Buckle up for a thrilling ride through the darkest corners of music as your hosts, Levi Bushue and Edgar Dieterman, explore eerie tunes perfect for a solitary night or a haunted beach party. From the realms of horror to the mysteries of the Black Lagoon, we find ourselves entangled in the chords of indie rock and the pulsating beats of rockabilly, unearthing the tales of the uncanny that echo in their lyrics.
This episode unfolds with a nod to a gem from the Flying Grey Sons, a group whose Batman and Black Lagoon obsessions reverberate in their music. We then discuss the Cramps, an all-time favorite band, whose 'Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon' leaves us in a delightful tangle of tongue-twister titles. With a surprise new release alert, we give you a sneak peek into two exciting fresh tracks, including one from the eclectic Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra featuring Gloom Darkheart. So tune in, and let's embark on this spine-chilling journey where music, monsters, and mysteries intertwine!
Buckle up for a thrilling ride through the darkest corners of music as your hosts, Levi Bushue and Edgar Dieterman, explore eerie tunes perfect for a solitary night or a haunted beach party. From the realms of horror to the mysteries of the Black Lagoon, we find ourselves entangled in the chords of indie rock and the pulsating beats of rockabilly, unearthing the tales of the uncanny that echo in their lyrics.
This episode unfolds with a nod to a gem from the Flying Grey Sons, a group whose Batman and Black Lagoon obsessions reverberate in their music. We then discuss the Cramps, an all-time favorite band, whose 'Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon' leaves us in a delightful tangle of tongue-twister titles. With a surprise new release alert, we give you a sneak peek into two exciting fresh tracks, including one from the eclectic Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra featuring Gloom Darkheart. So tune in, and let's embark on this spine-chilling journey where music, monsters, and mysteries intertwine!
Speaker 1:
Welcome, dear listener, to the Spooky Songs podcast, your home to all manner of beats that go bump in the night. Join us as we scare up the stories behind some of the spookiest songs ever recorded. And now here are your hosts, Levi Bushu and Edgar Dieterman.
Speaker 2:
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 music that you're sad, lonely ass can listen to while you're just waiting for that perfect girl to get her boat stuck Just right in front of your little sea cave. And then you got to fight off a bunch of guys like try to win her heart, and then things get way out of hand. There's like a swimming thing in the dark and it's oh come on omantic.
Speaker 3:
Okay, we get it. It's not that deep. Everyone knows you were talking about the creature from the Black Lagoon like half an hour ago. We get it, Though that did seem pretty personal. I think I'm gonna have to ask your wife about your guys first date probably.
Speaker 2:
I'm like I'm way too weird and slimy not to have an unusual affinity for the creature from the Black Lagoon. Like I've accepted this about myself and my constantly cold extremities, I'm very fish-like in a lot of ways Gross.
Speaker 3:
Not to get too behind a curtain, but I think it's well known that most of the time I get lucky if my song choices. Levi tells me what we're gonna focus on. I just type words in the search and hope I can find something halfway interesting that kind of fits on topic, whether it's just the name of the tender.
Speaker 3:
I'm pretty sure I talked about it and, by Jove, I have done it again. My pick this week comes from an indie artist who obviously has a love for different monsters in cinema. Also, as a bonus, this entire album is rockabilly. So here is a love song from the Black Lagoon by the Flying Grey Sons.
Speaker 2:
Oh, it's a joke that the Flying Grey Sons from Batman. I get it now, okay. Oh, I'm an idiot.
Speaker 5:
Oh, I'm an idiot, oh, I'm an idiot, oh, I'm an idiot.
Speaker 2:
Oh, I'm an idiot. Okay, you know those old movies from the 60s that were all called things like Teenage Rikini's surf party at old man's Cove or something like that. Make out point. Yeah, oh, insert, you know, random like verb adjective noun Cove, john, the slippery otter beach.
Speaker 3:
I don't know Teenage or like Mad Lib movie.
Speaker 2:
Exactly so. They're like a million of these things, right, and they'd all have some like weird pop star from the time playing like a little song for the kids. It'd be like Bobby Darren's brother or something. But they would all just have like this wacky dance number to this like hip jive and song and that's what. This is Only way cooler Because this version of music didn't exist back then.
Speaker 3:
Teenagers would have gotten pregnant even faster if it had.
Speaker 2:
All of those, like you know, times where, like a girl, would just like disappear for nine months and then come back and then you're sorry. Yeah.
Speaker 3:
Well, that yeah, and I know we both love weird band or album names, and this EP is appropriately named Super Spooky, swingin' Surfin' Sounds. Now that's a tongue twister.
Speaker 2:
Super, let's go. Super Spooky Swingin'.
Speaker 3:
Surfin' Sounds Super Spooky.
Speaker 5:
Swingin'.
Speaker 3:
Surfin'. Sounds I can't do it. It's spooky like three different times you were just saying spooky, spooky, spooky Surfin' Sounds. I think Spooky, spooky, surfin', surfin' Spooky. Yeah, that didn't work. We're terrible at that. Let's just skip straight to your pick.
Speaker 2:
We can barely talk regular yeah. Okay, I have no idea what makes the creature translate so damn well to genres of music that end in the word Billy. But every single creature from the Black Lagoon song is some version of Rockabilly Surfa-Billy, Gotha-Billy.
Speaker 3:
Billy and Mandy, billy Ray Cyrus, big Mouth, billy Bass Billy.
Speaker 2:
When it comes to the Gilly, it's all Billy, but my favorite Gill-Man song just by far is also no surprise by one of my favorite bands, the Cramps. This is the Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon you better ask my mama how to make a monster.
Speaker 5:
I'm a creature from the Black Leather Lagoon and I'm a beautiful monster from outer space too. Learn how to shake my hips. I am a man of the same kind and get me tips, and I'm dead out of my head and I'm a creature from the Black Leather Lagoon. Yeah, Black Leather, Black Leather, Black Leather, Black.
Speaker 4:
Leather. I kill people. Back up black Leather. I crash guys Back up black Leather. I'm the Queenie John of all the black and male of the good. Yeah, I'm a trick and the fire is sort of good Conceived by my devil daddy on the chicky run Like a fireball flying down from the road, daddy, me and mama. But she's an assailant. No, I'm a whole high monster.
Speaker 5:
They named me, no, mama, blackout, blackout, blackout, blackout blackout, a smash, smash, blackout, blackout, a kill, a pistol, blackout, blackout, blackout, a crash, crash, blackout, blackout. I'm a big drop, I'm a blackout flying high the radioactive rage demon Jeong Iron man.
Speaker 3:
I don't know how they do it, but the cramps always sounded if the B-52's decided to do a Halloween playlist, and I fucking love it. Just a Halloween playlist, while on a whole bunch of drugs, maybe like all the drugs, but like a B-52s K-hole sounds like something that would get me in the academy and I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 2:
Sounds like something that would get you into a prison beauty contest, that's for sure. But if you haven't seen the music video for this song, you've gotta check it out. So lead singer Luxe Interior slides out of a green ladies birth canal and then just proceeds to dance around a children's playground. But he's wearing this like black weather banana hammock and it is godly and glorious.
Speaker 3:
That's how I would dare, in the prison beauty contest honestly and that's how you would get to prison too. I think people would get it.
Speaker 2:
Like the judges of Banks and Gavill. You're too sexy around children. You need to be sexy around dangerous killers. Perfect, well, I bet that whole video costs like $20 to produce, but it gives the viewer a million dollars worth of entertainment, like if TikTok was a thing during the cramps day. They would have been bigger than Luke Daddy. They would have been bigger than Ice Spice. They would have been bigger than I don't know who else is popular with the kids these days, but all of them combined.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, definitely not as popular as some broad name sexy red. I'll tell you that.
Speaker 2:
Well, watch it. Last time an artist leaned heavily onto a color theme that was pink, they wound up being one of the best things come out of the 2000s. You're gonna eat your words dummy Also. Didn't we already have a red singer? Wasn't simply red enough?
Speaker 3:
All right, now you have up, then.
Speaker 2:
Give me a wee-oo-wee-oo-wee-oo.
Speaker 3:
Wee-oo, wee-oo, wee-oo. We have a new release alert.
Speaker 2:
Well, we have a special new release alert episode coming out later this week where we'll be featuring just a massive amount of new music that's coming out this Halloween season but Figured will give you just a little more sort of new stuff. To tide you over, here are two brand new songs that we enjoy and that we think you will enjoy as well.
Speaker 3:
I am a sucker for anything that has some 16-bit type music and this is such a fun old-timey sound to it, but also some really dark imagery. For just how fun it is, here is One by One by the Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra with Gloom Darkheart.
Speaker 5:
["One by One by Blake Robinson"]. ["one by One by Blake Robinson"]. ["one by One by Blake Robinson"] ["One by One by Blake Robinson"].
Speaker 2:
["one by One by Blake Robinson"]. So we are knee-deep in the MLB playoffs and not one single team that I like has made it in, so I'm just gonna soothe my soul with some monsters, the way you always do. Yep, this is a Weird as Hell song about monsters playing baseball, and it is appropriately called Monster Baseball, a spooky national pastime. This is by Jack in the Lanterns.
Speaker 4:
The creature from the black and blue. The makers run for second. Soon, doctor Joe goes in the field. A long history. Hot strikes out again. The young boy makes a loud call, he'll pay a meat to the master. Know, the crack was left there, out the glove. The rust was filled till the rough come up In summer time. The meat is out the roots. Just keepin' all about May my sheen of fake and linens false, your face false, out again.
Speaker 3:
Thanks for listening, Geeks and Ghouls. This concludes our episode of the Spooky Songs Podcast. If you would like to reach out to us with questions, comments or requests, feel free to send them to spookysongspodcast at gmailcom you can also keep up with us on Instagram at Spooky Songs Podcast, where we post a new spooky song every single day.
Speaker 2:
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Speaker 3:
If you want to hear a version of the podcast with songs played in their entirety, listen to us on Spotify. Their music and talk format allows us to play any songs we feature without any edits.
Speaker 2:
And finally, thank you for listening. We hope you come back for new episodes on the first and third Monday of each month.