Two people in Suicide, Alan Vega and Martin Rev. Keyboard, drum machine, vocals, effects. And, thus, we have synergy. It's like what Marty Robinson said on WTTW during a pledge drive: "Woodstock. A concert. A documentary. And certainly more than the sum of those two parts." That's what Suicide was to the NYC CBGB punk new wave scene.
Ghost Rider is a cool name. Here's to my having no clue that it's based on a Marvel Comics character, and that Suicide named themselves after a Ghost Rider comic book titled Satan Suicide. Cheers. I wonder why there wasn't a track for this character on the Marvel World of Icarus album? I guess it's because Ghost Rider is an antihero and not a superhero.
The song begins with a three-note bass line pattern which is hooked to a repeated chord. Alan Vega, with his frantic hyperventilating delivery, says the Ghost Rider is a screamin the truth, America, America is killin' its youth. At 1:26 he lets out a little shriek and a colder and angrier keyboard tone pounces into the mix.
Ghost Rider is from their self-titled debut album. I thought about including their epic Frankie Teardrop on the blog, but it's too frickin scary.
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