Playlist for 12 Annual Lotsa A Cappella Halloween Spook-tacular! October 30, 2005 (Oh so dreadfully scary! with Marjie and Angela)
(~ artist ~ song title ~ album ~)
- The Persuasions ~ Good Old A Cappella (with scary sound effects added) ~ We Still Ain't Got No Band
- Boyz Nite Out ~ People Are Strange ~ American Vinyl
- Mint Juleps ~ The Snake ~ Round Our Way
- The Nylons ~ Love Potion Number Nine/ Spooky ~ The Nylons
- Artisan ~ Hammer Ghost ~ Breathing Space
- Hazel Dickins, David Patrick Kelly, and Bobby McMullen ~ Conversation with Death ~ Songcatcher soundtrack
- Rory Block w/ Jordan Block Valdina ~ Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down ~ I'm Every Woman
- Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch ~ Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby ~ O Brother, Where Art Thou? (various artists)
- Moosebutter ~- Ghost Chickens In The Sky ~ See Dee
~ we think that this may be the scariest thing ever played on the Lotsa A Cappella Halloween Extravaganza!
- Washington U. Pikers ~ Thriller ~ Fourth And Ten
really scary stuff!
- Jerry Goldsmith (composer) ~ Ave Satani ~ The Omen (soundtrack)
- Mikel Rouse ~ The Private Diary Of Perry Edward Smith ~ Failing Kansas
~ Perry Edward Smith is the stunted, twisted murderer from Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.)
- Jocelyn Pook ~ Masked Ball ~ The Flood
~ these horrific unearthly groaning sounds are truly frightening, ending our set of three songs that are truly scary and creepy (not funny scary!)
- Ac Rock ~ Coconut/Witch Doctor ~ Acappellago
- The Bobs - Bus Plunge - The Bobs
- Rockapella ~ Zombie Jamboree ~ Spike Lee's "Do It A Cappella" (various artists)
songs that sound scary, but are not necessarily about anything scary. Whoooo!
- Mediaeval Baebes ~ This Ay Nicht ~ Salva Nos
~ minor key and/or modal scary-sounding stuff
- Jarboe ~ And I Name Myself Hag ~ The Unaccompanied Voice (various artists)
~ wordless eerie vocalizations
- Sweet Honey In The Rock ~ Long Journey Home ~ Still On The Journey
~ featuring throat singing drones with high eerie harmonies above
funny or scary? you be the judge...
- The Austin Lounge Lizards ~ Hillbillies In A Haunted House ~ Never An Adult Moment
~ one got strangled by the crawling eye! imagine how scary!
- Todd Rundgren ~ Lockjaw ~ Acappella
- Moosebutter ~ Rubber Monkey ~ Udder Won
~ "rubber monkey, you taste really good in soup (soup) soup (soup) shoo boop boop dee doop"
eeeeeerieee!
- Ralph Stanley ~ O Death ~ O Brother Where Art Thou (various artists)
- Asylum Street Spankers ~ Minor Waltz ~ My Favorite Record
~ she plays a saw! real scary, kids!
- Voice Squad ~ I Am Stretched On Your Grave ~ Good People All
- The Bobs ~ Through The Wall ~ The Bobs
~ a truly scary song about an obsessed guy who listens to his beloved (who is unaware of his very existence) through their adjoining wall
Thanks to my cohost Angela Pancella for some really frightening and some really beautiful music, and for an extremely scary and beautiful costume!