Welcome to Mark’s Musical May Mondays! - MA-115 – Crazy, Man!

            Every Monday this month we’ll have a new musical compilation for your delectation ... or in this week’s instance, for your delerium.

Crazy, Man!

Musical Therapy for the Disconnected

             As you can tell from the subtitle of this collection, these songs all relate to one topic, going a little wacky.  

 

            Here’re our songs:

01 - Captain Howdy - Simon Stokes   1974  (3:15)

02 - Far Side of Crazy - Wall of Voodoo   1985  (4:00)

03 - I Go Psycho! - Zombina and the Skeletones   2008  (1:16)

04 - Half Life - King Black Acid   2002  (4:15)

05 - I´m Mental - Blind Date   1983  (3:55)

06 - Psycho Surgery - The Conservatives   1983  (2:57)

07 - I'm a Nut - Leroy Pullins   1966  (2:28)

08 - The Eye of Madness - The Visitor   1981  (3:32)

09 - I'm Paranoid - Bad Checks   1982  (2:54)

10 - Little Man in My Head - Dead Milkmen   1990  (3:48)

11 - Psycho - The Nozems   1991  (2:38)

12 - Hallucinations - Baker Knight and the Knightmares   1967  (2:53)

13 - Frontal Lobotomy - The Degrads   1983  (2:54)

14 - Madhouse - The Professionals   1981  (3:16)

15 - Psycho - The Sonics   1965  (2:15)

16 - I Wanna Come Back (from the World of LSD) - The Fee-Fi-Four Plus Two   1967  (2:17)

17 - Man in the Box - V2   1978  (4:10)

18 - Madman - Cuddy Toys   1980  (3:08)

19 - They Won't Let My Girlfriend Talk to Me - Jimmy and the Boys   1981  (3:14)

20 - Worm in My Brain - The Weather Prophets   1988  (3:43)

21 - Lobotomy - The Sharks   1979  (2:54)

22 - The Rubber Room - Porter Wagoner   1971  (2:40)

23 - The Paranoids Are Coming - Geza X and the Mommymen   1982  (3:12)

24 - Call Me Crazy - FroSTed   1995  (3:55)

25 - Don't Make Me Move - PIC   1985  (3:20)

            Some are familiar to those of us with a humorous musical bent (“bent” – see what I did there?), although I hope many of the tunes are as new and delightful to you as they were to me upon first discovering them.

            Our cover art:

·         The guy on the left is, of course, a fine fellow who’s convinced he’s Napoleon.  The original art came from here.

·         The center guy is Psycho Weasel, one of the Toon Patrol from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.  In turn, the weasels of the Toon Patrol were based on the sneaky weasel characters of Disney’s 1949 Wind in the Willows animated feature.

·         Our right-hand man is, of course, the Joker, Batman’s nemesis.  The image comes from a 1966 Topps set, which was launched to cash in on the popularity of the ABC-TV show.

And the key to the madhouse is here. UPDATED 2021 LINK

            Well, that’s all for now, folks!  Come back next Monday!