Gary Numan - "Metal"; Nine Inch Nails - "Metal"

Today's Halloween song is "Metal" by Gary Numan, from his 1979 third album The Pleasure Principle:



I'm also re-posting Nine Inch Nails' cover of "Metal" because it is honest to God one of the best covers I've ever heard:

The Kills - "Ticket Man"

Slow Season

Well, month, really.

The blog's been a little slow lately mainly because I've started posting a Halloween(ish) song a day until Halloween, and I've opted to post those songs (with the exception of "See You in the Boneyard" by the Flesh Eaters) straight to Facebook for convenience's sake. Afterwards, I'll compile them all in a post here.

Since I'm already here though, I might as well post tomorrow's track, a Jack White/big-band-assisted rendition of "Funnel of Love" by Wanda Jackson on Conan:

The Flesh Eaters - "See You in the Boneyard"

"... their music was distinctive for its morbid lyricism and often for its sophisticated arrangements, as heard, for example, on 1981's A Minute to Pray, A Second To Die. [Chris] Desjardins's poetry has been described as 'wonderful bleeding collages of B-movie dementia, street crime, Mexican Catholicism and Dionysian punk spurt poetics.'" Cool: