LOTSA A CAPPELLA
Playlist for October 25, 2008

Playlist for Lotsa A Cappella on October 25, 2008: Annual Halloween Spook-tacular! (week one ~ featuring The Bobs)

• The Bobs ~ A Cappella Choir in the Sky ~ Coaster ~ primarily a cappella

  ~ a little bit of scary sounds added to the end of the song... ~

• The Bobs ~ Helter Skelter ~ The Bobs ~ kaleidescope records

  When i get to the bottom i go back to the top of the slide
  Where i stop and i turn and i go for a ride
  Till i get to the bottom and i see you again.
  
  Do you, don't you want me to love you
  I'm coming down fast but i'm miles above you
  Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer
  You may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
  
  Helter skelter...
  
  ~ words & music by Lennon/McCartney, arrangement by The Bobs ~

• The Bobs ~ Kill your television ~ Plugged ~ rounder

  Kill your television
  Baby on board
  I heart my dog's head
  I honk for the Lord
  
  The light at the end of the tunnel
  Is the headlamp of an oncoming train
  Elvis is dead ~~ give it up, already
  I'm lost but I'm making record time
  
  Anarchy begins at home
  Get your rosaries off my ovaries
  Don't mess with the locals
  Yes, I do own the road!
  
  ~ words and music by The Bobs ~

• Harvard Krokodilos ~ Masochism Tango ~ Wasting our parents' money: The Best of College a cappella humor (various artists) ~ mainely a cappella

  You caught my nose in your left castanet, love,
  I can feel the pain yet, love,
  Ev'ry time I hear drums.
  And I envy the rose that you held in your teeth, love,
  With the thorns underneath, love, sticking into your gums.
  
  Your eyes cast a spell that bewitches.
  The last time I needed twenty stitches
  To sew up the gash that you made with your lash,
  As we danced to the Masochism Tango.
  
  ~ words and music by Tom Lehrer ~

• The Bobs ~ White Room ~ Rhapsody In Bob
• Boyz Nite Out ~ People Are Strange ~ American Vinyl

  People are strange when you're a stranger
  Faces look ugly when you're alone
  Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
  Streets are uneven when you're down
  
  When you're strange
  Faces come out of the rain
  When you're strange
  No one remembers your name
  When you're strange
  When you're strange...
  
  ~ words and music by The Doors ~

• The Bobs ~ Light My Fire ~ Coaster ~ primarily a cappella

  The Bobs take the Doors first big hit and sing it like it's a madrigal! Real scary, kids!

• The Bobs ~ Bus Plunge ~ The Bobs ~ kaleidescope records

  Don't brake for animals tonight
  (Never mind the creatures in the road ahead)
  The driver says don't brake for animals tonight
  (Run the stoplight, run the stoplight)
  The driver says don't brake for animals tonight
  (Don't think about the lady in the Chevy turning left)
  The driver says don't brake for animals tonight
  (Almost home, you're almost home)
  The driver says bus plunge, bus plunge...
  
  ~ words and music by The Bobs ~

• The Cramps ~ I Was A Teenage Werewolf ~ Songs The Lord Taught Us ~ a&m
• The Bobs ~ Get Your Monkey Off My Dog ~ Get Your Monkey Off My Dog

  Now Mickey's monkey, she's so funky, she's a junky,
  she's a trouble making, taunting hairy ape;
  She makes Costello bark.
  
  Why do you bring that ugly monkey out in public? She should be in a cage....
  Get your monkey off my dog! Get your monkey off my dog!
  
  Bocce bowlers, baby strollers, even Rasta rollers watchin' as they tussle
  and they tangle, while you're talkin' on your phone
  
  Like Chewbaca, that macaca,
  you should walk her with a muzzle on a lengthy leather leash,
  leave my dog alone
  
  Get a parrot or a ferret if you gotta come and share it...
  Give back Costello's bone!
  
  ~ words and music by The Bobs ~

• The Nylons ~ Eli's Coming ~ Four On The Floor ~ attic

  eerie harmonies on the Laura Nyro classic!

• The Bobs ~ Through The Wall ~ The Bobs ~ kaleidescope records

  I heard how you balked when they raised the rent
  It was the closest I've come to losing you
  Just fifty a month and it's money well spent
  To keep you beside me it's the least I can do
  Cause I need you through the wall
  
  Your boyfriend is really a jerk (jerk,jerk,jerk,jerk,jerk)
  Will he ever learn to play the saxophone
  He plays that same song over and over
  Your boyfriend is really a jerk (jerk,jerk,jerk,jerk,jerk)
  Watches daytime shows the sound is loud
  Watches daytime shows watches daytime shows
  I can't wait till you're home from work
  
  And I hear you through the wall
  And I feel you through the wall
  And I need you through the wall...
  
  ~ words and music by The Bobs ~

• The Bobs ~ There Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens ~ Rhapsody In Bob
• Moosebutter ~ Ghost Chickens In The Sky ~ see dee

  "a chicken may come haunt you, but tofu never will!"
  www.moosebutter.com

• The Bobs ~ Pounded On A Rock ~ Songs For Tomorrow Morning ~ rhino
• Rockapella ~ Zombie Jamboree ~ Modern A Cappella (various artists) ~ rhino
• The Bobs ~ Fluffy's Master Plan For World Domination ~ Coaster ~ primarily a cappella
• Harvard-Radcliffe Veritones ~ Thriller ~ Vertigo
• Vincent Price ~ excerpt from "Thriller" voiceover session ~ Michael Jackson "Thriller 25th Anniversary" ~ epic
  Vincent Price has got a real scary laugh!
• The Bobs ~ I Dreamt That David Mamet ~ Get Your Monkey Off My Dog

  I dreamt that David Mamet
  like he always did before
  And he said, "Ma Cher, be Diddy
  When you wake up Tippered in Gore."
  
  I heard Ethel Merman in broken German as Ute Lempered back
  And though reports were thorough, did Edward R. Murrow until he jumped the track?
  
  I dreamt that David Mamet
  As Joan Rivers flowed to sea
  And while Britney Speared her own career
  I only woke to me.
  
  ~ words and music by The Bobs ~

• The Persuasions ~ Walk On The Wild Side ~ We Came To Play ~ collectables

  "If you stumble, Satan is waitin' to take your hand!"

• The Bobs ~ Little Red Riding Hood ~ My I'm Large ~ rhino
• Tufts Beelzebubs ~ I Am The Walrus ~ Come Together: an a cappella tribute to the Beatles (various artists)

  Semolina pilchard, climbing up the eiffel tower.
  Elementary penguin singing hari krishna.
  Man, you should have seen them kicking edgar allan poe.
  I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
  I am the walrus...
  
  ~ words and music by Lennon/McCartney

• Tom Waits ~ Earth Died Screaming ~ Bone Machine ~ island
• The Bobs ~ Psycho Killer ~ Sing The Songs Of... ~ rhino

  I can't seem to face up to the facts
  I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
  I can't sleep cause my bed's on fire
  Don't touch me I'm a real live wire
  
  Psycho killer
  Qu'est que c'est
  Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better
  Run run run run run run run away
  
  You start a conversation you can't even finish it.
  You're talkin' a lot, but you're not sayin' anything.
  When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
  Say something once, why say it again?
  Psycho killer...
  
  ~ words and music by Talking Heads ~

• Artisan ~ Hammer Ghost ~ Breathing Space
• The Bobs ~ The Crow ~ i brow club ~ rounder
• The Bobs ~ The Wind Cries Mary ~ Cover the Songs of... ~ rounder
• The Bobs ~ Spontaneous Human Combustion ~ Shut Up And Sing! ~ rhino

  They were kissing in a crowded mall
  when they burst right into flames.
  Charcoal bricquets in thirty seconds
  Their last words ~~ each other's names
  Did they have a deep seated problem?
  Was this their farewell?
  Did they cause themselves to ignite
  Leaving that awful smell?
  
  Spontaneous Human Combustion
  Poof, there goes another one
  A raging fire, a funeral pyre
  An unexpected cremation
  
  ~ words and music by The Bobs ~

• Washington U. Mosaic Whispers ~ White Rabbit ~ Behind Bars
• The Bobs ~ Funk Shui Massacre ~ Get Your Monkey Off My Dog

  Colors drippin' down the wall, endless mirrors in the hall
  Space and time are curvin' slow, feel that funk shui on the toe
  Yiin and Yang, Tom and Jerry, Smith and Hawken, Crate and Barrel
  Put a yellow Andre Couch against that wall at your own peril
  Don't let your clutter get caught in your wrecked angle
  The penta, the hexa, the octa, they're more than gone, they're out of sight
  Over here the bowl of fruit ~ over there the croissant light and flaky
  Art and craft, art deco, art nouveau? ~ No! Art Blakey
  Water, earth, wind and fire - I wanta, want to take you higher
  Down to the basement we go bumpty bumpty bump ~ Ikea
  Colors drippin' down the wall, endless mirrors in the hall
  space and time are curvin' slow, feel that funk shui on the toe
  Funka funk funk funk funka funk, funka funk funka funk
  My living room .... was not coming together ~ It was chaos!
  
  ~ words and music by The Bobs ~

• Stanford U. Fleet Street Singers ~ Time Warp (excerpt) ~ All The Rage
• The Bobs ~ Disco Inferno ~ Cover the Songs of... ~ rhino