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[–] 177 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

β€œAnd the peculiar thing is this my friendsΒ 
The song we sang on that fateful nightΒ 
It didn't actually sound anything like this song”

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  • [–] 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    And whatever happened to the Transylvania Twist??

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  • [–] 26 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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

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    [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    It was a graveyard smash, after all.

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  • [–] 57 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 102 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    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"

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  • [–] 22 points 2 weeks ago

    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

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    The monster mash referenced in the song was a dance.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    we couldn't handle the monster mash. it would literally destroy us, so only obliquely might we learn of it's ways

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    That's weird you don't know about the monster mash? I thought everyone was invited to at least one in their life and it is thus a known thing.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago*

    It’s the Mashed Potato

    This is what the Moster Mash is parodying.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    I detest the song about the Monster Mash. I wonder if I would actually like the Monster Mash.

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    [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Not directly related but the German band Die Γ„rzte has what is in my opinion a much better song on a similar theme.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    This is not the Monster Mash. This is just a tribute.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    Its not about the sexing?

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    He could have just been stomping everything into puree like godzilla.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Isn't it a song about a dance called "monster mash"

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago

    Both a song and a dance called the same thing.

    "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"

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Mash=party

    Hope this helps

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    Just tell the door that Boris sent you

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