By Steve Jones.
If there is one thing I love more than the macabre, it is the celebration of the macabre. Therefore, it is not surprising that Halloween is my favorite holiday. The costumes and candy are nice, but I just really enjoy a day dedicated to death, monsters, superstition, and overall spookiness. There is a lot of fun to be found in fear.
I wanted to make a slightly unusual kind of playlist for this holiday, and I settled on restricting myself to the discography of the Scottish artist Nicholas Currie, better known as Momus. Of course, doing so was not much of a "restriction"--he has almost thirty years worth of material to dig through, and he is a fantastic storyteller.
In the spirit of SPOOKY KABUKI, I have chosen 13 songs which I think reflect the dark masks, themes, and sounds of a Halloween playlist. We have disasters in space ("Landrover"), lamentations of monsters ("Dracula"), some droogs having fun ("Symphonies of Beethoven"), a pirate shanty ("Is It Because I'm a Pirate?"), classic Halloween tales ("Ichabod Crane"), the revolt of a creation against creator ("Pygmalism"), and plenty of other unsettling topics. Put this on when you're handing out candy and expand some minds.
Here's a YouTube playlist, because I don't know about you, but I use YouTube more than any other service when it comes to checking out new and unknown songs:
Playlisting (all tracks by Momus):
- Death Ruins Everything (from Hypnoprism)
- Cibachrome Blue (from Voyager)
- The Rape of Lucretia (from Circus Maximus)
- Sinister Themes (from The Ultraconformist)
- The Symphonies of Beethoven (from The Little Red Songbook)
- Landrover (from Timelord)
- Dracula (from Joemus)
- A Complete History of Sexual Jealousy: Parts 17-24 (from Slender Sherbert)
- The Thunderclown (from The Thunderclown with John Henriksson)
- Is It Because I'm a Pirate? (from Oskar Tennis Champion)
- Ichabod Crane (from Joemus)
- Bantam Boys (from Otto Spooky)
- Pygmalism (from Folktronic)
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