dead. First time I saw them live was at a pub in Islington in the early 'nineties. They'd set up what looked like a cow's skull on stage and, before they trooped on, smoke began pouring from it's eyes. Brilliant effect! The smoke kept on coming. And *cough* coming. And *splutter* coming. And - Hey, can somebody open a fucken' window? The bride and I became instant converts.
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Post by redbrain on Jan 13, 2008 12:11:22 GMT
A great horror hit (well - it should have been a hit, anyway) is: Daphne & Celeste: Peek-A-BooIt's on their We Didn't Say That! album. (Well - to be honest - it's their only album.) Incomprehensibly, the album has been deleted - but you can pick up copies on EBay. The cover for this album is my avatar on this site: www.goldfrapp.com/msgboard/member.php?u=3354
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Post by sean on Jan 17, 2008 18:10:02 GMT
Demonik, I notice you mention John Cale's version of 'Heartbreak Hotel' in the old music thread. At the mo I've got a corking live version by him of the full pre-goth rock version on my mywasteofspace page. Worth a listen. The emotional weight he piles on to such a weedy song is both funny and scary, I think.
Didn't The Cramps cover it as well?
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Post by dem bones on Jan 22, 2008 11:52:05 GMT
Sorry Sean, only just saw this and I think you've sinced replaced it, but there are several versions on YouTube. I snagged the live version from 1981 which is terrific! Is that the one you refer to? Can't overlook another Birthday Party classic Swampland either, can we?
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Post by sean on Jan 22, 2008 12:34:24 GMT
Nah, this one is from 1976 when he had Chris Spedding on guitar. As far as I can tell its still up there... probably myspace having one of its little wobbles.
Swampland, yeah! Bit of a spoiler for 'And The Ass Saw the Angel', though...
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Post by franklinmarsh on Jan 23, 2008 8:41:02 GMT
Just to lighten the atmos a little, The Revillos - (She's Fallen In Love With A) Monster Man. A slightly speeded and camped up version of the Sutch classic.
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Post by phantomrider on Mar 24, 2008 13:12:13 GMT
OK, got about 20 odd years worth of psychobilly tracks I could throw in here, nice to see the Cramps and the Revillos/Rezillos getting a mention too. I had the privilege of seeing Screaming Lord Sutch play several times before his untimely death.
In fact, it was psychobilly that got me into reading and role playing almost simultaneously in the early eighties - in particular Earwigz In My Brain by the M3T3ORS, which is loosely based on Boomerang, which rang bells from reading the 2nd Pan book at school....... never really stopped since. OK - just a few movie/book based songs....
Another half hour Til Sunrise - The Tall Boys (Evil Dead) Meat is Meat - The Meteors (Motel Hell) Only A fury In My Heart - The Meteors (Christine) When A stranger Calls - The Meteors (errrrr - When A Stranger Calls) Island of Lost Souls -The Tall Boys (you get the drift.......)
Incidently, have about half of the songs in the original post on a vinyl lp called Monster rock n Roll - I'm A Wolfman my favourite by far.
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Post by allthingshorror on Apr 9, 2008 12:19:07 GMT
That Jimmy Cross song - went to the Youtube link and had the best 3 minutes 22 seconds of my entire life. That ending!!
GENIUS!!!!!!!!
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Post by phantomrider on Apr 9, 2008 18:33:51 GMT
To quote the Cramps...You got good taste! ;D
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