Friday Night Jukebox: Full Moon Edition
Start slow, with Bear in Heaven’s “Werewolf.” I think it’s gorgeous:
Bear In Heaven - Werewolf
Next up, TV on the Radio, “Wolf Like Me.” It’s probably my favorite song about lycanthropy:
TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me (Official Video)
And, as Chuck Berry would put it, we must do our alma mater:
Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London - Live in Passaic NJ, 1982 (HD)
Followed by a pair of tendentious links. Because what’s a Friday night without a drunken — though intellectually well-founded — brawl?
This post is making me Hungry.
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Maybe a stretch, but how about:
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Bad Moon Rising should be the standard rock song used for werewolf transformation sceens in movies.Report
“Wolves, Lower” sounds exactly like every other early R.E.M. song. And I say that as a fan.Report
That video is a little warbly-sounding at the start, but I always loved that song. Great riff. Even the idiosyncratic syntax/punctuation of the title made it all seem so mysterious.
“House in order”.Report
This is surprisingly related to tonight’s Friday Night Videos for MD. Though I guarantee that mine will be creepier.Report
Wolf Like Me is also my favorite lycanthropy song. The most succinct statement of the Romantic appeal of werewolves as I’ve ever heard. (Not sure succinct is a virtue I’d normally associate with Romantics, but there it is.)Report
I thought the romantics were more into vampires than werewolves. Vampires bite you erotically on the neck and have the androgynous, gothy beauty that romantics like. Werewolves rip to shreds and that isn’t exactly sexy or romantic.Report
I am late to the party, but these guys were all about werewolves back in the day.
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