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Perrin’s Big Old Crazy Scary Halloween Music Fest 2019 – New and Disproved!

31 Thursday Oct 2019

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Music for that scary night when all the little Bernie Sanders wannabes come calling:

Note: some of these links may have been disabled or changed. Sorry. Think of it as a suggestion list if nothing else.

Now: the music for Great Pumpkin Night:

Werewolves of London, Warren Zevon, 1978.

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Zevon (RIP)/Asylum.

Werewolves, Alternate Take, Zevon, 2007 Release. I know more than a few people don’t like this version. Then again, more than a few people can be wrong. Cool, jazzy, and you always have the ability to listen to the damned original…

Long Cool Woman, The Hollies, 1971. No Halloween, per se, but fits with:

Devil Woman, Cliff Richard, 1976.

Evil Woman, ELO, 1975. All these women…

Witchy Woman, The Eagles, 1972. More women…

Self Control, Laura Branigan version, RIP, beautiful, 1984. The best-looking artist on the list.

Legend of Wooley Swamp, Charlie Daniels Band, 1980. Lucius Clay approves.

David Pumpkins – Elevator Skit, SNL and Tom Hanks, 2016. Not a song. Just funny.

Monster Mash, Misfits, 1997. Yeah, I have trouble understanding the words too.

Mash, Original, Bobby Pickett (with Dick Clark), 1962. Classic; those facial expressions.

Dragula, Rob Zombie, 1998. Burn through ’em.

Thriller (Full), Michael Jackson, 1982. Before we knew the real MJ (RIP) horrors. With commentary from Price (RIP).

Poison, Alice Cooper, 1989. A few Cooper songs I could have gone with; I chose this one.

House of Fire, Cooper, 1989. And this one.

Ghost Riders in the Sky, Johnny Cash’s Version, 1979. Scary with a message.

The Time Warp, RHPS Version, Richard O’Brien, 1974. No need to suffer a theater full of freaks. (They still do that?) You’re welcome.

Sweet Transvestite, RHPS Version, Tim Curry, 1974. Probably the only trans-friendly post I’ll ever make.

Blue Moon, The Marcels, 1961. Shout if you know why I included this one.

The Zoo, Scorpions, 1980. Why not?

Nightmare on My Street, DJ Jaz Will Smith, 1988. Just remembered this one!

Pet Sematary, The Ramones, 1989. My personal favorite – possibly tied with Werewolves.

Sematary, Last Live Show, 1996. You don’t know this…

Stranger in Town, Extended Studio, Toto, 1984. Is your hero a criminal?

Uprising, Sabaton, 2010. Scary history. Great gym song!

Dr. Demento Halloween Special, Demento, Westwood One, 1986. Hour and a half of crazy.

Little Red Riding Hood, Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs, 1966. For the g-g-g-generation.

Swamp Witch, Jim Stafford, 1974. Wonder if she knew Lucious?

Purple People Eater, Sheb Worley, 1958. Currently seeking the DNC nomination…

Ghostbusters, Ray Parker, Jr., 1984. Can’t believe I didn’t have this one earlier.

…and…

Here Comes Santa Claus, Gene Autry, 1947. Oops. Too early – for another week or two…

30+ hits sure to rock the candy off the beggars!

Have a great Halloween!

The cigar-chomping, government-bashing, culture-questioning madness shall resume soon. Oh, curious about how Tom Ironsides spent a Halloween evening? Check out Chapter Ten of The Substitute.

Long Live Rock

02 Monday Sep 2019

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For now…

But there’s another sense in which rock is very nearly dead: Just about every rock legend you can think of is going to die within the next decade or so.

Yes, we’ve lost some already. On top of the icons who died horribly young decades ago — Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, John Lennon — there’s the litany of legends felled by illness, drugs, and just plain old age in more recent years: George Harrison, Ray Charles, Michael Jackson, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Prince, Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty.

Those losses have been painful. But it’s nothing compared with the tidal wave of obituaries to come. The grief and nostalgia will wash over us all. Yes, the Boomers left alive will take it hardest — these were their heroes and generational compatriots. But rock remained the biggest game in town through the 1990s, which implicates GenXers like myself, no less than plenty of millennials.

At least there was no mention of Cobain. And, the Boomers are steadily clearing out. Not all so bad.

My Apology to Darius Rucker

13 Saturday Apr 2019

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For several years, as part of my annual Masters Tournament coverage, I’ve dropped snide remarks about Darius Rucker ruining Rock Fore! Dough. In fairness to me, it really has become the Darius Rucker (and friends) Show. I recall, fondly, Cheap Trick’s dynamite delivery back in 2007. Remember waaaay back then?

But, I have to now admit that Rucker is a fine fit with the finest of festivities. Attention, RFD people: just add a little R-n-R variety if possible. Rucker and the Blowfish are pretty damned good. That I gathered from last night’s (non-RFD) concert, which also featured Sheryl Crow. It was a REM cover that convinced me. Not too bad. Rock on.

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April Serious

01 Monday Apr 2019

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Once again, April Fool’s Day caught me unprepared. But! Here’s a serious but cool interlude for the musically-minded.

Anna Fedorova is coming to South Carolina! Two dates and soon, this month. Click HER SITE for the Calendar. She’ll be in Utah later in the year.

Possibly the best Rachmaninoff pianist in the world. Mean Tchaikovsky too.

The easy on the eyes part is purely coincidental.

Happy April!

New Kicks

13 Wednesday Mar 2019

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I submitted a super-heavy column to TPC last night. Something I’ve hinted around at but never fully addressed. Perhaps my hardest-hitting one yet. That, here, when published (hopefully it will be published…).

I may have more to say on the college admissions debacle. Vox Day noted the Harvard/Asian lawsuit, which is directly related. I’ve mentioned that before – and it figures into that heavy piece that coming. And, I heard Sen. Kennedy (R[ino] – LA) on Faux talking tough. I’m reminded that Kennedy voted FOR S. 1 (2019); that touches on my soon-to-be subject as well.

In the meanwhile, I’ve been on a rock/classic rock played on a piano kick lately. Check this out:

Classic Rock on Piano and a Few Random Thoughts

17 Sunday Feb 2019

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  1. If Trump (and Limbaugh) think the Mueller team are criminals, then why aren’t they arrested as enemies of the state? We are under an emergency, aren’t we?
  2. The IQ decline is a go for TPC. More on that soon; piece submitted.
  3. Who else has never heard of “Empire” or this latest hoaxer before?
  4. Why the hell is everyone going around “rapping” these days?! The IQ thing, maybe.
  5. And … enjoy the following musical spectacular:

 

Pop Musicians Aware of Decline

26 Saturday Jan 2019

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Based on a study of their most popular songs:

Pop songs have become angrier and sadder over the past 60 years, experts say.

Researchers analysed lyrics in best-selling songs from the 1950s to 2016 to find expressions of anger and sadness had increased, while words about joy had dropped.

The US study team looked at lyrics of more than 6,000 songs from Billboard Hot 100 in each year.

These are the most popular songs in the US each year as chosen by music fans.

Imagine that. What could have possibly changed in America since the 1950s?