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The Zombeat
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Boogie on down with the living dead. Created for the CBC Monsters Ball October 2010
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Trash-pop, guitar rock and melodic miscellany.
Not so much a band as a bloke with a guitar and a laptop, The Smivets deliver a genre-bending blend of pop, rock, punk, prog and many other monosyllables.
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Alternative • Avant Rock
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#353 in subgenre Peak #2
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Peak #25
Author
Steve Smith
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Steve Smith
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October 30, 2010
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MP3 4.5 MB • 128 kbps • 4:53
Story behind the song
Just some scary fun for Halloween. Or is it? Sorry this wasn't going to have any lyrics or vocals but I took the dog out for a walk and it just sort of happened. I did get some funny looks though. You've probably noticed them - they used to be ordinary living people but now they have become enslaved - everywhere they go they are held mesmerised by a glowing handheld object that controls their every breath. They no longer speak. They no longer have any awareness of their surroundings. They are under the complete control of the legions of Zuckerberg, all twitching and jerking in a macabre parody, like puppets dancing. Dancing ..... The ZOMBEAT!
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Slow, slow Row by row The legion of walking corpses grow What got into them? No-one know But they marching to the rhythm of the Zombeat You can tell them as they exit From the subway to the street By the twitching of the fingers And the shuffling of the feet I don't think that they can see us They only heed the commands From the eerily glowing artefacts They carry in their hands Doing the Zombeat The Zombeat, the Zombeat The just-plain-wrong beat The 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 beat Twitching of the fingers Shuffling of the feet Doing the Zombeat The Zombeeeeeeeat! We lived in mortal fear Til the realisation grew That the way to escape their notice Was to act the way they do So I shuffle along with them Like my soul has been destroyed But I've become the very thing That I was seeking to avoid I'm one of them! I'm one of them! Doing the Zombeat The Zombeat, the Zombeat The just-plain-wrong beat The 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 beat Twitching of the fingers Shuffling of the feet Doing the Zombeat Zombeeeeeeeat!
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soundsbyramolly
Oct 27, 2019
Wow, this sounds really good, very creative work Steve!!!
Dollar Bill and the Unmentionables
Oct 26, 2015
I'm glad you shared this blast from the recent past. Halloween fun that doubles as social commentary - I like it!
Alan L Cole
Oct 10, 2015
Steve, you are the man! This is friggin' awesome! Thank you for bringing it back to life. Just a great arrangement, production, fxs, vocal and guitar work - awesome!!
Keyshardy
Nov 04, 2010
Totally scary!!..thrilling!!..edgey!!..Musical madness at it's very best!!! absolutely brilliant!!
Rodrica Rudge
Nov 03, 2010
A stomping monster of a track! A very threatening vibe, dark and sinister...and very creative. Love the guitar work and the vocal effects are brilliant. Top notch song in every way.
littlegreenman
Nov 01, 2010
WTF did you do with your voice? A Ghoulish Glam Growler That Zombeat's coming to get us, and I'm scared ;) Love the out-there guitar :)
Carlo D'Anna
Oct 31, 2010
Zombeat!! Yeah!!! Kicks ass in a dead kind of way!!
sum of the daze
Oct 31, 2010
this rocks hard Steve ! love the thick tone !
Finnski
Oct 31, 2010
WTG Steve!!
Michael Duran
Oct 30, 2010
pure evil sounding track Steve!! wicked vocal too ;)
Michael R7 GT
Oct 30, 2010
Yeah!!!! this thang rocked me!!!!
Michael Bennett
Oct 30, 2010
Another fine contribution and boogie on with those Zombeatniks ;) Very creative fun, Steve!!!