New Year’s Time Warp
December 31st, 2008 by Flint
I have a very strong tradition of my own for New Year’s. When everyone else is getting pissed and shooting rockets at eachother, I tend to stay in my own solitude, enjoying the New Year’s the way I want it (and okay, I’m a drunken party-hating grumpy bastard that no one invites anyway). I spend hours of it by playing the soundtrack for The Rocky Horror Picture Show (written by Richard O’Brien, or Riff Raff in the film) and singing wildly along. Often watching the movie too, although to get the best out of it I need another Rocky buff with me to sing along wildly and having lots of insider fun.
Why New Year? Because the film was once aired around the midnight of December 31st and watching it then was the final nail in my love with the film and the weary VHS recording I treasured so deeply even had a small New Years related animation at the start thanks to an early recording setting. And that’s how associations are born, ladies and gentlemen.
I’ll go less into why the film and therefore the music means so much to me on a personal level, and more into the fact that here’s some fuckin’ great MP3s for you to party with on New Year’s. Rocky Horror Picture Show’s soundtrack is amazing – a tribute to the good old fashioned rock and roll spirit, mixed with quirky humour and whole loads of attitude and cool. Guitar riffs blaze in the air, the piano tingles like a madman, the sax rocks and the cast throw their best overacting as they sing. Then the emotional tracks come in and do their darndest to tug your heart strings. Of course, since many of you will be in a party mood tonight I’ll be giving you some of the more upbeat tracks instead of the slow, sad ones. I’ll see about those some other time, ‘kay? “Sweet Transvestite” is furiously funny as a karaoke track, “Hot Patootie – Bless My Soul” condenses the film’s love for rock and roll spirit into one track (and features Meat Loaf in the vocals), and of course I’m gonna give the evergreen classic “The Time Warp” to everyone who doesn’t have it yet.
It’s a very strong love it or hate it kind of film. It’s ridiculously cheesy and camp, the rather queer humour (pun very much intended) won’t be to the taste of everyone and I’m sure there’s people with no music taste who hate the music too. Me, I love it – on a very deep personal level too. The soundtrack is one of my favourite albums ever. And like every New Year for the past god knows how many years, that album’s gonna play in my room a lot tonight. There’s still time for you too to learn the lyrics by the evening and blast out some Rocky Horror groove when the clock strikes 00:00.
The Time Warp
Sweet Transvestite
Hot Patootie – Bless My Soul
Get the soundtrack from Amazon
