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- 17 days
“And the peculiar thing is this my friends
The song we sang on that fateful night
It didn’t actually sound anything like this song”
16 daysI started reading this as Bobby Picket and then transitioned to JB.
- infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish17 days
I always just assumed that song was a cheeky nod to Freebird.
- 17 days
The Monster Mash is a dance, not a song. And while many dances are done to specific pieces of music, that is not always the case.
- 17 days
Factually wrong. It’s both a song and a dance
"The scene was rockin’, all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocal group, ‘The Crypt-Kicker Five’They played the mash, they played the monster mash
The monster mash, it was a graveyard smash
They played the mash, it caught on in a flash
They played the mash, they played the monster mash" - 17 days
Fun fact, Soulja Boy ripped off the Monster Mash when he created the dance that shares his name
Bird?
Bird?
Bird?!
Bird!
Bird!
Bird is the word!
- blargh513@sh.itjust.worksEnglish16 days
The trashmen were a gift to humanity.
Watch the video of the song, you didn’t think it could get better, but you were mistaken.
better than a golf orgy (or as duffers know it, the mashie niblick)
You mean the Dance of the Motherfucking Freaks (NSFW)?
So NSFW
- 17 days
Tenacious D did the same thing in “Tribute”.
And we played the first thing that came to our heads
Just so happened to be
The best song in the world
It was the best song in the world- 17 days
Then years later revealed that the song “Tribute” is about was “Beelzeboss” from their movie. Beelzeboss was quite a good song but they could never have met the expectations they made for themselves in Tribute.
- 16 days
I think I did hear a version where they insert the opening breakdown of Stairway, IIRC after the “grass doth grow” line.
- 16 days
Yeah I think Stairway was a big part of the original inspiration and then they retconned it to be about Beelzeboss for the sake of the movie
I always figured it was a song/dance innately known only to monsterkind, and as humans the most we’re allowed is a song about it
As was the zombie hop. That’s why everyone is always running back to the cemetery.
- 17 days
The Nerd of Mouth podcast recently did a dive into the history of The Monster Mash. Apparently after it got successful Bobby Boris Pickett went on to release basically the same song several more times, like Monster’s Holiday, Monster Swim, and Werewolf Watusi.
- RattlerSix@lemmy.worldEnglish16 days
I didn’t know that but there is a related running joke on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast. Comedian Nick Wiger comes by on Halloween and plays the writer of Monster Mash Leo Carpazzi (a spoof of the real writer Leonard Capizzi).
He claims the studio didn’t like the first version of the song so he had to rewrite it. The first Halloween on the show, he sang it and it turned out to be called Monster Fuck and was a filthy song about monsters having an orgy.
For many years after that, he returned on Halloween to sing a “completely new song”… which always turned out to be the same song with a couple words changed.
- troybot@piefed.socialEnglish17 days
The 2020s has been seriously lacking on dance craze trends. We used to have a new dance every year but so far this decade has only given us Hot to Go.
We could always take another 100-year lap and embrace The Charleston again.
we couldn’t handle the monster mash. it would literally destroy us, so only obliquely might we learn of it’s ways
- 16 days
Their monster mash would kill you, traveler. You can’t handle their monster mash.
- 17 days
That’s weird you don’t know about the monster mash? I thought everyone was invited to at least one in their life and it is thus a known thing.
- Sergio@piefed.socialEnglish17 days
at least one in their life
It was a “graveyard smash”, so perhaps some people only become familiar after they die.
- 17 days
Both a song and a dance called the same thing.
"The scene was rockin’, all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocal group, ‘The Crypt-Kicker Five’They played the mash, they played the monster mash
The monster mash, it was a graveyard smash
They played the mash, it caught on in a flash
They played the mash, they played the monster mash"
