Artificial Radio Hour with Rev. Dr. Dr. Phill: Artificial Radio Hour with Rev. Dr. Dr. Phill Part 43i

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Greetings everyone!
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THE HALLOWEEK KEEPS A ROLLIN'!

Some songs today that aren't really about Halloween, even the one called "Hallowe'en". One song specifically mentions Halloween but that song is about post-traumatic stress and associated symptoms. It's a grab bag.

"Hallowe'en" was the b-side of the 1985 Sonic Youth single "Flower". It isn't specifically Halloween themed, but it showed up on CD reissues of their album Bad Moon Rising, which has a fantastically Halloween-y cover.

I had a conversation recently where the subject of Marxist hip-hop came up. The Coup fits that description. They're some good old fashioned East Bay revolutionaries from Oakland, CA. This song came up while searching the word "grave", and although it isn't scary it is pretty good.

I had to check a couple of times to make sure "Haunted Cocktails" by Intro wasn't actually "Intro" by Haunted Cocktails. Intro was a kind of a goth-y New Wave band, from the UK, I think. Like I said, it's hard to google them. There was another band called Intro from the early 90s, but they were an R&B group.

This is not a great photo of Paul.

Another track that came up in a keyword search is this piece from Paul F. Tompkins' 2007 album Impersonal. Although Paul had been doing stand-up for many years, Impersonal was his first release. It was recorded at the Upright Citizens' Brigade, where I have seen him many times.

The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo were the band/theater troupe founded by Richard Elfman, featuring his brother Danny on lead vocals. They later shrunk down from over a dozen members to a tight 8-piece (including a horn section) and likewise shrunk their name down to just Oingo Boingo. (A caveman is a Halloween thing. Just go with it.)

I try to avoid using the same song in multiple episodes but I do love Roky Erickson. He really got monster movies embedded deep in his brain, and not even the shock treatments could get them out.

"Hung Up On My Baby" is from Isaac Hayes' soundtrack for Three Tough Guys, a blaxploitation action movie starring Fred Williamson and Lino Ventura, with Isaac Hayes in his acting debut. It was sampled by the Geto Boys on their classic track "Mind Playing Tricks On Me", which in addition to mentioning Halloween directly, also has some pretty nightmarish imagery.

That's it for today, see you tomorrow for the finale of HALLOWEEK!

Enjoy!

- Rev. Dr. Dr. Phill