Oct 312015
Here’s another simple Last Man Standing just in time for Halloween. Name an album, song title, or lyric which contains the word “ghost”. “Spook”, “wraith”, or other synonyms for a spectral, incorporeal after-death entity will also be accepted, but “zombie”, “skeleton” or “alien” will not. Only one entry per submission, please, and decision of the judge is final. I’ll start off with the song listed on the featured picture – the Specials with “Ghost Town”. Have fun and don’t scare yourselves to death!
Don’t the Police have an album and/or song entitled Ghodts in the Machine?
They do have an album called Ghost in the Machine, so it counts.
Rich Kids – Ghosts of Princes in Towers
“10th Floor Ghost Girl” – Cibo Matto
Richard Thompson – The Ghost Of You Walks
Spoon: The Ghost of You Lingers
The Outlaws — “Ghost Riders in the Sky”
“Wond’rous apparition provided by magician” – CCR Looking Out My Back Door
The Cords – “Ghost Power”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Bbz5W3hbo
A definite weirdie from a 1960s garage band said to be a group of Franciscan monks.
Back in the early ’90s, Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians had an album entitled Respect. There was an associated promo disc in which Robyn discussed each song. This disc was an anagram of Respect and was titled Spectre.
Spirit in the Sky – Norman Greenbaum
That’ll do, right?
Not that I have any stake in it (note the vampire reference there) but I can’t see how that could possibly qualify 🙂
Casper the Friendly Ghost – Daniel Johnston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1CdrKenfXo
The most recent Iron and Wine album is called Ghost on Ghost.
One of my favorite Robyn albums is Spooked, the one he recorded with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings.
Ghosts by Japan, which must be one of the weirdest songs ever to be a hit (#5) in the UK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zzLU1ato2w
Ghost of Our Love — Daniel Johnston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjrcO8M_zlA
PFM – Photos of Ghosts: song and album
Neutral Milk Hotel — Ghost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNMQtnxDxVY
Psychedelic Furs – The Ghost in You
And recently covered by Robyn Hitchcock, who much earlier wrote and recorded “My Wife and My Dead Wife”: “I can’t decide which one I love the most / The flesh and blood or the pale, smiling ghost”
“Strange Apparition” — Beck
“Ghost Ghat Trespass/Sussmeier” by Sun City Girls, from the excellently titled 1996 release 330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond the Rig Veda.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwG36WczdTo
Sparks – “The Ghost of Liberace”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfGrXOxZoaI
The Ghost of Tom Joad — Bruuuuuuuuuuce!
(He yelled at people for doing that during the morose small venue tour for that Album.)
Pere Ubu – Memphis
“In the ghost town inside of my heart all the downtown is parking lots.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ztJnhj9qGo
Does “spirits” count? If so, The Incredible String Band – The 5000 Spirits Or The Layers Of The Onions
I don’t see why not.
Baron Daemon & the Vampires – “Ghost Guitars”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsJKDybEOqs
Current 93 – Those Flowers Grew
“In your heart, the ghost of Gary Glitter”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8RCQxMqEHk
Dylan, Visions of Johanna
“The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face.”
Iggy Pop – “Nightclubbing”
“Nightclubbin’, we’re nightclubbin’. We’re walkin’ through town
Nightclubbin’, we’re nightclubbin’. We walk like a ghost”
Burning Spear – Garvey’s Ghost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljRGD_yUcVA