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The Zombie Karaoke gauntlet
The lovely and talented Omar Gallaga, our very own Digital Savant, commented on my last blog that “Zombie Karaoke” sounded almost as cool as “Karaoke Apocalypse” and despite being tired of zombies, I have to agree. The question is, what songs would be featured at Zombie Karaoke?
Let’s see: The collected works of seminal Brit-rock band The Zombies, and in the interest of fairness the efforts of White Zombie. As for sentimental favorites we could have the Kingston Trio’s “Zombie Jamboree” and “Monster Mash” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett. A Cramps homage, with Ronnie Dawson’s “Rockin’ Bones” plus “Voodoo Idol” (not technically about the undead but still an ahem killer song) and “Surfin’ Dead” could segue into The Flametrick Subs who might contribute “Creepy Dead Folks,” “Down, Down, Down” a song about an “all-night all-dead rock and roll show” and “Early Grave” plus their track “Drink with the Living Dead” for the custom barware company of the same name. The small-but-angry Celtic contingency can cover The Cranberries’ “Zombie” and, of course, in the category of three chords and two minutes are The Misfits with “Night of the Living Dead”, “Astro Zombies” and well … everything else they’ve ever written.
OK Omar, your turn. The Zombie Karaoke gauntlet, she has been thrown.
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By Omar G.
January 24, 2006 05:58 PM | Link to this
Mmm, let's see...
I suspect all the songs on PJ Harvey's "Rid of Me" album are zombie-related. If not, they sure sound like it.
The soundtrack to "Stubbs the Zombie" (try writing that one without the apostrophe we're all so used to) features ironic zombie tunes like "My Boyfriend's Back" as sung by The Ravenettes, "If I Only Had a Brain" by The Flaming Lips and "The Living Dead" by Phantom Planet.
Ice Cube's "Natural Born Killaz" introduced me to the phrase "Dirt naps" and Andre 3000's "Dracula's Wedding" gets a prize of some sort for mentioning PB&J sandwiches.
The Ramone's "Pet Sematary" had a kicky video and was probably scarier than the movie.
And I am shocked, shocked, that you didn't remember Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party."