Remember The Beastles?

            It was in the early 1960s that the American audience for pop music’s new offshoot, rock’n’roll, heard of a new band from the other side of the Atlantic pond.  It was four Vlads who played loud and hard and long.  Whispers among excited fans was that this new band, The Beastles,  was slayin’ ’em right and left.

             It was true -- literally.  This quartet of supernatural swing -- John Venom, Paul McCoffin, George Hairyson, and Ringo Stab -- became known to the world as “the Slab Four,” as the popularity of their music and their only-after-dark public appearances made a ticket to a Beastles concert the hippest “Ticket to Debride,” as one of their song titles put it.

 

            In 1964 they signed with the American label Decapitate Records.   Over the next six years, until 1970, when a curtain malfunction in their tour van brought about a sudden and smoky and smelly and crumbly end to their career, The Beastles were the rulers of the musical underworld, producing dozens  of hits, such as

• Yelp!
• Grey Mood (with its famous three-minute-long fadeout)
• Scum Together
• She Digs You (Blehh! Blehh! Blehh!)
• I’ve Just Seen a Throat
• Dying (the group’s only instrumental; culminating in a whispery sound signifying a sheet being drawn over one’s head)
• Don’t Dig Me Up
• Carry That Deadweight
• Axeman (from their first Sickedelic album Repulsor)
• A Hard Day’s Fright
• You Mother Should Croak
• Clavicle Blistery Tour
• Lady Belladonna
• I Dig Up Bony
• Twitch and Howl
• While My Widow Gently Weeps
• You Never Give Me Your Mummy
• Get Black
• PS I Bit You
• Revulsion (echoed in their eight-minute sound montage, Revulsion #9)
• Festerday
• The Long and Winding Shroud
• Things We Bled Today
• Everybody’s Got Someone to Bite Except Me and My Creature
• I Am the Werewolf
• Get Drac
• I’ve Just Been Erased
• Long-Buried Fields Forever
• Old Brown Bat
• You Know My Name (Look Up the Obituary)
• She Came in Through the Charnel Window
• No Werewolf Man
• The Cool of the Thrill
• Dead Letter Writer
• Back in the U.S. ER
• I Should Have Dug Deeper
• Doctor Leper’s Heart Transplant Club Band
• Please Mr Ghostman
• Grave Stripper
• Filling a Hole
• You’re Going to Lose That Ghoul
• Getting Deader
• Good Night Moonshine
• Lucy in a Box with Flowers
• She’s Bleeding Out
• I Want You (She’s So Bloody)
• Don’t Let Me Drown
• Maxwell’s Silver Bullet
• Happiness Is a Cold Slab
• A Waste of Honey
• I’m Happy Just to Drink from You
• Rotting Raccoon (which inspired Loudon Wainwright III’s “Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road”)
• Decay in the Life
• And Your Wolf Can Sing
• Baby, You’re a Dead Man
• Being for the Death Benefit of Mister Kite
• Blue Blood Way
• (The Worms Crawl) Within You, Without You
• Two of Pus
• A Little Help from My Fiends
• Norwegian Stake
• Let It Beat (nicknamed “the Poe song” by fans for  its retelling of Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart”)
• Rot Naturally
• We Can Dig It Up
• Got to Get You into My Crypt

 

            Ironically, their final single release reached Number One on the US and British pop charts the same week of their passing.  Perhaps prophetically, it was titled “Here Comes the Sun (Better Hide).”

             But their first hit made such a smash that I am including its lyrics here today.

 

I Want to Bite Your Neck

by 

The Beastles

(John Venom, Paul McCoffin, George Hairyson, Ringo Stab)

 Oh, yeah, I’ll tell you something,

I hope you won’t object.
When I say that something,
I want to bite your neck.
I want to bite your neck, I want to bite your neck.

O please say to me

You’ll let me be your wreck,
And please say to me
You’ll let me bite your neck.
You’ll let me bite your neck, I want to bite your neck.

            And when I touch you I feel thirsty inside.

            It’s such a feeling for your blood
            I can’t hide, I can’t hide, I can’t hide.

Yeah, you’ve got that something,

So don’t keep me in check.
When I feel that something,
I want to bite your neck.
I want to bite your neck, I want to bite your neck.

 

Bid Farewell to the Interloper!

As the sun sinks slowly into the west for this year's Blog-o-Ween, we see the last of the scenario of the normal male hoping to make time with Marilyn Munster and being scared off by her oddball family...

 

Looks as if Marilyn's tutu is snagged on a tree branch...

 

Meanwhile, we say "Whew!" with weariness and regret, to the winding down of another October.  See you tomorrow on Hallowe'en for an (intended) big ending!

That's Grandpa Just Showing Off

When we last left The Munsters, a nameless klotz has been introduced to The Munsters, who are too creepy and kooky for him.  ("Creepy and kooky"? sorry, wrong catchphrase)

The hapless young fellow is spooked by the sight of Igor, Grandpa's bat.

 

With that Beauty-Queen Parade Wave. we bid farewell to Horn Dog, Junior.

MA-23 - Disc of Doom

Here we have last year's Halloween musical offering.

1)   Count Chocula Intro  13 Days of Halloween     0:40

2)Trick or Treat      Halloween    3:11
3)Have You Ever Seen?     Boss Martians     3:16
4)Spook Opera        Hawaiian Pups     2:55
5)TV Monster Show     The Munsters 2:05
6)Land of the Dead Voltaire 1:59
7)Dracula's Deuce Freddy & the Four-Gone Conclusions 2:37
8)It's Spooky in Here Baha Men 2:41
9)Green Slime The Green Slime 2:18
10)My Body's a Zombie for You Dead Man's Bones 4:30
11) Spooksville Nu-Trends 2:37
12)The Mummy Radio Ad 0:48
13)The Ballad of Vlad the Impaler Bettie Blackchurch 1:31
14)Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? Matthew Sweet 3:11
15)Exorcist Theme Halloween Remix      4:59
16)I'm Gonna Scare You Sue Rose 2:39
17)The Bat Children of the Night 2:37
18)Munsters Theme (Halloween edit)  Figure 2:42
19)Return of the Living Dead Ghoultown 3:35
20)Martian Hop    Ran-Dells 1:28
21) Halloween Party Music Andrew Gold    3:04
22) The Haunt of Room 402 Wally Wingert 3:00
23)Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati Rose & The Arrangement  2:12
24) Rockin' in the Graveyard Jackie Morningstar 2:37
25) Banditos Halloween Mash Jonathan Rubinger 4:49
26) Phantom of the A-Go-Go Don  Hinson and the Rigamorticians 2:32
27) Castin' My Spell Marci Lee 2:09
28) Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Lewis    Lee  2:54
29) Werewolf Five Man Electrical    Band     3:28
 Have fun, Kiddies!