31 Oct 2011: it's... A Halloween Spook-tacular

[RGMike]

The younger generation redeems itself: a kid in my afternoon class just requested Care of Cell 44 from the Zombies' Odyssey and Oracle!

please email DC to let him know that younger demos appreciate '60s music. 

[RGMike]

10/31/11 - Monday! A Spook-tacular Halloween!
 
1. Danny Elfman - This Is Halloween
(TV: American Horror Story)                                        
2. Michael Jackson - Thriller
(TV: The Addams Family - Pugsley is a Boy Scout?!)
3. Johnny Otis - Casting My Spell
(Movie:The Sixth Sense-"I see dead people")
4. Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
( Movie: Return of the Living Dead)                                
5. The Cramps - Surfin' Dead
(Movie: The Silence of the Lambs - Hannibal's recipe for liver)
6. Cream - Strange Brew
7. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put a Spell On You
( Movie: Halloween)                                    
8. Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers - Monster Mash
 9. Don Hinson & the Rigamorticians - Ribloflavin Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood
(Movie: Dracula - The Count bids you, "Velcome"/ Children of the Night)
10. Bauhaus  - Bela Lugosi's Dead (B.O.S!)
(TV: South Park's Goth Kids/Movie: Beetlejuice)

[Wayback]

They just don't write TV theme songs like this anymore. BOS2 The Addams Family.  RIP John Astin--an underappreciated talent if there ever was one.

Clarification y'all, John Astin ("Gomez" of Addams Family) is still very much alive!   He's 81.

I'll catch the set tonight to see how the whole thing sounds, drop-in clips and all.   Have a ghoul evening!

[ggould]

What the frick? "Drops Of Jupiter" as the follow-up? Now, THIS is a song that doesn't ever need to get played again in any context.

An eighth grader in my class said, "I love this song!" as soon as Train came on. Bummer, it's her birthday this week. I had to at least turn it down, though.

What class do you teach where you can play 10@10?

Dogg, I do whatevah the hell I want in here, unless a higher-up or parent is in my bidness

Cool, but yeah, sad about Train.

Last year some students at my son's school (it's a K-8 charter) got together to perform Train's "Hey Soul Sister", with one kid on uke. It was cute enough (4th or 5th graders, I think), but it's a little disconcerting to hear kids singing about their untrimmed chests.

My 2nd grader also knows most of the words to that goddamn song.

Does this mean people actually listen to lyrics of Train songs?  Do I have to look it up to know what the song's about?  ewww!

well, yes, the reason I hate Train so much is because I *have* listened to their lyrics -- which are god-fucking-awful.  "Like a virgin, you're Madonna/And I'm always gonna wanna" --yeesh.

I just read the lyrics closely, and there's nothing there.  It's just as insipid as I thought it was.

[urth]

They just don't write TV theme songs like this anymore. BOS2 The Addams Family.  RIP John Astin--an underappreciated talent if there ever was one.

Clarification y'all, John Astin ("Gomez" of Addams Family) is still very much alive!   He's 81.

I'll catch the set tonight to see how the whole thing sounds, drop-in clips and all.   Have a ghoul evening!

Seriously? Jeez, I am very red-faced. I could have sworn he died a few years back. Glad to be wrong about that, of course.