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BRING ME THE PUMPKIN HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA!

'Spiders and Snakes' ~~ Jim Stafford

... it's been ages, but maybe there's a reason for that? ...

Broooce - Gohst Of Tom Joad

Indigo Girls - Gohst

a brillaint Jam track:

The Jam - Gohsts

from the 'Blair Witch Mix' ...

'The Order of Death' ~~ PIL
'Don't go to Sleep' ~~ The Creatures
'Beware' ~~ Afghan Wings
'Haunted' ~~ Type 'O' Negative
'Movement of Fear' ~~ Tones on Tail
'The Cellar' ~~ Antonio Cora

... keep the lights on ...

Goody...been waiting for this theme to request this song...

When I saw Pink Martini last month, Thomas Lauderdale introduced their version as being arranged to be in-keeping with the plot of the film it comes from...Hitchcock's 'The Man Who Knew Too Much'. In the film, Doris Day sings it while in dire peril...as a way to locate her kidnapped son who is about to be killed! I've never seen the film so can't really visualise it but, Pink Martini's version is far from the Doris Day version with which we're familiar.

For something tense with a spooky, sinister-fairground feel, please play...

'Que sera sera' by Pink Martini...it's quite unsettling!

This vers

I'll second Jim Stafford and Pink Martini

Do Wizard's count?

Angel Fingers / Wizzard

The Phantom of the Opera / Steve Harley and Sarah Brightman

nae wunner ahm grumpy............ma names no' kelvin.
we'll huv tae talk about this kelvin.
diz any body else think ahm grumpy btw?
in a way ah took that as a compliment cos i've been called a lot worser.
sumdee once called me 'getalife'

cheers frae the dale

Just the usual bunch of guisers from my in-bred stable of obvious and unimaginative suggestions:
Japan Ghosts
Siouxsie and the Banshees Spellbound
Cliff Richard Devil Woman
Elvis Presley Devil In Disguise
The Eagles Witchy Woman
Meatloaf Bat Out Of Hell
Smashing Pumpkins Disarm
Cheap Trick I Want You To Want Me
Lisa Stansfield Treat Me Like A Lady

#8 Dale - fear ye not. We already have a well-established Grumpy (a shapeshifter) on the blog and it is not you. Being a bit miffed on occasion does not mean you have to be branded grumpy. We've all had our names, shouts and other stuff misread at one time or other. ;o)

#8

I wouldn't be concerned. It's live Radio, it must be hell trying to control all that info from diverse sources and make sence of it. Actually, I often think the team are to be congratulated for the show not turning into an uncordinated shambles of competeing media - especially as the show gets more popular, every show seems busy, much has to be responded to on the hoof.

Anyway, Alison just got your name wrong. but it's nothing in comparison to what the team get on here. Personally,I expect to get a hard time - like tonight - (if only it were true) but it doesn't matter, it's a privilege to be mentioned at all.

I thought Alison did well tonight, better than previous endeavours and she's learned something lost on Vic and other guest presenters - throwing the bloggers a bone here and there is bound to improve your approval ratings.

Deputising for Bryan seems to be Alison's gig now - the interior decorators haven't been back. Though the spark that exists between Bryan and Babs was missing.

Still, there's nothing else like it - cheer up - I've never considered you grumpy! (relatively speaking, of course).

regardez vous

henri

Mr Git, only a fully paid up member of the Alvin Stardust fanclub like yourself could have known he was in Greenock tonight. Sadly no-one told me, but if you want me to ask around I'll find out for you how it went?

MONDAY

Ghost Woman Blues - The Low Anthem

Anyone's Ghost- The National

This is really rather good - much requested band here, but roundly ignored. Let's get it on!

regardez youse

henri

#12
Did he sing My Spooky Choo

If he's playing Greenock he must be Starvin Aldust

This is strictly off theme, but I think this record sounds really creepy, particularly at the begining.

Video Games - Lana Del Ray

and it doesn't get much more appropriately atmospheric and exciting than:

Shimmers (Run Devils And Demons) - Transglobal Underground

utterly mental and bang on theme!

Hyper Worm Tamer - Grinderman UNKLE remix suitably strange and completely bonkers - Nick Cave's finest, sounds like halloween.

Swing - Zero 7 from the album 'Yeah, Ghost' ; really radio friendly, melodic tune, great vocal from Sia.

the Weaver's Answer - Family Still simply amazing after all these years - the singing sheep on fine form, which qualifies in its own right, surely.Nothing in nature sings like this?

The Devil and Midnight - Nitin Sawhney

Devil Gun - Frankie Miller

Voodoo Baby - The Big Dish other voodoo tracks are obvious, but it would be good to hear this - and here's one of them

Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix though would prefer any of the less obvious above.

regardez youse

henri

Mütterlein - Nico - The voice of the dead

#16...and if 'Video Games' is played I'll be really huffy since I suggested it before it made the playlist...I said I'd be sick of the sound of it soon...it's too late now I'm afraid! lol

Another sinister track (although it's only second to my Pink Martiini suggestion.)..

C.W. Stoneking - 'The Love Me or Die'...a voodoo curse that unfortunately worked!
Heard this on the Hughey whotsit (from Fun loving Criminals) show on Radio 6...worth a listen if you can get it! I know C.W's been played on GIO before. You might like C.W if you like Tom Waites.

'Spooky' ~~ Dusty Springfield (simply sublime...)

'Only to Haunt You'' ~~ The Von Bondies
'Haunt You' ~~ The Pack a.d.

'Many of Horror' ~~ Biffy Clyro (epic)

#15 deeply offended at your unfair attack on the buzzing metropolis that is my home town. Why, already this year, we have had Deacon Blue, the Magic Numbers and Lulu and it is widely rumoured that a Jedward tribute band will be switching on our Christmas lights.

MONDAY

definitely an night for

The Witches Hat - The Incredible String Band

#20

If you haven't been cut off by then

eric, you're just not up to speed on the talent bursting out of Greenock at the moment. Mark my words, bloggers, you'll all be proud to say you know someone from the town at the cutting edge of new music - here's just one of our singers who's bang on for Monday's theme

- Grandad's Going Down the Warehouse

Another opportunity for a Steven Lindsay shout:

Giving Up The Ghost, from the remarkably overlooked Kite album

Or how about the following spooky tales:

Godley & Creme - Under Your Thumb

Grant Lee Buffalo - Dixie Drug Store

Ah, tales of mystery and imagination...(didn't someone turn that into an album?)...and all round sinister thumps in the night.. the contraction of pipes...

Night Comes On - Leonard Cohen

Lenny's thinking about his life and thinking of ending it all.He visits his mother, she's beneath the marble and the snow....she tells him to go back to the world - and the night comes on, it's very calm......he wants the night to go on and on..he wants to cross over.....after reviewing his life he decides..........

Utterly brilliant ghost story ...

also..

The Blacksmith - Eddie Reader sinister goings on from a broken romance.

regardez youse

henri

#23

Come back Gram - all is forgiven


Sorry for my uncharacteristic tetchiness. I was planning a new life in a VW camper van but had the wrong number on my cereal box.

Just heard Jimmy Saville has passed away

Here he is on the (With The Beatles at No. 14).

He is credited with inventing the disco. I used to listen to him on Radio Luxembourg. In latter years he could be seen often at his place in Glencoe. He was an individualist who gave generously of his time for others. He'll be missed.

his individuality was his strength ... something we should all hope to aspire to ...

thanks for the memories Jimmy!

'S.I.C.K.O' ~~ Fangs (one of Glasgow's aspiring young hopefuls)

Been trying for ever so long to get this on. If deemed not apt for this theme then ...

Howzabout a 'catchphrase' theme for Tuesday? ... a tribute to Sir James, who will always be synonymous with their use ... eg:

'Hey Ho, Let's Go' ~~ T. Ramones
'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' ~~ Noel Coward

... think this has merits ...

"How's about that, then?"

"Now then, now then"

"Guys and gals"

"Goodness gracious"

"As it happens".

RIP Sir Jimmy, cultural icon.


Suggestions for creepy Monday

Furr / Blitzen Trapper

and also from the same Album (Furr)

Black River Killer / Blitzen Trapper
An unsettling, haunting but strangely catchy song.

Cheers the now,
Al.

I was surprised when Megraghi outlived both Col Gadaffi and the Libyan State... but Jimmy Saville...Jeezoh.

Play Dead / Bjork

Angie Baby - Helen Reddy. Apparently mad girl turns table on possible attacker, shrinks him into her radio and uses him as a lover when she feels like it (shiver). Good song but has always creeped me out!

Psycho - Elvis Costello

#32

Good idea

Once Bitten Twice Shy
One Bad Apple
Accidents Will Happen
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

There must be dozens of them.

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Theme suggestion


Now then, now then; howzabout a theme?

(The Pope is the one wearing a yarmulke).

;o)

MONDAY


Knock! Knock!

Who's there?

Voo!

Voo who?

Voodoo!!!


Baron Samedi -

I have norne a grudge against Jimmy Saville for 35 years.
That's how long i have waited for a reply to my jim'll fixit letter.

Today i read that the show got 25000 letters a week. Thats letters, not texts or emails. I've kinda forgiven him now.

RIP Sir Jimmy

That'll be a cottage up for sale in Glencoe then.. how sad, nevermind!

Voodoo - T. Revillos

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I wonder what theme will be put on hold in order to accommodate the Jimmy Saville tribute show?

Peek a boo - DEVO it's Love Bug Starski with Amityville (The House On The Hill)

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Q. What does Dracula's wife give him when he gets home late?

A. A bat in the mooth.

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Izzat a stake in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

What do you get when you cross Bambi with a ghost?

Bamboo!

A horse dies after losing his tail in a horrific road accident involving his horsebox. His ghost comes back and feeling thirsty goes down to his local pub. Being midnight it's shut so he rattles on the door and asks if he can get in.
The landlord takes one look at him and says

Go away we don"t retail spirits after hours

A skeleton walks into a bar and says give me a pint and a mop.

#41

You wrote to the wrong guy.

You should have written to Jimmy Savile.

2 songs which point to supernatural forces or other forms of ghostly experience.................both beautiful songs........the scariest ghosts are sometimes our own.............

'stolen child'...................waterboys

'mary'.....................sarah mclachlan

cheers frae the dale

An OAP takes their budgie to the vet. ÌýVet asks "How can I help you today?" OAP replies "Joey has been very still lately, can you give him the once over!"
The vet examines the budgie, turns and says "I'm sorry to inform you but your pet is dead!"
The OAP exclaims.. "No! He can't be, we've been friends for 87 years and Joey has a life expectancy of at least 150, I want a second opinion!"
The vet reluctantly agrees but advises the OAP of increasing costs.
"I don't care blurts the OAP just make Joey well again!"
The vet agrees and re-appears with a Labrador.. the dog looks at the dead bird and barks for a few seconds, turns and walks out the room.
"What did he say?" asks the pensioner.. "Joey's dead!" replied the vet.
"No way said the OAP, get me another opinionÌýplease!"
Again the vet shows great patience with the OAP and discusses the implications. ÌýBut the pensioner is adamant and demands a third opinion.
After several minutes the vet returns to the surgery accompanied by a cat. ÌýThe cat looks at the budgie and after a few seconds meows to the vet and then walks out.
"Well what did the cat say?" asks the OAP. Ìý"Not good" says the vet, "Joey is definitely dead!"
The pensioner looks at vet and says "I can't believe it but what you've said all along must have been true, how much do I own you?"
"£3,048.00" says the vet.
"How much?" asks the OAP.
"£3,048.00" repeats the vet.
"That's daylight robbery" moans the pensioner, "I'll expect a full breakdown of costs!"
"Certainly" says the vet, "that'll be £48.00 for the initial consultation, £1,000.00 for the lab report and £2,000.00 for the ct scan!"

I am at the most amazing Hindu wedding in the Science Centre - the bhangra band/djs are fantastic. Hundreds dancing joyously to fusion music, all ages, all creeds. No wonder I like Transglobal Underground! Great night - mental!

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Mmm. Perhaps honesty is always the best policy...

#54
i'm trying to get this image of Henri as bhangraman out my head but its really difficult :-)

Do you think Adam survived his party? He's no resurfaced yet!

Throwing Bones - The Phantom Band

Evil and Here to Stay - Jeff Healey Band

Sawney Beane Clan - The Real McKenzies

#57 gaie,
a wee story for you.
A friend of Joe B sent him a YT clip of a young girl playing Gimme One Reason and told him she played it better than he did.

Result, local Scots girl playing with a guitar legend at the Hammersmith Apollo last week. He simply asked her along to jam, brilliant.
What a top man!!

Al.

Ghostly Country Corner

Ghost In This House - Allison Krauss

Midnight in Montgomery - Alan Jackson

Riding with Private Malone - David Ball

Al.

Classics from the archive

Bauhaus - Bella Lugosis Dead

Tam Dolby - I Scaew Myself

#58 that's amazing, Al. He sounded such a grounded sort of person on the Paul Jones radio show. Maybe having a Scots girlfriend helps, mind!

#60

Well, what is he? - nervous or a contortionist?

Both

Despite the title it's a cheery song, honest..from the Golden Heart Album.

Please play

Cannibals / Mark Knopfler

Al.

I was a Teenage Werewolf or Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon - The Cramps

Strange Things - Curtis Knight & Jimi Hendrix

Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath

Season of the Witch - Donovan

My Daddy is a Vampire - The Meteors

Devil in my Car - B-52's

The End - Nico & Eno

Halloween - Dead Kennedys

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Vampires suck...

MONDAY


Sick Things - Alice Cooper

#67

Listening to it now. On reflection, maybe not. It'll give the little darlings nightmares.

This one is much more appropriate for Halloween. A dire warning of what happens to little darlings who eat too many sweeties. (Shades of Marathon Man).

Entertaining and educational! Lord Reith would be so proud...

Unfinished Sweet - Alice Cooper ~ 6:17

If too long for Monday, I'll ask for it again on Wednesday.

Strange Days- Thievery Corporation (Doors remix) trip hopping, chilled to perfection in a spliffed out batchelor pad kind of way.Well, that's how Spotify described it.There's a fantastic remix of a Herb Albert track on that album - Versions.

Scared - John Lennon bang on theme and better than i remebered it to be, brillaintly played and arranged, which I hadn't noticed before - must be the re - master.

regardez youse

henri

this has nowt to dae with the morra's theme but in the interests of balance how about songs that start by..............

taking ye by the throat
then the scruff o' the neck
then birrel you roond and roond
then spin ye like a spinnin' top
the throw ye aboot like a rag doll
then slap ye aboot the heid big time
then sling ye in the coarner....all quiet like.

i've just got the new coldplay.........mylo xyloto....and a wee tune @ #12 WHAMS intae #13 and its like 'gonnae gies a wee break'...eventually.(the sleeve notes are hard tae read so ah dinnae ken the names o' they songs, yet)

would be a cracker o' a theme.

cheers frae the dale

#11

While the Bryan/Babs demi-antagonistic dynamic (See also: Kermode/Mayo) was missing, I thought Alison & Babs bonded marvellously.

#16
Completely agree on Video Games, and if we're going for creepy sounding or associating:
* Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet
* Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
* Julee Cruise - Falling

#60
+1 on Bauhaus & Tom Dolby

#65
+1 on Donovan

Otherwise:
* Tom Jones - Ain't No Grave (Cash version also good, and the Crooked Still version was used as the Season 1 finale closing music for True Blood)
* Rocky Horror - Over at the Frankenstein Place
* Danny Elfman - This is Halloween
* Kirsty MacColl - Halloween

I know this'll put us over quota for 2011, but worth a go:
* Tull - Witches Promise

A bit left field, but let's have a punt at
* Vic Reeves - Black Night
Really really good synth rock cover of the Deep Purple standard (with help from Giorgio Morodor I think)

#70

You have contracted the Billy Kay virus. There is no known cure.

# 74 @ ya erico in elgin

which is a guid bit better than the 'charlie kray iris' of which there was no known escape.

cheers frae the dale

Say this to the obnoxious weans tomorrow night..
No Costume, No Candy - Swingin' Neckbreakers

Munsters Theme - The Escalators

Love Me - The Phantom

Auld grumpy to frighten the weans:

Lou Reed - Halloween Parade

listen up.................

its very dark.
its early evening (maybe 6pm)
there is a gentle wrap on the door almost unheard through the constant howl of a force 10 blowing round the exposed remote homestead.
with some care and effort you open the door as the wind torrent blows open doors and slams the attic covering up and down.....
to be confronted by a 'figure' standing there in the stormy mayhem.
the 'figure' silently enters your house and sits down, without a word, in your kitchen.
there is no way of identifying who this voiceless person is as they are in 110% disguise with no visible signs of human flesh or bone.
ans so the process begins.
questions are asked, aimed at the silent figure.......a head is nodded in affirmative or otherwise............
'do you live nearby'?
'do you have any brothers or sisters'?
'do you own a green tractor'?...........endless questioning...............nodding up and down or side to side.....until you feel confident enough to venture a guess as to who it is sitting in front of you..............
get it wrong and the questioning continues.................get it right and the guest will reveal themselves with much merriment all round.....they will depart fuelled and onto the next unsuspecting random house (perhaps 10 miles away to further confuse the occupants).................
sitting in the glow of self satisfaction of having seen off the 'visitor'...........

midnight and a gentle wrap on the door can barely be heard through the now force11 breeze.........
and so this goes on into the early hours...........perhaps to 1am or 2am or even 3am
a procession of 'visitors'.............welcome to the hebrides and halloween..........by far the biggest night of the year......oustripping xmas, hogmonay, saturday night dances..........the disguises are elaborate, sometimes 2 people in the one disguise......and it can be quite unnerving and scary..........
and the children can be even more inventive!!

'reveal yourself'................dave davies

cheers frae the dale

I would ask, "What's your name?" but I suppose "Donald McLeod" might not narrow it down much.

#79 @ ya erico in elgin

he might very well be 'do'all facal' or 'do'all dubh' or do'all eachan' but asking a name will be met will a stonewall silence....for hours if need be.

cheers frae the dale

has to be who ya gonna call " Ghost Busters"... or one i heard yesterday on another station early hours of sunday am ....Kirsty MacColl "Halloween"
or the old time favorite please... "Black Velvet" ... Alannah Myles....off to play in the puddles now till 6.10pm

#80

You may be surprised to learn that here in the Lowlands we too have a tradition of strange hooded figures trying to gain access to houses.

#82

Ah yes, the lowlands of Elgin, doubtless the reason it floods so often.

Japan - Ghosts
Japan - Halloween
Roxy Music - The Bogus Man

J.O'B.

Another couple or four for consideration...

The Devil In Me / John Wesley Harding
Waltzinblack / The Stranglers
Pet Sematary / The Ramones
Who Can It Be Now / Colin Hay or Men at Work

Al.

Capn here is a good one?

Peter Gabriel - Intruder

pretty creepy.......

Bryan Ferry 'I Put A Spell On You'

Ghostdancing - Simple Minds

A few more:

Kate Bush - Hammer Horror

Karen Elson - The Ghost Who Walks

#83

Do I detect a resentment for strangers turning up the door on this night of the year?

The Kids Don't Stand A Chance - Vampire Weekend

A sometimes irritating band, but this is a great track, and pretty much on theme.


regardez - youse

henri

#78

It's a rap.....

- Adam Sandler - Great version from the tribute album Enjoy Every Sandwich

#92 @ ya DC

....ahm a' bovvered?
nah, i umnae bovvered.
not bovvered at all.

cheers frae the dale

- Webb Wilder - The last of the full-grown men

More exhortations from the famous online music retailer to buy box sets.

Our hero will be disappointed to know that 'The Collector's Edition :The Complete Smiths' has now risen to an eye watering £320:00.Typically contrary, in thew worst economic outlook, Morrissey puts the prices up!

Julie, you could point out to the daughter that the beautifully produced 130 track box set 'History Of Trojan Records' is a mere £29:00!

I'm kinda tempted myself, there's a lot of buried treasure in there, in a spliffed out bachelor pad kind of way, as they say on Spotify - proof that Trojan did 'get' Rasta:-))

regardez youse

henri

#96 Smiths must be cashing in on the current wave of insomnia sweeping the country

Mozz has nothing to do with the re-issues and urges fans not to buy them.

David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

Goal celebration

Josh Ritter - Monster Ballads