Still, this one made me chuckle.
This year I had a little trouble rekindling my (historically abundant) Halloween spirit, but with the day finally upon us I am all up ins. Putting together this show certainly helped me get my ghoulish groove back, and I hope it provides and adequate soundtrack for your All Hallows activities.
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Show Notes:
Intro: Baddd Spellah – "Radio Free Hipster Theme (feat. Beefy)"
Beef's got a new release that will also fit in well with your Halloween party playlist. Dig it!
Track 1: mc chris - "Time Warp"
mc's Columbia is downright uncanny.
Z's 1st interlude: "Part 2 of this year's Halloween Crap-tacular"
And with this one in the bag I gotta say I'm sad I have to wait another year to do it again.
Track 2: The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - "Ogdru Jahad"
It's strange to think that I've been listening to the Thickets for a decade and a half now.
Track 3: Backburner - "Phantom Ghost"
This one's for you, @HassanISahba.
Track 4: g4gorilla - "Bring Frankenstein Back to My Street"
Another great cut from this year's Texas Chainsaw Mashacre compilation.
Track 5: MC Frontalot - "Invasion of the Not Quite Dead"
Solved is a really eclectic album -- even from Frontalot, who tends to cast a wide sonic net. The harder edge of this joint is but a single example of its stylistic breadth.
Track 6: John Anealio - "Undead Love Song"
Just when I think I have John figured out he up and uses the word "cock" in a song!
Track 7: Saltlakrits - "Cupcakes in My Basement"
This one requires a bit of back-story, as helpfully supplied by @ChurchHTucker.
Z's 2nd interlude: "Backed up by a nice Castlevania-driven beat."
That soundtrack gets used and abused a lot, but Backburner sure as hell does right by it.
Track 8: Sticks Downey - "Night of the Demons"
I'm happy to see the Sticks Downey Halloween single is now an annual tradition.
Track 9: Buttery Lords - "Werewolf in a Waterpark"
Check out their Monster & Madness EP for more fun nor'western hippity-hop.
Track 10: The Efts - "Robot Destroy"
From the soundtrack of forthcoming social networking game Robot Destroy Club.
Track 11: The Doubleclicks - "Hollywood Raptor"
It's rather insulting to say that grown women are adorable, so I will instead specify that The Doubleclicks' music -- particularly in the case of this song -- is adorable. And also awesome. Especially awesome!
Track 12: Humanoids - "Humanoid Eyes that Shine at Night"
Since I managed to incorporate a Darkest of the Hillside Thickets tune that wasn't strictly Lovecraftian, I thought this track filled that void nicely.
Z's final interlude: "Aren't they, y'know, infinitely more interesting?"
I mean who would you rather be: Blaster or Soundwave?!
Track 13: Jonathan Coulton - "Still Alive (feat. Sara Quin)"
Coulton's Artificial Heart is another recent release that's not to be missed.
It occurs to me that there are only four more shows left in 2011. How the fuck did that even happen?!
I'll not lie to you, folks; sometimes I consider retiring from the nerd grind, taking my leave content in the knowledge that there are a shit-ton of other geek culture rags out there to keep y'all satisfied. But when I look back at Hipster, please! and its related projects -- though admittedly they aren't exactly earth-shattering -- I feel a sense of pride in my accomplishments.
Moreover, no matter how big a pain in the ass things sometimes are, I still very much enjoy what I do. I hope this show and all its brothers and sisters are just as fun and entertaining to you as they are to me, and I always appreciate your requests, suggestions and input as I move my little industry forward.
Happy Halloween, all!
6 comments:
What a great RFH! Backburner, Frontalot, Doubleclicks, etc.
Top job, sir.
Thanks, Jimi! I layered a lot of audio clips over the song transitions in the last ep., so I tried to go the opposite way this time. Aside from a couple of rough spots, I think everything fit together really well.
Wonderful episode!! I loved the entire podcast, with the new Still Alive and that addictive Saltlakrits song as my faves. Thanks so much for including one of our songs on this one! And thanks (as always) for continuing to produce stellar podcasts!!
And yes, villains are totally more interesting than protagonists.
Cheers!!
Shannon of The Efts
Always glad to have The Efts on board, Shannon! And that version of "Still Alive" is a personal favorite as well.
You almost had me scared for a second when I saw the description for the Cupcakes song. I refuse to read that fanfic cause of what all my brony friends have told me. It was a good song though. Great podcast!
Yeah, AB, it is, by all accounts, pretty heinous.
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