My Body’s a Zombie for You – Dead Man’s Bones
Hi.
Let’s just take a moment to reflect on why this song would be awesome, even if the music itself sucks (psst, it doesn’t suck!). This is a band called “Dead Man’s Bones”. They sing a song called “My Body’s a Zombie for You”. If that’s not reason enough to stop down and give them your brains a listen, I don’t know what is.
But, wait! There’s more!
What if I told you that this song featured, quite heavily I might add, the Silverlake Conservatory Children’s Choir? And, what if I told you that this song also had a playgroundish-type chant near the end of “I’m a Z-O-M-B-I-E, zombie!”? Ladies and gentlemen, Halloween has arrived early this year. Actually, this album isn’t out until October 6th, but, that’s still over 3 weeks earlier than Halloween proper.
I discovered this song via NPR’s most excellent All Songs Considered podcast, on their Fall Music Preview episode. I’ve mentioned before that I love when songs have choral voices in them, and this song is no exception. And this little gem from an NPR Song of the Day entry, “Neither [of the two main members of the group] really knew how to play their instruments before they began playing, and each made it a point to record songs in as few takes as possible, mistakes and all.”, makes it pretty impressive that they churned out such a winning song.
All of the above simply means that I will be getting my hands on their album one way or another come October.
Wow, that was a doozy all right. Very cool song and definitely deserves it’s own Zombie Pop category. I like the choir feel to it as well, not as much at the end during the Z-O-M-B-I-E chant. It kind of loses me at that point.
The video = win. I freakin love Edward Gorey. Hehe, B is for Basil assaulted by bears.
Yeah, I wish the playground chant would have been incorporated better, because it does just sort of seem like an afterthought.
Prolly stems from that whole “record songs in as few takes as possible” thing. Oh well.
Also, I’ve never heard of Edward Gorey, but Amazon tells me that he has a few books that look like they’d be worth picking up.