Big bucket of Halloween goodies

I didn't plan on offering much on this topic, but as it turns out, I have for you people 2.75 hours of Halloween music, two full-length movies and four trailers for movies that you might consider Netflixing.

Finally, some Van Halen!

I don't know how I managed to overlook this performance of Reggie Watts covering that that Van Halen song. But here we go.




I've been sitting on Diamond Dave's "Tokyo Story" while waiting for an appropriate spot to put this. Thanks, Reg!




And I guess this goes here, because Diamond Dave.

Three small strays

Here are Joanna Newsom and Bill Callahan, with... some other folks, covering Melanie's Ring The Living Bell (which has become much more captivating than I can remember any Melanie songs ever being for me).




I was recently introduced to this Tame Impala tune...




...and soon found this.

I just wanted some geeky 80's synth tunes

And then it turned into this whole thing.




There's a Part 2? Well, okay, sure -- let's give it a listen. Or pageview. Whatever.




Sticking with the New Traditionalists-era synths, but dialing down the visual complexity...




Bringing visual complexity levels back up to critical capacity...




I'm not a crazed fan of the animation in this one, but the music has a nice Lemon Jelly chill to it.  Turn your speakers down first -- the test pattern tone at the beginning is a bit insistent.

My dad introduced me to Tonio K.

Er, well, okay -- he didn't introduce me to the man, you understand. But he did introduce me to this album.




Weird Al has mentioned that Tonio K's one of his heroes. You can hear the influence here:



That's not the official video. But it's dead on message.


Here's a couple more peas in that particular pod.

A fistful of Devo

Here they are in concert in 1973 at Kent State. They aren't doing the kind of scumbag techno-blues in evidence on the "Hardcore Devo" albums, but they're getting close.




I keep meaning to get acquainted with the Jihad Jerry stuff, but it hasn't happened yet.




Here's Devo and Neil Young.





And, uh... the word "Devo" is in the title of this one.