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HAUNTEDOSPITAL	Monster stars names in music?	Lead	[-]
(05/28/08 11:41 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Tags : None Ok, don't know if this has been covered already, but just a pondering... Is there any music from any style that actually uses the name of a horror movie star?? The big names anyway: Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney, Price, Carradine, etc.. The only one I have heard so far is Warren Zevons Werewolves of London with the mention of Lon Chaney Jr walking with the queen! Any others out there?? ........ I rather stay here...With all the madmen...Then perish with the sadmen roaming free.....
HAUNTEDOSPITAL		#1	[-]
(05/28/08 11:50 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I guess the Bobby Boris Pickett doesn't count as it refers to Bobby Pickett not Karloff, but it's close... but no cigar! ........ I rather stay here...With all the madmen...Then perish with the sadmen roaming free.....
rogueevolent		#2	[-]
(05/29/08 12:12 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	In his 1976 number one hit ('Year of the Cat') Al Stewart sings: "...walking through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime." Sweet! "We didn't come here to fight monsters, we're not equipped for it" -- Richard Carlson (Creature from the Black Lagoon) "There ought to be a law against fat people owning little dickie-birds"-- Nigel Bruce (The Woman in Green)
HAUNTEDOSPITAL		#3	[-]
(05/29/08 1:09 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Year of the Cat! Peter Lorre! I know the song well! Good catch! ........ I rather stay here...With all the madmen...Then perish with the sadmen roaming free.....
ryanbrennan		#4	[-]
(05/29/08 1:34 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead."
Professor Von X		#5	[-]
(05/29/08 12:54 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	The Kinks have a song called Celluloid Heroes, which contains the wonderful line... "Avoid steppin' on Bela Lugosi, cause he's liable to turn an' bite" Professor Von X
HalLane		#6	[-]
(05/29/08 2:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Not so much the BIG names, but "Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel..." and "I really got hot when I saw Janette Scott..." and "Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet..." and "Dana Andrews said prunes gave him the runes..." Science Fiction from THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. Last Edited By: HalLane 05/29/08 2:22 PM. Edited 1 times.
rogueevolent		#7	[-]
(05/31/08 2:47 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	I have not heard this CD yet, but it might be worth checking out by the musical mavens on this esteemed Board: The CD is titled 'Addicted To Bad Ideas' and is by New York band World Inferno Friendship Society. The opening track (I believe to be instrumental) is titled *'Peter Lorre Overture'* Reviewers call the W.I.F.S. a "A Weimar era Klezmer band playing cabaret punk on Halloween." This CD is supposedly a creepy, dark spin through the films of Peter Lorre. Another track is called 'M is for Morphine.' Amazon is selling it for around 14 bucks. fwiw EDIT ADDENDUM- After 'surfing' over to both 'FM Last' and the MySpace for W.I.F.S. I managed to listen to four of the songs from the CD. Pretty good stuff. The Peter Lorre Overture is actually a very nice tune till the "Cramps" style punk kicks in with about 30 seconds to go. Nice. The song 'Addicted to Bad Ideas' is toe-tapping infectious with the sufficient angst necessary for a life like Lorre's. I also appreciate the cover art for this CD. It is a take-off of the art used in the Fritz Lang movie "M." (Lorre's memorable role as the child-killer) "We didn't come here to fight monsters, we're not equipped for it" -- Richard Carlson (Creature from the Black Lagoon) "There ought to be a law against fat people owning little dickie-birds"-- Nigel Bruce (The Woman in Green) Last Edited By: rogueevolent 06/01/08 7:42 AM. Edited 2 times.

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