Hazel-Rah's Helliday Mixtape #15 : A Hard Covid Christmas

 Lord it's like a hard Covid Christmas

           I'm barely getting through tomorrow 

                            But still I won't let
                                                          Sorrow bring me way down
 

It's been a rough year for many ,myself included. On the less important side of things,I almost didn't even do my yearly Helliday mixtape due to lack of enthusiasm. But then I thought, if it brings one smile to just one person this gloomy time of year, than it would be worth it.
 

So buckle up buttercups..here...we....go...
I have once again wrapped up a collection of X-"Mess" tunes to help you combat that seasonal affective disorder that is brought upon by the syrupy sludge that assaults your senses no matter where you go.AND WE CAN'T EVEN GO ANYWHERE THIS YEAR!

What time is it?Who can tell as the days just seem to blend together. Alright, y'all got 10 seconds
to get under the mistletoe and whawk .Cause Morris Day is here to tell you why he is cooler than Santa Claus

We've got the usual suspects, like mashups,movie trailers,and toons.You'll even brave being sent to Whamhalla with a surprise rendition of THAT SONG(don't worry,I wouldn't be that cruel and Whambush you in one of my mixtapes)

John Carpenter's The Thing is a Christmas movie, right? It’s set in a snowy polar region and has young Santa Claus in it.  And you never know what's inside each package until it unwraps you.

Santa Claws makes a guest appearance in the form of Freddy Krueger,and is even joined by Nancy's Mother Marge as Ronee Blakely sings her Grand Ol' Opry cover of a Christmas classic.
 

So spin this mix right round like a dreidel,right round.And give in to the terror and joy that is

                                The Hazel-Rah Helliday Mixtape #15: A Hard Covid Christmas

1) Johnny Fever doesn't understand all this desire for constant "Good Cheer and Bad Music"

 

2) Alex Khaskin starts things off all spooky with "It's Christmas Eve" from a Christmas Horror Story

3) "Halloween is over" so sayeth the Simpsons. But is it really, as we slide on into yet another Pagan holiday

4) Dan Phillips brings his home brewed mashup to the party with another one of his amazing creations as Gary Numan rings his bells while driving in "Carol of the Cars"

5) How long did you last this year ? Doghouse Dad reports from the frontlines with his "Whamageddon Survivor Journal Day 10"

6) Reali-tGlitch gets his hands all bloody in thanks to what you gave him "Last Christmas(Red Snow)"

7) It's so easy, anyone can do it.Cartman gets down with the "Jebus Music",Baby

8) My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult aren't the only ones this chilly season that are "Kooler Than Jesus".BRRrrrr

9) Shock Therapy lament that it's "X-Mas Time Again".I second that feeling

10)We've all had those first day on the job terrors like the ones in this Robot Chicken "Elf Training Video"

11) Alice Bag Band knows that there are "No Gifts for Nazis" (other than giving them a punch in the face,the throat,the nads..)

12) Homer Simpson does his worst at remembering the eight famous reindeer,except for "Donna Dixon"

13) Rob Halford screams out bloody metal for HIS two favorite reindeer,"Donner and Blitzen"

14) Now that" Santa is Dead", Stan Smith and the family can really enjoy the Helliday season

15) Mosey contemplates ,what "If Christmas Didn't Exist"? Imagine all the people,staying the fuck at home

16) Magne Furuholeman knows all to well that this is "The Seasons to Be Melancholy" .It's downright S.A.D.

 

17) Man, John Carpenter's The Thing knows how to stay warm inside this cold season

18) The Cure enjoy a "Last Dance"

19) WHACK! Morris Day is "Cooler Than Santa Claus"

 

20) Chuck Berry croons "Merry Christmas Baby" to his sugerplum

21) Pee Wee Herman reminds us to ,duh,"Don't Drink and Drive"

22) Barnes & Barnes are looking for fishheads "Down By Candy Cane Lane"

23) Ol' Santa Claws himself,Freddy Krueger interrupts Santa to pimp his Dream Master VHS in this rare video store ad

24) Ronee Blakely (who played Marge Thompson,Nancy's Mother, in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street) sings "O Holy Night"

25) "Damn You,Snow !" cries Kent Brockman

26)"Countdown to Hallelujah" on Warezio;s Europe Choir Final Mashup

 

27) Clark Griswold just wants to know if he can "Leave you for dead"

28) Hanoi Rocks fear they will be "Dead by Christmas"

29) Julie Brown has several "Ways to Save Money at Christmas"

30) John Wesley Harding has a case of the "Talking Christmas Goodwill Blues"

31) Strong Bad knows exactly what he DOESN'T want this Decemberween

32) Homestar Runner and the gang sing their favorite helliday tune,"O Decemberween"

33) Dolores Hart pleads that "If I see just one more flake of snow I'm going to barf" 

 

                                                   HAPPY HELLIDAYS ,KIDDIES ! 

 

Hazel-Rah's Halloween 16: Abandon All Hope,Ye Who Press Play

 

 

Well.....this year has been a real Nightmare....and it's still got three more months of terror to unleash. So to ease the pain of the Halloween parties and Samhain festivities lost to the Virus, I have once again compiled a collection of creepy, kooky, and little bit ooky tracks to turn the terror up to 11. In tradition of mixtapes past, I've got Mashups,Soundbites, and songs from all different genres. From candy coated creepers to Covid infected industrial , I touch on all types of terrors in tune form. Old favorites like Freddy and Elvira return to haunt the intros to new tunes.Trailers abound for recent and class-sicks from the past. So sit back, press play and let the spooky lift your spirits 

Happy Halloween

 

 

1) We begin with the "Halloween Kills Teaser". As poor bloody and beaten Laurie Strode pleadingly screams to just let Michael Myers burn. But we have to wait another whole year before we get to see how that story plays out.

 

2)Every year I like to include a version of the class-"sick" John Carpenter theme created for the original Halloween.It's one of those soundtracks that began my love and collecting obsession for movie scores.This years John Carpenter cover comes via Caspro with their Synthwave interpretation of the :"Halloween Theme"

 

3) This clas-Sick returns from the 80's with a acoustic revisit from October of 2019.Ministry performs their original "(Every Day is) Halloween"."Cause in the black hole where our hearts used to be,it always is Halloween

 

4) Vicky Meets Pennywise,and it doesn't turn out well in this sound"bite" from IT 2

 

5) Switchblade Symphony give us a dose of good ol' goth with their club clas-sick "Clowns"

6) The guests are in a for a Halloween surprise when they spend the night in the "House on Haunted Hill TV Spot"

 

7) Bauhaus(in the middle of our street) gets mashed up with the narration from Disney's Haunted Mansion for a treat called "Haunted Bela"  by DJ Fnord

 

8) Sometimes ghosts come back.Return to the Overlook in this Trailer for "Doctor Sleep".

9) Andy Prieboy (who gifted us the favorite track "Tomorrow Wendy" that was later covered by one of my all time favorites, Concrete Blonde) gives us this version of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Ghost's High Noon"

10)Peter Bjorn & John have "The Chills"

11) Freddy wants to be a Daddy, and the parties just started in this trailer for "A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 5 : The Dream Child" 

12) Tomahawk get intense with their Native American influenced "Cradle Song"

13) John Carpenter made for TV movie "Someone's Watching Me" was made before Halloween. But you wouldn't know that from this Casey Kasem narrated TV AD.

14) The Cure tell the tale of a woman alone on the "Subway Song"

15) Things get creepy in this MashGyver Mashup that combines the slowed down vocals of Debbie Harry and the background music to a level in Donkey Kong 64 .This one is not just scary, it's "Debbie Scary"

16) The Elm Street Kids know that something is coming for them, but this time they are ready in this A Nightmare on Elm Street inspired Covid jumprope song."#StoptheNightmare". This was made by several of he actors who have appeared in the Nightmare films over the years

17) KMFDM are doing it again , and spreading the "Virus" on the dancefloor

18) Freddy Krueger  loves a good metal song and knows that if there is no glove,there's no love.So.. "Hey Spinal Tap...smell THIS glove"

19)  DJs from Mars "Move it Sandman" in this mashup that combines (Metallica vs Reel 2 Real)

20) And now it's time for a Commercial Break

21) Elvira,Mistress of the Dark tries to ply her wares with her seasonal albums of "Elvira''s Halloween Carols"...but wait...there's more

 

22) Jason Voorhees croons about "Every Life I Take"

 

23) Jay Sherman is looking for his "Charleston Chew" in this little soundbite from The Critic

 

24)  AtoZ fill their track with lots of cartoon treat in their track "Candy Psyche"

25)Dr Sam Loomis warns the local Sheriff that "Death has come to your town"

26) When death comes to your town the Hearse can not be far behind in this "Here Comes the Hearse"

by Terry Teene

 

27) Louis Armstrong warns of the "Skeleton in the Closet"

 

28) "People are Strange"  says Tiny Tim ( and he would know)

 

29) The victims of The Mist believe that people are "Fundamentally Insane" ( And honestly, with all that has happened in the last year, can you blame them?)

 

30) The Growlers croon that the "Graveyard's Full" and we've run out of earth for which in to bury all the bodies

31) The Muppets wish you all a Happy Halloween.(Everything is better with Muppets)

32)Lisa Simpson does the most adorable version of John Carpenter's Halloween Theme as she hums a little tune to assuage her fears.