It's Halloween! Only appropriate then that I offer you a bunch of Ghosts. But which would you welcome into your home, and which are downright scary...?
THE GHOSTS #1
Belgian surf-pop from 1963. Presumably they came from somewhere near Bruges, since that's the only part of Belgium to have a coastline.
THE GHOSTS #2
Brazilian garage band who released one album featuring instrumental covers of popular 60s hits towards the end of that decade...
THE GHOSTS #3
Also from Belgian, though no one seems to know when it was quite released, have some "horror funk", which I found surprisingly enjoyable. Imagine Iggy Pop mucking about in a studio on Halloween...
THE GHOSTS #4
Want to hear something really scary?
The man behind these particular Ghosts was none other than Radio 1 Breakfast Show DJ and all round "Ban this sick filth!" friend of Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Mike Read.
THE GHOSTS #5
Not much that I can find out about these guys other than that they went by two different names on their debut 1984 release; one side of the album was by the Ghosts, the other was by The Heart Of Gold Band. All subsequent releases took the latter name, and all I can find online are tracks under that Neil Young-inspired moniker. But here they are anyway...
THE GHOSTS #6
From 2002, and the album A Hatchetful Of Secrets... I'll give them this: it does actually sound like something out of a horror film.
GHOSTS #7
Also from the early noughties, the era of "landfill indie", these guys were originally known as Polanski. Would you save them from the landfill?
THE GHOSTS #8
2010, and this "UK synth pop collective" arrived on the scene, splashing a load of money on a video... but disappeared after a couple of years. Were they Underrated?
If your mansion house needs haunting, which of these guys would you call?
Bah Humbug to the lot of them. Number 1 was better than I thought it was going to be. The others were not.
ReplyDeleteI will not be able to listen to them all until later in the day, But #1 has met with mine AND Jo's approval. I'm not sure I can play that arse Read's song
ReplyDelete#2 is also being met with Household approval. #3 is tedious bobbins. #5 is badly recorded bobbins, #6 is enjoyable
Delete#7 is bland, and #8 reminded me of the Pet Shop Boys (and that is a truly terrible thing). So it's #1 for me
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