Hallowe'en's horror month continues but in an arch way as we look at Kurt Weill's music and Bertolt Brecht's & Elisabeth Hauptmann's text for The Threepenny Opera. German cabaret and other sinister vibes right this way...
- The Tragically Hip: Locked in the Trunk of a Car (Fully Completely, 1992) MCA
- Do Make Say Think: War on Torpor (Stubborn Persistent Illusions, 2017) Constellation
- The Tragically Hip: Fiddler's Green (Road Apples, 1991) MCA/Sire
- Gord Downie: Here, Here and Here (Secret Path, 2016) Arts & Crafts
- Koronis: Wave (Piano Day, 2016) self-released
- Slowdive: Star Roving (Slowdive, 2017) Dead Oceans
- Destroyer: In the Morning (ken, 2017) Merge/Dead Oceans
- Profondo Rosso: Fluxus (Rouge Profond, 2017) self-released
- Yelle: Un Jour Viendra (Completement Fou, 2014) Because Music
- Depeche Mode: Behind the Wheel [remastered] (Music for the Masses, 1987) Sire
- We Plus Plus: Death for a Selfie (2017) self-released
- King Krule: Biscuit Town (The OOZ, 2017) True Panther
- Jonnie Common: Better Man (Trapped in Amber, 2014) Song by Toad
- Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein: Walkin' in Hawkins (Stranger Things 2 OST, 2017) Invada/Lakeshore
- Jody Glenham: Between You and Me (Dreamer EP, 2014) self-released
- Dylarama: Saison Estivale (2017) Lisbon Lux
- Goblin: Suspiria (Suspiria OST, 1977) Cinevox
- Supermoon: Secrets in a Small Town (Playland, 2016) Mint
- Preoccupations: Degraded (Preoccupations, 2016) Jagjaguwar
- Lutto Lento: Weakness (Dark Secret World, 2017) Where to Now
- Dixie's Death Pool: How Long? (Twilight Sound Mountain, 2017) Leisure Thief
- Hiss Golden Messenger: Lucia (Lateness of Dancers, 2014) Merge
- The Lounge Lizards: Do the Wrong Thing (Lounge Lizards, 1981) EG
- Beirut: Cliquot (The Flying Club Cup, 2007) 4AD
- Josephine Foster: Nähe des Geliebten (A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, 2005) Locust
- Berlin Staatsoper: Die Moritat von Mackie Messer [excerpt, from Kleine Dreigroschenmusik] (Otto Klemperer: Great Conductors of the 20th Century, 1931) EMI
- David Bowie: Remembering Marie A (Bertolt Brecht's Baal EP, 1982) RCA
- Combustible Edison: Surabaya Johnny (I Swinger, 1994) Sub Pop
- The Laurie Johnson Orchestra: Mack the Knife (A Brass Band Swinging, 1960) Columbia
- Tom Waits: What Keeps Mankind Alive (Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards, 2006) Anti-
- Milva: Seerauberjenny/Pirate Jenny (Die Dreigroschenoper, 1990) Metronome/London
- Ebony Band: Kurt Weill's Concerto for Violin and Wind Instruments, Movement III. Allegro Molto, Un Poco Agitato [conductor: Werner Herbers, violinist: Alexander Kerr] (Kurt Weill's Concerto for Violin and Wind Instruments: Opus 12)
33 PENNIES: Nick Cave: Mack the Knife [w.Spanish Fly & Kenny Wollesen] (September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill, 1997) Sony
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