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"200,000 Homeless Children" by John Shirley, music by John Karr - it seems relevant to today's reality.
"I am Electricity" is John Shirley vocals and lyrics, Chris Cunningham and Jerry Antonias music. Same thing with:
"Got no Fear" - a dance song for the present age of fear, replete with vinyl pops. Also by JS and Chris C and Obsession.
"My God I Think I'm High" by John Shirley, Chris Cunningham, Jerry Antonias--this strange new-wave song just rediscovered is not what it seems to be at first.
"Not Who I Am" by John Shirley, music by John Karr, is a spoken word piece that becomes a song, and if you're young you probably can identify.
All lyrics and vocals here by John Shirley except 'They're Makin' Money' sung by Michael Layne Heath (lyrics by JS). John Shirley is an author, screenwriter and singer/songwriter. He writes lyrics for the Blue Oyster Cult and others, and for his own recordings. He wrote the first four drafts of the script for THE CROW, and shares Credit for that film with David Schow. He is the winner of the Bram Stoker award (Bram Stoker created Dracula, award is given by the Horror Writers of America) for his story collection BLACK BUTTERFLIES. He's the author of Demons, Cellars, In Darkness Waiting, the cyberpunk classic City Come A-Walkin', Eclipse, A Splendid Chaos and many other books. His new story collection is LIVING SHADOWS from Prime Books. His only nonfiction book is Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas. . .
The Weinstein Company is "moving ahead" with plans for a movie based on John Shirley's novel DEMONS. His Alternative Apocalypse novel THE OTHER END has recently been also optioned for development as a movie.
John Shirley's forthcoming new novels are the urban fantasy novel BLEAK HISTORY from Simon and Schuster and BLACK GLASS (the "lost cyberpunk novel") from ESP.
John Shirley was the original lead singer of the seminal punk band Sado-Nation (wrote Johnny Paranoid etc) and the New York punk funk band Obsession. He's now fronting a band called The Screamin' Geezers. He lives in the San Francisco area. . .
Excepting vocals by Michael Layne Heath on "They're Makin' Money", lyrics and vocals on the songs here are by John Shirley. Musicianship and composition of music by Dave Corboy and SadoNation for "Johnny Paranoid," Tony DeStefano for "Essence".
The other four songs, Broken Mirror Glass, Pain in the Shade, You Deserve Me Baby and They're Makin' Money (You Can't Argue With That), comprise THE SCREAMIN' GEEZERS ONLINE EP. On those four songs, lyrics and vocals by J. Shirley (except where I've noted, on one song, ML Heath sang), guitar, keyboards and musical composition by Michael Layne Heath; Guitar and Bass and mutual songwriting by Ryan Lendt; drums and some production ideas by Andrew Griffin.
BLUE OYSTER CULT albums with lyrics by John Shirley are HEAVEN FORBID, and CURSE OF THE HIDDEN MIRROR, available on iTunes. There are 16 songs with lyrics by JS on those two albums. Key songs with lyrics by JS: Damaged, The New Gods Return, Pocket, See You in Black, Live for Me, The Power Underneath Despair, Dancing on Stilts.
John Shirley and the Panther Moderns are found on the new Mabuhay Records compilation "The Best of the Mabuhay" with the Mutants and Razorburns and other fine bands. Mabuhay will be releasing the Panther Moderns album Red Star.
John Shirley news website
