As we enter October, we also enter a most wonderful theme month for Awesome Song …. the month featuring Halloween! But since it is still early October, we need to segue slowly into our theme… we don't want to freak everyone out and go over the edge prematurely! Plenty of time for that later in the month!
Besides slowly getting into our theme, it’s also the week of a watershed landmark: Awesome Song #50 !!!! So a very special Awesome Song is called for !
Readers of Marc’s Top 200 Blog will recall that there is a song that is very special indeed … one that screamed into position #5 in the Top 200 and if your humble DJ WAS had a list, it would have made #1. This week’s Awesome Song is the original version of that song, B-Movie’s “Nowhere Girl”!
Ahhh … but it’s not the same song as before - this one is the "first" version from 1980, the one that appeared on B-Movie’s original demos called “The Dead Good Tapes” (a little bit spooky!) The video also features a ghostly visage of our favorite nowhere girl in a gothic manor (a little more spooky!) and the same wonderful, haunting vocals as the more famous version (boo!)
Listeners of any New Wave Dance Party will also be familiar with the “Extended Version” of the song (the one that starts with manic girl laughter) .. that one is very Awesome as well, but this is Halloween, so let’s get Dead Good and enjoy the original!
But wait there’s more!
While we are segueing into our Halloween month, let’s do two more Awesome songs, from another big favorite on the blog…. Play! Wayne Kennedy & David Rome scored #60 & #164 with two superb songs off their one and only EP. Today let’s do two more of Play’s songs as a Halloween bonus as they (verrrry loosely) tie into our theme!
“Red Movies” was the first Play song I ever heard and instantly fell in love with… it’s the EP’s title track and I NEVER get tired of it! Hmmmm… could it refer to a spooky slasher flick?
Another crazy good classic Play tune also fits our theme! “You Don't Look The Same” is clearly because you’re in your Halloween costume!
And look … Wayne K is even wearing a mask in the video!
Enjoy!
And join us next week …. when we begin to get our Halloween goth on…..
Always cool to see an early version of a hit song, and get some insight into how these things evolve. Play is amazing, their entire EP rocks.
ReplyDeleteBring on the Goth stuff on Awesome Song of the Week!
MD, you are first person to utter "Bring on the goth stuff" since Robert Smith and Tim Burton went on a date to see the movie "The Hunger" in 1983
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