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Fortean-Themed Albums, Songs & Music

I was lucky enough to see Cutler perform once. Definitely one of the quietest acts that I have ever seen. :)
 
Weird Al rants about the Illuminati in parody of Lorde's 'Royals'

Weird Al is getting a bit weirder for day three in the eight days of music video releases to promote his new album, Mandatory Fun. This third parody is of Lorde's breakout single "Royals," which Al twists into a strange infomercial for aluminum foil. The song, called "Foil," translates surprisingly well, but it's partway through that things start to get really odd. "Oh by the way I've cracked the code," Al sings. "I figured out these shadow organizations / and the Illuminati know / that they're finally primed for world domination." Patton Oswalt costars in the video, and Reno 911! stars Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant cameo as secret agents to wrap things up.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/16/59092 ... rde-royals

:lol:
 
Sorry if it's been covered before:
Hauntology music from the likes of the Advisory Circle, Broadcast, the Focus Group, Moon Wiring Club etc. Check out Ghost Box music label.


It's music from the recent past 50's - 80's, mostly British, often based or sampling old public service broadcasts, music and sounds which have fallen out of fashion and become lost. It's the quaintness that makes the music feel fresh and yet unnerving. This would be a good example from the Advisory Circle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM6blNm ... 03&index=9

or check out this mix which includes Belbury Poly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=athisGqa ... 9DE4E52C5C
 
A while back i posted a list for Fortean Times the album. Here are links to some of the songs.

Lemon Demon Eight Wonder (about dear old Gef)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyzQ-ZFSQic

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers Abominable Snowman in the market

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR6Ns3AcDco

Lemon Demon Spring Heeled Jack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T835SWzbIWA

Rezillos Flying Saucer Attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgmbfXld3z8

Bozo Porno Circus Release the Kraken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imi044Uv50M

Death Party Devil in the Woods (Jersey Devil)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgmbfXld3z8
 
Aah, I loved the Rezillos/Revillos. Brings back memories. :D
 
Just a little distraction. Anytime I hear the old Rodgers and Hart standard Where Or When it strikes me listening to the lyrics that it's not just referencing the "I feel I've known you forever" love theme but is very much describing intense deja vu. "some things that happen for the first time, seem to be happening again". And "the dress you are wearing you were wearing then, but I can't remember where or when." In fact every line of it.

So I got thinking what other popular, successful or at least serious songs (ie not too many purple people eaters and magic dragons called puff) directly or by implication invoke the themes that litter these boards?
The country "supergroup" The Highwaymen (johnny cash, willy nelson etc) had a hit called..er..the Highwayman. It's overtly about a soul dying but being reborn time and again over the centuries..

Barbra Streisand's On A Clear Day is from a movie about reincarnation and hypnotic regression (though the lyrics may not make it obvious...but they do reference the otehr fortean phenomenon of feeling interconnected with the whole universe)

So anyway...over to you. Help compile a fortean top 20. Ghosts, telepathy, the devil, seeing the future..all the usual suspects. What songs are they hiding in that you never really think about?
 
I've always loved the Highwayman by the Highwaymen, and I usually cant abide country & western music. But I reckon there's a bit more than meets the ear going on behind that song. As a reckless teen I would listen to it on repeat whilst smoking copious amounts of hashish & heroin ;)
 
Some hypothetical forteana: "If you could read my mind, love what a tale my thoughts could tell"......folllowed by the refernce to being like a ghost chained in a dark castle...

The Devil Went Down To Georgia.. straightforwardly what it says. A young man's pact with Satan for his soul.
 
Ah, I was just wondering is there was a thread like this! Thanks Gattino.
Does anyone remember this one?


The vague ,veiled references to the object in the field, the strange pond and the flying man remind me of the way that Fortean tales are often passed on as rumors and legends.
 
The Way by Fastball.

This was a one hit wonder, a 'Hotel California' for the '90's.


By the way, Hotel California should probably be in the top three.
 
Wuthering Heights... Kathy's plea to Heathcliffe's ghost (it also references "dreams in teh night told me I'd lose the fight" or something...I'll include that a precognition. :p)

Barry Manilow's Bermuda Triangle. "Woman are you mad! Bermuda Triangle - makes people disappear. Bermuda Triangle? Don't go too near!" Of course his girlfriend runs off with another man while on holiday, rather than vanishes into an interdimensional vortex...
 
The Devil Went Down To Georgia.. straightforwardly what it says. A young man's pact with Satan for his soul.

You beat me to it...I was going to post that!
I remember thinking it was pretty good when I first heard it in about 1980, even though I hate country and western music.
:D
 
Lovebug Starski - Amityville


(oops, sorry, just seen that there's another thread for these)
 
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The Way by Fastball.

IIRC, based on a real life elderly couple who just...disappeared.

By the way, Hotel California should probably be in the top three.

The first time I heard Hotel California, I had a panic attack - it scared me that bad! I was just a kid and didn't even know what the song was about. When a friend showed me the inside of the album cover years later, I wasn't surprised...
 
Sorabji (1892-1988) is one of my very favourite composers, he lived in Corfe Castle and was a very private and interesting man with a deep interest in the occult which reflects heavily in his musical compositions; he met AC and AOS on seperate occasions, and wasn't impressed by the former I might add! He banned all unauthorised performances of his music.

 
Sorabji (1892-1988) is one of my very favourite composers, he lived in Corfe Castle and was a very private and interesting man with a deep interest in the occult which reflects heavily in his musical compositions;

I'll have to give him further investigation. :D on first listening he sounds a little like Scriabin.
 
Leonard Cohen namechecks Gloomy Sunday in this intro to his own song, Dress Rehearsal Rag


Dunno if anyone has ever done themselves in to Dress Rehearsal Rag.
 
Leonard Cohen namechecks Gloomy Sunday in this intro to his own song, Dress Rehearsal Rag


Dunno if anyone has ever done themselves in to Dress Rehearsal Rag.

Hadn't heard that one, thanks OneWingedBird ..
 
I was lucky enough to see Cutler perform once. Definitely one of the quietest acts that I have ever seen. :)

Ivor Cutler used to live round the corner from us in Dartmouth Park when I were a little lad. Sadly, never saw him perform but have a load of old cassettes of his Peel Sessions somewhere, and some more recent podcasts. As with Spike Milligan, I've always found his stuff makes me a little sad, even when it probably isn't supposed to.
 
Sorry if it's been covered before:
Hauntology music from the likes of the Advisory Circle, Broadcast, the Focus Group, Moon Wiring Club etc. Check out Ghost Box music label.


It's music from the recent past 50's - 80's, mostly British, often based or sampling old public service broadcasts, music and sounds which have fallen out of fashion and become lost. It's the quaintness that makes the music feel fresh and yet unnerving. This would be a good example from the Advisory Circle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM6blNm ... 03&index=9

or check out this mix which includes Belbury Poly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=athisGqa ... 9DE4E52C5C

Good call. The Hauntological Society's website is worth a read too, although not primarily focused on the music.
 
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I discovered the fascinating story of US singer-song writer and UFO enthusiast Jim Sullivan a few years ago, and for those that haven't heard of Sullivan and the story of his unusual & unexplained disappearance, I would recommend having a look at this article here, http://lightintheattic.net/releases/502-u-f-o

 

It's occurred to me before that Killing Joke, or even just Jaz Coleman himself, could probably sustain a thread of their own, such is the breadth and depth of their interest in occult / psychosocial / sociopolitical subjects.

Anyway, I won't be starting one just now, as I have a cold.
 
I discovered the fascinating story of US singer-song writer and UFO enthusiast Jim Sullivan a few years ago, and for those that haven't heard of Sullivan and the story of his unusual & unexplained disappearance, I would recommend having a look at this article here, http://lightintheattic.net/releases/502-u-f-o

How interesting - never heard of the guy. Looks like a jolly good read anyhow. Ta.
 
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