Mondo Zombie Boogaloo
Yep Roc
Gathering up three like-minded purveyors of ’60s-style garage/surf/rockabilly artists from its roster, Yep Roc pulls off an A1 celebration of a musically overlooked time of year: Halloween. Amid the parade of Christmas albums that seemingly starts earlier each year, “Mondo Zombie Boogaloo” is a refreshing jolt of originals and standards that’ll bring anyone’s monster to life.
Perhaps because of Jack Marshall’s theme song for mid-’60s TV comedy “The Munsters,” guitar-driven rock in a twang/surf vein has always been easily associated with creepy goings-on. Six of the tracks on “Mondo” are instrumentals that admirably follow in the large footsteps of that show’s catchy theme, and five of those are by Lucha Libre-masked instrumentalists Los Straitjackets — including the themes from “Young Frankenstein” and “Halloween.” But Southern Culture on the Skids give the Straitjackets a run for their money with “La Marcha de los Cabarones,” a SCOTS original.
Other highlights are “Tingler Blues,” a tribute by SCOTS to that great 1959 Vincent Price flick; “Que Monstruos Son,” a Spanish-language version of “The Monster Mash” by all three bands; and the Fleshtones’ “Haunted Hipster,” complete with with understated slide guitar and harmonica.
Tracks
1. It’s Monster Surfing Time – Los Straitjackets
2. Ghoulman Confidential – The Fleshtones
3. Goo Goo Muck – Southern Culture On The Skids
4. Que Monstruos Son – Los Straitjackets featuring The Fleshtones and Southern Culture On The Skids
5. Haunted Hipster – The Fleshtones
6. The Loneliest Ghost In Town – Southern Culture On The Skids
7. Theme From Young Frankenstein – Los Straitjackets
8. (Sock It To Me Baby) In The House Of Shock – The Fleshtones
9. Theme From Halloween – Los Straitjackets
10. Tingler Blues – Southern Culture on the Skids
11. Ghoul On A Hill – Los Straitjackets
12. La Marcha De Los Cabarones – Southern Culture On The Skids
13. Ghostbusters – Los Straitjackets
14. Dracula A GoGo – The Fleshtones
15. Demon Death – Southern Culture On The Skids
Total time: 44:48
External links
Yep Roc’s Fleshtones page
Southern Culture on the Skids’ site
Los Straitjackets’ site
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