This is not the Monster Mash. This is just a tribute.
He could have just been stomping everything into puree like godzilla.
Its not about the sexing?
It’s the Mashed Potato
This is what the Moster Mash is parodying.
https://fidelitymastersmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-original-monster-mash
There are some ridiculous songs on this album.
Mash=party
Hope this helps
Still confused.
Monster=?
Monster=monster
we couldn’t handle the monster mash. it would literally destroy us, so only obliquely might we learn of it’s ways
Their monster mash would kill you, traveler. You can’t handle their monster mash.
Not directly related but the German band Die Ärzte has what is in my opinion a much better song on a similar theme.
Similar to this, by the best band to ever come out of The Gong Show.
For a moment I thought that GIF had sound, but it was just in my head.
Consider yourself blessed by the D.
Sounds like Friday night
Just tell the door that Boris sent you
The Nerd of Mouth podcast recently did a dive into the history of The Monster Mash. Apparently after it got successful Bobby Boris Pickett went on to release basically the same song several more times, like Monster’s Holiday, Monster Swim, and Werewolf Watusi.
I didn’t know that but there is a related running joke on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast. Comedian Nick Wiger comes by on Halloween and plays the writer of Monster Mash Leo Carpazzi (a spoof of the real writer Leonard Capizzi).
He claims the studio didn’t like the first version of the song so he had to rewrite it. The first Halloween on the show, he sang it and it turned out to be called Monster Fuck and was a filthy song about monsters having an orgy.
For many years after that, he returned on Halloween to sing a “completely new song”… which always turned out to be the same song with a couple words changed.
Tenacious D did the same thing in “Tribute”.
And we played the first thing that came to our heads
Just so happened to be
The best song in the world
It was the best song in the worldThen years later revealed that the song “Tribute” is about was “Beelzeboss” from their movie. Beelzeboss was quite a good song but they could never have met the expectations they made for themselves in Tribute.
For some reason I thought they were singing about Stairway to Heaven.
Yeah I think Stairway was a big part of the original inspiration and then they retconned it to be about Beelzeboss for the sake of the movie
I think I did hear a version where they insert the opening breakdown of Stairway, IIRC after the “grass doth grow” line.
I always figured it was a song/dance innately known only to monsterkind, and as humans the most we’re allowed is a song about it
The 2020s has been seriously lacking on dance craze trends. We used to have a new dance every year but so far this decade has only given us Hot to Go.
you have got to be kidding
yes that part has been rather nice.
We could always take another 100-year lap and embrace The Charleston again.
lemme chew on that one and get back to you.
The monster mash referenced in the song was a dance.
Same for the Crocodile Rock
Edit: and The Bird
Edit: and the TwistBird?
Bird?
Bird?!
Bird!
Bird!
Bird is the word!
B B B B B B B B B
Ooh mau mau, ooh mau mau–mau
The trashmen were a gift to humanity.
Watch the video of the song, you didn’t think it could get better, but you were mistaken.
Agreed. Thanks.
