Tangled Rope » music http://tangledrope.org Untangling ideas in writing, literature, art, Western culture Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:11:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 SciFiPunkRockabillySurfHorror Half-Hour Ep 7 http://tangledrope.org/2011/05/27/scifipunkrockabillysurfhorror-half-hour-ep-7/ http://tangledrope.org/2011/05/27/scifipunkrockabillysurfhorror-half-hour-ep-7/#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 23:12:16 +0000 5tein http://tangledrope.org/?p=1405 Episode 7 of The SciFiPunkRockabillySurfHorror Half-Hour for DS106 Radio:

Episode 7: Reanimate? Annihilate!

  1. Zombina & The Skeletones – Evil Science
  2. The Creepshow – Grave Diggers
  3. Nekromantix – Luni Lab
  4. Frankenstein “It’s alive!”
  5. Plan 9 – Manmade Monster
  6. BALZAC – Frankenstein’s Walk
  7. 12 Step Rebels – The Ballad Of Frankenstein’s Monster
  8. Cobra Skulls – Dead Inside
  9. The Koffin Kats – Graveyard Tree 2
  10. Groovie Ghoulies – Daughter Of Frankenstein
  11. The Apers – Reanimate My Heart
  12. Famous Monsters – Blood of Frankenstein
  13. Groovie Ghoulies – 99 Lives
]]> http://tangledrope.org/2011/05/27/scifipunkrockabillysurfhorror-half-hour-ep-7/feed/ 0 SciFiPunkRockabillySurfHorror Half-Hour Ep 6 http://tangledrope.org/2011/04/08/scifipunkrockabillysurfhorror-half-hour-ep-6/ http://tangledrope.org/2011/04/08/scifipunkrockabillysurfhorror-half-hour-ep-6/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2011 23:04:36 +0000 5tein http://tangledrope.org/?p=1382 Episode 6 of The SciFiPunkRockabillySurfHorror Half-Hour for DS106 Radio flaps heavy on the rockabilly/psychobilly side of the alley.

Scheduling seems sketchy, so I can’t say when this might play, but here’s the set list anyway:

Episode 6: Sucks on the Beach

  1. Batmobile – Bat Dream
  2. The Coffinshakers – Dracula Has Risen From The Grave
  3. Vampire Beach Babes – Gothic Surf-A-Rama
  4. Groovie Ghoulies – Do The Bat
  5. “The X-Files” – We Got Em
  6. Zombina & The Skeletones – Dracula Blood
  7. Thee Flatliners – Vampires
  8. Blitzkid – Nosferatu
  9. “Dracula” – He Opened a Vein
  10. Devils Brigade – Vampire Girl
  11. The Misfits – Vampira
  12. Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks – Vixen Vampira
  13. “The Vampire Lovers” – Beware
  14. Zombie Ghost Train – Step into My Coffin
  15. Rezurex – Vampira Calling
  16. Tiger Army – Santa Carla Twilight

A lot of these selections were obvious, though a few were tough. For instance, I had a hard time settling on a Thee Flatliners track from the Vampires EP–I favored “Dracula’s Descendants” but ended up choosing “Vampires” because of its distinct Castlevania sound. Blitzkid is not a band I’d normally favor for this show, but, man, this track “Nosferatu” is crazy! Tiger Army finishes with a slower, introspective track — a little more subtle than the rest of the psychobilly songs in this set.

]]> http://tangledrope.org/2011/04/08/scifipunkrockabillysurfhorror-half-hour-ep-6/feed/ 0 SciFiPunkRockabillySurfHorror Half-Hour Ep 5 http://tangledrope.org/2011/04/03/scifipunkrockabillysurfhorror-half-hour-ep-5/ http://tangledrope.org/2011/04/03/scifipunkrockabillysurfhorror-half-hour-ep-5/#comments Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:32:05 +0000 5tein http://tangledrope.org/?p=1375 Another episode of The SciFiPunkRockabillySurfHorror Half-Hour for DS106 Radio.

Episode 5: The Invaders

Synopsis: Dragonmen and Devilgirls invade the Earth, using our own rock n’ roll against us!

  1. Pixies – The Happening
  2. Groovie Ghoulies – 50000 Spaceships (Watching Over Me)
  3. Mad Sin – U.F.O.
  4. “The Invaders” – David Vincent, Mental Case
  5. Frank Black – Bad, Wicked World
  6. Zodiac Killers – UFO Invasion
  7. The Lillingtons – Target Earth
  8. Man or Astroman? – Invasion Of The Dragonmen
  9. Ramones – Zero Zero UFO
  10. “Devil Girl from Mars” – Much As We Expected
  11. The Misfits – I Turned Into a Martian
  12. Man or Astroman? – Evil Plans of Planet Spectra
  13. The Heartaches – Rock N Roll UFO
  14. “Space Ghost” – Energy Ray
  15. Docteur Legume et les Surfwerks – Raumpatrouille Surf
  16. Zombina and the Skeletones – End of the World
  17. Teenage Bottlerocket – Forbidden Planet

Special thanks to Bradley Trinnaman for introducing me to some great, new psychbilly and horror punk this week–plenty of material, now, for the next several episodes. Coming up: vampires, ghosts, evil laboratories, and more zombie love.

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Episode 4: Monster Attack!

Synopsis: Sharks in the surf! Primates from prehistory! Monsters by the megaton! Hippies without heads!

  1. Man or Astroman? – Mystery Science Theater 3000 Love Theme
  2. The Lillingtons – Caveman
  3. Groovie Ghoulies – Blood Beach
  4. Beach Girls and the Monster – Making Hey Hey
  5. Daikaiju – Sharkakhan
  6. The Aquabats – The Shark Fighter!
  7. Horrorpops – HorrorBeach Pt. II
  8. The Dead Milkmen – The Thing That Only Eats Hippies
  9. Groovie Ghoulies – The Lizard King
  10. Famous Monsters – Monsters Over Tokyo!
  11. The Creepshow – Run For Your Life
  12. Man or Astroman? – Gargantua’s Last Stand
  13. Zombina & The Skeletones – Teenage Caveman Beat Gargantua
  14. Groovie Ghoulies – The King Kong Stomp
]]> http://tangledrope.org/2011/03/15/the-scifipunkrockabillysurfhorror-half-hour-ep-4/feed/ 0 The SciFiPunkRockabillySurfHorror Half-Hour http://tangledrope.org/2011/03/10/the-scifipunkrockabillysurfhorror-half-hour/ http://tangledrope.org/2011/03/10/the-scifipunkrockabillysurfhorror-half-hour/#comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:16:07 +0000 5tein http://tangledrope.org/?p=1363 I lived out a bit of a childhood dream by creating set lists for a music show on DS106 online radio station, as masterminded by Jim Groom, Grant Potter, et al. Frankly, I could run a different kind of set night after night, week after week, from industrial to electropop, from post-punk to classical, but decided to focus on a peculiar theme that I’ve enjoyed for a number of years, the exotic, bizarre, obscure, and often silly sci-fi/horror themed music put out by a small group of punk rock, surf rock, and rockabilly/psychobilly bands. And so we have the SciFiPunkRockabillySurfHorror Half-Hour.

Since the songs themselves tend to be highly narrative, it was easy to put them together in a way that created something approximating a narrative arc. I sometimes traded variety to showcase my favorite bands repeatedly, yet am proud to have been pretty stubborn about excluding songs/bands if they didn’t fit the plotline.

Here are the set lists for the first three episodes, along with a synopsis of the storyline I had in mind:

Episode 1: Young Zombie Vampires in Love

Synopsis: Young (vampire) love is threatened when an asteroid on a cataclysmic collision course with Earth is preceded by radioactivated zombies.

  1. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – Science Fiction Double Feature
  2. Man or Astroman? – Planet Collision
  3. The Epoxies – Radiation
  4. Groovie Ghoulies – Deviltown
  5. The Lillingtons – Zombies
  6. The Soviettes – Paranoia Cha Cha Cha!
  7. Koffin Kats – Graveyard Tree
  8. Groovie Ghoulies – Vampire Girl
  9. The Creep Show – Zombies Ate Her Brain
  10. The Incredible Staggers – Zombies of Love
  11. The Dead Milkmen – Lucky
  12. – La Fin Absolue du Monde
  13. The Riverdales – Countdown
  14. The Phenomenauts – Infinite Frontier

Episode 2: Crossed in Space

Synopsis: The vampire-turned-zombie lovers escape a doomed Earth, but will romance survive capture by the alien cyborgs who are following in the asteroid’s path?

  1. Shonen Knife – Riding on the Rocket
  2. Batmobile – Rock This Planet
  3. Man or Astroman? – Cyborg Control
  4. Damon Alexander and the Ten Cent Rentals – Robot Monster
  5. The Lillingtons – I Saw the Apeman on the Moon
  6. Dr Who – You Will Become Like Us
  7. Zombina and the Skeletones – Love Droid
  8. Devil Girl from Mars – Johnny
  9. The Phenomenauts – Cyborg
  10. The Dollyrots – Because I’m Awesome
  11. Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks – La Femme Electrique
  12. Teenage Bottlerocket – Lost in Space
  13. Stereophonic Space Sound Unlimited – Birdman

Episode 3: Eternal Return

Synopsis: Our vampire-turned-zombie-turned-cyborg hero returns to a scorched Earth. Tormented by memories of his lost love, he flees to his homeland of Transylvania.

  1. Teen Idols – Midnight Picture Show
  2. The Lillingtons – Black Hole in my Mind
  3. Ramones – Pet Sematary
  4. Batmobile – Transylvanian Express
  5. Frank Black – The Black Rider #1
  6. Docteur Legume et Les Surfwerks – Bienvenue a la Maison Meduse
  7. Teenage Bottlerocket – They Came from the Shadows
  8. The Horrorpops – Hitchcock Starlet
  9. The Sonics – The Witch
  10. Groovie Ghoulies – Wolf Girl
  11. The Phenomenauts – Make a Circuit with Me
  12. Groovie Ghoulies – Til Death Do Us Party

Episodes 4 & 5 are both planned, and will showcase Nekromantix, Zombina and the Skeletones, Famous Monsters, Daikaiju, The Pixies, and more.

]]> http://tangledrope.org/2011/03/10/the-scifipunkrockabillysurfhorror-half-hour/feed/ 0 “Voices of Light” in “La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc” http://tangledrope.org/2010/02/03/voices-of-light-in-la-passion-de-jeanne-darc/ http://tangledrope.org/2010/02/03/voices-of-light-in-la-passion-de-jeanne-darc/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:01:54 +0000 5tein http://tangledrope.org/?p=770 voices of light

I hadn’t watched Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc with composer Einhorn’s “Voices of Light” until just this week. Einhorn has done a masterful job with the work, and indeed accentuates this already stunning and troubling film. If you haven’t caught this on Criterion, do. Here’s a clip from what I thought to be the most breathless scene, Jeanne’s confession:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYHqcyn3zGc

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