Ballrooms of Mars - Episode X: A Very Scary Halloween

There is nothing more frightening than witnessing the death of your own childhood, and so you can imagine our collective horror when we learned of the passing of one of our own...the Sony® Stereo Cassette Walkman™:





We dedicate this Halloween BoM to scary monsters and buried, antiquated technology...

Stream BoM X
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Setlist
Intro:
RJD2 - "The Horror"

Michael:
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Fright Night (Nevermore)"
Robyn Hitchcock - "Trams of Old London"
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - "Death To Everyone"

Peter:
P.F. Sloan - "Halloween Mary"
The Dream Syndicate - "Halloween"

Jud:
Ethel Waters - "Jeepers Creepers"
Ray Noble and His Orchestra - "Midnight, The Stars and You"
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - "Happy Trails"

Michael:
Ferlin Husky - "Phantom 309"
Kris Kristofferson - "To Beat the Devil"

Jud:
Carl Belew - "Am I That Easy To Forget"
Bob Atcher - "I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes"
Kinky Friedman - "We Reserve The Right To Refuse Service To You"

Peter:
The B-52's - "Planet Claire"
Magazine - "Because You're Frightened"
The Ramones - "Chain Saw"

Michael:
Fairport Convention - "Matty Groves"
Maddy Prior & June Tabor - "The Grey Funnel Line"
The Pogues - "A Pair of Brown Eyes"

Peter:
Ultravox - "Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead"
The Clash - "City Of The Dead"
The Cramps - "Human Fly"
Toto Coelo - "I Eat Cannibals"

Jud:
Scratch Acid - "Owner's Lament"
Scratch Acid - "Monsters"
Lightning Bolt - "13 Monsters"
The Vaselines - "Monsterpussy"

Outro:
Henry Cowell - "The Banshee"

Corrections (from JR):

1. Apologies for mistakenly mentioning in my introduction that Ethel Waters "died on Halloween", when she was in fact born on Halloween, in 1896. I corrected this later in the broadcast.
2. I fucked up my mention of Bob Atcher "being born" on Halloween in 1912, when in fact he died on Halloween in 1993. Whoopsie-daisy.

miniBoM1: A Very Special Episode

We're dropping a very different kind of BoM tonight, as some Ballrooms of Mars members have far more busy lives than the remaining members can currently claim. (Godspeed, Michael.)

As a result, a solid two-thirds of BoM gathered its energies and recorded a Very Special Episode - a "MiniBoMlet" as it were...despite that the total recorded length has nothing "mini" whatsoever about it.

(Note to selves: Cut the chatter.)

We dedicate this episode to the King of Rock & Soul, a true mountain of influence to all those under his shadow:



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Setlist
Intro:
Solomon Burke - "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love"

Jud:
Patrinell Staten - "Little Love Affair"
Soul Swingers - "Brighter Tomorrow"
Black On White Affair - "Bold Soul Sister, Bold Soul Brother"
Cold, Bold & Together - "Somebody's Gonna Burn Ya"

Peter:
Hank Ballard - "From The Love Side"
The Female Preacher, Lyn Collins - "Think (About It)"
Bobby Byrd - "I Know You Got Soul"

Jud:
Allen Toussaint - "Southern Nights"
Glen Campbell - "Southern Nights"

Peter:
Gene Clark - "One In a Hundred"
Gene Clark - "Full Circle Song"
Gene Clark - "From a Silver Phial"

Jud:
Boys Next Door - "After A Fashion"
Birthday Party - "Scatterbrain"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Stranger Than Kindness"

Peter:
David Bowie - "Word On A Wing"
Roxy Music - "All I Want Is You"

Jud:
The Ronettes - "Be My Baby"
The Jesus & Mary Chain - "Just Like Honey"
Melvins - "Creepy Smell"

Peter:
Surfer Blood - "Floating Vibes"
The Broken West - "On the Bubble"
Jason Falkner - "I Live"

Outro:
Solomon Burke - "If You Need Me"