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posted 10/30/2009

Glenn Beck works at the Pizza Hut and the Taco Bell. Glenn Beck works at the combination Pizza Hut-and-Taco Bell.

I was about to post a word of warning, but by now you the drill... the pneumatic drill fast approaching your temple OH NO LOOK OUT thwokthududud schlup snap squishsquishsquish gurgle, gurgle.

End of October, another Nobel Prize-winning Halloween mix.

Play this one in public and people may worry about you. (I'm fine, by the way, thanks.) Sure, there's the mandatory psychobilly, some scattered novelty tunes, a few big names. No thrash, to trash. A happy ending! But it's possible the people you know might want that one Sufjan Stevens song with "Zombie" in its title, or something from the New Moon soundtrack, and what you've got here is bands called "Tentacle Lizardo" and "Tractor Sex Fatality."

You just need to know better people.

Thing starts off pretty mad.

Halloween was built for people you don't recognize, but as Lux left us this past year it only felt right to bring in The Cramps . Other everyday people: The Dolls bring the classic freak anthem from Norton's release of their 1973 demos; The Fleshtones, straight outta Queens; both Screamin' Jay Hawkins and a cover of his anthem (Angola's Os Rocks somehow won a place over Arthur Brown and Diamanda Galas).

The Shrag song is great throwback UK femme punk, X-Ray Spex and all that, but it's sold as horror; they're followed by Mrs. Roman Polanski, who seemed an appropriate addition this year. I don't regret the dip into sex and pregnancy, but do apologize for Lenny & Squiggy's sexist remarks. Just because the 70's-pretending-to-be-the-60's was a different era don't make it right.

Remires! is from Chile - I adore that Sonics cover. Los Saicos is from Peru; they might sound awful worked up over that cat, but from what I've heard they get awful worked up over everything. The 1.0 version of The Horrors (UK). Spellbound's Elvis tribute comes from Ireland. The Hunches and Necessary Evils (who collect awesome rip-quotes) are from In the Red, that's its own country, yes it is. Janelle Monae stops in from outer space."Zombie Love" -- yes, there are two rockabilly songs about Zombies and love here, and oh, there are more -- comes from a Canadian compilation that also includes Switchblade Valentines' "Werebitch" and K.C. & the Moonshine Band's "Wolfwoman." I'm holding off on lycanthropy until Shakira's a less risky inclusion. Awooo.

It's Halloween, but it's also Thanksgiving: Due to technological frakkery, I abandoned plans to lace the list with fearmongering interjection from ultra-liberal performance artist Glenn Beck. Without him, The Strange Boys' "They're Building the Death Camps" and Chris Jensen's "Torture" just didn't make sense. We'll settle for having Beck as our MS Paint posterboy, this year, duded up as a Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell server. (Don't these people look way too happy? The economy's bad and all, but that's the sort of glee you get when someone's pointing a rifle at you off-camera.)

Download full mix: Part One - Part Two.

Individual Tracks:

Looking for different shades of weird? Sound Bites went Nouveau Goth; Gorilla v. Bear got creepy.

You know who's in the area? Well, sure, Future of the Left (myspace). And you should see Future of the Left. But! Also:

Where's their goddamned Rock Band?

That's right, Wisconsin's Zombeatles are doing seasonal stops with their alter-egos The Gomers (myspace) at Asbury Lanes in Asbury Park tonight, and someplace called "Bordentown, New Jersey" on Saturday. It's like Weird Al if Weird Al only did Beatles songs and cannibalism puns and played bowling alleys that aren't in New York City.

"When I roll out of bed in the morning, my floor screams 'Oh no!' while my bed yells, 'Thank God!' My suits are made from discarded tarps used to keep baseball fields dry during rainouts. Sweet mother of Christ, I am a fat fuck."

"If I can't look back at my career and course-correct, I am an idiot. I don't have to make s---, but I also don't want to lose people millions of dollars."

Harlan Ellison to finally get his Christmas ornament residuals.