Songs from the Recently Deceased is the third full-length release by North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

 punk band the Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13

Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13

Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 are a horror punk band from North Carolina. The band was formed in 1996 by Wednesday 13, who recruited friends and former Maniac Spider Trash bandmates Seaweed and Sicko Zero...

. It was originally released on Uncle God Damn Records in 1999, and was later re-released on Century Media Records

Century Media Records

Century Media Records is an Independent record label with offices in the United States, Germany, Australia, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom.- Background :...

 in collaboration with People Like You Records in 2000 as a Digi-Pack. It is also featured in the 2006 box set "Little Box of Horrors

Little Box of Horrors

Little Box of Horrors is a box set released by North Carolina horror punk band Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 on May 9, 2006, on Restless Records in the USA and People Like You Records in Europe on May 29, 2006...

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This album was recorded in two separate sessions. In the first session, the band recorded the basic guitar, bass, drums and vocals for the album. Three to four months later, the band returned to the studio, and put the finishing touches on all the songs. A few of the songs had different titles during the first session and the second, such as "I Was a Teenage Ghoulscout", which was originally named "Rat Race", and "Plan 9 from Outa Space", which was originally named "Get Outta My Face".

Track listing

1. "Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun" – 1:01
2. "Hooray for Horrorwood" – 2:18
3. "Creature from the Black Lagoon" – 3:25
4. "Oogie Boogie Baby Baby" – 3:00
5. "Monster Monster 13 Oh Yeah" – 0:47
6. "The Rocketship Oddity 13" – 3:33
7. "Bride of Frankenstein" – 2:27
8. "The Witch is Dead" – 4:34
9. "Back in Blacula" – 2:01
10. "The Last Halloween - The Story of Trick or Treat Pete" – 3:19
11. "I Was a Teenage Ghoulscout" – 2:16
12. "Welcome to the Strange" – 2:57
13. "They Only Wanna Eat Your Brains" – 2:14
14. "Plan 9 from Outa Space" – 3:03
15. "Neon Black" – 3:44
16. "La La for Lon Chaney, Jr" – 0:49
    • The 2000 re-release also included 2 extra tracks:
17. "I Love to Say Fuck" – 4:45
18. "I Love to Say Fuck" (Evil Dead-ited Radio Mix) – 4:45

Trivia

• "Hooray for Horrorwood" was later re-recorded and renamed "Dead in Hollywood" for the Murderdolls album Beyond the valley of the murderdolls. "I Love to Say Fuck" has been re-recorded twice by Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 vocalist Wednesday 13
  Wednesday 13
  Joseph Poole, better known as Wednesday 13 , is a rock musician from Charlotte, North Carolina. He is most famous for his role as the frontman of the Murderdolls...
  
  , in his later acts. The first re-recording was by Murderdolls
  Murderdolls
  Murderdolls is an American horror punk supergroup, founded during 2002 in Hollywood, California. The band line-up consists of core members Wednesday 13 and Joey Jordison. Former members include Ben Graves, Acey Slade, Eric Griffin & Tripp Eisen....
  
  , a side project 13 was involved in until its hiatus in 2004. The second re-recording was by Wednesday 13's solo band of the same name, and was released on his 2008 EP
  Extended play
  An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
  
  , Bloodwork
  Bloodwork (album)
  Bloodwork is the first EP by American horror punk musician Wednesday 13. Bloodwork was meant to be preceded by one month by the studio album entitled Skeletons. The initial release of this EP was a complete accident, which involved the file uploading client used by the band...
  
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Album credits

• Wednesday 13
  Wednesday 13
  Joseph Poole, better known as Wednesday 13 , is a rock musician from Charlotte, North Carolina. He is most famous for his role as the frontman of the Murderdolls...
  
  : Guitar, vocals (Credited as "Blood curdling screams, and graveyard gunslinger of the wicked west")
• Sicko Zero: Drums (Credited as "Dead beats and master of the macabre")
• Seaweed: Bass (Credited as "Space bass and mind control")