The Devil Cranks It To 11

And so it is... the final playlist for Satan's Super Sweet Sixteen Halloween Party. It may not be as cool as a Ferrari cake or three serial killers parodying the Three Stooges, but it might get you a wirstband for the party. Biggie Smalls, Biggie Smalls, Biggie... oooh, I can feel the hair on the back of my neck sticking up.

1. Count freakin' Chocula - Count Chocula
2. Sunn O))) - Sin Nanna
3. Southern Culture on the Skids - Zombified
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
5. C. A. Quintet - Cold Spider
6. Formerly The Warlocks - Death Dont Have No Mercy
7. The Specials - Ghost Town
8. Stevie Wonder - Superstition
9. Bad Livers - Ghost Train
10. The Ventures - The Munsters
11. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
12. Sufjan Stevens - They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhhh!
13. Dr. John and The Blues Brothers Band - Season Of The Witch
14. Jerry Garcia and David Grisman - Oh The Wind And The Rain
15. Black Mass - Exorcism
16. Oingo Boingo - Who Do You Want To Be Today
17. Strung Out - Bark At The Moon
18. Johnny Cash - Ghost Riders In The Sky
Secret Song (If you can fit it):
Miles Davis - Prince Of Darkness

Mix and Match Vol 3 submissions from Doe Javis

The Ventures - The Munsters
What can you not say about The Munsters? Or better,their theme song? What a classic tune!

Dr. John and The Blues Brothers Band - Season Of The Witch
See, it goes like this... I had this teacher in 2nd or3rd grade that would dress up like a witch everyhalloween, but she wouldn't just dress up on the 31st,she would physically transform about thirtydays before the "big day". It would start with hernose and then this wart... agh, no young child shouldhave to see that. Kind of like Blues Brothers 2000,but alas there was some great music recorded for thesoundtrack so its an even trade.

Strung Out - Bark At The Moon (Live)
Ok, so Ozzy Osbourne made a badass song about aWerewolf who arises to wreak havoc on civilization. Iusually dont dig on covers since they are rarely asgood as the original (save a few exceptions). Recordedlive in Anaheim, CA around 2003, this version is justtoo sick to not give some applause. These guys assaultthe guitars like the bully-bag snatchers that wouldhaunt my neighborhood and beat up on unsuspectingchildren. Ozzy himself was in the crowd when theyplayed this, sweet...

Mix & Match Vol. 3- submissions from the Prof.

Poltergeists have been reeking havoc upon the computers in my life in a style befitting the rapidly approaching holiday. I have been economical with my picks coming in just under 9 mins. But have done so in order to deliver the ghastliest of treats with a little trick up my sleeve.

C.A. Quintet - Cold Spider
Ghostly vocals and tortured guitar licks. Is there anything more haunting then the spectre of forgotten garage rock ghouls. What's that creeping across the cob- webbed keyboard of the nightmare organ? Dude, Cold Spider!

Black Mass - Exorcism
Early electronics were about the manipulation of the ether and collecting the vibrations of the spirit world. What diode devils possess these circuits? They are legion.

Count Chocula Intro - Count freakin Chocula
This cereal box compilation also included 17 mins. of the sounds of halloween which I didn't submit. The real gem is this tidbit from the seldom heard from anymore Count who is a dear friend of mine. The thing that people don't understand about Chocula is that he's a chocolate vampire, sure, but he's made out of chocolate.

"It's getting spooky in here!" Yeah, you hit the nail on the frickin' head Chocula.

Mix and Match Vol. 3 - Submissions from the Capt.

i wondered how long it would be before joe's nasty little secret was revealed. i just didn't think it would be one of us that outed him. peroxide and shaved legs be damned. let's get to the music.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
admittedly, i'm wanting to get this one here before someone else jumps on it and steals it out from me...such a great song, and while almost any nick cave has that sort of inherent creepiness undertone, this one pairs his vocal stylings with a perfectly fitted storyline. a bit overused in movie soundtracks perhaps, but well worth having in any collection.

Southern Culture on the Skids - Zombified
the title track to an EP the NC based trio released a few years back...at it's core, it's a love song, which begs the question, is it necrophilia if you have sex with the undead?

Sunn O))) - Sin Nanna
One of (if not the) shortest song in the Sunn O))) repertoire, these guys are just downright fucking creepy. while way to much emphasis has been put on their attempts to find the "brown notes", the sheer beauty of the drone must be appreciated.

Mix and Match vol 3

In honor of the upcoming holiday (which happens to be one of my favorites), this edition of mix and match is "The Devil cranks it to 11". So anything that has to do with Halloween applies: zombies, ghouls, vampires, death... you get the idea. The 'usual' rules apply. Feel free to post your favorite halloween costume with your submission. Trick or Treat!

Mix & Match Vol. 2- The final order

And now ladies and gentlemen I, the harvester of eyes, will line all of these baby blue and dragon green and almond brown beauties up in their final order. Thanks to the Captain and to you all for your participation. So here we have it, with a wink and a nod.

Mix and Match Vol. 2
1. Trans Am - Television Eyes
2. N.E.R.D. - Tape You
3. The Doors - My Eyes Have Seen You
4. Hammel On Trial - I'm Gonna Watch You Sleep
5. Camper Van Beethoven - I Don't See You
6. Smashing Pumpkins - Eye
7. The Streets - When You Wasn't Famous
8. Creeedence Clearwater Revival - Looking Out My Back Door
9. Jack Johnson - People Watching
10. Buck Owens & the Buckaroos - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
11. The Dead Milkmen - Watching Scotty Die
12. Dolly Parton - These Old Bones
13. Thrice - Red Sky
14. Billy Idol - Eyes Without a Face
15. Dave Matthew & Tim Reynolds - Typical Situation
16. Gillian Welch (with David Rawlings) - Wrecking Ball
17. Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives
18. Maggie Estep - Stalk Me
19. The Soft Boys - Tonight

Mix & Match Vol. 2- submissions from the Prof.

Jeepers creepers, where oh where did you get those peepers.

The Soft Boys - Tonight

First off we have the stranger at the party who finds what he's after, but what does she find. These eyes are everywhere.

Next we have a visitor from the Futureworld, look into his

Trans Am - Television Eyes

and stare into the static void.

Billy Idol - Eyes Without Face

The vital idol is far from home and all he has to hold onto is her come-hither look burned into his libidnous memory, so he goes into Sin City and gets wasted and she fades further and further. He sees those eyes in every face.

Mix and Match Vol. 2 - submissions from Joe

Clocking in at 14:59, I have to say I had some trouble with this at first, but the more I looked, the harder
it got to pick songs. Enough jibba-jabba, here's the stuff:

Jack Johnson - People Watching
people watching is one of my favorite things to do, too bad I never have time for it.

N.E.R.D - Tape You
Pharrell and crew tell us about the finer points of
making a home video...

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin Out My Back Door
Great drugs make for great songs.

Thrice - Red Sky
Red sky at morning, sailors take warning!

Mix and Match Vol. 2 submissions from the Captain

though tempted to put up what i think is one of the creepiest stalker songs of all time (Alan Parsons' "Eye in the Sky"), i resisted and offer up these tracks:

Dolly Parton-These Old Bones
it's a song about seeing into the future. the creepy old lady cackle that Dolly is able to pull off kind of makes me laugh, kind of makes me miss home.

Camper Van Beethoven-I Don't See You
it's a song about the power people can have over one another even when the corporeal association is absent.

The Streets-When You Wasn't Famous
poor mikey skinner's anthem about being in the public eye, how much he hates camera phones, and the trials and tribulations of dating hot women.

nice topic professor, i'm anxious to see what the rest of the crew will come up with.

Mix and Match Vol. 2

The working title of Mix and Match Vol. 2 is "Electric Eyes Are Everywhere". So you guessed it, the theme is watching, looking, eyeballs, anything about sight and vision. The creepier the better. Two songs are banned however, no "Your Eyes" it has been used in more than enough mixes. The other banned song is "Every breath you take" because of proliferation but also because the Police have plenty of better songs about stalking, really. We are all LOOKing forward to this venture. So let the games begin.

mix and match set number 1

for this first mix and match, biz and i went totally free form and worked within some simple confines: simply fill a CD as best as you can with an approximately 80 minute set that rocks.

my set, entitled git yr rock pants on, went down like this:
1) Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Who Is This America Dem Speak Of Today? (sample only)
2) The Yachts - Suffice To Say
3) Zuexeus - Quantum Lullaby
4) Tullycraft - Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About
5) Turing Machine - On Form And Growth
6) Milemarker - New Lexicon
7) Tokyo Police Club - Nature Of The Experiment
8) SNMNMNM - My Defense!
9) Metroschifter - Love
10) Juana Molina - La visita
11) Trusty - Kal-El
12) Bad Religion - It's Only Over When...
13) Derek and Patsy - I'm In A Jam
14) Tight Bros From Way Back When - Hurricane
15) Takeshi Terauchi and The Bunnys - For Elise
16) Hawkwind - Cymbaline
17) Regina Spektor - Carbon Monoxide
18) MF GRIMM - Brand New
19) Maude Maggart - Alexander's Ragtime Band

the response was say it in yr mind, and was most excellent:
1) Arthur Verocai - Relas Sombros
2) Triumvirat - Schooldays
3) Amon Duul II - Archangels Thunderbird
4) Joss Baselli et son accordeon elecronique majorvox - T.V. allumette
5) broadcast - black cat
6) deerhoof - Scream Team
7) Ariel Pink - Artifact
8) De La Soul - Skitz
9) Edan - mc's smoke crack
10) Eugene McDaniels - Jagger the Dagger
11) Zodiac Cosmic Sounds - Aquarius-Lover of Life
12) Azimuth - MANHA
13) Marcos Valle - Mais Do Que Valsa
14) Ken Nordine - Faces in the Jazzamatazz
15) David Axelrod - Song of Innocence
16) Sound Directions (Yesterday's New Quintet) - Wanda Vidal
17) Longshot - Much Better
18) Don Caballero - Ones All Over the Place
19) The Radio Dept. - Slottet #2
20) Eddie Palmieri - If (We Had Peace Today)
21) Joss Baseli et son accordeon electronique majorvox - La Java des neutrons
22) Vincent Gallo - Was

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we're still looking for a few more peeps to join the mix and match team. if you're interested, send me an email.