Good scream.
I’m putting together a compilation of Good Scream songs, inspired by DePalma’s Blow Out (not to be confused with Not DePalma’s Blow Dry).
It’s as good a time as ever to get to work on this because, check out what’s playing at IFC Center this weekend.
So far I’ve only got a few songs:
(in no particular order)
“Child In Time” - Deep Purple- Colin recommended this one, but it was also in this list that I found while searching for some possibilities. So I know it’s definitely, officially good. Colin’s my buddy and all but Yahoo answers is the big leagues. I don’t know much about Deep Purple beyond Fireball (and the optimization of said fireball).
“I’m A Mover” - Buffalo - Robert played this band for me last week; he had just gotten their album Dead Forever after reading about them in a weekly Other Music email. I had been listening to the first Witch album that morning and wanted to hear some more droney seventies metal sounding stuff. Robert put on Buffalo and the minute I heard Dave Tice I was sold. Check out this page of Buffalo album reviews. “I’m a Mover” is from Dead Forever which is a great album, and coincidentally a great title, combining two of my favorites albums of all time, Dead To Me and Goodbye Forever.
“Sweet Morning Light” - Weed…! - I already put this song on my Summer Rock 2010 mix, but it’s going on this mix too. (Listen here! 4:30 mark - never even saw it coming!)
EDIT: “You’re Gonna Miss Me” - Thirteenth Floor Elevators - Of course!
I’m trying to figure out which Judas Priest song to put on, but after that, I’m pretty tapped out as far as high-pitched metal screams knowledge. But I’m really open to suggestion suggestions and am seeking recommendations.
The songs don’t have to be metal - for example, I’m probably going to put “Mutiny in Heaven” on the mix, featuring a nice Nick Cave scream right at the beginning. And Poster Children’s “If You See Kay.” (My favorite Poster Children song is “Where We Live,” and that also has a pretty cool scream which I somehow didn’t even notice was a scream and not a guitar until I saw them at a 1992 show at a Princeton Eating Club.) And just today, while buying Smores flavor Goldfish crackers (oh yes) at Gristedes, I heard the Beegees, and thought, “Good scream.”
