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Weekend Discussion Thread: Difficult ListeningThe opposite of easy listening, ya see.
Suggest a three-song set of tunes from MSTed movies that would be the most punishing, a set that would ruin the evening of anyone who heard it. I’m gonna go with: 1. The baby piano music from “Robot Monster” What’s your set? Thanks to Christopher Carey, who had a slightly different suggestion, but whose idea I springboarded off of. 66 Replies to “Weekend Discussion Thread: Difficult Listening”Commenting at Satellite News
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Idiot Control Now (Pod People)
Hooray for Santy Claus (Santa Claus Conquers the Martians)
Shick Out of Shape (Incredibly Strange Blah Blah Blah)
1. Torgo’s Theme (Manos)
2. “Idiot Control Now” (Pod People)
3. “Refueling Suite in Blah Minor” (Starfighters)
I was going to include the theme from Creeping Terror, but I hear if you play it on a quality hi-fi system and find the sweet spot, it’s quite good…
So many choices! Here are 3 that come to mind:
1. The ambient noise from Werewolf (“Thank you for turning off the bad soundtrack”)
2. Open mic night at Riding with Death (“Amerrica fer amurricans let’s send all the Indians back tah Af-rik-uh”)
3. Cabbage Patch Elvis serenading Vicki by the rusty pool slide
1. Buzz’s showboating trumpet solo, “Flight of the Bubblehead” as Joel called it, in Mr. B Natural
2. Winky’s inane song from Manhunt in Space.
3. Arch Hall Jr.’s Valerie (the song sung in the desert while searching for dad) in Eegah.
A lot of the songs from the bad movies I really dug, especially if they created good riffs (“Rock Candy Baby You’re Mine!”) or had enough space to insert riff lyrics (anything from The Beatniks).
Shick of out shape
Arch Hall does Vicki
Yipe Stripes
1. The cacophonous climactic attack-scene music from “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” (wah-wah-waaaaah….)
2. The toot-toot-ta-toot jazz jam in “The Dead Talk Back.”
3. That howly thing Shirley Bassey sings over the “Manos” credits after they pick her up hitchhiking (honey, please!)
“Hooray For Santy Clause!” from SCCTM
“Evil Kid Music” from Squirm
“Gamera” (really neat, filled with meat)
1: Song “played” by the cheesey Monkees rip off band in the bar in Wild Rebels
2: Arch Hall Jr’s “Vickie” in Eegah!
3: The Moon Zero Two opening theme song.
1. The Starfighters refueling music – a little much for just pumping gas (sexual imagery notwithstanding.)
2. California Lady from Track of the Moon Beast (although the Behind the Music special on the band was fantastic.)
3. Deep Deep Down (I guess that was the song) from “Diabolique.”
Vickie and “Wide Stripes (or Yipe Stripes or whatever that dreck was) were previously mentioned which are both perfectly fine choices, too.
Great topic!
1. Repetitive dull dance music in “The Creeping Terror”
2. Buzz saw/table saw sounds in “Werewolf”
3. Gotta agree with others who say “Schick Outta Shape” from “Incredibly…. Zombies”
The Del-Aires, “The Zombie Stomp”
The Fontenelles, “Kiss Kicker ’99”
John Carradine with Ray and the Melmen, “Night Train to Mundo Fine”
Ilya’s wife’s song as she’s making the magic table cloth in The Sword and the Dragon
The kid’s “Parade of Nations” song in Santa Claus
The song Vicki is lip-synching when she passes out in The Deadly Bees
Whoa now. I know this is all very subjective, and I like more than one of the songs mentioned above, but “The Zombie Stomp”? Really? The Del-Aires were pretty darn good, mister.
I’d have to go with “Never Steal Anything Wet” from Catalina Caper, that insipid “Leather Coat” pseudo song in The Beatniks, and gosh how do I pick just one Arch Hall Jr song from Eegah? “Vickie” I guess. That one has Arch straying up out of his four-note range.
Wow, I never thought this would be such a hard choice.
Perhaps…
“Idiot Control Now” – Pod People
“Shick Out Of Shape” – The Incredibly Strange Creatures
“California Lady” – Track Of The Moonbeast
Or maybe…
Whatever the hell is playing over Manos’ end credits
“Dance Hall Theme” – The Creeping Terror
“Night Train To Mundo Fine” – John Carradine & His All Nurse Band
(As a sidenote, I too dug The Del-Aires in Horror Of Party Beach.)
“Yipe Stripes” from Teenage Strangler
anything by Arch Hall Jr in Eegah!
Any Dixieland Jazz because it reminds me of the unfortunate demise of that fellow from Killer Shrews.
1. “There’s a New World,” from Catalina Caper (I have actually listened to some of The Cascades other tunes, they have put out some pretty groovy ones)
2. The driving scene music from “Manos,” although I didn’t think the end credits music was that bad. At least she didn’t try to do a high note again.
3. And (I’m surprised no one mentioned this one yet) the “Chinese music torture,” from Monster A-Go-Go. All of the music in that film SUCKED, but that particular number, especially. I was totally feeling what Crow was feeling!
I actually like the “Starfighters Theme.” I always think of it when I go to the gas station.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4pSjzI8BSw
And I like “Idiot Control Now.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV8xEFWC45k
Hey, Girl in Gold Boots can handle this all by itself.
1) “Do You Want to Laugh or Cry” (before or after hearing all 7 notes?)
2) “Lonesome Man” (best sung during a downpour standing under a subway overpass)
3) “Tomorrow and You” (I think this is the song at the end, although to be
fully apprciated you need to see Michelle’s clumsy dancing counterpointing
Critter’s uninspired singing. (Not too sure if a viewer will laugh or cry).
Honorable(?) mention: “Idiot Control Now” Why? It stinks!
Actually, better make that an “el” (see Tom Servo for an explanation
of what an “el” is, rather than a “subway” overpass.
Well, I’d start with Mamie Van Doren singing “Go Go Calypso” from Untamed Youth, follow it up with a rousing “Night Train to Mundo Fine” as sung by the golden voiced John Carradine, then bring it home with “Flight of the Bubblehead” from the short “Mr. B Natural.”
No wait, scratch that last one – I’d finish with the dance music from “Village of the Giants.”
The Beatles!
@12, I kind of like that song Vicki is lip-synching in The Deadly Bees! It’s so ’60s. I especially love the accompanying machine gun noises from Mike & the ‘bots. :-O
@16, how could I have forgotten the torture that was “There’s a New World” in Catalina Caper. As one of the ‘bots commented while it was on, “They sent the wrong guys to ‘Nam.”
Hard for me to pick three choices. I ALOMST want to say “California Lady”, but I kinda like it. Not sure about anyone else.
The organ music heard throughout “Invasion of the Neptune Men” was dreadful.
ANY music piece from “Incredibly Strange Creatures…”
I’ll go with…
– Yipes Stripes (from “Teen-age Strangler”)
– California Lady (from “Track of the Moon Beast”)
– “The Reggae Song” (from “Pod People”)
And the Lord Said Laugh from Giant Gila Monster
Sideburns Don’t Need No Sympathy from Beatniks
Soundtrack to Monster A Go-Go
since Monster A Go-Go was already mentioned I guess I’ll substitute My Mitchell from Mitchell.
Oo-Wah-Wah by the lost Del Rubio Triplet from INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES
I Sing Whenever I Sing Whenever I Sing from GIANT GILA MONSTER
Nastinka’s ode to stump watering from JACK FROST
(Bonus Track: The Haunting Torgo Theme)
Idiot Control Now
Schick Out of Shape
Night Train to Mundo Fine
…my my my Mitchell….
Any music from any movie from the 80’s. The music from that decade is more horrible than anything they could show on screen.
Dance Hall Song (20 minute remix) – ‘Creeping Terror’
Rock and Roll Martian – ‘Merlin’s Shop Of Mystical Wonders’
Scat Singing Grandma – ‘Incredibly Strange Creatures etc.’
Any 3 songs made by albert glasser!!!
My playlist:
–“Shine Your Love,” from Angels’ Revenge
–“Vicki,” from Eeegah
–“Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo,” from I was a Teenage Werewolf
–Torgo’s Theme would play between each song.
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MUSICAL TORCHA!
@ #24 – Oh yes! “The Reggae Song” from Pod People! I forgot all about that one, but it’s definitely insufferable. Did anyone ever find out who did that song/where it came from?
Giant Gila Monster folk song: And the Lord said laugh, children laugh…
Rap remix of space children rhymes: Okay! We’ve decided! Nana nana boo-boo…Gangam Style!
Rocket Attack USA avant-garde composition: Eeeeyaaaghh, eeeeyaaagh, eeeeyaaagh, eeeeyaaagh…
Now, that would have something for everyone.
Shine Your Love (especially if you can get an elderly man to “sit dance” during it)
“Tusk” from Wahrwilf
Night Train To Mundo Fine
Depending on how you look at it, it’s only one song or more than three, but the medley of “national songs” performed by the children working in Santa’s sweat shop, accompanied by Jolly Ole Saint Nick himself on the Wurlitzer, is especially horrific on a number of levels.
Excellent topic – I think my choices would be:
The creature’s “Metal Machine Music” in Horror of Party Beach;
“Mass Confusion” – Hellcats
“I Can’t Take a Chance” – Hellcats (again)
Honorable Mention goes to Rod’s serenade in Wild Rebels.
Which was it where the guy with the guitar (Arch Hall Jr.?) serenading the girl would can’t walk in one of those furshlugginer movies? That one!
“Idiot Control Now” in “Pod People”. (okay sign) …It stinks!
And, worst of all, the horribly creepy and disturbing music in the autopsy scene in “Ring of Terror”. Nightmare fuel for sure!
I tried to think of the ones that really make you want to dig the skin off your face – ones even we would be driven from the room in horror from:
1. I Wanna be Happy Today
2. Scuba Party
3. Savin’ Mah Life
-OR-
1. The thing Critter is playing at the end of Girl in Gold Boots
2. Take Me (Out to the Ballgame) (It lives by Night)
3. 1st Security Flunkie’s fantasy song (Hobgoblins)
Conversely, I admit to being struck by earworms I like:
1. The King Approacheth cue from Beast of Yucca Flats
2. California Lady
3. “Ha-So – Stratosphere Boogie” (Though I agree w/ Crow about the Ha-So part)
I would pick three especially bad synthesizer tunes:
1) The “plate-spinning” music from “The Final Sacrifice”, especially the perpetually skipping main title theme: “da-doodle-a-DO, da-doodle-a-DO, da-doodle-a-DO,” over and over and over again.
2) Just about anything from the soundtrack of “Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell”, especially the wretched music that plays during the “ren-fest” right after the main titles.
3) The “cheap little Casio sounds” music from the rake fight in “Hobgoblins”.
These are the three songs that make my teeth itch the most.
1) “How Do I Stand With Your Heart?” from 812-THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES.
2) “The Edge of a Dream” (the breathy 80’s drek that plays over the closing credits) from 820-SPACE MUTINY.
3) “Vickie” (when, clearly, he should be singing “Roxy,” if he knew what was good for him) from 506-EEGAH!
Okay, I just thought of a few more:
1) “Whatever the heck song that is” (as Mike calls it) that Billy is listening to while he drives his footprint-decorated van for the first time in “Laserblast”.
2) The music from Lea’s, uhhhm, “seductive” hula hoop dance in “Space Mutiny”.
3) The bongo drum music from either “The Dead Talk Back” or “Girl in Gold Boots” (because all bongo drum music sounds the same).
Oh man, how did I forget “Eeny Meeny Miny Mo” from I Was A Teenage Werewolf? And, more importantly, how can I forget it again?
And a dishonorable mention for “A Child’s Introduction To Jazz” from The Dead Talk Back. Toot ta toot toot.
1) Odd, disturbing opening credits music from Touch of Satan
2) Night Train from Red Zone Cuba
3) The awful Gold Boots song from Girl in Gold Boots.
I actually like a lot of the bad music… I guess my taste in music is pretty wide-ranging. I particularly like the odd repetitive jazz loaf music in The Creeping Terror.
Here are some I didn’t like:
1) The soporific jazz score from Manos: the Hands of Fate (Torgo’s Theme excepted)
2) The really really awful songs of Arch Hall, Jr. (“Vicki”, “Valerie”) in Eegah!
3) Winky’s creepy lullaby in Manhunt in Space.
Also, any closing credits music from an 80’s movie with squealing guitars and some yowling mulletted singer…. yeah, I’m looking at you, Space Mutiny….
Arch Hall’s “Vickie” from Eegah!
“Night Train” from Red Zone Cuba
“And the Lord Said Laugh” from Giant Gila
Hilarious topic.
“Are You Happy In Your Work?” from I Accuse My Parents
“Dee dee dah” (Deep, Deep Down) from Diabolik. And I usually love Ennio Morricone!
And then Torgo’s Theme on a constant loop.
I liked the Cascades’ version of “There’s a New World” (written by Ray Davies!) from Catalina Caper. To me the only laughable part of that song was that the drummer looked exactly like Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling….