Songs about zombies....

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Really...songs regarding, related to, or including references of zombies. I am having a zombie, lawn-game party sometime this April and I would like to make a mixed CD of zombie songs.

― Phinneus T Rumplemeister, Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

roky erickson - i walked with a zombie

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:33 (twenty years ago)

Legowelt "Congo Zombie"

― Richj (Rich), Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:35 (twenty years ago)

The Hooters - "All You Zombies"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:48 (twenty years ago)

Fela "Zombie"
Mekons "Big Zombie"
Throbbing Gristle "Zyklon B Zombie"
Monochrome Set "Love Zombies"
Damned "Citadel Zombies"

― dee xtro (dee xtro), Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Fela fucking Kuti! only metaphorical zombies but still one of the greatest tracks of all time.

― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:53 (twenty years ago)

Astro Zombies - Misfits

― Phinneus T Rumplemeister, Thursday, 23 February 2006 00:54 (twenty years ago)

Michael Jackson - "Thriller"
Cranberries - "Zombie"
Zombie Nation - "Kernkraft400"

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:04 (twenty years ago)

Sufjan Stevens - "They Are Zombies!!!...."

AND lots of great stuff here:
http://www.oddiooverplay.com/ears/hallowseve/
with free mp3s

― sibsi (sibsi), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Zacariah's
We're Comin' To Kill Ya'
from the Dead and Breakfast soundtrack. It's hilarious!

― dividingcanaan, Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:22 (twenty years ago)

"Mi novia es un zombie" de Alaska y Dinarama

the spanish band Zombie Zu

― antonio, Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

The Cramps - Zombie Dance
http://www.papercdcase.com/cdview.php?id=1473

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:40 (twenty years ago)

Krematory - Zombie (obscure Russian art-punk, can YSI if you're running low on tracks for the mix)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:51 (twenty years ago)

why not just put on a record by the zombies?

― jonathon, Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:56 (twenty years ago)

"Zombie Jamboree" by Harry Belafonte & probably many others.

Zappa - "Zombie Woof".

― brianiast (briania), Thursday, 23 February 2006 01:59 (twenty years ago)

Screeching Weasel - Zombie
Magma - Zombies (Ghost Dance)

The latter doesn't have any understandable lyrics though - dunno if that matters.
If you grow desperate, throw in Mercyful Fate's "At the sound of the demon bell" (but the whole "rise, rise" stuff in it is for ghosts or somesuch thing)

― Øystein (Øystein), Thursday, 23 February 2006 02:12 (twenty years ago)

Jeffrey Lewis - If You Shoot The Head You Kill The Ghoul

Snowman - Zombies on the Airwaves of Paris

― acidmouth (acidmouth), Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

Practically anything by Zombina & The Skeletones probably, slsk ftw.

There's probably some songs by The Monsters (50-60's r&b/rock + psychobilly = best Swiss band ever) that have zombie references but I don't have any of their old records on this computer. There's a free copy of "Rock Around The Tombstone" which I don't think is specifically about zombies but has the general feel here:

http://www.themonsters.ch/mp3.htm

― lykvun stratta, Thursday, 23 February 2006 03:23 (twenty years ago)

TIME OF THE SEASON

― killy (baby lenin pin), Thursday, 23 February 2006 05:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm making a zombie mix-cd at this moment! Not really zombie-songs, just songs that sound like they could have been played/recorded by zombies.

Anyway, the one song that inspired me to do it (well there was another one but this one gave the final push ;-)) is "Zombie Party" by Hiem. Fucking great. There's also a Konrad Black remix that appropriates the song for dancing purposes and while it's nice it's not really exceptional. Go for the original.

― willem -- (willem), Thursday, 23 February 2006 07:13 (twenty years ago)

The Gonk by Harry Chappell. not a song, as such, but the supermarket music from Dawn Of The Dead.

http://www.moviegrooves.com/shop/dawnofthedeadtrunk.htm

2501 others here:
http://gracenote.com/music/search-adv.html?qtrack=zombie&n=100

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 23 February 2006 09:42 (twenty years ago)

Posting a Gracenote listing is pretty much a creativity-killer, but I'll try to come up with a few anyway... :-)

Alien Sex Fiend, "Now I'm Feeling Zombified"
The Fleshtones, "I Was A Teenage Zombie"
Roky Erickson & The Aliens, "I Walked With A Zombie"

And, damn, someone already got to Fela up there...

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Thursday, 23 February 2006 11:05 (twenty years ago)

Jad Fair's "The Zombies Of Mora-Tau" is the greatest zombie song ever recorded!

"...and they could run FAST..."

― sleeve, away, Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Dude, can I come to your party?

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Cotton— Could you YSI that anyway? I'm curious.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Drunks With Guns - "Zombie"

Has to be heard to be believed.

Then there's American Music Club's "I've Been A Mess" with the classic line "It's gonna turn me into another great American zombie" - though that may be a little subtle for your purposes.

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

almost everything out of the first two Exuma albums...and early Dr. John too.

― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Almost anything from White Zombie, but I'd go with "Ratmouth" since it opens with a sample from Night of the Living Dead - "They're eating the flesh of the people they've murdered." Great song, too.

Jan Davis - "Zombie Watusi"
http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=09MT40JNDSXSJ28DTQYX9WHDN0

― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Saint Vitus - "Zombie Hunger"

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:44 (twenty years ago)

Or anything from the movie The Hard Rock Zombies.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

"Zombie Eaters" Faith No More

― dagdagsd, Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Murder By Death - "Killbot 2000"

― DJC, Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

"zombi" by los sleepers, playing now on diane's kamikaze fun machine, according to the Accuplaylist2000

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

The Return Of The Living Dead OST

http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0089907/

― vincent spano (vincent spano), Thursday, 23 February 2006 22:07 (twenty years ago)

tilly and the wall- night of the living dead

― sibsi (sibsi), Thursday, 23 February 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

i know this song has been floating around for a while -but- Dancing in the Head by Mekons is great and it's a different type of zombie song.

anytime i hear Brain by N.E.R.D., i think zombies.

― sean mccarthy, Friday, 24 February 2006 02:21 (twenty years ago)

Vancouver pop-punk band Gob had a great video with zombie cheerleaders. And the song isn't bad too. Can't remember the name of the song...

― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Friday, 24 February 2006 04:36 (twenty years ago)

"I hear you calling"

― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Friday, 24 February 2006 04:38 (twenty years ago)

Dr. John's I Walk on Guilded Splinters starts by affirming John's zombiehood.

― js (honestengine), Friday, 24 February 2006 06:08 (twenty years ago)

The Jolly Rogers - Zombies

― Jeremiah The Bullfrog, Friday, 24 February 2006 06:34 (twenty years ago)

army of lovers "walking with a zombie".

― retrogurl, Friday, 24 February 2006 06:41 (twenty years ago)

"I hear you calling"
-- Freud Junior (freud.junio...), February 24th, 2006.
wasn't jillian barbarie the very sexy blonde cheerleader that was tied up and liked being tied up ?

― retrogurl, Friday, 24 February 2006 06:42 (twenty years ago)

Dude.... just buy an effing Jad Fair album... ANY ONE...

― James St. Hobbins, Friday, 24 February 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

Saint Vitus - "Zombie Hunger"

let's not forget their epic "the walking dead"...

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Friday, 24 February 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Phantom Planet - The Living Dead
Zombina and the Skeletones (awesome bAnd name) - many songs

I've written 2 or 3 zombie-related songs myself. In demo form only, but I really dig them. One is called "Be My Zombie", another is "torched Earth".

Also, I made 2 beats out of songs from the "Zombi 2" soundtrack. Good shitt.

― Erock LAzron, Friday, 24 February 2006 23:08 (twenty years ago)

The Fall-Outs "Zombie"

"I think she's a zombie, woah-oh...don't want her 'round me, no-oh"

― Billy Slade, Saturday, 25 February 2006 21:53 (twenty years ago)

NOBODY SAID "ZOMBIE ZOO" BY TOM PETTY!

― Colin Cassidy (Colin Cassidy), Monday, 27 February 2006 05:41 (twenty years ago)

Make a concept album and listen to Deceased's "Fearless Undead Machines".

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Monday, 27 February 2006 06:29 (twenty years ago)

mathew jonson - 'return of the zombie bikers'

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 27 February 2006 06:30 (twenty years ago)

Dr. John's I Walk on Guilded Splinters starts by affirming John's zombiehood.
-- js (roc...), February 24th, 2006.
and oasis stole that.

― retroboy, Monday, 27 February 2006 07:13 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

Jonathan Coulton - "Re: Your Brains"
Voltaire - "Zombie Prostitute"
Zombie Girl - "Creepy Crawler"
- "We Are The Ones"
- "I Want It"
Rob Zombie - "Living Dead Girl"

― WaxDimension, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 01:15 (fifteen years ago)

There was a whole PopMatters Zombies mixtape earlier this year.

― Mordy, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 01:26 (fifteen years ago)

Never finished that zombie themed (-"atmosphered") mixtape I mentioned upthread. Should follow through, if only for the thumbs up email I got from one of the guys in Hiem who had apparently stumbled across this thread!

― willem, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 12:03 (fifteen years ago)

I second "Zombies of Mora-tau" by Jad Fair for all-time best zombie song.

― ImprovSpirit, Tuesday, 1 June 2010 17:32 (fifteen years ago)

the Dickies - Infidel Zombie

― ImprovSpirit, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 05:03 (fifteen years ago)

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