We are pleased to bring you “Things that go ‘_____’ in the Night”, the second annual Halloween-inspired playlist curated by Omri S. Quire exclusively for you!
Omri S. Quire | Things That Go "____" In The Night Halloween Mix Tape [192 kpbs]
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Omri S. Quire on his mix:
Its inspiration lay in those scenes that are ubiquitous to those classic film noir flicks you avoided as a kid because they were in black and white (and there wasn’t enough action): the fog that covers the ground at the start of the first scene and the flickering of the city lights, the confusion on a suddenly desolate city block and the zombie-esque behavior of revelers in a bar, the care-free wild outings and the pain-and-joy-filled picturesque love affair.
The songs are a time machine that take you from dusk to dawn: from the moment the sky turns blood red until blue hues seep through the horizon just before the sun comes up and straight to dawn, when the world awakens, but to you all the night’s events seem as real as dream you had had once. Like Halloween and wearing costumes and pretending, this cureation is a celebration of the many moods — darkness and fun, misery and joy, loneliness and companionship — that are found when most of the world is asleep and the few come to life…
[Track list after the jump!]
Things That Go “____” In The Night:
An aural journey through the darkest hours of the day, curated by Omri S. Quire
Beware of the creatures that lurk behind every corner…
+Dusk:
Kronos Quartet “Dracula” (Composed by Philip Glass)
Moloko “Day For Night”
The Nightmare Before Christmas “Oogie Boogie’s Song” (Composed by Danny Elfman)
Jack Keller “Bewitched Theme”
Noble Sissle & his Orchestra “T’ain’t a Fit Night Out for Man Nor Beast”
Nina Simone “House of the Rising Sun”
+Night:
The Ramones “Pet Semetary”
Nick Cave & The Badseeds “Stagger Lee”
Harry Belafonte “Zombie Jamboree (Back to Back)”
Ministry “What He Say”
Belle & Sebastian “Sukie In The Graveyard”
Suicide “Ghost Rider”
Johnny Cash “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky”
Concrete Blonde “Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man”
Bauhaus “She’s in Parties”
Killing Joke “Love Like Blood”
The Damned “Grimly Fiendish”
The Cramps “Goo Goo Muck”
+Those hours just before dawn:
Van Morrison “Moon Dance”
Eartha Kitt “I Want to Be Evil”
Frank Sinatra “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown”
The Chameleons UK “Mad Jack”
Echo & The Bunnymen “The Killing Moon”
+Dawn:
The Church “Under the Milky Way”
The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra “Dawn Patrol”
Electric Prunes “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)”
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