{"id":11403,"date":"2022-10-13T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/?p=11403"},"modified":"2022-10-27T16:22:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:22:54","slug":"buttkickin-halloween-songs-monsters-tito-tarantula-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/millheiser.com\/hokeyblog\/2022\/10\/13\/buttkickin-halloween-songs-monsters-tito-tarantula-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Monsters” — Tito & Tarantula (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We’ve been here, at the Hate Hotel
\nWe’re living together, we’re living in Hell
\nYou know one day it’s gonna stop
\nOr we’ll kill each other for sure<\/em><\/p>\n

Cause I’m a monster<\/em>
\nAnd you know it so well<\/em>
\nCause you’re a monster too<\/em>
\nAnd you’re doing it swell<\/em>
\nWe’re monsters<\/em>
\nIt’s just our genetic composure…<\/em><\/p>\n

Tito & Tarantula is perhaps best known to audiences as the house band at the infamous “Titty Twister” saloon, the centerpiece of the incessantly buttkickin’ 1996 crime\/vampire flick From Dusk Till Dawn<\/em>.<\/p>\n

We featured their signature song After Dark<\/em><\/a> in a previous Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs entry, and why not? First of all it’s an amazing song, second it’s perfectly dark and spooky and Halloweenish, and finally it conjures up images of Salma Hayek dancing in a leather bikini whilst holding an albino boa snake so… ’nuff said.<\/p>\n

This time we’re taking a track from their 2008 album Back into the Darkness <\/em>and what could be more apropos than a track called Monsters<\/strong>? Certainly this one is a contender, a dark, slinky, ZZ Top-adjacent rock number with a driving groove, distorted Ravenscroft vocals, and a bluesy resignation to the realization that we are all equal freaks in the same Mexican Carnival Nightmare.<\/p>\n

Plus the track is full ofhorror\/monster movie imagery, without shout-outs to classic Universal monsters, Japanese kaiju, Tod Brown’s Freaks<\/em>, and so forth. The song is short and sweet and gives your Halloween playlist some groovy sexy spookiness.<\/p>\n

Yeah Monsters<\/strong> reinforces the notion that we’re all oddballs and weirdos and misfits, especially in relationships, but isn’t that how we fall for each other anyhow? If you’re not a freak, you ain’t doing it right.<\/p>\n

Cause I’m a monster<\/em>
\nWith a tear in my eye<\/em>
\nAnd you’re a monster too<\/em>
\nSo don’t apologize<\/em>
\nWe’re monsters<\/em>
\nIt’s in our blood<\/em>
\nMonsters<\/em>
\nHaving way too much fun…<\/em><\/p>\n