Little Tape of Horrors, Part One – Gravest Hits!
Hello boys and ghouls! Welcome to the first grisly installment of Little Tape of Horrors! Since its Days Are Numbers’ favourite time of the year, I thought it would it be devilish to put together a couple of special Halloween playlists for you to enjoy. Part one is Gravest Hits, [...]
Sleazy Does It: Nico Fidenco – Eternal Anguish
Sleaze Week wouldn’t be Sleaze Week without an appearance from Nico Fedenco. The sleaziest don of all the sleazy dons when it comes to soft-core porn soundtracks, Fedenco composed nearly all of the legendary mucky film series Emmanuelle! He also composed the experimental electronic score to Emanuelle’s most prominent director [...]
Frightenin’ 45s: David McCallum – House Of Mirrors
The Man From U.N.K.L.E David McCallum, teamed up with legendary producer David Axelrod in 1967 to record the cult crate diggin’ classic, Music- It’s Happening Now! (great title) in 1967. House of Mirrors was sampled by DJ Shadow on his track Dark Days back in 2000. The lopsided and laidback [...]
Frightenin’ 45s: Charles Bernstein – Run, Nancy!
I was tempted to post DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince’s Nightmare On MY Street today and then I thought, nah, let’s listen to the final track of Charles Bernstein’s underrated score to Wes Craven’s 1984 film Nightmare On Elm Street instead! Bernstein’s brooding use of creepy electronics perfectly [...]
Single of the Day – War – Flying Machine (The Chase)
‘Flying Machine (The Chase)’ is considered by many to be War’s finest moment. Taken from the soundtrack to Youngblood, a film about an L.A. street kid starring Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, it has since been proven to be the LA’s street band’s most diverse recording to date. Released in 1978, War’s first [...]
Single of the Day – Janis Ian – Fly Too High
Who’d have  thought that Janis ‘At Seventeen’ Ian recorded a sexy disco song? Well she did and she did it with the one and only Giorgio Moroder. The pair teamed up in 1979 to record a song for the Jodie Foster-starred movie ‘Foxes’ (no, me neither but its got Jodie in [...]
Monday Morricone Madness!!!
Welcome to Monday Morricone Madness!!! We know its been a while but don’t worry as we’re back with a bang!! With more Morricone features being planned in light of Quentin Tarantino’s patronage to the Maestro on his new film ‘Inglorious Basterds’, there’s no better time to discover the magical world of Ennio Morricone! [...]
Single of the Day – John Carpenter – Moochie’s Death
 We all know John Carpenter is a talented little so and so (says so here) when it comes to recording his own music and that. So, I don’t really need to go into detail about Mr. Carpenter’s genius but today’s single is taken from his underrated score to his film adaptation of the Stephen [...]