Halloween is creeping up on us and that means one thing is on the mind of every record collector: in the zombie apocalypse, which albums in your collection would you be willing to throw at the head of a zombie to decapitate, maim, or stun it?
Courtney E. Smith, author Record Collecting for Girls is pulling out the heavy guns from her record collection this week at TVD.
The next thing in my record collection that I’d throw at a zombie is the original Twilight soundtrack. Yes, you read that right. I own the Twilight soundtrack on vinyl. As a point of clarity: I did not buy it myself. I had it sent to me by Atlantic Records as a show item for a panel on the music of Twilight I participated in at a Twilight conference.
Yes, you read that right. I spoke at a Twilight conference. It was a weird experience. I did it because I’m into the whole Twilight thing as a guilty pleasure and I’m fascinated by how songs get placed in films and TV. I wouldn’t throw the Twilight soundtrack because I don’t like the cheese-fest that is Twilight: it’s because the original soundtrack is awful. The second and third movies had lovely soundtracks, full of original songs by fantastic artists. The first one had Collective Soul.
Also, I’m curious to see if vampire paraphernalia will make any sort of instant impact on zombies. You never see zombies and vampires in a movie together (do you?), so I wonder if zombies would inherently shuffle away from vampires? Would vampires drink zombie blood?
A Twilight record and a zombie head may be the only answer the world ever gets.
Courtney Smith spent eight years at MTV as a music programmer and manager of label relations where she was instrumental in deciding which videos went into rotation on all twenty of MTV’s music platforms and created launch programs for emerging artists. She specialized in grooming upcoming bands and was an early champion of Death Cab for Cutie, the Shins, Franz Ferdinand, Vampire Weekend, Bat for Lashes, and many more. She writes for Flavorpill and The Daily Swarm. She also blogs about women and music for MTV’s music blog.
