TRACK LIST:
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Mansard Roof“ | 2:07 |
| 2. | “Oxford Comma“ | 3:15 |
| 3. | “A-Punk“ | 2:17 |
| 4. | “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa“ | 3:34 |
| 5. | “M79” (additional lyrics by Rostam Batmanglij) | 4:15 |
| 6. | “Campus” (music and lyrics by Batmanglij; additional lyrics by Koenig) | 2:56 |
| 7. | “Bryn” | 2:13 |
| 8. | “One (Blake’s Got a New Face)” (contains elements of “Obeah Wedding” by Slinger Francisco) | 3:13 |
| 9. | “I Stand Corrected” | 2:39 |
| 10. | “Walcott” | 3:41 |
| 11. | “The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance” | 4:03 |
Tracklist:
| Dracula – The Beginning | 6:41 |
| Vampire Hunters | 3:05 |
| Mina’s Photo | 1:25 |
| Lucy’s Party | 2:56 |
| The Brides | 4:56 |
| The Storm | 5:04 |
| Love Remembered | 4:10 |
| The Hunt Builds | 3:25 |
| The Hunters Prelude | 1:29 |
| The Green Mist | 0:54 |
| Mina/Dracula | 4:47 |
| The Ring Of Fire | 1:51 |
| Love Eternal | 2:23 |
| Ascension | 0:50 |
| End Credits | 6:42 |
| Love Song For A Vampire (From ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’) — Performed and Written by Annie Lennox | 4:21 |
The Kelley Music CD Collection currently features only two vampire selections: Vampire Weekend and Bram Stoker’s Dracula Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Vampire Weekend released four albums and now releases music on various streaming services.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula Original Motion Picture Soundtrack includes all the music in the Francis Ford Coppola film. The highlight here is “Love Song for a Vampire” performed and written by Annie Lennox who gained fame and glory with Dave Stewart as the lead singer of The Eurythmics.
Do you have any favorite vampire music? GRADE: B (for both CDs)
Bauhaus’s Bela Lugosi is Dead or Alice Cooper’s The Ballad of Dwight Frye. I like Vampire Weekend but their music has nothing to do with vampires.
Steve, I’ll have to check out Bauhaus’s “Bela Lugosi is Dead.” I didn’t think of Alice Coopers “The Ballad of Dwight Frye.” That would have fit in with the Vampire theme nicely!
Probably the single most iconic, if one likes, goth song.
I don’t think I could identify music as vampire music.
Patti, if you listen to BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK, you’ll hear vampire music.
I’ve never gotten around to checking out Vampire Weekend and I don’t recall the music to Coppola’s “Dracula” even though I saw the movie as well as a ballet production of “Dracula” that set to the same score. I actually have a few vampire recordings. Phillip Feeney’s classical score for a Scottish ballet production, available on the Naxos label, is great fun as is James Barnard’s score to Hammer’s “The Horror of Dracula.” Robert Cobert’s score for Dan Curtis adaptation of “Dracula” (a film that, in many ways, set the stage for Coppola’s take) has a fun, understandably “Dark Shadows” vibe as well.
Fun trivia: one of Aaron Copland’s early works was a score for a ballet that was inspired by “Nosferstu.”
https://interlude.hk/horror-movie-track-aaron-copland/
Byron, thanks for the additional vampire music selections. I might have that Phillip Feeney’s NAXOS CD around here somewhere. I have a lot of Aaron Copland music so I may own that ballet music inspired by NOSFERSTU.”
It has nothing to do with vampires, but if you want to hear some scary ass music listen to John Carpenter’s soundtrack from his classic HALLOWEEN.
Michael, I’ll check my soundtracks to see if I own John Carpenter’s soundtrack from HALLOWEEN. This is the season for scary ass music!
I’ve always been a fan of Zacherle’s “Dinner With Drac”:
“The waitress, a vampire named Perkins
Was so very fond of small gherkins,
While she served the tea, she ate 43
Which pickled her internal workings!”
Dinner With Drac.
Jeff, excellent choice!
My comment of yesterday, it seems, will hold for the rest of the month. Frankly I don’t understand the fascination with all the ghoulish stuff people seem to like. Fear is not fun. I’ll be back when sanity returns.
Rick, vampires appear in many stories written during the last 200 years. Halloween season seems to be the Right Time to celebrate vampires.
Rick I bet you never liked roller coasters either.
Actually I did, Steve, when I was younger. I loved the one at Magic Mountain.
Was my comment deleted? No comments are pending.
Bob, I’m not sure your comment showed up here.
As your Other irritable commenter, George, I of course commend your enthusiasm…horror is about learning how to deal with being scared, much as roller coasters are.
It’s just that horror is usually a bit more sophisticated an experience…
I’m a fan of Vampire Weekend, but not enough that I’ve acquired their albums…I would like to know who the woman on the cover of that one is.
Hm…notable vampire music, hence vamping till ready…well, one could plump for the themes to the series BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and particularly ANGEL the tv series (the latter’s cello and electric guitar sound was always pleasing to me), or Philly Joe Jones’s Dracula impressions: https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2018/10/underappreciated-music-october.html
DARK SHADOWS had good theme music for a soap, come to think of it.
More when more awake…or more living dead…
Todd, the woman on the Vampire Weekend album cover has a story: “In a new Vanity Fair piece, the woman on Vampire Weekend’s Contra cover explains her $2 million lawsuit against the group, their label, and the photographer who may or may not have taken the picture, Tod Brody. Her full name is Ann Kirsten Kennis and she used to be a sought-after model in the 80s and early 90s.”
Thanks. I knew she looked distantly familiar, somehow, as well as cute if also not Too thrilled by having that shot taken.