Monday , November 16, 2009
Heavy Rotation, Special Halloween Edition: Celtic Frost, Cheap Trick, the Beach Boys
Celtic Frost, "The Usurper"
Um, if Halloween is not the perfect time to put a Celtic Frost song in Heavy Rotation, I have no idea when a perfect time would be. Do I really need to justify the rightness of black metal on Halloween? Thought not. (Kat)
Ghost Town DJs, "My Boo"
My "Boo"! "Ghost" Town? GET IT? HA! God, I love making bad jokes in Heavy Rotation! This track has a lot of flow and is so not scary except perhaps in an ironic sense. In fact, I'd venture to say it's probably the wimpiest Halloween-"related" track you could put here. But confounding expectations, that's what we do. P.S: Why is Halloween so hard? I can't even decide what to be this year: the Walk of Shame or a Droog? Help me. (Incidentally, "My Boo" is one of my younger sister's favorite songs, and it was her birthday recently. Happy Birthday, lil' sis!) (Kat)
Foot Village, "Bones"
This song isn't really scary at all, but if you happen to be in college and paired up with some really prissy roommate whom you can hardly stand, I'm sure blasting "Bones" at top volume would scare her off real quick-like. "Venus in Furs" by Velvet Underground has the same effect, for some reason. Also: most stuff by Pussy Galore. (Liz)
Cheap Trick, "Gonna Raise Hell"
This song isn't scary either! I didn't pick any scary songs! But "Gonna Raise Hell" is used not once but twice in the Halloween episode of Freaks and Geeks, which is a real heartbreaker, maybe the most heartbreaking of them all. The sing-along bit in the second "Gonna Raise Hell" scene totally gets me every time, partly cuz I love kids who love rock, but mostly cuz of that itchy/pained nostalgia for being the girl who can't help worrying about the bad kids getting her into trouble. A hellraiser I am not, nor will I ever be. (Liz)
The Beach Boys, "Heroes and Villains"
I really struggled with picking two Halloween-themed Heavy Rotation choices this week, seemingly a hell of a lot more than my two fellow nogoodforme.commers. Seriously, y'all should just be thankful that I didn't send along "Monster Mash" and "Purple People Eater". My main argument for including "Heroes and Villains" in our Day of the Dead mix is that most people's Halloween costumes generally fall into one of the two categories; that being said, I'm dressing up as a Slutty Cat come All Hallows Eve, which is neither a hero nor a villain, though I suppose one could make an argument for either "cat"-egory if one felt so inclined. However, now that I've listened to "Heroes and Villains" a bunch of times tonight, I'm realizing that I should have just dressed up as post-nervous breakdown Brian Wilson for Halloween. What was I thinking? Slutty cats ain't got nothin' on bed-ridden alcoholic musical geniuses! Oh well. I guess that's what 2009 is for. (Laura Jane)
The United States of America, "The American Metaphysical Circus"
Actually, by the time Halloween 2009 hits, I hope and pray that I will live in Marrakech with a really hot dude, and dressing up as post-nervous breakdown Brian Wilson won't even cross my mind because I'll be so caught up in my killer hashish creativity love-cloud. Dude- I won't know even know what month it is, let alone if it's some weird made-up holiday where children dress up as ghosts and beg for potato chips or whatevs. But, let's assume I do happen to recall that it's Halloween. I think what I'd like to do would be: drive out to the middle of the desert and engage in mind-blowing, pseudo-Satanic rituals while listening to "The American Metaphysical Circus" by the United States of America over and over again. It's so SPOOKY! Okay. I'm sorry, guys. I had a really hard time with Heavy Rotation this week. (Laura Jane)
Tags: Aleister Crowley, bed-ridden alcoholic musical geniuses, birthdays, Brian Wilson, Celtic Frost, Cheap Trick, Foot Village, Freaks and Geeks, Ghost Town DJs, Halloween, Halloween 2009 ideas, James Franco, loving kids who love rock, Marrakech, seances, sisters, slutty cats
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