NIGHTMARES AND NIGHTSTALKERS
1:6 HORROR/ SCI FI CUSTOM ACTION FIGURE FUN
SONGS TO CHILL BY...
Greetings, my little stink-bugs! If you are a cultured music afficianado like ol' Uncle Deadly, then you like to inflict your music and share suggestions to others who may not have heard some of your favorite little ditties.
Lucky for you I made a nice horror playlist right here for you to leave up in the background. It's got a lot of my horror favorites on it (at least of the ones that were available from the site I could find)and other favorite horror soundtrack songs.
Here's a few other choice horror song recommendations for you to find whenever you need a little more mood music to get you through your SLAY you may not have heard of...
"Lochness", "Nightcrawler"- Judas Priest "Lochness, confess, the terror of the deep". Best-song-EVER! (sniff)
> "HOWLING"- Moorcheeba, from "Who Can You Trust". This slow, haunting, song is about waiting for the change... but which kind? YOU decide! A bitten victim waiting for their transformation, or the dinner about to meet the diner! Bon-appetite!
> "WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE"- The entire 1975 horror concept album by Alice Cooper.
Alice again? You may be suspecting some favoritism because of Alice's hosting the Muppet Show some years ago (just so we could work together, awwwwwww), but you couldn't be MORE wrong. Plain and simple, this whole album is complete magic. And I should know!
This "concept" album, (where the album tells a story), is inspired by Alice's earlier hit "Ballad of Dwight Frye". Here, Alice and producer, Bob Ezrin, ("The Wall") stretched the idea of an inmate in an insane asylum out for a full album, giving us a bunch of Alice's greatest horror songs ever- from the opening song from inside the asylum "Welcome to my Nightmare", to the dark song of a cannibal in "Devils Food", to my other friend- the one and only Vincent Price- in his first appearance on a rock album, PRE-Michael Jackson (Price did it HERE FIRST!) as the creepy curator in "Black Widow", where Price's performace is worth the price of the album itself.
"Some Folks" is a snappy little ditty bar-patrons could throw their arms around each other and sing in a pub together... that is, 'till you realize what Alice is ACTUALLY singing about and you start to see hints as to why why our man "Steven" just might be in the asylum to begin with.
The fun goes on all the way to the album's end as we learn Steven's secrets. This is great, great stuff. Take Uncle Deadly's word on that. And smack in the middle of it? "Department of Youth"!!!!! A rousing teen anthem second only to Alice's earlier hit "School's Out"--- which has NOTHING to do with the accursed story!!! Wha---? Couldn't they throw it at the end of the album AFTER Steven's story was over? Curse the wacky '70's! Curse them to Hell!
One of my favorite horror experiences has always been seeing Alice Cooper live in concert. If you're on this site, you must be a horror fan to some degree, and so I want to suggest a DVD for you that is hopefully an entirely new horror experience for you.
I had always heard seeing Alice Cooper in concert was something amazing because he's so theatrical and because of the horror stage-show he puts on, the costume changes, the props, but had never gotten a chance to see him live. One Halloween my cable company was smart enough to offer his Brutally Live DVD as a pay-per-view concert, and it was easily one of the greatest concerts I had seen, and upon owning it has now become an annual Halloween tradition for me (though it gets played a lot more often that that)!
The Brutally Live tour, recorded in July 2000 at the Hammersmith Apollo, London, is the greatest culmination of Alices horror work on tour from when he was out touring to support, what was for me, his last great horror concept album, BRUTAL PLANET. It proved beyond a doubt why his horror shows were said to be so amazingly atmospheric and creepy. Lot's of good Cooper songs here, as well as as all of the classic concert staples Cooper fans have come to expect like his singing from a straight-jacket in an insane asylum from "Ballad of Dwight Fry" to getting beheaded for his crimes on the guilottine, to his eltimate ressurrection. So the next night you're planning a horror night with your DVD player, whether you're familiar with a lot of Alice's work or not, do yourself a favor and pick up Brutally Live to see whay all the commotion has been about.
Track listing:
1. Brutal Planet, 2. Gimme, 3. Go to Hell, 4. Blow Me a Kiss, 5. I'm Eighteen, 6. Pick Up the Bones,7. Feed My Frankenstein,
8.
Wicked Young Man, 9. Dead Babies, 10. Ballad of Dwight Fry, 11. I Love
the Dead, 12. Black Widow, 13. No More Mr. Nice Guy, 14. It's Hot
Tonight, 15. Caught in a Dream, 16. It's the Little Things, 17. Poison,
18. Take It Like a Woman,19. Only Women Bleed, 20. You Drive Me
Nervous, 21. Under My Wheels, 22. School's Out, 23. Billion Dollar
Babies 24. My Generation, 25. Elected
