Soundcheck Review | The Real Tuesday Weld | Songs for The Last Werewolf

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The Real Tuesday Weld: Songs for The Last Werewolf
by Jon Schaefer
August 2011

Now, with the full moon having just passed, it seems safe to unveil Stephen Coates’s list of 30 great werewolf songs, plus 1 poem.
It’s an idiosyncratic list: “The Killing Moon” in the Nouvelle Vague cover, for example, not the Echo & The Bunnymen original. And I would never have pegged Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” as a werewolf song (nor, I suspect, would Joy Division).  But it’s Stephen’s list, so let’s let him introduce it:

"Werewolves always seem the more rock and roll of our supernatural friends.  You can imagine vampires at the opera I guess and maybe Zombies at a krautrock show but werewolves we know for certain get that itchy toe tapping feeling and have to let go and play a gig once a month.  All us guys would like to be that combination of beauty and beast - maybe the girls would too. And of course the thing that makes them howl - that killing moon - has always been an inspiration for songwriters of all shapes and sizes."

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