Some scare-tacular listening for All Hallow's Eve 2014

Even though I'm focusing on my movie blog right now, I had to come back with some scary albums for Halloween. Some of these are actually kind of frightening, but most are just silly. They're all out of the Obscuro! radio program vaults, from my numerous Halloween theme shows.


1. Anton LaVey - 'Strange Music' EP

The founder of the Satanic Church (and author of the Satanic Bible) is also, hilariously, fairly proficient on the pipe organ. He has another album of mostly instrumental stuff called 'The Devil Takes a Holiday,' and it's pretty funny to me that this dude obviously can poke fun at himself. Anyhow, the majority of these tunes are his versions on old standards (i.e. 'Gloomy Sunday.') It's not great, but it's totally the type of thing you can throw on at a Halloween party.


2. Lucifer - 'Black Mass'

Electronic music pioneer Mort Garson did this album under the Satanic pseudonym, presumably because it's darker music than his other stuff. If you like the horror-movie synth soundtracks of the 80's, or the library music stuff I've posted here, you'll probably dig this. I did feature it in a previous Halloween post, but the blog I linked to for a download is apparently long-gone, so I re-uploaded it myself.


3. The Elm Street Group - 'Freddy's Greatest Hits'

Of all the dumbed-down horror movie merchandise to come out of the 80's ('Toxic Crusaders,' anyone?) this might take the cake for stupidest. Some no-name studio musicians concocted these run-of-the-mill synth-pop tunes (many of which are covers of 50's and 60's novelty songs) and somehow got Robert Englund (aka Freddy Krueger) to lend his voice to them. It's all pretty bad, but 'Do The Freddy' at least has novelty appeal. I guess by '87, the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' franchise was pretty much a joke anyways.


4. Moevot - 'Ézléýfbdréhtr Vépréùb Zùérfl Màzàgvàtre Érbbédréà'

Okay, THIS is genuinely scary. An anonymous 'black metal' musician, whose music sounds more like recordings from inside a long-buried tomb than actual metal. I guess it's not to dissimilar from the ambient tracks on Burzum albums, just....way more poorly recorded. And it's got these weird groaning vocals that sound like a ghost. I dunno. It's fascinating, if nothing else.


Happy Halloween, y'all....

Society's Fault 11-1-13 SPOOKY SHOW #2

Even FURTHER past the holiday, here's the second Halloween show we did. This one, in my opinion, might be even better. So, if you're still in the mood for some scary shit, check it out...otherwise, the next podcast will be back to the regs.

Society's Fault 11-1-13 SPOOKY SHOW #2 by Bizarrojerry on Mixcloud

Society's Fault 10-25-13 SPOOKY SHOW #1

Welllll, it's a little late, but DEAL WITH IT. Here's the Halloween edition of Society's Fault. We actually had so much spooky material that it turned into two shows, the second of which you will hear next week. This one's got classics like the obvious 'Halloween' by Dead Kennedys, and some deep cuts like 'Ow, My Finger!' by the Screamin' Mee-Mees...also, PLENTY of horror movie clips and trailers, and satanic nonsense! Enjoy...if you DARE!

Society's Fault 10-25-13 SPOOKY SHOW #1 by Bizarrojerry on Mixcloud

'casts.

Three more Obscuro! podcasts from times past.

Episode 39 - 10-16-09 GUEST DJ MATT WOOD

Obscuro 10-16-09 featuring guest DJ Matt Wood by Bizarrojerry on Mixcloud

Tracklist:

This Heat - Horizontal Hold
Bent Bolt and the Nuts - Mechanical Man
Wild Man Fischer - Circle
Stomach Pains - A-Bombs
Sapat - Lovely and Free
Aphrodite's Child - Altamont
Residents - Seasoned Greetings
Harry Perry - Skate Dance
Jandek - The Way that You Act
The Tinklers - Norman Meyer
The Tinklers - Elenor Bumpers
Exuma - Damn Fool
The That's - Pap Smear
Fifty Foot Hose - God Bless the Child
Arles - Pretty Girl
Neal Burris - The Sissy Song
Raven - Back to Ohio Blues
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - Twilight Zone
The New Creation - Yet Still Time
Fresh Maggots - Frustration
Bobb Trimble - Night at the Asylum
John Strand - Remembering Laci
Cockadoodledoo and Mother Goose, Too - Pussy
Cockadoodledoo and Mother Goose, Too - Crooked Man
Cockadoodledoo and Mother Goose, Too - King of Spain
Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson - Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphey's Ovaltine?
Sound Ceremony - School
Armand Schaubroeck Steals - Scene 12 - Mental Breakdown

Episode 40 - 10-23-09

Obscuro 10-23-09 by Bizarrojerry on Mixcloud

Tracklist:

Creepy John Thomas - This is My Body
Dead Raven Choir - A Rosebud in June
Oliver - Cat and the Rat
Frankie Laine - The Cry of the Wild Goose
Gore - Chainsaw (Live)
Emmanuel Dilhac - Le Rognon de Silex
Bitter Blood Street Theatre - Kyros
Simon Finn - Big White Car
Big Star - Big Black Car
Frank Zappa - It Just Might Be a One Shot Deal
Little Howlin' Wolf - E.T. Blues
Barbie and Ken - Nobody Taught Me
Bill Bissett and th' Mandan Massacre - Th' Book is Insyde Hr Head
The Bachs - Minister to a Mind Diseased
Secret Chiefs 3 - The Electromagnetic Azoth
Madrigal - Stoned Freakout
Chrome - Sun Control
Lee Hazlewood - Hey Cowboy
Residents - Lizard Lady
Alien City - Between the Lines (Ruby's Blues)
Debris - Leisurely Waiting
Palmer Rockey - Unknown Track
Oliver - Getting Fruity
Walrus - Girl Like You
The Electronic Hole - The Golden Hour II
Cardiacs - The Obvious Identity
Eddie Murray - Stepping High Dance
Krackhouse - Burger King Town
Afflicted Man - Glue Sniffing

Episode 41 - 10-30-09 BIZARRO JERRY'S DEVIL'S NIGHT SPECTACULAR

Obscuro 10-30-09 Bizarro Jerry's Devil's Night Spectacular by Bizarrojerry on Mixcloud

Tracklist:

Desmond Dekker - Dracula
Vampire Kiss - Spooky House
Samhain - All Murder, All Guts, All Fun
Robbie the Werewolf - Vampire Man
Jan Terri - Get Down Goblin
Burzum - Jesus' Tod
Groovie Ghoulies - Do the Bat
Celtic Frost - Inner Sanctum
Esham - Red Rum
Destroy All Monsters - You're Gonna Die
Dracula's - Tanz der Vampires
Sebastian Peabody - Grave in the Desert
Goblin - Sighs
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Up Jumped the Devil
Type O Negative - Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)
Jack Starr - Halloween Party
Mighty Sphincter - The New Manson Family
Residents - Sinister Exaggerator
The Misfits - Return of the Fly
Mortician - Devoured Alive
Dr. Octagon - Earth People
The Surfmen - The Ghost Hop
Electric Wizard - Barbarian
Freddy Krueger and Friends - Do the Freddy
Coven - Dignitaries of Hell
Bobb Trimble - Night at the Asylum

'Alternative' soundtrack to your holiday season (Halloween, that is)

Here's a nice little list (complete with listening samples) of some spooky music you can play to freak out your guests/trick-or-treaters this Halloween. It's not your traditional 'ghoulish laughter/church organ' combo, but it'll get the job done.

First, this fucked-up album:
I'm not really sure who Don Bradshaw-Leather is, but this is some pretty wacked out stuff. Kind of like the soundtrack to an imaginary horror film, the music ranges from atmospheric electronic stuff to spacey psychedelic jamming. It's a double-LP, but only has like, 2 songs or something. Here's side one of the first record, aka "The Distance Between Us, Part 1."

Next, we've got some black metal:
Not just any black metal, though; the blackest of ALL metal. That's right--Burzum from Norway. This shit is intense, creepy, and wholly evil. Check out this background info about its one and only member, Varg Vikernes, if you don't believe me. With all the pagan mythology that went into this, it's the perfect soundtrack to fall as a whole. While in prison, Varg recorded some atmospheric synthesizer albums that are actually pretty Halloween-y, but Filosofem is the classic. Check out the song "Jesus' Tod."

Of course, some Residents:Basically any album by this group is going to be creepy, but Duck Stab is where they perfected the creepy electronic pop that makes up about 1/3 of their recorded output. Sure, anybody interested can know who the Residents are nowadays, but they'll always be the eyeball-clad weirdos to me. Listen to "Hello Skinny," one of the creepiest tunes here.

This one's pretty good too:
These fellas and lady are Coven, a mid-60's psychedelic band that slightly resembled Jefferson Airplane. They were also practicing witches and warlocks (those terms are right, I think?) and wrote a lot about that sort of stuff. Their album is called Witchcraft Destroys Minds and Reaps Souls. DEFINITELY Halloween-y, especially the final track which is supposedly a live recording of a Satanic mass. I'll probably save that one for the Halloween show I'm putting on next week...but, here's the tune "Black Sabbath."

And, finally:
What Halloween would be complete without novelty folk tunes about vampires? The one and only Robbie the Werewolf put out this album titled Live at the Waleback in 1964. Apparently this guy was some coffee-shop beatnik and didn't put out another album, but this one's enough anyhow. Some songs are parodies of folk tunes that were popular at the time (i.e. the Kingston Trio, whose tune "Greenback Dollar" was the basis for the song I'm posting here) and some are Robbie's own creations. Regardless, it's all good monster-loving fun. Here's "Vampire Man."

That's it for now. Be sure to tune in tomorrow night (Thursday) from midnight til 2 am for another edition of Obscuro! And of course, tune in next week for the Halloween extravaganza, which will feature spooky music of all kinds.

Here's the Obscuro! podcast page.