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Songs That Go Bump in the Night: A Ghostly Rate-A-Record
Boo!
In the last two Rate-A-Record installments I offered songs that have the same title, two about cemeteries and two about being haunted. Since we’re close to Halloween, I’ll stick to both of those themes today with two songs with the same spooky title: “Ghosts.” Ghosts can be many things, and the two songs here are proof of that. Also, after far too long on the sidelines, Bruce and the E Street Band return.
In the two previous articles I said that the songs share a title and very little else. At first, I thought the same thing about the two here but after listening to each one roughly twenty times in preparation for writing this I’m not so sure anymore. I do know that I discovered something more horrifying than a Stephen King novel during those repeated listens; I will reveal it at the end of this piece.
As always, after listening to each song, rate them both in the comments using the Terry Barr/American Bandstand scale of 35 to 98. By the time we all stop writing these things sometime in the summer of 2028, we will have done it more times than Dick Clark did, and people will remember Terry rather than him. Good on you, Terry.
“Ghosts” — Mayday Parade
