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Friday, Oct. 30, 1998
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New CDs scare up bad music just in time for Halloween
Reviewed by MARK SCHONEVELD 
Collegian Staff Writer
For all your Halloween festivities, you might want to scare yourself silly with a frightening soundtrack of new CDs picked out to make the holiday a truly scary experience.
Just in time for Halloween, Vanilla Ice released his new album Hard to Swallow. Graced with a cover of eye-less, screaming nude models, this record is scary from the minute you hit play until the 30 seconds later when you turn it off from sheer fright.
Curiosity grips you, though, as you wonder what ol' Ice has been up to these days -- the CD goes back on. Turns out, Ice got even more attitude (read: inferiority complex) than in his To the Extreme days. Bringin' it with heavy bass lines and ultra-violent, egotistical and maniacal lyrics, Ice needs to go back to the suburbs and leave the angst-ridden hard rock to Korn and Marilyn Manson.
Halloween Hootenanny is a Zombie A Go-Go Records compilation disc packed full of morbid tunes from Rob Zombie and Reverend Horton Heat to The Ghastly Ones and Swingin' Neckbreakers. Bringing together the sounds of surf guitar and oddball lyrics, this album is sure to please at any Halloween soirée. Tunes such as "A Fistful of Terror," "Werewolves on Wheels" and "I Drink Blood" should bring out the zombie in all of us.
Once you think something is gone for good, sometimes it comes back to haunt you. Motley Crüe's self-titled greatest hits album ought to give you a little scare, if not bring you back to those good old days of junior high school when "Dr. Feelgood" was jamming in your tape player and "Girls, Girls, Girls" was in heavy rotation on MTV.
Complete with a horrible caricature of the band on the cover and Tommy Lee's plea to bring his family back together in the liner notes, the Crüe's music should have remained buried in the past, never to rise again.
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