Noise Junkies - Halloween Songs

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Listen to me, for I have a story of blackening fright and all things scry and all things noise junkies. Hello, welcome noise you, fellow noise junkies. If you're listening to us, we know you are one of us. Gabba Gaba, we accept you. And tonight this is a very well every upsete special.

But this one's super special because we are celebrating the most atmospherit holiday, the greatest holiday of all time, the holiday that still scares the living bejeebus out of fundamentalist Christians. So you know it's near and dear to my heathen heart, I'm talking about Halloween, ladies and ghouls, and I am so stoked. I'm so glad that my lovely we're all hosts. I don't view either one of us, any of US co hosts. We are like hosts one, two and cubed.

It's a high mind. We're like the borg. You're in the captain's chair. I am, and I didn't wear a hat before I even get into my spiel, into the knee, knuckle deep, into the guts of the pumpkin. Here, HP, How the heck have you been?

What have you been up to? I'm doing great, Heather, It's great to see you. It's been a while since we've gathered to record. Just you know, as my dad would say, work, eat, sleep. That's pretty much it just recording and yeah, looking forward to this.

This is gonna be it's gonna be an interesting show. I think Oh, I think so too. And of course, Father alone, the man of the Dulcet Tones himself, how are you doing. Oh I'm doing well. Good evening, and happy Halloween, noise Yonkies.

You might be listening to this in February, doesn't matter. It's Halloween everywhere, all the time. One hundred percent. Those are words right to my little heart right over here. I mean minute.

Well, ministry probably would lie about some things, but when they sang every day is Halloween, that was not a lie. No, you can't not trust ministry. That's right there in the name. Well, I think that might actually be doubly recent not to trust. But because you know, we are music lovers, enthusiasts, obsessos.

Two of us are musicians. Unless you count the songs I sing to my My Berdie Lee Dog and my Presto and Davy boy Cats doesn't count, Okay, I think so. I don't think they can't absolutely, But it's just Bobby McFerrin made a long and lustrous career. His equipment that God provided. That's beautiful.

Oh my god. They you know, I am often called the Bobby mcferri in a podcast, so that's sense of like the Bobby McFerrin after headge trauma. But of course, because we are My point is, because we are esoteric folk, we're not doing no thrillers. They're not talking about the you know Ray Parker Stevens that got sued by Huey Lewis and the news Ghostbusters theme her junior Ray Stevenson. Just yeah, I love a Halloween deep cut.

I am personally on the hunt all year round for songs that are a little outside the box to some more than others, Like some do fit into it. It's just a lot of people don't know about them as much. But again, that's why we did this podcast to help kind of turn you guys on. Not in that way. That'll come on the February show when we get Saucy Saucy Saucy Valentine Show.

I'm putting that seat out there for the record. But no, just like something, you know, to make your your pumpkin season a little more fun, a little different, you know. I think people don't rely on the Drews famous certainly don't rely on kids bops. I hate it when you go to a Halloween store and they're playing Witchy Woman by the Eagles. What the why?

Why do you hate me? It feels personal. It's from those goddamn compilations that have proliferated. It's we have to hear Ghostbusters, we have to hear Thriller, we have to hear anything that vaguely resembles something. If the word evil isn't the title, it'll be on there.

This is like our little magic Salin ritual to write some musical wrongs for the season, and they ruin Werewolves of London. Stop playing it. Yeah, don't want to hear it. Sandwiched in between fucking Ghostbusters and some other nonsense thing while I'm parsing through the Spirit Halloween store. We don't need to be assaulted at that nonsense.

No, no, I remember when you're hearing Love Shift, and I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the Bee fifty twos, but love Shack is not spooky. And think somebody just like love Shack. Yeah, what's the tie into the holiday? I don't get it. It's Fred Schneider's at the Y're going to shut me down at the end of the month.

Yeah. Well, now I kind of want to rescind my comment because if that was the case, I kind of have props for that Spirit Halloween eploy. But yeah, I mean, this is this is the season where you know, we are in the veil betwixt the living the dead, and even the undead is the thinnest, so we want to make it special. But I do I am getting ahead of myself because we always before our little intro or after a little intro, we always talk about what we're currently listening to. So this is like the little muse bouch I'm saying that right, amuse Bouche's boo like the Mighty Boush.

I love the Mighty Beooch. Well, ah, pet what have you been listening to? What songs have been you know, spinning in your head right round lately? Shout out to dead or Alive rest in Peace? The lead singer, I don't know his name, Pete Burns, So yeah, Pete Burns, that's right, I've been listening to.

So there's a site that I go to religiously called Super Deluxe Edition, and they give me all the info and all the upcoming releases and re releases, and they from time to time they'll put out special editions of certain albums. They've done stuff by Bob Dylan and Jeth Rotel and they put out a fortieth anniversary edition of the album Lexicon of Love by ABC, which is one of my favorites from that period. People will know I probably have mentioned it. I have a deep appreciation for Trevor Horn. He's the legend, of course from the Buggles.

He was in Yes, of course, I have to mention that he was a founding member of the Art of Noise, but he was also an incredible producer. He produced Welcome to the Pleasure Doom for Frankie Goes to Hollywood. He produced Slave to the Rhythm, which is another favorite of mine by Grace Jones Seal's debut album, The List Goes On and On. Anyway, This was his first major production. Contributing to it were two other founding members of Arter Noise and Dudley and Jay Jazalik.

Dudley orchestrated the album and Jesalic programmed the Fairlight CMI, which was an early digital sampler. And this was a big album for them. This was their big, big hit. It was number one on the UK charts. It was number twenty four in the US Billboard two hundred.

Everybody knows the song's Poison, Arrow and Look of Love. They all come off of this album. Filmy the fortieth anniversary edition features the entire album. It was remixed by a guy named Stephen Wilson, who is kind of legendary right now for doing a lot of remixing work and surround sound work with XTC, Yes, Black Sabbath. He's worked with a bunch of interesting people and he did his own mix for this album and it's not going to replace the original because it's pretty much peerless, but it's a pretty interesting mix.

It takes a lot of chances, it reveals a lot of detail because it's a very dense mix the original eighty two mix. But he did a really good job with it, and it's not going to replace the original mix, but I like it a lot. And yeah, so I've been spinning that pretty much constantly since I got it. So shout out to super Deluxe Edition. Great set.

I feel covered with shame that I was not aware of the Art of Noise's participation in that particular production. Yeah, it's crazy because I think it. The only member not to work on it was Paul Morley, I believe. But yeah, it's basically the Art of Noise all over this album and they formed the band the following year. There was a I don't know if you ever saw that was they did you know the Prince's Trust concerts they used to do in England.

One year they did one just centered around Trevor Horn and all the acts that he worked with, and there's an incredible version of close to the edit. They perform it live in concert. It's it blows your mind when you see it because it's so intricate and well, it's incredible. But yeah, ramble because yeah, I've seen that, and I'm concurring it is incredible. And I saw it because you recommended it to me when you first thought immediately you said you need to see this.

Well, you're the biggest Art of Noise fan that that I know, father alone, so I figured you would like that. But but now it's fantastic. If anyone's not familiar with Lexicon of Love, go check it out. It's even if you're not a big fan of ABC. It's just it's so richly produced and the songs are really incredibly catchy, and it's a fantastic album from beginning to end.

I love love that answer, and I too did not know about the Art and Noise connection either, father alone, and I'm ashamed we both love that band. I mean I even had a crush on JJJ because Alec when I we in college, which is so on brand for me. I love a programmer. I love that. I'll have to look for that edition.

So very cool. Thank you, And of course, Father Malone, what's been what's been tickling your ivories? Sorry, no, I don't even know. I'm not sure you don't have piano player fingers. I think they started late in life.

I don't know. First of all, Pumpkin season is spicy season, and any of the songs I've chosen for tonight's program you can have sex to now as to what I'm listening to lately, you know, we all go through musical cycles where some artists from our past kind of recurs and you get back into it for a week or two and you kind of discard them just the same. Right one has come up for me recently that I tend to think of as those other kinds of bands that are easily brought up and then discarded. But the fact is this band never really goes away for me. I'm always playing them somewhat in the background before I dive back in for a full on bender of re experiencing them.

So they're perfectly name because we're talking about morphine and right you see Ell Since enough you aright, now I have to tell you I'll figures out into good band. It's kind of unfair that a band that is so dreamy and deliberate and somn ambulance has a front man named Mark Sandman. HP and I are both Boston boys, both grew up in Boston, and this is a Boston band. There are a lot of great bands came out of Boston, but for me, this is the band that came out of Boston. We were contemporaries of them.

Actually, they were there playing bars around the time that that we were there. And I'd love to say that I saw them at Titi, the Bears place, or the Middle East, but I did not. I had no knowledge of them until I moved to the West Coast. I didn't hear them until I heard the Cure for Pain, which is their second album, and it came out in September of ninety three, and I heard it as soon as it came out, and it was instantly transfixed. That's the album I returned to most of all.

I think it's the best, pound for pound, Every song on it is just incredible. The song that literally every song on it is great. It's a perfect album. The song Cure for Pain in particular, song is a song that has always hit me right where I live. Basically, the bridge of the song and the lyrics is to a film Conte Crawl and Helpless.

Not an ethos of mine, but it certainly is a lie that I relate to. So Lyrically they are spectacular, But then musically, if you haven't heard them, you have to. This is a trio with a drummer, a saxophonist sometimes playing two saxophones simultaneously, and a bass player who has constructed his own bass two strings that he plays with a slide the kind of use a slide guitar for They are the most unique sounding band I think I'd ever heard at the time. They continue to be. There is nothing like them.

They are their own sound. I used to think of Art of Noise that way as a matter of fact, like it was hard for me to categorize art of noise. They were just art of noise genre and Morphine certainly slots into that. They had some moderate hits off of Cure for Pain. You know, they continue to be popular for a while.

Unfortunately Mark Sandman is no longer with us, and that was the end of Morphine. The music remains, and any chance I get to sort of rerevelent it I take, And that's what I've been up to lately. I also governed them in college, and they were kind of a quintessential college band because they were sort of you know, they weren't well known. I think they had some airplay on MTV, but they were just so hip. There was nothing like them anywhere and probably still really nothing like them.

But that song, in particular, cure for paying off of that album is it's just it's really like you. It just gets me the basically the idea that'll be a cute bull that the way molecue you really feel it in his voice. It gets you a band and a musician that we're going. I mean, the shame of it is they had so much more to give and they could have been massive, and he unfortunately he passed just as they were becoming. You know, Big So died on heart attack right, yes, in Germany, I believe it like a festival or maybe it was Italy.

It might have been Italy. Either way, he's a legend. I can't cry for what we didn't get because what we did get was so fucking amazing. It's really a unique band and sound and time and place but timeless at the same time. Wow, you know, that's a band I've always heard of, but I've never really taken a chance to kind of explore.

So you have definitely made me want to do that. That was an amazing just you know, just sort of Valentine to that band. I hope you. I hope everyone listens to them. And there's we're going to have a Spotify playlist up where I'm going to have at least seven or eight or maybe I don't know whether thirty on that album.

It might be thirteen songs on the Spotify list. You never know. I have a pick. I have two picks because I'm greedy, but I'll make them. I go on too long.

Hopefully. The first one's a song that I, even though I've grew up with this band, and once we get to my teen years, learned about its first iteration. I there was a song of theirs that was new to me recently, and I've just enchanted me so much. I ended up actually writing an article kind of about it that's up on my Patreon Bondoheather. It's a Watcher of the Skies by Genesis.

This is off their nineteen seventy two album Fox Trot. This is Peter Gabriel era Genesis. Now, for a lot of Americans, especially if you're more like born in nineteen eighties up, you're undoubtedly more familiar with Phil Collins fronted era Genesis. In what Peter Gabriel's Genesis are two very different beasts. But that's not to be smirch Phil Collins because it's easy to write him off because that era was definitely, as a whole a lot more mo r.

But Phil Collins is one hell of a motherfucking drummer. And if anybody doubts that, go listen to this and then listen to Frida's single fur There's something going on because the drum on that is tight. But Watcher of the Skies is just this absolute perfection of a song. It's s melancholy, it's haunting, it's big. It also just basically through the lyrics, is delving into this you know, outsider looking in on an earth that where we have already killed, we've exterminated ourselves as a species.

There's evidence that we were here but we're gone, which is very heavy stuff and Chrispy being the happy little flower that I am. But there's an absolute brilliant performance of this, a live performance on YouTube from the Midnight special watch the Scott and I really recommend reading the comments section on that because I know a lot of people are like, oh god, comment section, but I find with YouTube, especially with music, you actually can find a lot of great stuff where it's just a lot of people just connecting. And there's a lady under the user named xen News Sister that has the most amazing story about getting into them living while she was living in a trailer, you know, at seventeen, pregnant and married in the middle of the Kansas.

I don't know why I said a Kansas, but the middle of Kansas and one of the Kansas is one of the Kansas is and it just changed your life and you know. To me, and that's kind of what I go into the article, is that the connective tissue of art, you know, and that this song when you hear it, you understand why it would have that kind of power, and then when you see the performance, you really see it. So Watcher of the Skies Foxtrot as the whole is a really brilliant album. I recommend that Nursery Crime was my introduction to that era, but I need to revisit that one. I have it on vinyl, but it spent a lot of time as I've listened to it.

Fox Trots for me, I second what you're saying about the Peter Gabriel era. For me, it kind of began and ended with Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, which is I don't know if you're familiar with that, it's well, I mean, if you've ever seen the Lot and Pieces, it's one of those. It's a concept album about a graffiti artist who goes into the subterranean world in New York to save his brother. Tell myself, here come a Strong Confession. Astars shows up session in the It's really out there and it was one of those deals where Peter Gabriel would dress up in these elaborate costumes during the stage productions.

It's phenomenal. There's all sorts of clips on YouTube. Definitely check it out. But yeah, I love that era of Genesis. Oh it's amazing.

Yeah, thank you well. And that's the thing, Gabriel. The whole costumes are like he was doing that with Fox, like Fox Trot era. He would come out and I'm trying to think which song it was where he's literally dressed as the Fox Lady on the cover and with one sure of the skies he is the you know, he's got like the bat wing head piece and this amazing almost Kenneth Anger Lucifer Rising type cape. Yeah, at one point he dressed as literal laymea, which is like a type of I believe the vampire or witch, like a mythological creature.

Cool and literally a flower. It's so great if you guys listen to the song Suppers Ready, which is a great song, but at one point he's the actual flower. He goes a flower like that, Yama. It's the cutest fucking thing in the world. It's so charming.

And my second pick though, is another British genius musician, Peter Hamill, who is probably best known for being a member of Vandergraft Generator. Don't Look in the Eyes all the numbers that stretching myscot really great and my opinion also underrated. But I recently discovered his seventy four album The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage. And Peter Hammill and you can say this about Vindigraph two is one of those guys that even though he can take he'll take sounds and some musical approaches that you could be like, Okay, I can see what you know. This is attached to as far as like tradition, but he's able to permutate it into making it something that is so completely his.

And it's particularly like the song is not a home off this album. Sometimes I get the feeling that there's someone else, the faceless watch him makes me uneasy. I can feel it through the floorboards, and his presence is creepy. He informs me that I shall be smell. I mean, it's like a part's almost like Brecdian, and I could see where somebody would listen to it and say it's, oh, it's kind of like David Boy.

But this is seventy four. Peter Hamill is a contemporary. He's a peer of David Boys, so it's no he's like Peter Hammel. I love David Boy for the record, I'm a huge boy friand, but Peter Hamill is such a gift and this song and this album. I mean, if you want to hear something that you haven't ever really quite heard before, this is the guy for you.

He's tapped into some kind of special DNA that I think there's like a familial there's like a spiritual family of just like really true blue musicians who are just tapped into something that we can't even fully define. He's one of them. So are my picks Peter Hammel and Genesis. I don't know enough about either of those things. Honestly, my experience at Peter Gabriel as as far as fronting Genesis was, I was, I don't know, maybe eleven years old, and was already fully into David Bowie and was already loving David Bowie's costumed Shenanigans, and then I saw a little film of Genesis with Peter Gabriel.

Peter Gabriel was dressed in a harlequin outfit, like crawling on the floor, and I was so offended for David Bowie in my eleven year olds that I swore I would I wouldn't listen to that BA And for some weird reason, I've managed to keep to that because my experience of that that Genesis is virtually nil. I would encourage you to check him out, Oh definitely will Now. I mean I see that there's a gap there, self imposed, but like subconsciously self imposed. But I know where the where it came from. Yeah, no, hilarious.

A little fact I learned recently about Lamb Lies down on Broadway is there was a brief time when he actually, at one point I guess briefly left the band before he really left the band, and that was basically he was in talks with William friedkin Rip, one of my favorite directors, who wanted to make a film version of that album. Based on that album, can you imagine I'm not sure I mean in the time that they would have had the effects because a lot of weird stuff happens in that album. But I mean maybe if he did it rotoscoped or animated or something, but it would have been it would have been pretty cool. Absolutely, And to just the second what you were saying, Phil Collins is an incredible drum He was.

He can't play anymore because of all his health issues, but I would describe him, and people maybe will chuckle at this, but he was a very muscular drummer. He was probably as hard hitting as somebody like John Bonham from led Zeppelin. He was an incredibly inventive and powerful drummer, which is why actually he was considered to be join led Zeppelin. I think he actually performed with them during live aid. Oh my god, I did some Flames of Mind too on the drums.

But yeah, no, it's remarkable genesis before and after Peter Gabriel, they were were literally two different bands with really very little connective tissue. Yeah, it's weird. It's so weird because it's like, who would think that two members because Steve Hackett was kind of part of the Gabriel more of that era too, and like with Hackett and Gabriel especially being gone, it does kind of morph. But but no, I love it it that you brought out how hard hitting. Like I mentioned the Freedom song earlier, but the drumming on that is so it's got like such a storm and drang thing to it.

And then you're like, that's Collins and it's like the guy that sang a legal alien. You see what they think they said it doesn't what but yeah, oh I hate this song. I hate that fucking song. It's racist, but I don't think they're racists, but the song it's not good as we would say phenomenal. And actually, if you watch live clips of him with Genesis of the Gabriel era and see him that's totally like manly period Phil Collins, it's like, yeah, beard, he was he was like you know, hitting the skins was like ferocity.

Yeah they yes, thank you and father blow. If you get around to checking it, let me in HP know what you think of of Genesis with Peter Gabriel do you did you ever like some of his solo stuff at least or was like that image of him as a harlequin so offensive to you that you were like, no, Peter Gabriel, no like that. No, I'm a massive Peter Gabriel fan, so hey, it's Peter Gabriel, Like, yeah. The Passion his sound to the Last Temptation of Christ is I listened. I wore my CD out listening to that.

You know, in the solo work, that the the just the sort of rocky pop song stuff. It's just above all else. It's amazing. He made some really creepy videos back in the day. I remember the video for Games Without Frontiers.

Do you remember this. It's all very harshly illuminated with green light and red light, and he's kind of like, you know, cavorting around with these kids on the longest supper table and in the combos it looks good killed probably will in Games Without Fears All Without Tears, very creepy and shock the monkey is very hyperkinetic and crazy. You know, she's kind of breaking me out as a kid with that makeup and all the zoom in's. It was all tribal and crazy and weird. Yeah, who is this crazy that I liked, but I don't know.

The Genesis one just seemed like he was trying. I will say Games Without Friends heres there is there's two versions of the video, which is strange. They're very similar, but there's some there are some differences the original if it's in both of them are the original or the first one, but they're Somebody has taken a baby doll head and it's got four facing faces, like every time it spends there's a different face on it. It's a baby doll. It's a great visual.

And Peter Gabriel a lunatar in like a lunatar does this demonic grin. I love these. I think these are portmanteaus that you're coming up with. These are fantastic. Hey, thank you Lunatar and Gray Jack Parker Jack.

That's awesome. It's steepest Oh thank you. Oh my god. I need to let me know your PayPal information later because like thank you, it's all on purpose. But also the little Kate Bush vocal and Games Without Frontier because I'm a huge Kate Bush fan too.

I love that's her saying that like shoe so fru like that, which I once read online that people thought it was somebody singing she's so fucking lame. I love like this, heard lyrics that make no sense. I worked at the lady that thought Stevie Nick's stand back was tam Pas. She was well, she was like, oh mas, Stevie Nix's is to be commercial for tam pots. I'm sorry, this is very silly as I buy, but it's okay because it's a Halloween season.

What better season for us to embrace our inner evil clown. I don't need like some lay mass it cgi clown. I'm talking like circus clown that has seen some shit. That's my jam right there. A little bit of bourbon and a lot of tears and grease paint.

Come on, it's Halloween. Get your candy buckets, guys, because this is the greatest season and we got to dive into it. I am so pumped. I'm pumped talking about my choices. I am absolutely I cast and delighted to hear what you guys have picked.

And I gotta start with the Man, the Man of the hour, the men with the power, too sweet to be sour Father Malone, what is your first deep cut Halloween pick? Now? Like all of our subject matter. It's always too wide a field. It feels baffling.

Once the folder arrives with the assignment, I tend to stagger back a bit. Soundtracks, how's that for general? Thanks? HP, And now Halloween. Oh okay.

I would say, look, I'm a Halloween kid. I was a Halloween kid when adults would still look askance at you for being one. The sheer number of spooky materials that I listened to are just innumerable. So I had to throw a bit of a restriction. You gave us three choices of any decade, and categorizing them, I made a weird little parallel in my life.

I'll try to keep my biographical parts of this to a minimum. Nevertheless, I chose three songs because I've been in love three times in my life, each time seemingly revolving around the Halloween season. And and if I was in love with you, you were getting a mixtape. If you're in love with me, now you're getting a mixtape. And seemingly the spooky song would become our song.

So I have three choices of three sort of our song that happened to be Halloween songs, and and kind of fit fit the bill here. So the first one is one that probably showed up on a mixtape and you know when I was seventeen years and all that I guess, and that is screaming Lord such. She's fallen in love with a monster man will It was hop last night at the movie show about my Baby and love role. We were just making love, kind of kidding around when the monster appeared with this craziest found. If you don't know screaming Lord such, what is wrong with you?

I guess you would call him a novelty act. But the music is so damned good I can't really relegate that he's not Bobby Boris Pickett regurgitating the monster match over and over again. Here's a man who recorded very briefly, well over a decade, let's say a decade or more, and this into the sixties into almost into the seventies, only one studio album to speak of that was the end of the decade, and what an album it is. But released tons of singles, these halloweeny spectacular songs, and the most famous of which is Jack the record him too. He's a much jub level.

He must do a man no gift the level year which if you don't know that one. Go to the Spotify playlist, you're going to hear it. It's it's quite incredible. But for me, the best one was always She's Fallen in Love with a Monster Man, recorded and released in eighteen sixty four. Now in nineteen sixty four, I believe it's you know, it's a story song where it's a guy's taking this girl to the local monster movie and he notices that she's really identifying more with the monster than the hero, and she's kind of creepy, and it turns out she's Dracular's sister.

It's a fun song. It has a female vocal sort of paralleling his, and she kind of chimes in at the end. I don't know who the vocal is. I can't find any information online about this stuff is These are songs that I kind of always left shrouded in mystery. I didn't want my monomania about things to sort of take them apart and demystify them and de romanticize them in a way.

So I apologize if I'm light on who the personnel are and my choices this evening. But I do know one man who played on the album played guitar on this song. That was Jimmy Page because the Savages is the name of Lord Sutch's backup band, and they are an insane It's a it was kind of a rotating roster of people, but what a rotating roster or Richie Blackmore played that played with him. Jeff Beck, John Bonham, Albert Lee, Mitch Mitchell of the Jimmy Hendrick Experience was in there, so that's his backing band. This novelty act from England.

This guy who sort of was casting his personas around until he caught sight of Screaming Jay Hawkins, who could have easily made I think Everyone's list tonight, but and decided, oh I'll do that, I'll be this this creeptastic guy. So this is a song I'm going to recommend, and I'm also going to recommend on top of that, do research on Screaming Lord Such. Everybody just him a little read. He's one of the most fascinating human beings who has ever lived, and demand for office any number of times. I'm not going to spoil it for you.

Actually look up Screaming Light Such and definitely check out She's Fallen in love with a monster man. It is romantic and sweet and wonderful, holds a very special place in my heart. And it's a great song you could listen to on Halloween instead of Geez, I don't know, monster mash. Oh my god, I could not love this pic it Oh this is anymore? But I this is perfect.

This is a perfect pick. I love Screaming Lord such everybody should. I highly recommend to our listeners. Go on YouTube and look up both the scopetone which scopotones for me. It doesn't know.

We're basically the music videos they replay in video jukeboxes. They were more popular in Europe, but there were a few in America. And the scopotone for his is actually very cinematic and he's literally like putting out a cigarette, like stopping at a cigarette on a dead prostitute's hand, like it's great and it's so great, and he really spooked people like they loved it, but he was really There's at the other clip there's a little live clip of him doing Jack Thirper live and there are girls literally shrieking and he is just hamming it up. What a beautiful pick, and I love the I would love to know who the female vocal is because I just love how the way she's like my kind of guy, because I'm the way that she reveals it.

It's so great. So camping fabulous. Do HP Do you have some do you have some feelings for the area. I also think it's a great pick. I'm not familiar with that album, but I do have an album by him called Lord Such and Heavy Friends that's ever made.

Everything else is just a single that eventually got collected into like anthologies or whatever. But that album is a great album. What made me think back to it was because when you were saying he had all these crazy guest performers, and I was like, yeah, I remember there was a crazy album where Jimmy Page was on it and Jeff Beck and Bonham and all that, and that's I will have to check that out, absolutely will. That sounds fantastic. I love it.

Oh my god. I always wanted Ken Russell to put him in a movie. Ken Russell should have made it this the Lord Such film. You know, the history of Lord Such. Done some fantastical you know, fake biography.

Absolutely, because think about we already had Arthur Brown and Tommy Yeah, nobody steal my idea of this fantastical version of Lord such as biography. I'm going to go write that right now, do it? Do it? I love it well. And while our beloved Father Malone is describing the ultimate definitive musical biography on skimming the Lord such HP, what is your first spooky pick of the night?

All right, Well, when the brief was handed down, when I got that mystery envelope that Father Malone described slipped under my door were marked top secret for your ass only, it was I was a little bit, you know, I was kind of searching a little bit because although I love Halloween and it was, you know, as a kid, certainly it was the thing I remember as a kid going to Osco drug and buying these the costumes at the time were these boxes and inside the box was a vinyl smock with kind of a thin plastic mask with a stretchy cord and you'd put that around you and they had everything from I went one year at C three po. You go as Batman, you could go as Superman. And they were just inexpensive costumes that parents would buy their kids just just so they wouldn't nag them forever for a costume.

And I one year I remember as a quick side note. My mom got Kiss your Face makeup, the Kiss official Kiss makeup, you know, oh my god, And I wanted her to I wanted to go as Gene Simmons, but she said, well that's too complicated. So she tried to do Paul Stanley, but she couldn't get the star right. So in the end she said, well, I guess you're just going to go as a clown. I was.

I was the world saddest. I looked, you know, Paul Stanley had been left out in the sun too long and it was sort of smeared and not not so. But you know, girl, oh never treatment that. I had fun with it. I remember, on the same topic watching Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park on Halloween.

So I loved it as a kid, but certainly as an adult it wasn't like it didn't hold that the same like magnetic attraction that it did as a kid. So I was, you know, a little bit thinking well, what am I gonna do? And then I realized that so for the past since we've had kids, I you know, you switch off and when I give out candy, I'll put a little speaker next to the door, and I have some kind of Halloween mix that I play every year, and I said, oh, well, that's perfect. I can just go back to these great Halloween mixes that I built up over time. So all three of my picks f YI are basically, in some way, shape or form, have been on a Halloween mix of mine over the years.

Some of these are older than others, but it kind of like the whole brief made sense. I was like, oh, this is perfect because I know these songs are a day. I just got to pick a few. So my first one, my first pick here is by one of my favorite bands of all time. The song is Boris the Spider by The Who.

This comes off of their album A Quick One, which was kind of like their their last album before they went full concept with with The Who sell Out and they kind of never looked back comst It was written by John Entwhistle. I think this was supposedly his first composition ever, and really, in a band filled with odd personalities, he might like claim to being the weirdest one of all of them, at least musically. If you listen to any of his solo stuff, it's he's really he was kind of very left of center. But what I love about the song is it's not explicitly about Halloween, but the whole song is about somebody who finds a spider in their room and they're kind of like anxious about it until ultimately they killed the spider.

But it's so deliberately campy. He does this bass voice on the chorus. I'm not going to do a justice, but this thing boris the spidi and I don't know. It's just it's so funny to me, and it's he has this falsetto in the bridge of him going cree be crawley like over and over again. It's this mix of kind of macabre, it's silly, and it's just funny all at once.

And it always makes me smile. And it always makes me think of like rubber spiders that you see in like the Spirit Halloween store, you know, these bouncy little rubber spiders, or any sort of cheesy Halloween decoration you find, you know, anywhere cheap this time of year. It's funny and a little dark and very much his personality, I think. So that's my first pick and also fun fact, according to Pete Townshend, this song was Jimi Hendrix's favorite WHO song. So who am I to argue with the greatest guitar player of all time?

But yeah, this is my first pick. It's borest the Spider by the Who. He didn't live to hear Eminence Front. I like that song. For the record, I do like that song.

I do, but you know, but yeah, it's yes, I'm making fun of the song Eminence Front. It felt like maybe you were leading in that direction, but I'm making fun of the fact that he didn't live long enough to hear a better song by The Who. That's true. That's a fair point. Now, don't this is not my favorite WHO song?

Like, maybe I should clarify this is my favorite WHO song, But certainly if I'm making a Halloween mix, this will be on it. It's just sort of like I said, it's just a lot of fun. It's a cute song. I love that song and that bood I can't do it, but that bait Yeah, oh it's a it's a I think it's a sweet like if you love great basslines and songs about rubber spiders, which I'm a fan of both. Hell yeah, so now love love that peck.

Thank you, HP, thank you? What do you got? Heather? What's your first pick, Well, my first pick, and I my my list. I had to whittle down.

My og list was long as hell. It was long, but I don't want to let down to three. I may mention some honorable mentions if we get time afterwards. But but my first pick has got to be a song called Halloween by Ron Haydock and The Boppers to kind of mirror a little bit while Malone was saying about Screaming Lord such, Ron Haydock was a fascinating cat musician. His band the Boppers, this is like this is Circle late fifties released.

He's very influenced by gene Vincent, you know. So he's got that great sort of like pseudo rockabilly background that this song is not rockabilly. It's very eerie. It's got these ethereal female vocals, and he's just sounding kind of like a guy with a greased up black pompadour telling you a spooky story at three in the morning while you're, you know, drinking a lukewarm moxy by a graveyard. It's so good.

Hey, it's very specific. Yes, that's how I work, and no, but he also worked like in a lot in film. He did a. He's in a number of ray Dentist Steckler movies, most probably notably The Incredibly Well. He wasn't in that one.

He should have been, though, But he's in ret Finker Boo Boom under the non de plume Vin Saxon, And he is also in The Living Grove Kids, which Liming Grove Kids Meet the Monsters is essential Halloween viewing. But anything ray Denis Steckler touches kind of is too, except maybe for some of his porn. That's another episode. Also for the record, I think all Halloween songs are good. Halloween songs, I will say, approved by noise junkies are great for the art of love making.

In my opinion, I should have picked. There was a time from the eighties called doing It in a Haunted House and it's like Thriller but with banging texting me boy, I love it. But but we're here to talk about Ron Haydock. He also wrote a number of like Lurid paperbacks, The guy did Anything that is very psychotronic, Ron Haydock, did you know you love Stuff? That would be later on release by Norton Records.

Ron Haydock, You love Weird? Sexual horror pulp novels from the sixties and seventies. Ron Haydock, you love Rat Dennis Steckler, Of course you do, Ron Haydock. This song is great and I think more people should definitely check it out. So that is my number one pick.

What do you guys think about them? Camel Apples? I don't know the song. I don't either, but I but is it on Spotify? Is the question?

Well, yeah, it's on Spotify. I make sure that my picks were on Spotify so we could build our list so perfect. I will check it out. It's so good, It's so good. The thing is, I've had so many mixes of Halloween songs vintage from the twenties to the present that I have no idea who the artists are, so I guarantee you I'll be familiar with it.

But you know, if the title is Halloween, well I can think of at least seventeen or eighteen just off the top of my head on named Halloween, you know, right? I know, get Susie in the Banshees mud Honey, miss I'm sure the Misfits did one. Ted Kennedy's I Do Love You have one? Too. The Dead Bellies have a good one.

Oh man, I don't know that one, but I love it just automatically by the name. Like the Dead Bellies, I love them for them alone. What is their number two? Pick? Put that?

Put that jaque lantern on the porch, baby, and tell us about it. Okay, this is I said. The theme here is falling in love and being in love and songs therein that became the song of that couple. And this one is a major one for me. You guys know that I'm my favorite band of all times.

It's the Cramps. They invented a genre of music they have psychobilly. But I think psychobilly as a genre kind of came to perfection in the early part of the twenty first century with a band called Tiger Army, and they put out a Their second album came out Tiger Army two, and there's a song called Annabelle. It is an adaptation of nangar allan Poe song. Not only is it their best song and a fantastic Halloween tune, but personally, for me, this is the one time I am going to ruin things with biography.

But this is a song I did put on a mixtape for somebody I hadn't seen in many, many years, and someone was in the car with them when they played this tape and played this song. They were driving very fast down a freeway in Los Angeles and after the line stood, my future wife screeched three lanes across the highway and pulled the car up and broke down and cried to this song. So this is instantly a memorable Halloween tune, and putting aside my own feelings to it, I'm going to back up, and I'm going to no, I'm not going to back up. I'm going to plow ahead with my analysis Tiger Army, at least in this song and maybe on this album, because there are a few tracks on that album that are of similar sweet and sentimental nature.

Also, this song pulls off an amazing feat in that it worked the word sell booker. I can't even say it suppucker into the lyrics of the tune and it flowed. Yeah, you wouldn't even know it was there, Whereas I'm sure it's been using the lyrics in other songs, but it probably hits you right in the jaw. This is a worthy adaptation of an Edgar Allan poet thing. It brings out all the best of Edgar Allen Poe's poetry, the sort of nascent mysticism that he was always a little tentative to really embrace as far as I was, and here it's on full display.

Musically, they are at top of their game. This is actually the sort of first real solidification of Tiger Army as a band. It's always been Nick thirteen. He is the band that's you know, Lux and Ivy are the cramps that you know. I love Candy DeLamar and I love Nick Knox, but it's just Lux and Ivy anyway.

So that's that's my second pick? Is that a little too heavy for everybody? I apologize if I bumped him? No, No, I don't want any apologies. I think that's a beautiful pick.

And I'm like, God, I want to buy that help after that, like I have, because that's one of the reasons I love doing the show is that we all like can clue each other into stuff too, you know, like that's the beauty of having wonderful, beautiful friends with excellent taste and knowledge. No, that's beautiful, and I think that's the important thing. Is that a lot of times people with like Halloween just tend to focus on, like, you know, just sort of like the silly, like almost like kids, boppy side of it. And the beautiful thing about this holiday and the season is that there's many shades to it. You know, you can kind of go to somewhere that's a little romantic and maybe heavy.

That's life, and that's beauty and it's hard and it's amazing, and that's a wonderful pick. I love that people tend to lock their version of Halloween into their head about what it is. It's this creepy thing, or it's this silly thing, or it's this sexy thing, or it's this that's such a limited view of such a perfect holiday. You've said it a few times, Heather, it's perfect holiday. It's not only that it is a perfect American holiday.

We all know it came from Salen and it's back from the old country in Ireland. Nobody knows that miller than me, Father Malone. I'm here to tell you. But the fact is, up until very recently, the Irish didn't celebrate Halloween at all. It's always been us gathering together on one night a year to go, hey, everything's dying and we love it, and the traditions that make it up are just you know, brought in from every culture.

It's I don't know, I marvel at it on that level, just on a patriotic, jingoistic, stupid American level, which I fall into. I love that aspect of the holiday, and I love the aspect of it of that it's you know, an embracement and embracing of the darkness, like as a celebratory gesture that there's something absolutely beautiful about that to the core. And you know what, I also want to say that I grew up at a time in the early seventies is when I was or treating and you could tell that Halloween was coming from the aroma of wood on air so crisp you could break it. And now it seems presaged by the shelves of your local retailer filling up with thirty dollars bangs of candy and all this brick brac and decor.

You don't fucking need anything they can ring a dollar out of. And I feel a little sad about that, but it doesn't in any way diminish the actual spirit of the holiday. No, should you limit yourself to any one of those ideas of the holiday, because for me, Halloween is, was, and will always be a romantic holiday. So you can make it, make it in anything you want. Yeah, well, and again that is the beauty I will say, as tend to be on those people that gets very excited about a lot of the because I'm like, ooh, this is when I can get some cute clothes and some decor for the year round.

I'm not saying we don't all partake it, but we don't all love that all of these things suddenly exist once a year. It's just like, come on, don't christmify it this mess? You know what I mean, don't. I now understand fundamentalist Christians crying about them sort of ruining their holiday by you know, over merchandising it. Oh they don't.

Yeah, well that's yeah, when they stop it pressing other people think that's a whole other I'm sorry. Overall, I'm just saying I understand any spirituality is beautiful. Does nobody be a dick because that's not in the spirit of good mankind or Halloween. No, Halloween is it can have this innocent side to it too, Like I love the kiddy side because I remember being a little kid in loving trigger treating, and I grew up by trigger treating the eighties, you know, being an eighties kid, and I to me it was like the spookiness was attractive, of course the candy, but also just getting to explore different neighborhoods and dress up because of course the theater of it. And I think I love the fact that we're already like picking.

Like a lot of our picks have sort of a beautiful theatricality to them, some kind of more campy, others more just sort of like this beautiful, sort of gothic feel. This is so cool. And you know, also what's more cool than HP with that big awesome brain of yours. I feel like your brain is probably playing like some John Bottom baslic right now. That's totally awesome.

So my second pick is not it's much like the first pick. It's not explicitly connected to Halloween in any way related to the lyrics or the whatever. But this song, since I heard it, there's something about it that always puts me in the mind of Halloween and the darker side of it. Let's say this is a one to eighty from Boris the Spider, my earlier pick and the song is called Happy the Man by the Cure. This is kind of it's a B side that came off of the sessions for their eighty four album The Top, And this really, to my knowledge, has never really appeared on any one of their full length albums.

I came across it. This is probably I think Disintegration was probably the album that for me and a lot of people at that time. That's was my introduction to the Cure. My mono media made me go out and buy more albums after that. And I remember getting the cassette for a compilation called Standing on a Beach and it was kind of a collection of B sides and Brick Brack.

But for some weeks I don't mean the interrupt HP, but I lived by that album Continue Please, I was just, oh my god, yeah, well this was I probably honestly, this was probably purchased and listened to while we were in high school, right, I mean, this was prime time the Cure for you and I. They were so popular at that time. Shake, come on, man, cold, come on. These are deep cuts. Baby.

It's a really good collection. But for some weird reason, depending on whether you got it as a cassette, or a CD or presumably a record. You got different songs, but you could only get this one particular song, Happy the Man on the cassette. I don't know why, and I didn't seek it out. It was just there.

But I'm really happy it was because it became one of my probably top three favorite cure songs. And Robert Smith sings the song as if he's constantly in mid shutter. He sounds like he's just freezing from some cold and he's I mean, the whole song sounds like one long shiver to me, the way that it kind of creeps in and just sort of takes hold it. The whole song is like someone standing cold and alone in the pouring rain. And some of that is because lyrically that's what he's describing, but it's just it just gives me this tingle when I listen to it.

The vibe of it is so powerful to me. And Robert Smith he has this constant refrain of happy the man with the face that smiles. He keeps repeating this in the song. And again this probably being high school at the time, it always made me think of the graphic novel The Killing Joke by Alan Moore because it's very It always felt evocative of the Joker, right, who He's probably the super villain most associated with Halloween. Right, He's the Joker, He's the costumed clown prince of crime.

And but the thing about the Killing Joke is it's actually probably one of the saddest origin tales of the Joker. It's it's a great book, but it's very sad. And as a high school kid or someone kind of you know, consuming these stories and this media, my brain made this connection the sadness of the story to the sadness evoked by this song, and it was just it's such a powerful combination to me. And I always think of Halloween. I think of it's just sort of sad and cold and lonely, like that aspect of Halloween could be.

And it's, like I said, it's just such a powerful evocation of the spirit of Halloween for me. So that's my second pick by the Cure HP. When we were sixteen years old, Geez, I was by myself on Halloween and it was wildly cold, wildly Wendy and I lived in a wooded area at the time. It was like a perfect Halloween night and I never felt lonelier in my life at that moment, I watched They Live by Myself and that song is a perfect evocation of that. So thanks for bringing up that memory, buddy.

It's like the loneliness that we may have talked about this already in other episodes, but there's there's this feeling of loneliness that you can feel and feel a part of and the shared experience by listening to music. And I think not to get away from Halloween too much, but that's powerful, Like it's okay when you're feeling sad and lonely to listen to music that puts you in that mindset and if nothing else, it makes you understand that someone else has experienced these emotions. You're not alone, and it's like this communal thing that you can only get from listening to music in that mind state. And I think that's part of what I'm hearing from your father. That's wonderful and frankly it does this takes me back to those high school days.

Maybe that's part of the bittersweet, you know, feeling I get when I listen to it now, because it's a time in our lives that we'll never get back to. But it's just so I don't know, it just takes me right back. It's like when you have a Halloween as a young person by yourself and you don't get to do anything festive that does like stain you. Like I had some like trick or treat years, like prime tricker treat years that were robbed. There was because there's one night in particular because I at the time my mother, like she's a single mother, and she had to work and nobody would take me trick or treating, and so I had to stay home and watch I think it was the Satanic It was either Dracula eighty ninety and seventy two or the Satanic Rites of Dracula on TNT.

So at least I had that Yetta have something as solace Christopher Lee as Dracula, and contemporary Britain is pretty good well. And Christopher Lee, I mean, yeah, that's probably probably the origin of my eternal love for him is that night. But I do wish we could trigger treat these adults. There's something fun. I mean it be candy aside, it's just the ritual of it.

It's so fun and it's a little mysterious and going to different neighborhoods. I don't know. I just i'd miss it. I would love I'd love to do it again, just for one night. But but yeah, I intended the Disneyland thing for adults one year, where you got to dress in costume my then wife and I.

They gave you a bag as you walked in, and there were stations with candy for you to trick or treat. And at first we were like, this is ridiculous. We're just here to go on the rides and have fun. And then we stopped the first station and they gave us some awesome candy, like they just sort of dropped it into the back, and oh, that's kind of fun. And then suddenly we've forgotten all about the ride.

We're just rushing like children from station to station with bag extended, like, oh, are you sure you can't give me a couple more of those because those look a really good. Yeah, so you're right, we should have trick or treating for adults because it is deliriously fun. Oh my gosh. Well, and you know, I just got back from I got to go to Disney with my parents. I got to go to Disney Universal literally last week, and we did the whole, like we went Tuesday Night where they're gonna have the Disney's like Mickey's not So Scary Halloween event.

And one of the things I was excited about was the trigger treating stations, and it torrentially downpoured when they started doing though, So I'll I only got one candy. But I did get to ride the Haunted Mansion twice, and it got the second time, it got stuck, but it was steering the part where you overlook you see the diners and the ghostly dancers, and that part ruled so hard. I was like in heaven. I'm like, I could just live in this ride. So you know, you lose a little, but you gain a lot.

So and that's actually that would It's not a deep cut, but the entire Like if you look up the original Haunted Mansion music on Spotify, beautiful bootiful. That sounds like it's booty beautiful. It still sounds like booty. But you know, like we said, every good Halloween song is prime for the art of love. And speaking of the art of love, and by the way, HP, I love your pick.

I don't know if I said that, Like the cop on the Cure, I feel there's like you could do a whole cure cop that would be music to celebrate sow and too. My next pick is not gothic, but it is phenomenal and I am not biased at all. I I to go with one of my favorite bands ever and I think one of the one of the greatest American rock bands ever. And they are still together. They still are kind of a cult band.

But people need to rise up and give some love to Peter Kenny, Keith and Bill because I'm talking about The flesh Tones and I'm talking about the title track off their most recent album, The Face of the Screaming Werewolf, was the best streaming were wolves. It's great. Well it's taken from and I can't remember what the original film title was, but there was There's a guy named Jerry I believe it was Jerry Warren like him and Kay Gordon Murray, both in the sixties, would take it, would import a lot of like Mexican horror movies, recut them, dub them and retitle them for the American market, with not a lot of love or care towards her shile films like and in the case of the Face of the Screaming Werewolf.

I mean it's not even really it's I haven't stayed it, but just hearing the band talk about it, because Ken Fox, in particular, the band's basis, Love's cult film apparently has the poster for this, like the whole titles from him, and they were just like, yeah, what a great title, and even he was like, yeah, the great thing is that movies even about a screaming werewol Like it's like incomprehensible. But I know, the Fledgetones are fucking awesome. I'm just a phenomenal band. Everybody talks about what a great live band they are, and it is my bucket listening to see them live in person, and they are great live if you go on YouTube any number of stuff. What just shut.

The record's great too, And this song basically is it's a it's cute fun. It's all about just you know, Peter Zaremba with that classic style of his and that hair, like it's got the best hair. But you know what happens when you go on a date with the girl you're wanting to get a little friendly. There's a full moon, she's hiding her face in a hoodie, and holy fucking shit, she's a werewolf. What.

It's a great rock tune. There's great like it's got a little bit of like some eeriness with the fun. It's got the crunch, it's got the fuzz. I mean, just I can't rave enough about it. There's a great music video for it on YouTube, and the entire album I think is actually one of their best.

I think there. I love bands that have been around since like the eighties and seventies that are still doing albums, and not only that, but they like they're doing in some cases, are doing stuff that's some of their best work. Like I would put a Shriek back in that category. Two and Gary Numan. But the flesh Tones or by as I call them, my flesh Tone is I love them so much so of that category.

But yeah, I mean, do you guys, are you you guys I know loved You're a little familiar with the flesh Tones. Yeah, they used to be on IRS back in the eighties. Oh yeah they were. Indeed, we're going to have to flow speaking of things, we're gonna have to do podcast about my goodness. Amen, We're gonna have to go a fucking IRS things.

No, I'm not as familiar with them as you are, but you know they were kind of unavoidable in the nineteen eighties. That they're fantastic. It's a great tune. I know that one. At least, that's what I got for the flesh Tones.

I love it. I love it. HP don't know them by reputation. I can't say I know a lot about their music. But but they were, as follow alone said, they were kind of especially you know, I don't know if they were on was it was MTV's alternative show, they'd have alternative.

The cutting edge was the one Zaremba hosted before that turned into one hundred and twenty minutes. Well, but I was thinking of a d twenty minutes. But you're right edge the Martini glass with the ball smacking into it. Oh yeah, Oh my god. Peter's Zaremba is one of the coolest dudes on the plane.

I mean, remember, this band is an ace, but Saremba, I I think so deficient. All of a sudden, this is twice tonight, guys. Thanks a lot. Now I gotta go listen to ABC. Yes show is now they he he's in a period.

Ever, he'll come out and stage occasionally wearing a fucking cape, like a Dracula cape with medallion. It is like, oh a fan girls so hard. This is like so many of my loves like merged into one, like I love Dracula, I love the flesh Tone. What they also? And I was tempted this would have been cheating, but they the flesh Ones did a version of Monster Mash and Spanish called Kye Monstros.

Okay, my Spanish is bad, but it's so charming and peter'sarempa doing it in Spanish. It's just chef's kiss. It makes everybody should wear a table metallion or a Draculine metallion. You could pick we don't judge here at Noise Junkies. And speaking of not judging and speaking of the holy unholy trinity that is Father Malone.

What is pick number three for you? Now? This one actually was featured on a mixtape for Me to my President girlfriend Amber very recently. This is maybe not a traditional Halloween song, but it needs to be. This is a fifth studio album of the White Stripes Get behind Me, Satan.

It's a song called the Little Ghost The First expect Spect No Ghosts, Jack White and a mandolin. There's very little percussion going on there, and what it is traditional Americana. Like the rest of the whole rest of the album. It's a very interesting album too. It's almost not a White Stripes album.

But the song in particular, just a narrator saying it's got a ghost who's been in his room and he's kind of in love with it, and and it's sweet and it's funny, and it's got a lot of creepy imagery in mixed in with the with the rest, and you know, I think that entire album actually, I think Jack White has said the through line in it was riad A Hayworth, world famous redhead read a Hayworth, And so the song becomes more and more appropriate for my personal situation. And I just think it's a great little tune. And you can hear the whole thing on Spotify. It's I don't know, it's fun and you should add this to your thing. We keep by the way, Okay, we keep beating up on Monster Mash.

Monster Mash is a great fucking song. It is. What we're beating up on is that it's just sheer everywhereeness. It's ubiquity in the culture and the laziness that comes with that, just like, oh, just throw on Monster Mash. And it was in every stick from time immemorial, in every special Halloween episode.

But Bobby Boris Picket from Somerville, Massachusetts, Yo, speaking of one of those mixtapes went to a girl from Somerville. God damn, it is a great fucking song. And I just want to give props to Bobby Boris Pickets. He had some other really good songs too. Some of them are kind of desperate and sound like Chubby Checker's other twist songs, you know, like you know, twisted and Christmas or something, you know, like it was a little bit like that.

But anyway, little Ghost Monster Mash, I'm gonna put it together. Oh wow, that's a mix of a tiny mixtape there. I love that. Yeah, No, there is such a great like it's a small subset, but there's a really rich one of like sort of haunted sounding Americana type songs in general that I think works so well for the season. Like I love that pick for that one song that almost made my top three.

I got to make sure I get the artist name right because it's a band that's newer to me. But no, there's a song called Halloween Night, and there's like a country freed version that's very Americanic country by a group called The Man Sisters. I don't. Yeah, I think it's a great pick. Who doesn't love the white stripes.

He's phenomenal. I love his ethos. I think he's what we were saying that Phil con' is a powerful drummer. He's a powerful guitarist. Jack White, I think he plays with a lot of passion.

And Yeah, I'm not overly familiar with that particular album, but I'll definitely have to check it out. Speaking of Americano, here's a song that almost made my list as well, because it was probably on every mixtape I ever made. Case Stars cover of the Headless Horseman. My God, I'm two different versions of that on my one of my huge Spotify I'm telling you, brother, it's a vehicul side. Just to see what goes on in the When the books have a midnight Jamberie, they break it up with a fiendish clea goos are bad, but the one that's cursed, he's the Headless Horseman.

He's the worst. I have the Big Cosby and the k Star versions, and I always listen to the K Star versions except on Halloween night, because for some reason it seems only appropriate to listen to I've been Crosby saying it then because now it's storytime black or white or even read. The headless Horseman needs a head. He's talking, talking, Chuck, So don't stop the figure out the plan. You can't reason where the headless Man.

But as a piece of like American pop music that's tied to the greatest holiday we've ever created. Holy God, okay, Star, go listen to that one on the Spotify right now, y'all. Yes, Well, after you get done listening to us, of course, Oh yeah, but oh yeah, I love all of that. Back and listen to this again and then rate us and then share and subscribe. That's right.

Build altars to the noise, junkies, We command the and carve, carve little turnip planterns with us. When you're done, we'll have some soda bread with fortunes of them. But HP, what is what is your? What is your? Where's your poisoned Apple?

Arrow? That ABC reference there where does it land on track number three for you? So interestingly, I've been kind of building up track number three for me is the one most explicitly referencing Halloween. And I'm about to see follow Alone's face light up because this is another one that he will be familiar with. This is another callback to high school, if you will.

My third pick is a song called stand Up by the band Fast Way. This comes off of the soundtrack to the nineteen eighty six movie Trick or Treat Yeah, directed by Charles Martin Smith. That's I'm so happy that I knew Father Blonde would know the movie. But I'm so happy to see that you're familiar I fast Way. Are you kidding?

Oh my god. I was not the biggest fan of horror movies growing up, but this one, I guess, but this one caught my eye. I will say bottom Alone was he really kind of introduced me to a lot of great horror movies. When we were first becoming friends. He showed me the movie Near Dark Martin Great movies.

But this was this actually predated that I came. I became familiar with this movie the year before I went to high school, and it just caught my eye. It was on cable. What have you you connected with this movie because you were a little metal head inside? Well, I kind of was.

I definitely was listening to probably Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath at the time. And I you know this for those of you who don't know that, the movie is the story of a loner metal head. His name is Eddie Weinbauer, which is a great name. I'll never forget it as long as I live. He was played by Mark Price from a show called Family Ties.

He was skippy, Yeah, Alex p Keaton's best friend, and he's relentlessly picked on and bullied at school. And his one big release is he's a metal head. He's just that's he loves it. And his favorite singer a guy named Sammy Kerr who's played by Tony Fields, who is actually a dancer who, fun fact, was the choreographer on The Cory's nineteen eighty nine Dream, A Little Dream movie. Very weird because you know, he has a great look in the movie, Tony Fields.

But anyway, Sammy Kerr dies in a bizarre hotel fire and Eddie is distraught and he has His best friend is a DJ named Nuke played by Gene Simmons from Kiss and Nuke. HB. I have to interrupt you. That's the best. That's the most likable Gene Simmons has ever been.

Oh oh, no, no, come on, never too Young to Die? Where he's Velvet von Ragnar, Come on shut the front door. No here, it's here in this film. And okay, first of all, there's that. And the second Skippy's best friend is what's his character's name, Alex P.

Keaton? Oh no, no, Skippy in this Eddie Weinbauer, Yeah, Eddie wein Bower's best friend. Oh oh, the guy who I don't remember the friend's name. The glass plays that character Glenn Morgan, who is a Glenn Morgan in James Wong wrote the Final Destination Movie, first Final Listination Movie, and the third one. Wrote and directed those.

They did the Willard remake. They wrote so many of your favorite episodes of the X Finals. I'm telling you you don't know it, but if you watch this little horror movie, the schlubby best friend who's gonna be because he's the best friend is one of the best television writers of all time. I remember you telling me that that's I can't believe I forgot that he is this little nerdy sort of best friend. But so this DJ nuke gives Eddie an acetate of Sammy Kerr's unreleased final album.

He's going to play it in its entirety in Halloween. This is all leading up to a Halloween dance at the kids high school. But Wine gets the record home and through a sequence of events, he records it. He plays it back backwards, you know, backmasking thing from the eighties, and he summons Sammy Kerr from hell. Sammy Kerr appears and he can shoot lightning bolts out of his hands, and he can do all this crazy stuff, and there's all sorts of slasher antics going on, and Eddie ends up an erase to try and stop him from you know, being released to over the radio on Halloween night, and it's such a The whole thing is so it's a funny play on the satanic panic from the eighties.

It has a sense of humor that I think was kind of absent from a lot of movies from that time. And I know, it's just so funny that Ozzy Osbourne plays a fundamentalist, like a televangelist who gets killed like this. It's just the effects are kind of cool. It's not a gory movie because mostly he just electrocutes things and shoots, like I said, lightning bolts out of his hands. But but anyway, it's a great movie.

If you haven't seen it, I recommend it now. The band Fast Way. They featured ex Motorhead guitarist fast Eddie Clark and future Flogging Molly vocalist Dave King. If anyone is familiar with it, you might be surprised to know that he was a hair metal singer back in the eighties. That only makes sense to me.

Well, that's because your father Malone, of course. If they were brought when she was a rock chick. Why can't to read Why can't Tory Reid exactly? That's a famous trivia question right there with a rocker, remember that. Oh god, Michael Bolton, if you haven't heard it now, his name was actually Michael Bulletin.

He changed his name. This is you've hit a vein of trivia. He does cover his what his first album of time is on my side? That is ridiculously out of tune. Love you come tell me, I might have to put it on the playlist.

Have a good line. No, no, no, I will fucking delete it. Do not solely our holy pumpkin list. It is it is so funny Michael Bulletin the man that gave us every Everything's Crazy, that fucking video where it's like everything's crazy, like you remember, like some music videos would have like that kind of titular callback right before the music starts. It's terrible but fastway or amazing.

Yeah. So they were brought in to write and perform all of Sandy Kurr's music and movies. If anyone remembers the movie Eddie and the Cruisers, John Cafferty, they were Eddie and the Cruisers, but like Michael Parray just lip synced it. But there's a lot of this between of the Damn when Jonathan Davis came in and he was the stop. Oh hey, imagine Queen of the Damn if the Beaver Brown Band on the dark side.

So it's a great The soundtrack is so the soundtrack to the treat is phenomenal. All the songs are great, but that particular song I picked stand up. It's got this great sense of dread and it's probably the spookiest song that there's something in the sort of quarter note bassline that is sort of menacing and dangerous. The opening shot of the movie is this zoom out from this poster of Sandy Kerr that he has on the wall, that Eddie has on his wall, and the song is playing as it's slowly panning back, and it's just it's so creepy. And the guy look was so good who played Sammy that I don't know.

It just to me it makes me think of Halloween, not just because the movie takes place around the Halloween season, but I don't know, it's just so kick ass. It's just so spooky and heavy. It's great. I love that soundtrack and that song is great. I never would have expected you to pick fast Way, and I love that.

And I love fast Way. You know the little Trivia because the name also came from It's supposed to be a super group between and you probably don't, yeah, but Pete Wave was out of the band by the time they did this, but that, yeah, like it's I have to make a confession. I'm not the biggest fan of this movie. But the two things I love about it, I love Sammy Kirk God's Chosen Warrior like God's you know, the Rock's chosen word definitely not got Satan's probably And that actor, the actor that plays him, his face you could tell he has an inspraak because he's got a great physicality, but he owns that role. Like he is so good as Sammy Kerr, Like I love Sammy Kerr and this and that soundtrack is fucking tight.

That is a great rock soundtrack. And it's because last year we watched like a number of like heavy metal horror movies or in Halloween. I think out of all the ones I've seen, the one that still has the best soundtrack by far is this one. It's not my favorite as a movie of the of that subgenre, but the soundtrack is phenomenal. Sammy concur Ah, I am You're gonna get some dad jokes out of me.

Oh my goodness. So yeah, that's great. That's an awesome pick h I love that should Are you a Motorhead Dan? By any chance? I am a Motorhead fan.

I'm not there definitely the stuff with like Ace of Spades and Overkill and Bomber and my Actually, I should say no Sleep till Hammersmith is top five. It's amazing. It doesn't stop. So yeah, you can say I'm a motor Head fan. Absolutely sucking a.

By the way, have you ever heard girls schools cover a Bomber because it fucking smoke I'm doing right. I did not, but I know that Lemmy was very like I don't know it was he was skinny, produced them. He was very involved in Girls School. Oh yeah, no, he worked with them. They actually did a duet is It Shaking so much?

That I think it was a bit of a hit in the UK. It's like an old it's a cover of an older though the first cheese Muskima Now I'll shake so much? And he had them going to with Motorhead. And this is a time period where like, I mean, I don't think things are that much better now, but like to be it's so fucking reductive. But like you know, women in metal, especially like in rock, like really had the shit into the stick and Girls' School, like you really couldn't win because it's like because there would be guys that like metal heads back then, they would kind of slag and be like, oh, they're not pretty.

But then if you have somebody who's pretty, somebody's like, oh well we know how she got this. You know, like you can't win as a woman in these cases. But Girls School, especially those first two albums are phenomenal, and I love let me because he saw that he didn't give a shit which gender may worry. He was like, this is a great man. Let's give them some props like let Me's love, let Me Love, Better Head Love, Girls School.

So yeah, let me. Also is in the music video for the band Boys Don't Cry, speaking of the cure, I want to be a cowboy. It is the weirdest cameo of all all socks to have. Feel like, wait this let me dy and we all do sometimes I want to be a cow girl video. Yeah, it's great, not spooky, but it is good.

Well, this is so cool. Well my third and final pick, and this was so tough because again I much like I listened to Halloween songs all year round and I love you know, I'm such a such It's my happy space, It's my happy place in my heart is this season. But when it came down to it, I knew if I did not include this artist, I would never forget myself. And of course I'm talking about Vern Langdon and his gorgeous piece of music called Spirit Symphony off of his album Music for Magicians, which came out in nineteen seventy four. Vern Langdon probably is still best known for being like his involvement with Don Post and being like a very very respected monster mask maker and that, which is kind of I don't think people it's so weird to think, you know, because I think we're kind of an era now, are we almost because we have probably so much more access to stuff, which is great in a lot of ways.

But we kind of take people that do these sort of arts for granted. I think, you know, we don't. We don't even think about them as artists, but they are artists obviously. But Vern Langdon was so much more than just a monster mask guy. He was a professional clown wrestler, magician wrestler.

He was trained by the fabulous Moulon in tour Johnson. Wow, is amazing. I know I've probably have talked about him before on the show. I would have remembered, oh okay, because I love Vern Langdon. I even I once wrote an article about him for Remorg magazine that came out I think a year or two ago.

He is just tremendous. He to me, he's like the cool uncle you would always want. Like the guy even on his website, I think you can still see it. We lost for in a few years ago it has like teeky recipes like he's the coolest and but among his many talents, he was proficient and such a beautiful composer with piano and particularly with the organ, And he did a number of albums like The Vampire, the Hopster Cord, Fan of the Opera. He did a whole album that's like a recreation of like I like you're talking with the spirits, Like I think it's called like Seiance for like Doctor Druid's Seance, and it's like like almost like a spook show kind of thing, like these are sort of like these are like lost arts in a lot of ways.

Spirit someone your powers, call along the forces of all all that you know to be greatest in strength and come through to us, come through His music I think is so beautiful and so eerie and evocative and atmospheric and spirit symphony in particular. You feel like you're in the cold like old basement or you know, like a torture not torture, shame or Jesus, but I mean maybe an old one, like maybe a retired one. Like there's something eerie and unsettling but kind of weirdly beautiful, you know, like old buildings even when they're creepy, have a beauty about them, and especially the older you go like, look at castles, I mean, think about like castles where people were literally murdered and had incest babies.

Oh we go to now is tourists. I mean, they don't promote them like that. They don't say incest babies. If it's a royal family though, you don't want to bring people in on those facts, but you might want to give your tour guy a little leeway he can judge. I think cool.

I don't know if a lot of listeners so that me and Father Malone are probably we are like eighty percent literally the same person. I think we were etched out of the same weird egg. And I love it. But Fern LinkedIn. I mean, and this is one of the things I've always tried to champion with musicians like Fern and artistly for and is that you know, music that's specifically made to evoke a you know, a sense of spookiness and somberness tends to get like, oh, it's novelty, and people don't take it automatically because you know, like novelty means they can't take it seriously as art, and I say that's bullshit.

This is an artist, This is beautiful music, this is just is This is worthy as much as anything else of appreciation and exploration and preservation. And luckily for us, all this is available on Spotify. I do recommend, like you know, this is still as far as I know, in print, so you can still get it. So yeah, physical media is a good thing to support Spotify and things like that. Artists don't get a ton of money from it, if they get any money, and a lot of times, like you can lose something off your playloads.

So we all use Spotify and we love it, but do support physical media when you can. But yeah, Vern Langton just highly recommend checking him out, and I would love to see I think somebody should to do it, like a documentary or autobiography. I mean, he even like would work in the same clubs where they were like drag artists, and was like love drag artists and was very supportive of that community, knew May West personally, like I mean, he also did two volumes of circus clown music. I guess he can't be all bad, you know, I'm kidding. And the sin of wild West early days of the engine, and there were a lot of like peer to peer science and such.

I belonged to a bunch of different groups where these sort of crazy music completists would put together their own version of what they think a Halloween album should be. And many of the songs that I are, you know, I became familiar with them because of those, including one track called Dante's Inferno Oh Yes, by Vernon Langdon. And these tracks were like collage, so they would just sort of run into each other and everything, but nevertheless that one was a standout. So I'm at least familiar with that much of Verne Langton. And yeah, that's he slots right into this holiday, doesn't he?

Oh my god, we're glove. Yeah. I also recommend putting on his music if you're doing any road tripping, especially if there's a lot of like rural if you're driving by woods, you instantly just puts you in such a great headspace because you're like, ooh, maybe there's like a weird like house for somebody's like some weird magician that's experimenting like on skeletons or something like. I don't know, it's just its exactly what I think when I'm driving through woods, same like no, I mean, I see what's going on in there? Nothing good.

Well, that's the thing. It's like to me, that's one of the things I love so much about Halloween in general, and that vern his music taps into is it's if like fuels and fills your imagination, Like there's that sense of fear, but that tied to that immediately is wonder and just sort of the magic of it, Like there's imagination to it, there's this supernatural you know, real day to day life and especially you know when you become an adult, so much around us, I feel like kind of tries to suck out all of the wonder we have for life, you know, And I think that's a crime. And I think that's why like holidays like Halloween is great because we can, you know, we can tap into that wonder, we can embrace it, we can you know, love it, like if you're like me, you love it three one hundred and sixty five days a year.

But it also is like a way to both embrace your little kid's side, but also, as we've touched upon in this episode, you know, like you know, make peace with some of the heavier things too, and even they like feel like sort of a kinship, like the whole thing of like you know, being in touch with the others, whatever the other side is anybody. I mean, we won't get two in the weeds on that, but you know, it's I just think it's there's so much, there's so many riches his holiday, and I hate it so much that there are people because I'm from the South and the Bible Belt where you know, I've I literally have had I've worked with people that are like, well, Halloween's okay, but I don't like the devil part of it, and they're being serious and it's like it has nothing to do with act Satan.

First of all, if somebody is a Satanist, they don't believe in God like research a church of Satan, first of all. But also like it's like they to me, it's like this is something that's like such a perfect thing for kids that's like innocent, and it's also a way to embrace that magic as a kid as an adult, you know, and also make peace with fear. Like horror movies, you know, and Halloween and all this stuff are ways for us to kind of for me, like as a kid, you kind of make starting to make peace that yeah, there's a darker side out there and it's kind of scary, but you can that's part of life too, but you can kind of find a way to cope with it and even you know, embrace a lighter side to it too.

You know, I don't know, I'm rambling a little bit, but does that make sense though? Like they have a problem with because it does approach the actor trick or treating approaches the approach of organized religion, which is a big shakedown. It's a big hustle. It's we're not going to egg your house if you give us some candy or you know, on a mystical level, we're not going to come in and possess you and your family and take you down to the spirit world. You give us an offering.

So they're uncomfortable with that as an actual literal exchange. So the whole thing must be Satanic. Well, and the irony is a lot of churches now will do and even schools. It's so sad. I'm my god, it's just call it Halloween.

I mean, let's face it. The church, all of their major holidays they stole from Pagans anyways, like Christmas, is not. Yeah, come on, like, do some basic research. But this war on Halloween. Everyone's crying about the war on Christmas that actually doesn't exist because nobody really gives a shit.

We've all given up and accepted run for three months, and we're all going to have to listen to that song. I'm not going to say so that in your song. There seems to be an actual war on this particular holiday and they need to ease up because you can't win this one. At its core. It involves children and candy.

You cannot win America. No. Well, but the thing is like something that they'll be like, they won't call it Halloween. They'll be like, oh, it's a harvest celebration. I'm like, that sounds way more like you're about to sacrifice some cattle.

Yeah, Halloween. It's ridiculous. Also, I do want to give it. There's a great podcast called It's Always Halloween that's hosted by this fabulous lady named Lucey Tomlin Brenner. For anybody that wants to get in kind of the fun nitty gritties of the holiday, go to that.

But guys, this has been so much fun. I kind of almost would love to do a part too, just because like your picks were so phenomenal and like, you know, I'm like, just when I think like, oh I've heard it all, I hear more and I love it. I'm very excited to listen to the choices you will both have brought up. I'm always interested in more and more Halloween music, so bring on more and more Halloween music. Also, everyone go to the Spotify list, listen to that that Halloween music, and then make that your list that you play at your party.

We guarantee you it'll be the best helling party you've ever past. Exactly nobody will egg your house when you go with the noise chunkies. But before we wrap up real quick, guys, what was or if you were trigger treating now, what is like your favorite piece of candy to get in your little Jack a Lantern pail? Ooh? Probably well, I mean, besides the obvious, the random house that would give you a full size candy bar as opposed to the fund size that was always a treat.

But for me, I think probably Reese's peanut butter cups because that was also my dad's favorite candy and I always I think of him when whenever I crack what opened or just I mean, I don't know. The odd Hershey Bars is fine. I would say the least favorite at the time was any candy that had almonds in it. I hated almonds in my candy when I was a kid, I needed everything almond free. And one year I got a candy apple and it was awful.

It turned me off from candy apples permanently. I could never have one after that. So, but probably Peanu part of Cops, I would say, what's your favorite, Heather, Oh my god? Well, coincidentally, one of my favorites Riesa's as well. I love that is still like my like I'm the biggest, just that my vice are the Rees's my second favorite.

Though. There was a gum I don't know if they still make it called rain Blow, which sounds terrible that I'm saying it, but it was like that best coum like you get like a little pack like different colored balls called rain Blow. I just I feel like Serge Gainsburg wrote a song about this. Now that I'm saying all this out loud, but it's a good gum. And I was six flets, do you guys are ever six flets?

Like the tiny little chocolate like, oh, those were so good, you know I was. My least favorite is those I think they're called Mary Jane's, like the generic looking orange and black rappers. That shit is from Satan Balls. It is terrible, Like I'm willing to raise your bar against that shit because the candy was nasty. I got like a waxier version of bit of Honey.

Maybe I don't think I've ever had bit of Honey, but I did it. My best friend loved them, though, I'd give her mind, so I feel your pain there, Mary changers nasty. When I was trick or treating, there was a house at the top of the street and that was intimidating, and none of the kids strickly treated there. And but if you did, you received cash. Yeah, you get five dollars.

That was my favorite trick or treating I am. Yeah. There was physicians at the top of the street and they just had their light off, but if you braved the fucking short walk to the door, they'd give you a finif fe as candies go. As a kid, I was all about the the Three Musketeers bar. It's good.

Yeah. I not only loved that candy bar, I just loved the Three Musketeers, so it was perfect. But oh that new good in the chalk was perfect. And they used to be so huge candy bars. I know, I was a kid, so everything was bigger, but the candy itself was massive then it was.

It was density to it, even a something as fluffy as nargain. That's true. I would my kingdom for the old, the original peanut butter twigs, like because they oh yeah, oh yeah, oh God, don't make them anymore. Well, they brought it back at one point, but they didn't taste as good. I'm just like, I think they fudged with the recipe.

But like the a the og peanut butter twigs that sh had crack in it. Oh my god, my king. I remember going to see pet Cemetery at the drive in with my grandparents and like, my grandmother was that like wasn't the warmest person, but she brought she had she brought like a box and she had him in the cooler. And I was so afraid to ask for one though, because she would get she had kind of a temper, and she also was very fat, shamey. It's not the happiest story, but I just I couldn't focus on the movie though, because I was like, I want one of those twigs.

But I was like, I just try to ask. That's sad. I'm sorry, there's my sad. Sorry, but those twigs were so good. I was like, glad somebody else remembers the og peanut butter twigs.

I do. Yeah, five bucks? Fuck, I mean getting a five or now, I think as a kid would be great, but like that is awesome. Also, I feel for you on the candy apple HP candy apples. I love the look of them, Like I think they're beautiful to look at, but like I think that like if somebody hates molars, that shit is a I mean, you might as well just eat a rock with sugar on.

It is so hard to bite through. Yeah, basically you're already crunching into the apple. Like, let's put a layer of glass over that, now, do it. It's like I used to love Swedish fish, but we took to calling them filling polars because there was nothing that would ruin a filling in your tooth and chomping on a Swedish fish. It would just like suck it right out of your tooth.

It was awful. I can never eat them out. It was a general star in my neighborhood called Ti Pietro's. It was this tiny little grocers and he had Penny candy where I would walk in with five dollars and say give me five hundred sweetest fish, and the son of a bitch would count them out, one by make your way. I would have settled for a couple of handfuls, Like what the fuck did I know?

It would have been the more fish than I could ever eat, but I would eat them, but he counted out every last one. God bless them. And I think Penny candy should make a comeback and you can still get it, like when I would go to the Cape with my family, Like there's a lot of the tourist places there they have Penny candy and it's every bit as good as you remember it was. But then again you get stuff like those Mary Jane canons, and it's like it always feels like some throwback to when candy was like, you know, industrially, you know, like it was not much flavor to it. It's like the great Russian.

Here's candy. It's it's vaguely sweet. Enjoy it. Yeah, you know what they used to be called a bustos. Choes be so disappointed if somebody said I'm giving you candy and they handed you that.

If I did my own version of Dante's Inferno, you know how the very last layer of hell is like a demon in a like a lake of ice. Yeah, like it would be a lake of circus peanuts. That ship is Oh, I can't with candy corn sauce. I love Actually, I love candy corn. I'm not gonna hear it.

I do too. Yeah, very maligned. I agree. Candy corn is good. That regular corn is nasty.

Cream corn is really nasty. I have issues, but I do. I like it. It's you know, it's not the flashiest candy. It's not very it's not like a gourmet piece of candy.

But it gets the job done. It's tasty. What are you gonna do it? It's candy cornelloween. I'm sorry if our tastes are too proletariat for you alone, they're too bougie for following the load over there us pearls.

It gets the job done, then, marketing genius. It's not the flashiest, but it gets the job done. The job is diabetes now, I oh man, Well, guys. Before before we we blow the light out of this Jack o' lantern, let's plug some stuff, because come on, I am the the luckiest Halloween houses because I work with two super creatives who are amazing, and I want to I want you guys to tell me in the audience, what have you been working on? Go up to a weirdingwaymedia dot com.

That's where you'll hear Midnight Viewing, the Night Gallery podcast that I do with Projection Booths, Mike White and Culture Cast Cristash. I also do a radio drama called Dark Destinations. We're gearing up for a new I don't know, not a season, but something's on the way. Go over there and check out those things. I also do something with HP, which he should plug because I'm very proud of what we're doing over there.

I will pick up what you're putting down. Yeah. So I do the Night Mister Walters Taxi podcast with Father alone, new episodes every couple of weeks. I also have some involvement in Dark Destinations. I'm proud to do a little bit of music for that.

Also occasionally guest on Culture Cast with Chris and company, and I'm very proud of that. As well, and I also have if you're so inclined, I have a band camp site called hpmusicplace dot bandcamp dot com. I got a couple of albums up there. Maybe some more stuff coming soon, but yeah, if you want to check out some audio nonsense, please do. But that's what I got.

What do you got going on? Heather's what's going on on your neck of the woods? Oh my goodness, well it's the news is officially out. Vinigar Syndrome are doing this beautiful blu ray restoration of Michael Finley's nineteen sixties rouffy Grindhouse. I'll call it art House Classic The Flesh Trilogy, which is Touch of Her Flesh, Curse of Her Flesh, and Kiss of Her Flesh and basically the proto slashers with like mad jazz, poetry and debauchery.

And I love them. And I was blessed enough to get to do not one, not two, but three commentary tracks. I've got to do your commentary fret for each movie. There's also an essay of mine that is in the booklet. There's also contributions by the great Lisa Patucci who from Something Where Video.

Lisa is a Goddess and the wonderful lizbet Chill from over from Ask Anybody Pod, and I'm very excited about that. I also just it's I don't know, it should be out by the time this gets posted. I just recently wrote an article for Arrow Films website about Lucio Fulci's House by the Cemetery, which is a great pick for the Halloween season. In general. If you go over to my patreon, which is Mondo Heather, I just did an article, as I mentioned earlier, about Genesis.

I do film writing over there. I do kind of a little bit of everything at general. You can go to my website Mondoheather dot com, finance, social media, and of course wonderful podcasts like this one and Projection Booth and culture Cast, among others. So yeah, so thank you guys. Filmed in Situate, Massachusetts, Yes, yes it was.

It's crazy though, because I believe it isn't Situate like it's like a seaside town. No, it's not seaside necessarily. It has canals that link you to the ocean, and some of it has some beach, but the main part of Situate, the part you see in the movie, is pretty landlocked. I spent a lot of time in situation. Okay, well, see like I like when you're from Arkansas that is basically seaside canals.

I mean, our beaches here are attached to some very rocky ass lakes and creeks that that hate little feet, and I can tell you I've lost many of I've lost some tiny little flip flops and some of those lakes as a kid. So sorry for polluting the earth, but I didn't know any better. But you know what doesn't pollute the earth? Halloween Recycle your rappers people, and thank you guys so much for this podcast, and thank you listeners for joining us. I hope we get to be a part of your new Halloween ritual and you're listening ritual in general and maybe even inspired some new celebration for your Halloween season.

So, without further an ado, thank you guys for listening, and until next time, we are your noise junkies. Got the Yelloween