Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Wild West Hero” — Electric Light Orchestra (1977)

Sometimes I look up highAnd then I think there mightJust be a better lifeAway from all we knowThat’s where I wanna goOut on the wild side And I wish I wasOh-oh-oh-oh, a Wild West hero… Again, we come to yet another song that is Strictly Speaking Not A Halloween Song. And yet, it so is.…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Yours Truly, 2095” — Electric Light Orchestra (1981)

She is the latest in technology Almost mythology But she has a heart of stone She has an IQ of 1001 She has a jumpsuit on And she’s also a telephone… OK let’s get those dance shoes on, we got some early 80s synth-pop to geek over. Yours Truly, 2095 hails from the 1981 album Time…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Look At Me Now” — Electric Light Orchestra (1971)

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…