Happy Halloween everyone!! If you're a longtime reader, you know what I'm going to post today. It's tradition, after all. And it's the best Halloween video EVER. I can't even count the number of ways this is epic.
The series now hits 1980, which was a pretty good year for pop music. Good enough to warrant four instalments, I think. It was the year in which I turned 14. * * * Cheap Trick - Dream Police.mp3 This was the first record I bought in 1980. Cheap Trick probably were the first hair metal band. I didn't really dig them very much, but I did like Dream Police, even if I had no idea what [...]
I'm usually not too fired up when actors try to become Rock Stars. I'm sure many of you out there can cite three or four that crossed over successfully, but there seems like a lot more failures than successes to me. I'll even give you Rick Springfield, he of General Hospital and "Jessie's Girl" fame. No offense to Rick intended whatsoever, but I wasn't that fired up about either venture in his case. I got excoriated by hardcore Tom Waits fan The Giant Panther when I said I enjoyed Scarlett Johanson's take on Wait's "Falling Down" when she did a [...]
Photo and autograph courtesy of the G Archives. Tim Curry Let's do the time warp again! It's actor Tim Curry's birthday today. I enjoyed getting to tell him how much I loved his roles in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and Stephen King's "It." He was very humble and thanked me for my support! Love that! Also born today: the man who does everything - James Franco, actors Hayden Christensen, Dudley Moore and actress Jayne Mansfield. --> [...]
Since this will be my last post until Halloween, I'm going to carry on an old Alienhits tradition by posting Tim Curry's immortal performance of Anything Can Happen On Halloween (from the equally ridiculous 80's version of The Worst Witch ). There's no way you can watch this without laughing your ass off at the sheer campiness. Here it is, presented in video and audio formats for your viewing/listening pleasure. Happy Halloween!! Tim Curry - Anything Can Happen On Halloween by [...]
Glee cast does Rocky Horror album cover.
Can't stop spinnin' those singles! Today we listen to a handful from the other side of the Big Pond, from our friends in the United Kingdom. They will take us on a little tour of the isles across the ocean. Let's begin in the northern Isles ... in Scotland, where Al Stewart comes from. Stewart, best known for the 1976 hit album Year Of The Cat (and its title track, a hit single), has also worked with a number of big names including Alan Parsons, Jimmy Page and Rick Wakeman. Stewart followed [...]
Trick or treat? It's a simple question, and the answer is almost always the same. Everyone knows little Billy in his homemade pumpkin costume couldn't pull a trick to save his life. No, he'll just repeat the Halloween catch phrase over and over again until he's halfway to a case of childhood diabetes. Charming, but boring. What good is Halloween without a spark of mischief? After all, not all Pumpkin Day tomfoolery turns into an Eric Draven murder-rape scenario. Break Yo T.V. is the perfect accompaniment to [...]
Psst! Avast there! Aye, greetin's, friends. Welcome t' Pirate Week har on She'll Grow Back. Ahoy, in celebration o' International Talk Like A Pirate Day , I'll be pro'idin' some nautically-themed music all week. So keep your ruddy hands inboard -- that be the best way t' repel boarders! Aye, as tis' Sunday, har's one o' the silliest thin's we'll lis'en at all week. Tis' Tim Curry and The Muppets, from Muppet Treasure Island . The song be written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, [...]
pic: Marin Van Uhm Subway - Lowlife ( buy ) The full length from cosmic duo Subway really is essential. So refreshing. Toby Tobias - Azul Blue ( buy ) A slick lounge turned disco chugger from the ever pleasing Toby Tobias [...]
Halloween Track #10: Tim Curry - Anything Can Happen On Halloween "Has anybody seen my tambourine?" I started the Halloween songs with a cover of a Tim Curry track from RHPS, so I think it's fitting to post another Tim Curry song today on Halloween. Plus, I love posting this track each year because it's simply one of the funniest/weirdest Halloween songs ever recorded. The thing is, it doesn't even really work [...]
Longest. Post. Title. Ever? (or just lyrics to Tim Curry's Paradise Garage , which are all too apropos considering the news) WORTH IT. Yesterday was a good day. A really good day. Began with a trip to Pier 59 to thwack some golf balls at the driving range with brother and sister, followed by a relaxing midafternoon foodage across the street at The Park. (note: drinks with green tea liqueur in them are wildly delicious!) At meal's end, I pulled out my Touch to [...]
So I spent two days at Disneyland (and California Adventure) last week. I'd never been to the California parks before, and I had a blast. Here are five covers of Disney songs, some from attractions, some from movies and TV shows. The Supremes song is from their aborted 1967 album composed entirely of Disney songs (I have eight recordings from these sessions, some of which I don't like much at all.) The Jackson Five song is from their first album in 1969. The next two songs are from the largely disappointing 1996 Disney compilation [...]
Welcome to my late-night/early-morning post inspired by the purchases I made earlier today (technically yesterday) for $1 or less at the used record store: Paul Young "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (Joy Division cover) I feel over the years I've divulged a lot of personal information about my past with music of a somewhat embarrassing nature. I believe what I'm about to admit far surpasses all previous embarrassment. You ready? Okay, here goes: This is the first version of this song that I ever heard. Oh, god. And I [...]
One of my favorite things about running this blog is all the neat stuff other people teach me. Be it through the comments or via email folks quite regularly drop interesting bits of trivia on me. Such is the case with the track Sloe Gin. Earlier this week I posted about Joe Bonamassa's new cd, Sloe Gin and included the title track. Well, yesterday a reader left the following comment: This particular gin is a cover of a tune by [...]
Today in Music History: In 1969 The Beatles make their last performance as a group on the roof of the Apple building during the filming of 'Let It Be'. As talented an individual as Tim Curry is, he will forever be best known as Dr. Frank N Furter of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. His list of roles in both TV and movies, live-action and voice-acting for animated features, is lengthy and amazing. It is notable that he almost always plays a villain of one kind [...]
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