Are You Thirsty?

You might be satisfied with this 2000 release, but I feel parched.

01. Thunderstorm Night (5:03)

02. Vampire Song (4:50)

03. Killing Screams (7:24)

04. Dracula's Castle (5:33)

05. Bloodless Face (7:01)

06. Vampire Dance (5:15)

07. Nightmare (5:04)

08. Offering Dance (4:59)

09. Bloody Flood (5:19)

10. Feelings of Fright (5:21)

Wow, what a disappointment!  The vocals over the not-scary beats are over the top.  Some of the sound effects are from Disney’s Haunted House record, I would swear.  The “laughing” heard in the track “Vampire’s Dance” sounds like the laugh of Robby the Werewolf run through a distorter.

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Does Track Two Describe Her Legs?

That's for YOU to decide, in this fun little diversion from 1992

01. Jack the Ripper (3:56)

02. All Black and Hairy (2:28)

03. Charlotte's Remains (4:23)

04. Dinner with Drac (3:19)

05. Night of the Phantom (2:50)

06. The Witch (2:39)

07. Happy Halloween (2:22)

08. D.O.R. (5:52)

09. Cellar Dweller (3:22)

10. I'm the Wolfman (2:40)

11. She's My Witch (3:19)

12. Goin' to a Graveyard (2:33)

13. Night of the Vampire (4:26)

14. Horror Asparagus Stories (2:28)

15. (Bonus Track) (1:53)

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If It's Spooky, It's a Wonder!

It's a 1974 release for the kiddies ... aren't we all?

01. There Is a Haunted House in Town (2:19)

02. Around the Block and Up the Street (1:07)

03. Ghoul Days, Ghoul Days (1:36)

04. We Are the Witches Three (2:26)

05. Bats in the Belfry (1:14)

06. As the Witches Go Flying Along (1:22)

07. A Halloween Song (1:29)

08. The Pumpkin Man (1:14)

09. Halloween Is All Around (1:34)

10. I've Been Working on My Costume (3:09)

11. It's a Good Old Halloween (1:50)

12. Halloween Friends (2:50)

13. The Pumpkin on the Vine (0:52)

14. Have a Happy Halloween (1:21)

15. Twinkle, Twinkle Candlelight (0:56)

16. Trick or Treat (1:36)

They keep talking about scaring people, but this is so corny that I can’t even figure how these performers finished a take without collapsing in embarrassment, or just running away.

The instrumentation sounds like a ten-dollar organ from TG&Y, circa 1958.  With a couple of bells and slide whistles thrown in for more cringe.

If you were about six when this came out in 1974, it might have been just your thing!

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There's No Age Like a Morgue-Age!

Yup, the second of three new Halloween-music comps for this year.

01 - Gonna Go Down (To See My Baby) - The Rainbows - 1962  (1:59)

02 - Blood - Zro4 - 1980  (3:25)

03 - Brecon Beacons - Supergrass - 2023  (2:53)

04 - Frankensteiner Polka - Eddie Lawrence - 1958  (2:20)

05 - Nightmares - Art August and the Dorian-Aires - 1965  (2:09)

06 - Supernature - Cerrone - 1977  (3:52)

07 - Barnabas - The Merrymen of Barbados - 1968  (3:47)

08 - My Girlfriend's Ghost - The Oil Tasters - 1982  (3:11)

09 - The Birds Is Coming - Louis Jones with the Bobby Scott Orchestra - 1963  (2:04)

10 - The Hearse - Paul Chaplain - 1967  (1:26)

11 - Boo! Boo! Boo! Here Comes the Loch Ness Monster - The Connecticut Collegians - 1934  (2:23)

12 - Zombies Dance in the Night - Alberta Jordan - 1956  (2:27)

13 - The Invisible Thing - The Casual Three - 1958  (2:45)

14 - Do the Standing Still (Classics Illustrated) - Table - 1977  (2:59)

15 - Demon Lover - Lyn Cornell - 1960  (2:58)

16 - Nightmare - Billy Sills - 1958  (2:31)

17 - Zombie Stomp - Billy Gholston - 1963  (2:22)

18 - Haunted House - The Other Side - 1985  (2:54)

19 - Tombstone - Johnny Darcy - 1958  (2:49)

20 - Life After Death - Funboy Five - 2009  (3:12)

21 - Cannibal Dolls - Land of Giants - 1982  (3:29)

22 - Did You Ever See My Ghoul - Rod Derrett - 1965  (1:53)

23 - Graveyard Paradise - 126 - 1967  (2:59)

24 - Graveyard - Leroy Bowman and the Arrows - 1958  (2:07)

25 - Year Without a Halloween - Lugosi's Morphine - 2006  (2:48)

26 - Halloween Is All Around Us - Golden Records - 2012  (1:22)

27 - The Wind and More - Roky Erickson - 1979  (4:07)

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A Tame Nightmare

It's a 1962 release.

01. The Tell-Tale Heart (1:50)

02. Invasion of the Locusts (2:16)

03. The Loft (2:29)

04. Ghost Ship (1:56)

05. The Watery Grave (2:02)

06. Chamber of Horrors (2:05)

07. The Red-Eyed Rats (2:23)

08. The Shaft (2:01)

09. Werewolf (1:33)

10. Living Tomb (2:17)

11. The Chase (2:07)

12. Monster Meet (1:54)

It's patterned after Creed Taylor's SHOCK and PANIC releases, but this is pretty tame (and therefore pretty lame).

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See you on Monday, my putrid pussyfooters!

  

It's a Fun Curse!

You'll see!

It's a two-disc extravaganza from those Monster Mash-Up guys!   Monster Mashup is a free annual Halloween album started in 2004. Collect all albums on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/monstermashupalbum

This here is a 2012 release.  I equalized the volume and made sure the metadata was kosher.

The Curse of Monster Mashup, Disc 1 (68:43)

01. LeeDM101 - Midnight Moon (3:51)

02. ShyBoy - Thriller Has It (4:43)

03. Voicedude - Strange and Scary Love (5:34)

04. Budtheweiser - Scream Barbera (2:41)

05. DJ BC - Ghost Wobble (5:06)

06. Solcofn - Zombie Planet (6:11)

07. Johnny - Sweet Transvestite Face (3:11)

08. Brutal Redneck - Lily Monster Aquaviva (3:33)

09. Thriftshop XL - Bring the Noise and Kill and Noise (3:37)

10. Voicedude - Nightmare Maybe (5:08)

11. Cheekyboy - Its Halloween! (5:19)

12. S.I.R. - Ghostbusters (Turn Me On) (3:32)

13. Fettdog - Texas Whip 'Em (2:57)

14. Voicedude - Goblin Style (3:40)

15. Levi Tretschinken - Their Thoughts Can Kill (3:19)

16. Scott Cairo - Jezzbellend (3:29)

17. Stefano Ercolino - The Thing (2:51)

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The Curse of Monster Mashup, Disc 2 (73:19)

01. Budtheweiser & Frogthedawg - Frog The Dawg Tribute Mix (54:02)

02. Voicedude - Scary Cuda (3:43)

03. DJ Useo - The Tremendous Pain Kill (3:34)

04. Stefano Ercolino - Ghostbusters (4:16)

05. Cheekyboy - Diary of a Madmash (3:12)

06. Cheekyboy - (secret track) Monster Mash Up Inc (demo) (4:32)

It's all in one bog file.  Or maybe a BIG file.

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Welcome to SPOOKY SPOCK-TOBER!

 Yup, my friends, that magical time has arrived.  The time we wait for all year.  That glorious celebration of ... MY BIRTHDAY!

Oops, that was TUESDAY.  Now it's October, time for ... SPOOKY SPOCK-TOBER!

Here's the first of three new music compilations for this creepy month ...

... with a bunch of critters to get ya in the mood.

01 - Lizard Man - Jim Nesbitt - 1988  (2:16)

02 - Twist with the Yeti - Fia Chaplin - 1962  (2:40)

03 - Eighth Wonder - Lemon Demon - 2009  (3:52)

04 - The Abominable Snow-Man - The Copycats - 1960  (2:52)

05 - Kelpie - Jethro Tull - 1979  (3:35)

06 - Beast of Busco - Grave Robber - 2015  (3:35)

07 - Bigfoot Motel - The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy - 1982  (3:55)

08 - Curse of the Bog People - Lunatic Fringe - 1985  (2:03)

09 - Chupacabras - Groovie Ghoulies - 1997  (1:25)

10 - Big Feet - Sierra Rhythms - 1978  (2:47)

11 - Beast of Gévaudan - Powerwolf - 2021  (3:32)

12 - Mason County Mothman - Anne McCoy - 1969  (1:41)

13 - Jackalope - The Okee Dokee Brothers - 2016  (2:56)

14 - Swamp Gal - Tommy Bell - 1959  (2:11)

15 - The Bunyip’s Gonna Get You - Dot and the Kangaroo - 1977  (3:02)

16 - Running with Bigfoot - Groovie Ghoulies - 1997  (2:35)

17 - Honey Island Swamp Monster - John Farr Jr - 2022  (2:00)

18 - Fouke Monster - Billy Cole and the Fouke Monsters - 1971  (2:36)

19 - Bearilla Woman - Leroy Thomas - 2010  (2:39)

20 - Lake Monsters - They Might Be Giants - 2018  (2:58)

21 - Mothman - Mike West - 2009  (3:36)

22 - I'm the Monster of Loch Ness - Leslie Holmes - 1934  (1:57)

23 - Loveland Frogman - Fangs and Twang - 2017  (5:11)

24 - The Legend of the Jersey Devil - Country-Ghost - 2024  (3:09)

25 - Where Are all the Bigfoot Bones - Filthy Still - 2015  (2:27)

26 - Big Foot Stomp - Asleep at the Wheel - 1987  (3:34)

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This installment is about critters of folklore and rumor, from the well-known Bigfoot or Nessie to more obscure ones like Arkansas’ Fouke Monster or the Frogman of Loveland, Ohio.

See you Monday!  Welcome to the season of spooks!