After a month long break the guys have returned from dimensions unknown to bring you a collection of songs inspired by one of the greatest minds in all of horror, H.P. Lovecraft!
After a month long break the guys have returned from dimensions unknown to bring you a collection of songs inspired by one of the greatest minds in all of horror, H.P. Lovecraft!
Welcome to the Spooky Songs podcast, home to all the beats that go bump in the night. We are your hosts, levi Bushu and Edgar Dieterman, and we're here to discuss songs about horror and hauntings, murder in the macabre, as well as songs that you know you can play to summon the many-eyed, unspeakable horror from the depths. You know, standard cult stuff that you do with your friends.
Edgar Determan:Remember kids it's more fun to be IN a cult, but you make a lot more money LEADING the cult.
Levi Bushue:Yet no one wants to sleep with a cult member. They all want that sweet, sweet Jim Jones action. Ah yeah.
Edgar Determan:That's right. This episode is filled with Lovecraftian terrors from beyond the veil of comprehension. We have four songs lined up, filled with unpronounceable names and indescribable features.
Levi Bushue:Well, let's at least try to describe something. Let's see what you got for the first song.
Edgar Determan:Ed. All right, I just don't know how long I'd dig through song titles about my favorite eldritch evil before I could find one that didn't sound like it was being screamed at me from deep in some woods in Finland.
Levi Bushue:The fish people are coming.
Edgar Determan:How hard can it be to get a jazz song about a play that drives you insane when you see it? Why does it have to be all screaming? Anyway, I'll meet this band halfway and accept some 80s epic hair metal. This is the King in Yellow by Epilogue.
Levi Bushue:Ah, cod is a type of fish. Fish people are in Lovecraft stories, so someone having like a fish dick really isn't outside the realm of possibility here.
Edgar Determan:Oh, I'll show you my cod. Piece Extra Tartar Sauce.
Levi Bushue:Yeah, I think that phrase is the madness that's taking the streets when the King in Yellow starts taking over. This song did a really good job, kind of like encapsulating that feeling of just like the slow madness spreading out through the city. It was good.
Edgar Determan:Yeah, and the song really shift gears and really kicks it up near the end, so that's pretty rad. And speaking of changing things up, all crazy like what's your first pick?
Levi Bushue:So a little background for this song. I got the opportunity to see a 4K restoration of Reanimator in a Honest God Theater Thanks to our buddy Andy Triefenbach, who is over at the Destroy the Brain podcast. But before they played the movie, they led off with this just like absolute gem of a music video from an artist known only as Dr Reanimator and, let me tell you, dread Companions. This song absolutely blew my mind. It's called Move your Dead Bones and apparently it's from a special feature that was on the Beyond Reanimator DVD. I'm not gonna go into too much before playing it because I feel like it's gonna kinda ruin this like crazy surprise that you're about to get hit with Just experience, the pure joy that is Move your Dead Bones by Dr Reanimator.
Edgar Determan:This sounds like if Aqua did the soundtrack for Reanimator, and I mean that in a great way.
Levi Bushue:How could that be meant in a bad way? I'm an eldritch girl living in an eldritch world, my friend. Yeah, I love just the weird, just hyper pop of the 90s and early 2000s and this song just delivers on all of that. Like if the Reanimator Serum was a party drug that, like Paris Hilton, would have been on this stuff for sure, just dancing the night away to this song.
Edgar Determan:Yeah, like fuck, katnai Joe. This needs to be a new wedding hit. Djs need to get on it. You got chicken dance. Move your Dead Bones, macarena, it's not hard. This song should get you shaking like Michael J Fox on that dance floor.
Levi Bushue:You need to create a TikTok dance for this and just call it the Michael J Fox. Oh my God. Okay. Well, let's move this show's Dead Bones along and let's get to the next song.
Edgar Determan:I'm really glad I found this band, and not only because they have a funny name like Blinding Eyedog. They have a great dirty 90s British punk sound and their album art reminds me of being young and finding old Green Day like albums and tapes. And all this makes it even better that they wrote a sweet song about finding the love of your life while in college. Aw, aw. Here is Miskatonic Love by Blinding Eyedog.
Levi Bushue:Okay, yeah, I promise we're gonna talk about the song here. But yeah, you mentioned the album art to leave this off with and you guys have definitely gotta check it out. Like I think you nailed it with the Green Day reference, like I remember the cover for Dookie and they had all those gross little mad magazine poop, gags and stuff going on on it and this artwork really gives off the same feeling.
Edgar Determan:Yeah, just to let you all know, the album art is a big Cthulhu lady with a big ol' set of cans on her and a fang mouth for a crotch. So that's pretty cool yeah.
Levi Bushue:I mean, I definitely can no longer get aroused by anything without tentacles and razor sharp teeth. So thanks, Thanks for that.
Edgar Determan:Yeah, me too. It's totally only because of this podcast and not from before we started it. But yeah you were a weird hentai-wee before this were you. No, definitely not. But I love this garage-ban like old punk sound where it's just dirty. It doesn't sound clean in any way, shape or form.
Levi Bushue:Yeah, it was definitely recorded in a gas station bathroom, yeah, and not even a good one, it was in a sheets or something. Yeah, that's the best of the best, whatever, you know it's not. But this is awesome and I gotta say I'm a little pissed that I couldn't find a song about Dunwich Horror that I liked and you just fucking waltz right in here with this. It's like a Lovecraftian version of the Pogues, that fairy tale of New York song, where they're like star off with a nice love and it turns into a horrible breakup song. This kind of does the same thing where you're breaking up with Wilbur Waitley right in the Dunwich Horror, I think so. Yeah, I mainly remember the movie with what I think it's Donald Sutherland going like yog saw the off, well, like a girl's on a plinth giving birth to this giant evil demon.
Edgar Determan:It's terrible and that would fit this album art also.
Levi Bushue:I think, yeah, they could. Just a huge tentacle coming out of some ladies' couch. Yeah, that would be Just like Men in Black. Oh my god, this was in a PG movie. Jesus Christ yeah.
Edgar Determan:All right, what song are you going to answer with next?
Levi Bushue:OK. So in my research for this episode, whilst pouring through ancient tomes written in dead tongues known only to the citizens of the extra dimensional plane, I stumbled across an album that had the greatest title ever, and it's called the Dukes of Alhazred. You know, like Dukes of Alhazred, but it's the author of the Neck and.
Levi Bushue:Alhazred the Book of the Dead. It's pretty fucking clever. I delved into their music and just my mind was just never the same. It unraveled my shit. But the band is called the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. They do Lovecraftian music so I decided to, you know, go with one of my personal favorite Lovecraft stories the Shadow over Enzmyth. This is the Enzmyth, look by. The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.
Edgar Determan:You know, I'm usually the one stumbling across hits or only picking stuff based on song titles or album art, so I got to welcome you to the slacker club with this find.
Levi Bushue:First off, it's a stretch to call any of these songs quote-unquote hits, but I figure it's definitely in the spirits of lovecrafts works to go kind of go on an adventure and like find something new, like everybody in those stories stumbles across some you know, ancient ball relief or stone idle or like Book of forgotten lore, and then shit just hits the fan. So it's, this is my pick for music. That is shit hitting the proverbial fan. Yeah.
Edgar Determan:Yeah, I'll tell you what they hit you with. It's that white zombie baseline right off the bat that gets me pumped.
Levi Bushue:Right, like we have so many songs like in this episode that have just great 90s influences, and this song is also like really full of them. Who would have thought that, like the peak of our civilization in the 90s would have had so much overlap with lovecrafts underlying feeling of terror? There's something there for a smart person to digest Not me.
Edgar Determan:I'm also glad you brought along a love song and how to treat your creepy crawly fishies from the deepest season nightmares yeah, there's never been a happier song about being turned into a horrific fish creature.
Levi Bushue:Is there like this. Is this is true love? So you know, I guess, if you've ever been like attracted to Billy Bass, this is this is a song for you. I don't know how to clean that up.
Edgar Determan:I mean, I got cold fish on one of those Pizza Hut love tester things once, does that girl?
Levi Bushue:Yes, that's, you are a fish person and you only love fish. Also, since we're kind of talking about like lovecraft and lovecraft inspired things, if you guys ever get a chance to see Evil Dead the musical, do it. Do it and sit in the splash zone, because you will be soaked in fake blood and just so damn happy. I think you guys know where we're going with this. We couldn't leave you without playing a song about the necronomicon. But not only is this a song about the legendary book of the dead, it's also a dance. So here is do the necronomicon from Evil Dead the musical.
Edgar Determan:Wee, wee, wee wee, we have a new release alert.
Levi Bushue:Okay, you know what that means it's time for our new release alert segment, where we're gonna talk about some brand new songs that we've been listening to and that we think you're going to enjoy as well. And since you know we're still in the thick of tons of new songs getting released for the spooky season, we're gonna throw four more of them at you, just like last time. So, ed, why don't you start us off?
Edgar Determan:This band sounds like they grew up best friends with Johnny Cash if he was a fan or horror movies. But they are from Savide, and isn't that the veered here is Friends?
Levi Bushue:of Doom by the coffin shakers. You had to reference the worst awesome powers movie, geez, all right. My first new release alert is from this weird, groovy little psychedelic band. They're called the striped bananas. This is a song called triage of the damned.
Edgar Determan:I think you'll love this one, levi, because this is some classic rockabilly and I'm saying it counts because of the name of the song. Here is zombie detective in the funk of 40,000 years by SC.
Levi Bushue:All right, let's finish up by getting some spooky, sounding like synthy goth stuff on this episode. We haven't had that in a while, so my final new release alert is black cathedral by this cold night.