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Ministry “Every Day (Is Halloween)”

sfilzen — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 18:23:02 +0000

Ministry “Every Day (Is Halloween)” 1985. Wax Trax! Records. 12″ single. 🎃Happy Halloween! 🎃 I guess technically the A-side of this 12″ is “All Day” but over time, “Every Day (Is Halloween)” – also listed as “(Every Day Is) Halloween” – has been more enduring, a regular feature at alternative dance clubs (when those things still existed) for industrial/goth dance nights; a track that one writer has called the anthem for goths. Both tracks are significantly more mellow (for Ministry, mind you) than their later releases, definitely more 80′s synthpop skewed – in fact “All Day” reminds me a lot of New Order – than the more militantly industrial metal sound they’d evolve towards with releases like ‘88′s Land of Rape and Honey (“Stigmata”) and ‘89′s The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste (“Thieves”).

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Punk Halloween

sfilzen — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:40:16 +0000

iTunes on random this morning is on its scary accurate mode: two Halloween tracks back to back: how did it know I already wrote about DK on vinyl?

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Dead Kennedys “Plastic Surgery Disasters”

sfilzen — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:29:33 +0000

Dead Kennedys “Plastic Surgery Disasters” 1982. Alternative Tentacles/Statik Records (UK import). Today’s pull mainly for “Halloween” which appears on Side A and is a brilliant Halloween punk rock anthem.

Our copy includes the 28-page 12″x12″ sized black & white booklet, pictured here, with collage-style clippings, comics, captions; the lyrics printed on its back cover.

Look at me go

So it’s Halloween
And you feel like dancin’
And you feel like shinin’
And you feel like letting loose

Oh, whatcha gonna be
Babe, you better know
And you better plan
Better plan all day

Better plan all week
Better plan all month
Better plan all year

You’re dressed up like a clown
Putting on your act
It’s the only time all year
You’ll ever admit that

I can see your eyes, I can see your brain
Baby, nothing’s changed
I can see your eyes, I can see your brain
Baby, nothing’s changed

Because you’re hiding in a mask
Take your fun seriously
No, don’t blow this year’s chance
Tomorrow your mold goes back on
After Halloween, after Halloween

You go to work today
You’ll go to work tomorrow
Shit faced tonight
You’ll brag about it for months

Remember what I did
Remember what I was
Back on Halloween

But what’s in between
Where are your ideas
You sit around and dream
For next Halloween

Why not everyday, are you so afraid
What will people say
Why not everyday, are you so afraid
What will people say
After Halloween, after Halloween, after Halloween

Because your role is planned for you
There’s nothing you can do
But stop and think it through
But what will the boss say to you

And what will your girlfriend say to you
And the people out on the street they might glare at you
And what do you know you’re pretty self conscious too

So you run back and stuff yourselves in rigid business costumes
Only at night to score is your leather uniform exhumed
Why don’t you take your social regulations
Shove ‘em up your ass

Why don’t you take your social regulations
Shove ’em up your ass
Why don’t you take your social regulations
And shove ’em up your ass

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Siouxsie and the Banshees “Juju”

sfilzen — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:39:56 +0000

Siouxsie and the Banshees “Juju” 1981. Post-punk, gothic, brooding and dark – a great Halloween-week listen, especially for the tracks “Spellbound” (which hit #22 on the UK singles charts), “Voodoo Dolly,” “Head Cut” and, of course, “Halloween” which should be a required inclusion into every Halloween mix made.

The night is still
And the frost, it bites my face
I wear my silence like a mask
And murmur like a ghost
“Trick or treat”
“Trick or treat”
The bitter and the sweet
The carefree days are distant now
I wear my memories like a shroud
I try to speak, but words collapse
Echoing, “Trick or treat”
“Trick or treat”
The bitter and the sweet
I wander through your sadness
Gazing at you with scorpion eyes
Halloween… Halloween
A sweet reminder in the ice-blue nursery
Of a childish murder of hidden lustre
And she cries, “Trick or treat”
“Trick or treat”
The bitter and the sweet
I wander through your sadness
Gazing at you with scorpion eyes
Halloween… Halloween

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