Get Punked -- Halloween Style!

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Yes, it’s a bunch of silly, scary, goofy, flesh-crawling songs from the Halloween side of the 1980s!  Maybe when you’re done listening, you’ll have conquered all your monsters (Track 2).  Track 4 is an instrumental misnamed after the leading character of Escape from New York.  Track 10 is a fairly sad cash-in attempt.  Would you rather be a teenage werewolf, or his bride (Tracks 17 and 18)?  Track 20 is a silly parody of Cher’s “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.”  Track 21 is a paranoid rumination on a certain unlucky number.  Track 23 is from the fun 1985 TV movie The Midnight Hour, including such luminaries as Shari Belafonte, LeVar Burton, and Macaulay Culkin’s first role as an uncredited trick-or-treater.  But I saved the best track of all for last, by the minimalist geniuses the Jr Chemists.  Enjoy!

01 - Spring Heeled Jack - Paul Roland   1989   (2:52)

02 - Monsters - Ella Mental   1986   (3:34)

03 - My Mummy - Smart Alec   1980   (3:59)

04 - Snake Pliskin - Annabel Lamb   1983   (2:16)

05 - Kiss of Death - The Warlocks   1987   (4:04)

06 - Invasion of the Gamma Men - Shake   1980   (3:44)

07 - Imagination - Idiot Dancers   1981   (2:55)

08 - Fred Cadaver - Strong Silent Types   1982   (1:54)

09 - Nightmare (Fear of Sleep) - Violent Marriage   1982   (2:57)

10 - Whatever Happened To Eddie - Eddie & the Monsters (Butch Patrick)   1983   (1:51)

11 - Spit Upon Your Grave - Blood and Roses   1985   (4:14)

12 - I Was a Teenage Zombie - The Fleshtones   1987   (2:17)

13 - Ghosties - Red Harvest   1989   (2:47)

14 - Haunted - Marine Boy   1982   (4:04)

15 - Godzilla Approaches Tokyo - Knightclub   1984   (2:55)

16 - The Brain That Wouldn't Fry - Crawling Walls   1985   (4:08)

17 - (I Was a) Teenage Werewolf - The Flirts   1983   (4:28)

18 - Teenage Werewolf's Bride - Bad Karma Beckons   1986   (2:36)

19 - Tango with the Dead - Gollywobblers from Hell!   1985   (4:18)

20 - Monsters - Martyr Complex   1981   (3:24)

21 - Thirteen - Dogma Probe   1982   (4:27)

22 - Synthetic Flesh - The Househunters   1987   (3:20)

23 - Get Dead - Shari Belafonte   1985   (2:58)

24 - Monster Island - Jr CHemists   1981   (1:28)

MA-113 - Halloween Punkin'

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