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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Spooky 👻 Halloween 🎃 Dark 🦇 Horror 🔪 Memes@lemmy.world · 11 hours ago

The Monster Mash

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The Monster Mash

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Spooky 👻 Halloween 🎃 Dark 🦇 Horror 🔪 Memes@lemmy.world · 11 hours ago
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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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    3 hours ago

    Mash=party

    Hope this helps

  • aquinteros@lemmy.world
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  • wols@lemmy.zip
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    Not directly related but the German band Die Ärzte has what is in my opinion a much better song on a similar theme.

    • deltapi@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Ganz gut. Danke.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Similar to this, by the best band to ever come out of The Gong Show.

  • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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    we couldn’t handle the monster mash. it would literally destroy us, so only obliquely might we learn of it’s ways

  • hansolo@lemmy.today
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    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 world

    • ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Then 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.

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        For some reason I thought they were singing about Stairway to Heaven.

  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    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.

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    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

  • 𝕲𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍🔻𝕯𝖃 (he/him)@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    The monster mash referenced in the song was a dance.

    • Skeezix@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      Same for the Crocodile Rock

      Edit: and The Bird
      Edit: and the Twist

      • southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic)@sh.itjust.works
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        Bird?

        Bird?

        Bird?!

        Bird!

        Bird!

        Bird is the word!

  • homosapien@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Just tell the door that Boris sent you

  • troybot@piefed.social
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    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.

    • sqw@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      you have got to be kidding

      • troybot@piefed.social
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        What’s the kidding? Is that a fun new dance we can all do?

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      yes that part has been rather nice.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 hours ago

      We could always take another 100-year lap and embrace The Charleston again.

      • adarza@lemmy.ca
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        lemme chew on that one and get back to you.

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    “And the peculiar thing is this my friends 
    The song we sang on that fateful night 
    It didn’t actually sound anything like this song”

    • Axiochus@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      Just a tribute :(

      • StabbingSky@lemmy.zip
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        Although they did make an entire movie about it.

        • ButteryMonkey@piefed.social
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          Would that not technically be a tribute to a tribute?

          • boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip
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            A tributary if you will

    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net
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      I always just assumed that song was a cheeky nod to Freebird.

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    And whatever happened to the Transylvania Twist??

    • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
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      Nothing that can’t be fixed by getting Dracula to sing

    • Duhtocqueville@ttrpg.network
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      It’s now the Mash.

      • olejellylegs@lemmy.zip
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        Cultural appropriation!

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    The Monster Mash is a dance, not a song. And while many dances are done to specific pieces of music, that is not always the case.

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      Factually wrong. It’s both a song and a dance

      "The scene was rockin’, all were digging the sounds
      Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
      The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
      With their vocal group, ‘The Crypt-Kicker Five’

      They played the mash, they played the monster mash
      The monster mash, it was a graveyard smash
      They played the mash, it caught on in a flash
      They played the mash, they played the monster mash"

      • sangeteria@lemmy.ml
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        Citing the holy texts iktr 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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      Fun fact, Soulja Boy ripped off the Monster Mash when he created the dance that shares his name

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    It was just a monster orgy, and they were mashing it

    • Vandals_handle@lemmy.world
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      You mean the Dance of the Motherfucking Freaks (NSFW)?

      So NSFW

    • AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world
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      I believe that’s called the monster fuck

      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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        Who let Nick Wiger in here?

      • [deleted]@piefed.world
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        Monstorgy

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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      better than a golf orgy (or as duffers know it, the mashie niblick)

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    was this in an episode of always sunny or am i hallucinating?

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