Happy Halloween! Graveyards, dead girlfriends, monsters, killers, draculas, frankenstein’s monsters, werewolves and more! The live versions of “Expressway” and “PCH” were my 999th and 1000th songs on Psychic and Powerless…what a ride. See ya next week as we move into the post-1000th landscape.
Hour 1
- Mudhoney – “Halloween”, Touch Me I’m Sick / Halloween, Sub Pop, 1988
- Sonic Youth – “Expressway To Yr Skull” / “Pacific Coast Highway”, (05/22/1987 – Trenton, NJ)
- Butthole Surfers – “Graveyard”, Locust Abortion Technician, Touch and Go, 1987
- Velvet Underground – “I Heard Her Call My Name”, White Light / White Heat, Verve Records / 1968 / 1985
- Neil Young – “Down By The River”, Live at The Fillmore East, Reprise Records, 2006 (March 1970)
- Half Japanese – “E.S.P”, Our Solar System, Iridescence Records / Fire Records, 1984 / 2014
- Half Japanese – “King Kong”, A Tribute To Daniel Johnston, Little Teddy Recordings, 1994
- The Cramps – “Rockin Bones” / “Human Fly”, (08/18/1979 – New York City, NY)
- Shellac – “God Save the Queen”, (10/31/1998 – Chicago, IL | Sex Pistols tribute show)
- Talking Heads – “Psycho Killer”, Stop Making Sense, Sire, 1984
Hour 2
- Lightning Bolt – “Dracula Mountain”, Wonderful Rainbow, Load Records, 2003
- Vampire Belt – “Last of the Hipmen” / “Echo”, Unfit Structures, Hermit Hut, 2005
- Wolf Eyes – “Dead Hills 2”, Dead Hills, Troubleman United, 2002
- Dr. John – “Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya”, Gris-Gris, ATCO Records, 1968
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Born on the Bayou”, (09/28/71 – London, England
- Grateful Dead – “Werewolves of London”, (07/08/79 – Morrison, CO)
- Grateful Dead – “Friend of the Devil”, American Beauty, Warner Bros. Records, 1970
- Black Sabbath – “War Pigs”, (12/20/1970 – Paris, France)
- Melvins – “If I Had an Exorcism” / “Boris”, Endless Residency, Amphetamine Reptile Records, 2011 (January 2011)