The 13 Days of Halloween:
“The Scariest Songs”
Hi Folks! Here is my suggestion for Number 1: What’s yours?
#1: The Message
Grandmaster Flash
(Duke Bootie & Melle Mel), 1982
Same Set Playlist:
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead – XTC
Silent Running – Mike & The Mechanics
Inner City Blues – Marvin Gaye
Don’t push me, cause I’m close to the EDGE
I’m trying not to lose my head
It’s like a jungle, sometimes it makes me wonder
How I keep from going under
“Peter Pumpkinhead” might have been a better seasonal choice, but no other song altered its genre as radically as this one. Besides, listen to the lyrics: if the fact that they’re more relevant now than they were 30 years ago doesn’t scare you, then you haven’t been paying attention. Moreover, look at the image: if you think this young man represents a specific demographic (his face is fashioned from avatar morphs that reflect the world’s three main ethnicities) or a specific community, then you REALLY haven’t been paying attention.
Each of these songs has a continuing, timely relevance. As such, several others could join them on the list. “The World Is A Ghetto (War),” “The Ghost of Tom Joad (Bruce Springsteen),” “Ball of Confusion” (The Temptations), and some selections from Gil Scott-Heron come to mind. To keep this list manageable, I didn’t include jazz songs; but if I had, “Strange Fruit” (Billie Holliday) would be on it. “Night on Bald Mountain” (Mussorgsky/Rimsy-Korsakov) would have made it as a classical entry-- thanks to its legendary film interpretation by Disney.
Thanx to the artists at Renderosity.com, 3Dcommune, Daz 3D, Archive3D.net, and ShareCG, whose props were used in the composition of this image.
Dr Zik
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