Watch Out! Baby Who's That? Don't Look Now There's a (Green) Monkey on My Back.

Well, that would explain the pulled muscle.

Joy of joys, I finally got to participate in one of Splotchy's now-legendary Green Monkey Mixes! The Splotch is doing all of Blogdom a great service with the Green Monkey Music Project, the purpose of which is to create interactive mix tapes. Lucky participants get to throw their song selections into each themed mix and then Splotchy does all the heavy lifting to compile the tunes for everyone's downloading pleasure.

The latest is the Can't Wait for Halloween Mix. The entire track listing can be found by following the preceding link, but here I will shed a little light on my song choices.

Concrete Blonde, "Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)" - This one should be fairly obvious. It's about vampires! Can't get more Halloweeny than that. And I love Concrete Blonde.

The Warlocks, "Angels in Heaven, Angels in Hell" - Where else would a band called The Warlocks belong, if not on a Halloween mix? This one is also on my Finetune Fall Mixx, featured on my sidebar, and it's a song that I discovered fairly recently. A guy who sits near me at work was playing it one day and I thought that he had on the Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack, because it reminded me of that song near the end, "Don't Dream It." It's very breathy and strange like that.

Death Cab for Cutie, "I Will Follow You into the Dark" - If you're not paying attention to the lyrics, this sounds like a sweet little love song. But it really seems to be about some psychotic guy who plans to kill himself when his beloved dies, or maybe he's even going to kill her and then kill himself. Even if all the death is consensual, like as in a suicide pact, it's still all a bit unsettling.

The Hooters, "All You Zombies" - Well, I am a huge Hooters fan. Ok, I'm kidding. I do like this song though. I think The Hooters fooled everyone when they first hit the scene with this song. It's kind of a groovy, dark number and then everything else they did afterward was "And We Danced" Parts 1 - 10. I don't know how dark this song can really be since it prominently features that happy instrument, the mandolin, but it's about zombies and zombies love Halloween...and braaaaaains!

Sia, "Breathe Me" - This song has nothing to do with Halloween, but it carries a creepy connotation for me because it was used during the ending sequence of the "Six Feet Under" finale. (Best TV series finale. Ever.) I think the arrangment adds to the "dark" feeling - the very simple piano at the beginning, the bit of goth in the middle and the violins added in at the end, plus the couple of dramatic pauses within the song. And this Sia chick sort of sounds like she's being strangled in parts of this song, so that's kind of scary, eh?

If you can't wait for Halloween, I suggest you download all of these tunes, buy a big bag of candy corn and gorge yourself on both.