Radio Xiane 102720 – The Witching Hour

As always, I designed this set to flow in a particular way, so you might lose that if you listen on the mobile app, as it shuffles the tracks. You can get around that by starting the list by clicking play on the first track and letting it play through that way.

Look for show notes and a playlist below the player ⇓

Some notes about the show:

Tis now the very witching time of night/When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out/Contagion to this world/ now could I drink hot blood/And do such bitter business as the day/Would quake to look on. – Shakespeare, Hamlet

Happy Halloween! Spooky Samhain! Here’s a playlist of some old, new, weird, and ridiculous things that sum up my feelings about Halloween and also Halloween under a pandemic. Best when played loud, so that it drowns out this existential hellscape.

I have some requests and I welcome more! Comment here or on Facebook or Twitter and I’ll do my best!

Track list:

Beetlejuice Animated Series Theme
Human Fly – The Cramps
Digging Up The Stiffs – The Brickbats
I Just Can’t Be Happy Today – The Damned [request]
The Blob – The Five Blobs
I coldly stare out – Pink Turns Blue
Fly in the Ointment – Alien Sex Fiend [request]
No Warning – Sonsombre
Mask – Bauhaus
Because You’re Frightened [2007 remaster] – Magazine
Eardrum Buzz [12″ version] – Wire
Collapsing New People – Die Krupps
Lust For Death – Foetus
Release The Bats – The Birthday Party
Dead Eyes Opened [reopened] – Severed Heads
The Abyss – Crying Vessel
Virus Meadow – And Also The Trees
Unwanted – Skeleton Hands
Golden Dawn – Legendary Pink Dots
Each Man Kills The Thing He Loves – Gavin Friday and the Man Seezer
Marian – Mantus
There’s A Ghost In My House – The Fall [request]
Night Shift – Siouxsie And The Banshees
Den Die Toten Reiten Schnell – Faith And The Muse
Something Wicked This Way Comes… – Sopor Aeturnus and the Ensemble of Shadows
Persephone – Cocteau Twins
Spooky – Lydia Lunch
Billie Was A Vampire – Selofan
Mysterious Mose – Rube Bloom