This release uses supposed kid voices, but they’re plainly breathy adult imitations, like Ish Kabibble in Spike Jones’s band. It wasn’t clever then, nor now. Another disgusting feature is three hundred eighty-seven uses of sound fx from The Flintstones. (I may have undercounted.)
01. Monster Mash (3:25)
02. The Purple People-Eater (3:05)
03. Dem Bones (3:30)
04. The Ghosts Go Floating (4:43)
05. The Other Day I Met a Ghoul (3:18)
06. There's a Hole in the Cauldron (2:51)
07. Five Green Goblins (2:09)
08. Mary Had a Little Spider (3:07)
09. The Monsters in Your Neighborhood (2:28)
10. Down by the Bay (3:20)
11. Five Black and Hairy Bats (3:04)
12. People Are Strange (3:58)
13. Boris the Spider (2:34)
14. R-I-N-G-O (2:41)
15. Lollipop/I Want Candy Medley (3:16)
16. Ghostbusters (3:15)
17. Monster's Holiday (3:11)
This is what happens when grown-ups try to entertain kids. Clueless grown-ups, that is. How many of you remember being a kid and a gushy grown-up tried to be all cutesy to you? Annoying, huh? Instead of simpering like a moron, just TALK to the kid.
If the performances were done “straight,” the kids would have loved it, and the listening parents or other adults wouldn’t be gagging.
On the other hand, who’d’ve expected to hear a Count Floyd imitator singing the Doors’ “People Are Strange.” Much less singing about squashing “Boris the Spider”?
See you Monday for some more witchy stuff, but more fun and less cloying.
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