Noise du Jour: “Norman Bates” by Landscape
Posted by Derek C.F. Pegritz
The late 1970s/early 1980s saw the birth of some of the freshest pop music ever created by Humans without the aid of alien technology or Machine Intelligence. Landscape’s “Norman Bates” is probably THE catchiest little jam ever written about Psycho, and one of the best synthpop jams ever created: if you do not find yourself bopping around all damn day singing “My name is Norman Bates, I’m just a normal guy”, there’s something not wrong with you and you should never read this blog again.
Good luck finding this music on CD or mp3, though. As far as I can tell, Landscape’s catalog only ever appeared on vinyl. I managed to track down mp3s of most of their tracks, but I’m an obsessive music freak and will gladly pull an Indian Jones and raid mysterious Mexican jungle temples filled with old vinyl and mysterious BitTorrent trackers to find what I desire. It’s Out There, though!
Landscape’s “My Name is Norman Bates” [YouTube].
Categories: Psychos, Lunatics, Horror, Film, Noise du Jour, Music
Posted at 12:14 pm on September 30, 2007
7 Comments -
Catchy. Too catchy. How am I to get this song out of my head?
“My name is Norman Bates. I’m just a normal guy!”
PLEASE, GET IT OUT!
Comment by Robert — September 30, 2007 @ 12:50 pm
Matching Noise: http://youtube.com/watch?v=pbTa5JsXjtE
Greenskeepers’ Lotion, a love song pulled from Slence of the Lambs. Irrepressibly catchy and most certainly grand for loudly singing at bus-stops, the video’s fabulous too, made entirely of clips from the clip cunningly spliced together so it sees Buffalo Bill is singing.
Comment by Jhayne — September 30, 2007 @ 2:20 pm
Jhayne, you are my new hero. That is THE coolest song I’ve heard in WEEKS, and my buddy aRvin and I are sure to be obsessing over it for months to come!
Comment by Derek C.F. Pegritz — September 30, 2007 @ 2:56 pm
The swedish EBM group Covenant covered this track on 21st Circuitry’s Newer Wave 2 collection.
Comment by Ryan — September 30, 2007 @ 3:22 pm
Damn you, Jhayne, for stealing my future Noise du Jour thunder! I love that song, it’s just too bad that the rest of that album is, well, poop.
Comment by Ross Rosenberg — September 30, 2007 @ 5:01 pm
::singing:: “My name is Nor–man Bates… I’m just a normal guy… My name is Nor–man Bates… I’m just a normal guy…”
Man, this’ll be almost as awesome as the last reaction I got at work; sitting there with my headphones on, absentmindedly singing along with Wreath of Barbs, people not knowing what to think.
Don’t think Apok would mind (I haven’t visited the forums in forever), but here’s what I usually listen to at work: SkullzDotRadio (Radio.Blog).
Comment by zanbowser — October 1, 2007 @ 6:29 am
There was a music video to go with it. Completely surreal…
Comment by B@tSh1t — October 4, 2007 @ 1:02 pm