Thursday, October 07, 2021

Only a Son of Frankenstein Could Love?

 This is from the January 9, 1939 issue of Life magazine, clipped by my sweaty paws in about 1973.

Bela Lugosi Jr isn't the only Monster Kid to be unimpressed by a make-up job.
Here's our own home-grown critter at the age of two, similarly unimpressed by a Man Monster.

See you on Monday for a Scary Book, Kiddies!
  

Monday, October 04, 2021

WELCOME TO BLOG-O-WEEN 2021! MA-163 - 80s Atrocities


Yes, my little maggots, we’ll start off this creepiest, crawliest time of the year with a new Halloween anthology.  These songs all began their journey to ruin in the 1980s.

01 - Everybody Wears a Mask - Jem and the Holograms - 1987   (1:30)

02 - Wherewolf - Seditionaries - 1982   (2:43)

03 - Seventh Victim - Go Four 3 - 1987   (3:28)

04 - The World's Most Gruesome Monster - Victor Banana - 1989   (1:57)

05 - Violence & Passion (live) - Malice in Wonderland - 1984   (4:49)

06 - Movies - Big Boys - 1980   (2:18)

07 - Live with the Dead - Voo-Doo Church - 1982   (2:47)

08 - I Was a Teenage Zombie - The Fleshtones - 1987   (2:20)

09 - Lullabye - The Evolution Control Committee - 1989   (1:42)

10 - Hydro-Head - The Ejectors - 1981   (3:18)

11 - Diary of a Mad Werrwöulf - Fang - 1983   (2:42)

12 - (I Was There at) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Ambient Noise - 1980   (3:35)

13 - Spiders in My Sink - Thee Fourgiven - 1985   (2:48)

14 - Monster Movie - Richard Bone - 1983   (5:33)

15 - King Kong - Bow Wow Wow - 1981   (2:18)

16 - Night of the Living Dead - Sickidz! - 1984   (4:49)

17 - Leper Colony - The Last - 1982   (2:30)

18 - Terrorvision - The Fibonaccis - 1986   (3:28)

19 - All Black and Hairy - The Gravedigger V - 1984   (2:37)

20 - Gravedigger Rock - The Polecats - 1981   (2:43)

21 - Room 502 - Cursory Glances - 1985   (3:02)

22 - The Twilight Zone - Rusty Egan - 1983   (5:27)

23 - Tonight (We Make Love Until We Die) - SSQ - 1986   (3:33)

24 - Halloween - Scary Thieves - 1984   (3:01)

25 - Texas Chainsaw Baby - The Chrysalids - 1986   (3:54)

MA-163 - 80s Atrocities   [corrected link]

 Well, don’t just sit there decaying, start listening!  See you on Thursday with something putrid!

  

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