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01) Don't Shake Me Lucifer
02) Click Your Finger Applauding the Play
03) If You Have Ghosts
04) It's a Cold Night for Alligators
05) Stand for the Fire Demon
06) Sputnik
07) I Think of Demons
08) Creature With the Atom Brain
09) The Wind and More
10) Bloody Hammer
01) Don't Shake Me Lucifer
02) Click Your Finger Applauding the Play
03) If You Have Ghosts
04) It's a Cold Night for Alligators
05) Stand for the Fire Demon
06) Sputnik
07) I Think of Demons
08) Creature With the Atom Brain
09) The Wind and More
10) Bloody Hammer
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1980
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The Evil One is a 1981 debut album by American psychedelic rock singer Roky Erickson with his band the Aliens, after his time with the band 13th Floor Elevators. The songs were recorded in 1979 with producer Stu Cook, former bass player of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Some material from those sessions was also released on the 1980 CBS UK album Roky Erickson and the Aliens. Cook played bass on two tracks, "Sputnik" and "Bloody Hammer."
The album was re-released on April 16, 2002 by Austin, Texas record label Sympathy for the Record Industry as a double-CD titled The Evil One (Plus One). The second disc is made up of a 48-minute appearance from August 20, 1979 on California radio station KSJO's The Modern Humans Show, on which Erickson plays rough mixes from the album and talks about music and horror films.
The CBS album was also reissued under the title I Think of Demons by Edsel Records.
In an obituary for Erickson after his 2019 death, British music magazine Kerrang! singled out The Evil One as perhaps Erickson's most influential album, calling it "an important precursor to the psychobilly and horror metal genres" for its "strange, cinematic approach to psychedelia." The magazine also praised "Night of the Vampire" as "easily the greatest vampire song in history. ... Roky paints on the vampire as he lives in the cultural subconscious, a being of film, literature, and ancient myth all at once."
The song "Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)" inspired the name of 1980s Los Angeles psychedelic/post-punk band Red Temple Spirits.
"Night of the Vampire" was covered by Entombed on its split EP with New Bomb Turks, released 1995 on Earache Records.
"If You Have Ghosts" was covered by Ghost in 2013 on its covers EP If You Have Ghost.
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The Evil One is a 1981 debut album by American psychedelic rock singer Roky Erickson with his band the Aliens, after his time with the band 13th Floor Elevators. The songs were recorded in 1979 with producer Stu Cook, former bass player of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Some material from those sessions was also released on the 1980 CBS UK album Roky Erickson and the Aliens. Cook played bass on two tracks, "Sputnik" and "Bloody Hammer."
The album was re-released on April 16, 2002 by Austin, Texas record label Sympathy for the Record Industry as a double-CD titled The Evil One (Plus One). The second disc is made up of a 48-minute appearance from August 20, 1979 on California radio station KSJO's The Modern Humans Show, on which Erickson plays rough mixes from the album and talks about music and horror films.
The CBS album was also reissued under the title I Think of Demons by Edsel Records.
In an obituary for Erickson after his 2019 death, British music magazine Kerrang! singled out The Evil One as perhaps Erickson's most influential album, calling it "an important precursor to the psychobilly and horror metal genres" for its "strange, cinematic approach to psychedelia." The magazine also praised "Night of the Vampire" as "easily the greatest vampire song in history. ... Roky paints on the vampire as he lives in the cultural subconscious, a being of film, literature, and ancient myth all at once."
The song "Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)" inspired the name of 1980s Los Angeles psychedelic/post-punk band Red Temple Spirits.
"Night of the Vampire" was covered by Entombed on its split EP with New Bomb Turks, released 1995 on Earache Records.
"If You Have Ghosts" was covered by Ghost in 2013 on its covers EP If You Have Ghost.
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