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Halloween came early this year to Self Help Radio! (It could've been worse - my show could still be on Tuesdays!) This year we explored the Great Beyond, where the Grim Reaper rules, "the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns." We cross the river Styx, we follow the valkyries to Valhalla, we shuffle off our mortal coil & join the choir invisible. (I know, I know, you want to scream This is an ex-parrot! I should have played that!)
But it was all in good, scary, Halloween fun. Wasn't it? Did I talk to someone who studies death about what happens after death? Did I talk to a crazy person who brings people to the edge of death so they can get a glimpse of the afterlife? Did I talk to my own spiritual advisor about what death really means? Did a Lexington songbird breathe life into a Jacques Brel song about death? Yes, yes, yes, & yes. Among many other things!
The show is available now at the Self Help Radio website crypt. Find the secret password on the page! Look at the songs below to see what death was like on the radio! & have a happy Halloween!
(part one)
"The First Five Minutes After Death" Coil _Horse Rotorvator_
"Don't Fear The Reaper" The Beautiful South _Golddiggas, Headnodders, & Pholk Songs_
"Oh, Death" Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys _Clinch Mountain Gospel_
"Rest In Peace" Beasts Of Bourbon _Dead & Gone # 2: Totenlieder - Songs Of Death_
"Euphemisms For Death" George Carlin _When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?_
"The Dead Only Quickly" The Gothic Archies _Looming In The Gloom_
"After You Die" Tom Waits _Bad As Me_
"Ah Pook Is The Mayan God Of Death" William S. Burroughs _Best Of William S. Burroughs: From Giorno Poetry Systems_
"Song Of The Death Machine" Bruce Haack _The Electric Lucifer_
"Angel Of Death" Tom Greenhalgh _The Executioner's Last Songs, Vol. 3_
"When People Are Dead" The Go-Betweens _Tallulah_
"My Death" Jenny Adkins _My Death_
(part two)
"Whistle Past The Graveyard" Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard _Em Are I_
"Death Calls" The Lemon Drops _Second Album!_
"Death Rehearsal" Toy Love _Cuts_
"We Got To Meet Death One Day" Blind Willie McTell _Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 3 (1933-35)_
"Knockin' On Heaven's Door" Bob Dylan _Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid_
"Dying & Wendy's" Mike Birbiglia _Dog Years_
"Somebody Got Murdered" The Clash _Sandanista_
"Death Don't Have No Mercy" Young People _Young People_
"Death Opened A Boutique" Future Bible Heroes _Memories Of Love_
"Death À La Carte" Would-Be-Goods _The Camera Loves Me_
"Death Trip" Lida Husik _Fly Stereophonic_
"Death Is Hanging Over Me" Nikki Sudden & The Jacobites _Doing It For The Kids_
"What Will Death Be Like?" Momus _Monsters Of Love: Singles 1985-90_
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