Pop Culture from an Alternate Dimension

          Here is a collection of songs based on B-movies, it doubles as recommendations of movies to watch this month. The first song is the opening song from Rocky Horror Picture Show  mentions many B-movies, some of the songs I compiled are based on ones mentioned in that song. Blondie's song "The Attack of the Giant Ants" includes dialog and sound effects. The final two songs are the title songs sci-fi B-movies. Listen to my choices here:  Science Fiction Double Feature odes to B-movies - YouTube

       I did music for time of day, days of the week and months of the year, so it probably comes as no surprise that this week's music is years. I narrowed it down to the twentieth century. Some songs came to me right away; others took some time to decide. I couldn't choose between David Bowie's song of "1984" based on Orwell's book or Van Halen's opening number from the album of the same name, so I skipped it and went for different years instead.  You can hear my choices here:  Reelin' in the Years - YouTube

       I had planned on posting this last week but hadn't put it in my weekly planner so I accidently posted The Munsters first so now is the time songs about days of the week. Since I wanted to have more than seven songs, I have one song for each day of the week AND songs that mention more than one day of the week. I start with "I Don't Like Mondays" from The Boomtown Rats, it is not based on a Garfield quote but something much more serious. In fact, if you want to just enjoy the song, don't research its origin. Tori Amos, who get did Wednesday's song "Wednesday", also recorded a cover of "I Don't Like Mondays". I end the week with Queen's "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon" which seemed fair since I had The Kinks singing about "lazing on SUNNY afternoon" on my last song collection. The Stone Temple Pilots, The Beatles and the Electric Light Orchestra all sings about days of the week, even if they skip a day or two. ...

            A popular post I did last October was from an idea my friend Stefan had of what if Stars Wars used popular music from the time on the soundtrack. Since this weekend is May the Fourth AND Stefan's birthday, I present his choices for an alternate soundtrack to The Empire Strikes Back . Empire Strikes Back soundtrack - YouTube and for his birthday, why don't you check out the first book he put out on Kindle: Amazon.com: My Own Personal Chamber of Horrors eBook : Boales, Stefan: Kindle Store