Always wears an evil frown
(Cross-posted from tumblr because why not)
Two things make a trend, three or more things make a genre. I’ve come to realize that there is a very small musical niche of songs about horror movie actors.
Bauhaus, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”
White on white translucent black capes
Back on the rack
The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy, “Peter Lorre (He’s A Brick)”
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That's pretty awesome.
I feel oddly incomplete, because as far as I know, Boris Karloff doesn’t have a song about him.
I don't know one off the top of my head, either. Kate Bush's "Hammer Horror" is about a pair of unnamed and presumably fictitious actors, and the wrong studio besides. (No, I have no idea what's going on in that video. But it's the one there is.)
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