Ghostly Tracks & the Origins Behind Them

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

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🗓️ 22 October 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It's spooky season and hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot have a new batch of songs about ghosts to share. They're joined by Sam Weller, author of many books on Ray Bradbury and the gothic short story collection Dark Black, to discuss spooky music.

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Featured Songs:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Long Black Veil," Kicking Against The Pricks, Mute, 1986

Roky Erickson and the Aliens, "If You Have Ghosts," The Evil One, 415, 1981

Joy Division, "Dead Souls," Still, Factory, 1981

Psychedelic Furs, "The Ghost In You," Mirror Moves, Columbia, 1984

Suicide, "Ghost Rider," Suicide, Red Star, 1977

Johnny Cash, "(Ghost) Riders In The Sky," Silver, Columbia, 1979

Caroline Herring, "Long Black Veil," Golden Apples of the Sun, Signature Sounds, 2009

Daniel Johnston, "Casper the Friendly Ghost," Yip/Jump Music, (Self-Released), 1983

Pat Benetar, "Wuthering Heights," Crimes of Passion, Chrysalis, 1980

Kate Bush, "Wuthering Heights," The Kick Inside, Harvest, 1978

Scott Sorry, "Black Dog Dancers," (Single), Generation X-Ray, 2021

Elton John, "Rocket Man (I Think It's Going to Be a Long Long Time)," Honky Château, Uni, 1972

Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians, "My Wife and My Dead Wife," Gotta Let This Hen Out!, Midnight Music, 1985

The Raveonettes, "Apparitions," Raven In the Grave, The Raveonettes, 2011

Mekons, "Ghosts of American Astronauts," So Good It Hurts, Twin/Tone, 1988

Ladytron, "Ghosts," Velocifero, Nettwerk Productions, 2008

The Goldstars, "Stroll In Hell," Stroll In Hell (Single), The Goldstars, 2021

Black Sabbath, "Black Sabbath," Black Sabbath, Vertigo, 1970

The Velvet Underground and Nico, "Sunday Morning," The Velvet Underground and Nico, Verve, 1967

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0:00.0	Hey there if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon,
0:04.0	you can hear it via the Patreon page and free.
0:08.0	One, two, three, four! Oh, You're listening to sound opinions and this week.
0:24.6	You're listening to sound opinions and this week we'll be talking with author Sam Weller
0:37.0	about why we love songs about ghosts.
0:40.2	I'm Jim De Regattis.
0:41.7	And I'm Greg Cot, but, Jim and I have some ghostly tracks we need to share.
0:46.0	You know, Greg, we all know anybody who's listening to this show for any length of time that Halloween is your favorite holiday of the year.
0:54.0	It's high on my list as well.
0:57.0	We've done a lot of Halloween shows.
0:59.0	We've run through all sorts of songs, most horrifying, songs about monsters,
1:05.0	songs about witches I think we did, right?
1:07.2	And then I was thinking, you know, what are we going to do?
1:09.6	Hey, we've never done ghosts.
1:11.0	I can't believe.
1:11.6	We shorted ghosts all this time. You know I think of Charlie
1:15.4	Brown putting the sheet over his head. I think of Casper the friendly good. We've never done
1:20.0	songs about ghosts. We're going to share a bunch of our picks for your
1:24.0	Halloween playlist and we've got Sam Weller adding some picks as well but I'm
1:31.0	going to start off with a classic Rocky Ericsson track from back in 1981 the evil one
1:38.7	The late great Rocky Ericsson of the 13th floor elevators and a fantastic solo career was of course
1:46.4	obsessed with horror movies. Given his trepidacious state of mind Many people said he lived in a horror movie.
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