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Ooky Spooky |  | Artist: Voltaire
Label: Projekt Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 112740
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 201
UPC: 617026020129
EAN: 0617026020129
ASIN: B000SNUNKQ
Release Date: July 31, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Land of the Dead | | • | Zombie Prostitute | | • | Cannibal Buffet | | • | Day of the Dead | | • | Blue-Eyed Matador | | • | Bomb New Jersey | | • | Cantina | | • | Stuck with You | | • | Dead | | • | Reggae Mortis | | • | Hell in a Handbasket |
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Product Description
"It's a Halloween party in a jewel-box," Voltaire comments about Ooky Spooky, his most hilariously irreverent CD to date. Years in the making, Voltaire's 5th album contains a duet with The Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer, a track from a Cartoon Network movie plus his crowd-pleasing songs about zombies, devils and dancing skeletons. In fact necrophilia, cannibalism, prostitution, buggery, blasphemy, sacrilege, going to hell, bombing New Jersey and anal rape with a lightsaber are just a few of the charming topics covered on Ooky Spooky.
Back are the violins and cellos but new to the Voltaire sound is a horn section that brings to mind images of a mariachi skeleton band. But there is no doom and gloom here, mind you. The album bounces along with a mixture of klezmer, swing and ska that brings to mind such spooky-fun classics as Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party" or "Hell" by the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Voltaire's love for Cab Calloway is evident in the song "Cannibal Buffet" (which seems straight from a Betty Boop cartoon) and more so in "Land of the Dead" which Voltaire wrote for the opening credit sequence of the Cartoon Network movie "Billy and Mandy's Big Boogie Adventure."
As serious as it gets on Ooky Spooky is "Stuck With You," a duet with The Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer. It's about a bickering married couple, but even on this one kittens are drowned, Korean bayonets are employed and skeletons sing to each other from side-by-side coffins. "I got all of the serious songs out of the way on Then And Again," comments Voltaire, "specifically so that Ooky Spooky could be a non-stop party of fun songs about the undead and hell and devils and skeletons and all of the other fun stuff that's so close to my heart."
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 Ooky Spooky = lots of fun August 14, 2007
E. Anderson
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
In a music genre where most of the artists takes themselves way too seriously, Voltaire is the antithesis of the dark and gloomy goths that permeats goth culture. I have been a Voltaire fan for several years now. His music is a lot of fun too listen to. His lyrics are filled with biting humor and his music are addictively catchy.
OOKY SPOOKY is Voltaire's latest offering. As a long time Voltaire fan, I was not disappointed. What I have noticed on this album is that Voltaire incorporates brass instruments in a lot of his songs that weren't heard before on past Voltaire albums. There is even a ska influence to his music (intentional or not I don't know) like on "Day of the Dead". Other than the introduction of brass instruments, nothing else has changed in Voltaire's music. "Blue Eyed Matador" and "Bomb New Jersey" is what you would expect from Voltaire, sarcasm set to medieval folk music. Voltaire's humor is sharper as ever. "Bomb New Jersey", "Cantina" and "Hell in a Handbasket" says it all. Those songs got the biggest smiles from me when I ever I listen to them especially "Cantina" with its references to Star Wars characters.
OOKY SPOOKY may not be groundbreaking but it sure is heck of a lot of fun to listen to. I love how Voltaire takes the pretentiousness out of goth music and inject a healthy dose of humor which is rarely seen and heard. I enjoyed every song on the album. There were only a couple of so-so songs but even they weren't all that bad, just not as good as "Cantina" or "Stuck With You" (Voltaire's duet with Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer). Overall OOKY SPOOKY is well worth checking out.
He's "Dark Side Royalty" August 12, 2007
CreepyT (Colorado, United States)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I had heard Voltaire perform live on numerous occasions at various conventions and events, and had always thought his music was fun and enjoyable. However, I had never bothered to pick up any of his albums until Ooky Spooky. Now I wish I had bought some of his work previously!
Never have zombies, cannibalism, prostitution, sacrilege, and hell been topics that are quite so aurally pleasing! Voltaire's hilarious lyrics are backed up by violins, cellos, and horns that definitely bring to mind the mariachi imagery found on the albums cover.
Among the highlights are "Zombie Prostitute," which has unforgettable lyrics and an extremely catchy brass chorus, and "Day of the Dead," which speaks of El Dia de Los Muertos and has a beat you can' help but want to get up and dance and sing to. "Cantina" speaks of the infamous bar scene from Star Wars. "Stuck with You" is a duet with Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls, and is about lovers who take their marital un-bliss to the grave, bringing axes and Korean bayonets into their duels. However, my personal favorite is the closing song, "Hell in a Handbasket."
Ooky Spooky is comedic, black-humored goth rock at its best. Voltaire really has a corner on the market in this genre, and his acclaim is well-deserved. Ooky Spooky would certainly be a great choice for any Halloween party, but I also highly recommend this album for anyone interested in checking creepy music with a jovial and light-hearted twist! Indeed, goth does not have to equate with doom and gloom. As Voltaire himself states "It's a Halloween party in a jewel box," and for those of us who could celebrate Halloween all year `round, it's an instant classic!
I lost more than my heart in that Cantina!!! May 7, 2008
Heather Henshaw (Texas)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What can I say Voltaire has done it once again!! I think this is the funniest CD I have heard in some time. Voltaire is a Gothic Renaissance man!! Songs about love, death and well the undead!!! Voltaire is also knowen for hos comics he has done Chi-Chian, Deady, and Oh My Goth...
 Voltaire's new April 17, 2008
Juan Pablo Munoz Mendoza (Chihuahua, Chih. Mexico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow,
There's a lot of time since I heard the first Voltaire's song. But as a Voltaire Fan i must say that this is not his best... this doesn't mean that the album is bad or something, It's just that he has settled that enourmous standar that aparentely this time was not reached at all. But the album is great specially for new Votareans.
Cheers
Great Tunes June 27, 2009
Mike M.
If you have never heard anything from this artist this is a great place to start. Funny, witty, catchy, good music.
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