my new icons are doing the monster mash (it's a graveyard smash)

[intertribal]

How do I know that song?  It was on some album of weird oldies songs ("novelty songs", apparently) that Lindsey made me listen to on a field trip in middle school!  Along with "Kookie Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)" and "They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!"  Was "Purple People Eater" on that album too?  Probably.  Amazing the things that stick with me. 

Speaking of novelty songs... here's one I found out about thanks to wikipedia's list.  "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun" by Julie Brown (come on, I had to click on something with that title).  It's pretty sweet: 

I only recently began to appreciate music that was not contemporary, by the way.  Part of this was cuz my parents did not expose me to anything "oldie".  My dad introduced me to Andrew Lloyd Webber (flair for drama - same reason he liked to act out the climax of The Return of Martin Guerre), my mom introduced me to nothing (she kind of stopped listening to music after she got into Indonesia - like others in her generation, though, she liked Bob Dylan and the Talking Heads in college).  So liking things like "All Along the Watchtower" and "Sympathy for the Devil" is a big step for me - let alone The Mamas and The Papas and Joan Jett. 

When my mom heard the new music I'd accumulated over spring break she made some comment like, "I see we've gone into the past," or something.  We have to remember that my mother was not in the U.S. in the '80s either.

Comments

[pgtremblay.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I haven't seen that video in so long. Hilarious.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

It is made of win. My favorite part is "Stop it, Debi, you're embarrassing me!"

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

omg i made you listen to that? :/ sorry, man.

i didn't listen to contemporary music at all until middle school, so we are coming from very different places...

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

you definitely did, dude! it's ok, it was an... interesting experience.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

um, if you say so.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

also, yes, the purple people eater was there. along with "The Green Door" and "Winchester Cathedral" and other stuff. i hate that last song, though. and the purple people eater.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

I don't remember either of them. I think monster mash was my favorite.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

well, there were 3 cassettes. i doubt i made you listen to all 3. i think at the time "They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!" was my favorite. dunno what i'd say now...

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Wait, I love that one too. The nice young men with their clean white suits! That's one I actually continued to like over the years.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

sweet! haha. the Monster Mash ain't bad, either.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Come on, I STILL like some Scooby-Doo songs. "The Ghost Is Here" = awesome.

OMG BRB Scooby Doo on Zombie Island is on YouTube!!!

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

loool

i don't know scooby doo songs, really

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

okay, well, this is a Hellsing fanvid, but it's with "The Ghost Is Here." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11TFThsIImA)

And this one is a Resident Evil fanvid for "Terror Time Again". Jeez, Resident Evil is gross. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNJ7AvbsNzQ)

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

lol, those songs are kinda horrible, but funny.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

hence their brilliance. really though, doesn't that describe Scooby Doo?

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

no! scooby-doo was a great saga of teenagers dealing against the twin forces of criminality and fear!

...

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

oh god, I saw twin and thought of "twin towers". jeebus.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

and obviously now I'm thinking of them as terrorists.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

lol