So on the morning of October 29th, 2016, I ran the 2016 Miami Beach Halloween Half Marathon, in what has become an annual tradition for us here at Hokeyblog. This particular race is almost always a fun ride; I say “almost” because the 2013 race — my first time — had some serious bumps in…
LUCK. RUNS. OUT… Well Hokeygang, it’s been another fun month of sharing Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs together! While I didn’t get to cover as many songs as I wanted to, I think we got a really strong and diverse collection of tunes together. I’ll leave you on this cool, dark, eerie Hallows Eve with a track…
Woman let me in! Let me bring in the memories! Woman let me in! Let me bring in the Devil Dreams… This one should have come a lot sooner, I swear… Get Out Of My House, the final track on Kate Bush’s terrific 1982 album The Dreaming, is probably the closest I’ve heard to an…
Let our love be a flame not an ember Say it’s me that you want to dis-member Blacken my eye, set fire to my tie As we dance to the Masochim Tango… OK it’s been getting a bit too HEAVY with the Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs of late, Total Eclipse of the Heart notwithstanding. So as…
Yikes… Belgian band Univers Zero popularized integrating chamber music with progressive rock to create complex, often harrowing, and ultimately rewarding musical compositions. Part of the Rock In Opposition (RIO) movement in the late 1970s that rallied against the popular music of the day, the band took the standard guitar, bass, keyboards, drums paradigm and infused…
Step up! No one leaves ’til the night is done The amplifier starts to hum The carnival has just begun… You wanted the best? You got… a buttkickin’ title track from an otherwise crappy album. Look, I make no apologies for being a Kiss fan, and by “fan” I mean “actual fan of the music”,…
WAIT!! Where are you going? Settle down, there’s good reason for this. If you stick around, there might be a $5 cheese plate in it for you.. OK you’re still here? Good. Bonnie Tyler’s 1983 smash hit Total Eclipse of the Heart is probably the last song you’d associate with creepy crawlie spooky Halloween tunes,…
Someone is waiting, lurking in the trees The spirit of her is walking back to me Ah, look at me now, feeling emotion… What happens when the Reaper himself is betrayed by a beating heart? Eleanor Rigby-styled orchestrations never felt so chilling before… Electric Light Orchestra continued the baroque pop trend that began in the…
This ship pulled in without a sound The faithful captain long since cold He kept his log till the bloody end Last entry read “Rats in the hold. My crew is dead, I fear the plague…” DRACULA!!! Well not quite. But if you’ve ever seen F. W. Murnau’s classic silent horror film Nosferatu — and…
The swamp is alive with a thousand eyes, And all of them watchin’ you, So stay off the track to Hattie’s shack In the back of the Black Bayou… What the hell is it about the darkness of the swamp that brings out the worst of our heebie-jeebies? Is it the fog, the mists, the…