Halloween - The Bride of Frankenmix Side B

.....Here 'tis: a sixth program of holiday themed rock and pop. (If you eat it slowly, it'll last until Thanksgiving.) If you were referred here for the all-ages playlist, that's found on the posts for October 10th and 11th. Since then I've been posting playlists from other Halloween mix tapes I've thrown together. By the end of this post you'll have four and a half hours of suggestions.

....."THE BRIDE OF FRANKENMIX" Side B

04:36 STONEHENGE (Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner) by Spinal Tap

-----from soundtrack LP THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984)

06:00 FRANKENSTEIN (Sylvain Sylvain, David Johanson) by The New York Dolls

-----from LP THE NEW YORK DOLLS (1973)

05:47 CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE, EUGENE (Roger Waters, Richard Wright, Nick Mason, David Gilmour) by Pink Floyd

-----B-side (1968) and compilation LP RELICS (1971)

02:58 RACE WITH THE DEVIL (Gene Vincent, William Douchette) by Stray Cats

-----from LP ROCK THERAPY (1986)

06:13 SHOWROOM DUMMIES (Ralf Hutter) by Kraftwerk

-----from LP TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS (1977)

04:12 ASTRONOMY DOMINE (Syd Barrett) by Pink Floyd

-----from LP PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN (1967)

03:29 HUNGRY FREAKS, DADDY (Frank Zappa) by Frank Zappa

-----from 2LP FREAK OUT! (1965)

03:54 BEWITCHED (Andy Summers) by Andy Summers and Robert Fripp

-----from LP BEWITCHED (1985)

02:37 PLEASE, MISTER GRAVEDIGGER (David Bowie) by David Bowie

-----from LP DAVID BOWIE (1967)

06:08 BOUND FOR HELL (words: David J/Traditional; music: Love And Rockets) by Love And Rockets

-----from LP LOVE AND ROCKETS (1989)

.....I'm sure I've left out some good ones; The Band's cover of "LONG BLACK VEIL" comes to mind, for one. I'm not going to sweat it. I've to leave something for next year. Have fun on Halloween and for perdition's sake BRUSH YOUR TEETH!

Halloween - The Bride of Frankenmix

.....From five undocumented home compilations of Halloween themed music, I've gleaned at least 90 minutes of material not already mentioned on the two previously posted. To briefly recap: on the 10th and 11th I posted the playlists of each side of a cassette I compiled for my nephews in the 1998. Then on the 12th and 13th I posted the two sides of a tape I made for myself earlier. I had actually made other Halloween mix tapes, roughly every other year since the late 80's, but chose to run with those two because the 1998 tape was uniquely all-ages and the 1995 tape was 100% mutually exclusive material. The remaining five tapes each contained at least a few songs also on the first two. But there were enough good songs amongst them to fill at least another 90 minutes. And unless I'm mistaken, that's where you came in...

....."THE BRIDE OF FRANKENMIX" Side A

03:34 PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ (Irving Berlin) by Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle

-----from LP MEL BROOKS' GREATEST HITS (1978)

02:59 SPIRITS OF ANCIENT EGYPT (Paul McCartney) by Wings

-----from LP VENUS AND MARS (1975)

05:15 SWAMP (Lyrics:David Byrne; Music:Talking Heads) by Talking Heads

-----from LP SP EAK IN GI N TO NGU ES [sic](1983)

04:35 EYE OF THE ZOMBIE (John Fogerty) by John Fogerty

-----from LP EYE OF THE ZOMBIE (1986)

02:51 STRANGE BREW (Eric Clapton, Felix Pappalardi, Gail Collins) by Cream

-----A-side (1967) and LP DISRAELI GEARS (1967)

02:14 NIGHT OF FEAR (Roy Wood) by The Move

-----A-side (1966) and compilations

06:24 SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) by The Rolling Stones

-----from LP BEGGAR'S BANQUET (1968)

01:27 I HOLD YOUR HAND IN MINE (Tom Lehrer) by Tom Lehrer

-----from LP SONGS BY TOM LEHRER (1953 or 1966)[entire album was recorded twice]

03:10 I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Roky Erikson) by R.E.M.

-----from Various Artists CD WHERE THE PYRAMID MEETS THE EYE (1990)

03:16 I AIN'T NUTHIN' BUT A GOREHOUND (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach) by The Cramps

-----from EP SMELL OF FEMALE (1983)

03:03 ASTRAL PLANE (Jonathan Richman) by The Modern Lovers

-----from LP THE MODERN LOVERS (1976)

02:49 EVIL [IS GOING ON] (Chester Burnett) by Howling Wolf

-----B-side (1954) and compilation LP MOANIN' IN THE MOONLIGHT (1965)

04:21 PSYCHO KILLER (David Byrne, Martina Weymouth, Christopher Frantz) by Talking Heads

-----from LP TALKING HEADS '77 (1977)

.....You'll probably noticed that some artists occur more than once during the same program here and Side B (tomorrow), although I avoided doing just that in the four programs that preceded it. Lack of variety was a problem in the earliest incarnations of this project, too. I'd like to think that the quality of the material and adherence to the theme compensate for that. (The songs left off include Mojo Nixon's "The Amazing Bigfoot Diet", because it was really about supermarket tabloids moreso than Bigfoot or the paranormal topics they write about.) Tomorrow I'll put Halloween as a post topic to rest (for this year) but I'll gladly field questions about different sources for any of these tracks in the comment fields.

Halloween 1995 Side B

.....After posting the sides of a Halloween-themed compilation tape on October 10th and 11th, I mentioned around that the songs listed were potentially background music for all-ages get-togethers. Yesterday I added the first side of an earlier tape I had made without that guideline, although there I marked the 'all-ages' tracks with an asterisk (*) if you'd like to customize your own program. For this side, however, I didn't notice anything too scandalous. Nice, scary atmosphere, though.

....."AN EVENING WITH HALLOWEEN JACK" Side B

05:15 SCARY MONSTERS (AND SUPER CREEPS) (David Bowie) by David Bowie

-----from LP SCARY MONSTERS (1980)

00:55 THE TWILIGHT ZONE (Marius Constant)[original theme from season 2 on]

-----from various compilations

04:56 DEAD SOULS (Joy Division) by Joy Division

-----B-side (1980) and compilations "Still" and "Substance"

03:04 I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF (Ivy Rorschach, Lux Interior) by The Cramps

-----from LP SONGS THE LORD TAUGHT US (1980)

04:54 JOAN CRAWFORD (Albert Bouchard, David Roter, Jack Rigg) by Blue Oyster Cult

-----from LP FIRE OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN (1981)

02:18 WHEN THE NIGHT WIND HOWLS (William Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan) by Thomas Lawlor (New Sadler Wells company)

-----from 2CD RUDDIGORE (1989)

04:06 PARIS 1919 (John Cale) by John Cale

-----from LP PARIS 1919 (1973)

06:26 HALLOWEEN (Al Jourgensen) by Ministry

-----from EP (EVERYDAY IS) HALLOWEEN (1984)

01:20 THE ADDAMS FAMILY (Vic Mizzy)[original television theme]

-----available on several compilations

03:19 OF LILLIES AND REMAINS (Bauhaus) by Bauhaus

-----from LP MASK (1981)

03:51 FLOPPY BOOT STOMP (Don Van Vliet) by Captain Beefheart

-----from LP SHINY BEAST (aka BAT CHAIN PULLER) (1979)

04:31 I PUT A SPELL ON YOU (Jay Hawkins) by Creedence Clearwater Revival

-----A-side (1968) and eponymous LP (1969)

01:56 CHAINSAW (Ramones) by The Ramones

-----from LP RAMONES (1976)

.....You've still got over two weeks to hunt these down and put together your own Frankenmix. Actually, if I have enough spare parts left over from the five cassettes I haven't used (they all have some redundancy to the two I've chosen to post), I might just be able to stitch together a Bride of Frankenmix. We'll see.

Halloween 1995

.....Oh, what the hell. If you've been referred to this blog for the all-ages Halloween music suggestions, those are on October 10th and 11th (the previous two posts). Looking over the cassettes I compiled for Halloween, I noticed that there was no overlap whatsoever between the previous 90-minute cassette posted here and one I made for myself three years earlier. Even though the earlier one was conceived with an adult listener in mind, there are a few more songs here that can be tacked on to the other compilations as bonus tracks if you're burning your own discs or loading an i-Pod or whatever. If you do that, however, I can't make you any promises about the flow from one song to another. But, still, they're all Halloween songs, right? For brevity's sake I'll mark them with an asterisk (*).

....."AN EVENING WITH HALLOWEEN JACK" Side A

01:00 FUTURE LEGEND (David Bowie)

06:04 DIAMOND DOGS (David Bowie) by David Bowie

------from LP DIAMOND DOGS (1974)

03:46 FRIGHT NIGHT (Joe Lamont) by J Geils Band

------from soundtrack LP FRIGHT NIGHT (1985)

03:13 CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LEATHER LAGOON (Ivy Rorschach, Lux Interior) by The Cramps

------from CD STAY SICK! (1990)

01:30 I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE (John Cooper Clarke, Martin Hannett, Steve Hopkins) by John Cooper Clarke

------from Various Artists EP SHORT CIRCUIT: LIVE AT THE ELECTRIC CIRCUS (1978)

03:30 PET SEMATARY[sic] (Dee Dee Ramone, Daniel Rey) by The Ramones (*)

------from LP BRAIN DRAIN (1989)

02:30 BORIS THE SPIDER (John Entwistle) by The Who (*)

------from LP A QUICK ONE (1966) [aka HAPPY JACK in the US]

09:40 BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD (Bauhaus) by Bauhaus (*)

------A-side (1979) [most compilations use a live version from 1982 that is almost identical in length and performance quality; by all means, don't worry about substituting it]

03:07 LUCIFER SAM (Syd Barrett) by Pink Floyd (*)

------from LP PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN (1967)

02:24 GARY GILMORE'S EYES (Tim "TV" Smith) by The Adverts

------A-side (1977) and compilations

03:14 MONSTER MASH (Bobby Pickett, Leonard Capizzi) by Bobby Pickett (*)

------A-side (1962) and countless compilations

05:10 ZOMBIE WOOF (Frank Zappa) by Frank Zappa

------from LP OVERNITE SENSATION (1973)

.....That should keep you busy hunting for 24 hours; then I'll be back with side B.

Halloween 1998 Side B

.....If you haven't already, please read the previous post in which I introduce the program below. I'm squeezing in a look at a cassette of pop music that set the mood for Halloween. Yesterday I listed the Side A program and today I'm listing Side B.

....."IF YOU'VE GOT GHOSTS, THEN YOU'VE GOT EVERYTHING!" Side B

01:21 SIMPSONS' TREEHOUSE OF HORROR V (MEDLEY)(Alf Clausen?)

------from CD SONGS IN THE KEY OF SPRINGFIELD (1999)

02:09 SCARECROW (Syd Barrett) by Pink Floyd

------from LP PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN (1967)

03:41 VAMPIRE GIRL (Jonathan Richman) by Jonathan Richman

------from CD YOU MUST ASK THE HEART (1995)

02:15 HUMAN FLY (Ivy Rorschach, Lux Interior) by The Cramps

------A-side (1978) and compilations incl. OFF THE BONE or BAD MUSIC FOR BAD PEOPLE

03:02 LADY SAMANTHA (Bernie Taupin, Elton John) by Elton John

------A-side (1969)plus 2CD RARE MASTERS (1992) and bonus tracks

04:00 THE DAY THE DEVIL (Laurie Anderson, Peter Gordon Lawrence) by Laurie Anderson

------from LP STRANGE ANGELS (1989)

03:58 IF YOU'VE GOT GHOSTS (Roky Erikson) by John Wesley Harding

------from Various Artists CD WHERE THE PYRAMIDS MEET THE EYE (1990)

02:53 JAZZ BUTCHER MEETS COUNT DRACULA (Pat Fish?/Max Eider?) by Jazz Butcher

------B-side (1983) and compilations

01:00 KOLCHAK THE NIGHT STALKER THEME (Gilbert Melle)[original television theme]

------found on various television theme compilations

02:53 TURN AROUND (TMBG) by They Might Be Giants

------from CD APOLLO 18 (1992)

02:40 WHISKEY ON A SUNDAY (Glyn Hughes) by The Irish Rovers

------from LP ALL HUNG UP (1968?)

02:27 BAD MOON RISING (John Fogerty) by Creedence Clearwater Revival

------from LP GREEN RIVER (1969)

02:00 WOLFMAN HOWL (John "Eddie" Edwards) by The Vibrators

------from LP GUILTY (1983)

03:15 HELLRAISER (Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman) by The Sweet

------A-side (1973) and countless compilations

05:17 SEASON OF THE WITCH (Donovan Leitch) by Luna

------from soundtrack CD I SHOT ANDY WARHOL (1996)

03:03 I COME AND STAND AT EVERY DOOR (Nazim Hikmet) by The Byrds

------from LP 5D (FIFTH DIMENSION) (1966)

00:47 THE SIMPSONS' HALLOWEEN SPECIAL END CREDITS (Vic Mizzy/Alf Clausen)

------from CD SONGS IN THE KEY OF SPRINGFIELD (1999)

.....Despite being one of the easiest tracks to find, if you were pruning songs to fit them onto one disc and planning to play it for kids besides your own, "Hellraiser" might be one to drop on the basis of suggestiveness. It was sufficiently vague enough for the prudish BBC to let it get to number 2 in the charts. That was fine by me. Anyway, if anybody gets any mileage out of this, let me know in the comments of either post.

Halloween 1998

....With only three weeks to go until Halloween, I wanted to post something appropriate for the season before I go back to details of my old compilations. This blog normally forms the liner notes of catch-all mix tapes I made in the 1990's, but those tapes were really a way for me to step out of the constraints of single-artist and single-theme formats to which I ordinarily gravitated. One of the first themed tapes I ever put together was for Halloween back in the 1980's and it drew too often from the same artists (reflecting my much smaller stash of records and tapes back then) and the poor sound quality reflected my mostly-plastic department store all-in-one sound system. In the mid-90's, armed with an enormous library of recordings and a more versatile, though not state-of-the-art, component system, I set out to overhaul and expand the idea. After a few years, when my nephews were old enough to enjoy them, I made a consciously more kid-friendly version. If you want to scramble around to download this stuff (and good luck finding all of it-- most shouldn't be a problem, but some of it...) then you can put together two 45-minute CD's to replicate the 90-minute cassette. Actually, I'll throw in the approximate playing times if you want to pick and choose to make a 75-minute disc. Happy Hunting!

....."IF YOU'VE GOT GHOSTS, THEN YOU'VE GOT EVERYTHING!" Side A

01:00 SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? (Ben Raleigh, David Mook) [original television theme]

-------available on several compilations, incl. CD TELEVISION'S GREATEST HITS VOL.3: 70'S&80'S

04:12 SURFIN' DEAD (Lux Interior, Ivy Rorschach) by The Cramps

-------from soundtrack LP RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985) and CD bonus tracks

04:16 MY WIFE AND MY DEAD WIFE (Robyn Hitchcock) by Robyn Hitchcock

-------from LP FEGMANIA (1985) and compilations

03:59 MOON OVER BOURBON STREET (Sting; based on Anne Rice) by Sting

-------from LP DREAM OF THE BLUE TURTLES (1985)

02:37 I DON'T WANNA GO DOWN TO THE BASEMENT (Ramones) by The Ramones

-------from LP RAMONES (1976) and compilations

00:10 SUPERSTITIOUS [sampled movie dialogue]

-------from Monkees' soundtrack album LP HEAD (1968)

05:54 PAPA LEGBA (David Byrne) by Talking Heads

-------from LP TRUE STORIES (1986)

02:33 DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (John Entwistle) by The Who

-------B-side of "Magic Bus" (1968), more commonly on compilations and as bonus tracks

03:27 POOR SKELETON STEPS OUT (Andy Partridge) by XTC

-------from 2LP ORANGES AND LEMONS (1989)

04:33 KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE (Leonard Graves Phillips) by The Dickies

-------from EP KILLER KLOWNS (1988)

04:09 VOODOO CHILE (SLIGHT RETURN) (Jimi Hendrix) by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

-------from 2LP ELECTRIC LADYLAND (1969) and compilations

02:43 THE THING THAT ONLY EATS HIPPIES (Dead Milkmen) by The Dead Milkmen

-------from LP EAT YOUR PAISLEY (1986)

04:22 MISS MACBETH (Elvis Costello) by Elvis Costello

-------from LP SPIKE (1989)

01:45 HALLOWEEN (Glenn Danzig) by Misfits

-------A-side (1981), but more commonly found on compilation LP LEGACY OF BRUTALITY

.....I'll post Side B tomorrow. Remember all times are approximate. Have fun!