Roky Erickson - It's a Cold Night for Alligators

[TheCH73]

50 Euro auf Amazon? Ist gekauft!

[7878toastmaster]

ahhhh reptiles !!!! king draco want more !!! fuck our ears with!!!

[pinkduvetify]

im a lame odd blob an even i love this xx

[Hverglemer]

Not nearly one of the best tracks on the album, but still a VERY good song. That really says alot about how great this album really is!

[badnewsadolf]

The fact that the Hellacopters covered this makes it infinitely more awesome.

[rcmck2112]

Fucking Great!

[TheGingeskhan]

i like the way hes voicse sound like its breaking or out of tune it sounds awrsom =)

[AJtheory]

"...when they see alligator persons in the parking lot..."

[siwert4u]

Love this guy... ;-)

[aledobretociastko]

I love alligators.

[mhasting22]

Thank you Roky, I've known you for 45 years and I am glad you are still here making music that I understand and enjoy.

[1LoWu]

Great!!!

[AJtheory]

I think this song is about how, in wintertime, especially when it's snowing out,

"men (to quote the song)" should not go outside wearing only izod shirts...you know, put something else on...no one wants to see what you look like when you're cold, and/or tucked, singing "Goodbye Horses" like Buffalo Bill in Silence of the lambs...idiots

[oeyesea]

Danzig wouldn't have a career without this guy

[honeyflymusic]

I think the live recordings of this song are better, less spookey and faster.

[PJOB77]

Great song!!!

[oeyesea]

I like the swarm of electric mosquitoes in the beginning

[silvanski]

Brilliant RE track!!!! Southern Pacific's did a decent cover on the tribute album.

[HBTheChampz]

Sean Malto!

[6rings66]

@HBTheChampz how do u get him this is from a birdhouse video

[HBTheChampz]

@6rings66 and it has been in a malto's video part.

[6rings66]

@HBTheChampz which one



[HBTheChampz]

@6rings66 /NexmxQjJ7FI this one.

[patrickmgao106]

Sean Malto!!!

[bryanteganben]

Big-headed frog Big-headed frog I got married by Brezhnev in the Kremlin Wall to a red-headed frog Cheese fought back gorganzola brought back Third Pax Romana nyet it cracked Did Stalin get dried out When he was interred like Lenin jerky? To me they've been healed by the party hacks Party appetizers served on the lord's cross Wedding meats worse than in hell (a word Soviet dictionaries refuse to spell) Sweet tastes of summer meats smuggled from a US mell ["mall"]

[melodiccreepingdeath]

hell yea brothers >:O

[fingernegl]

Great fuckin shit!

[sakul777]

@fingernegl I second that!

[neonwind]

I don't know why but this Guy is Brilliant!

[viddrome]

This song is based on a true story. I wear a tin foil hat to protect myself from aliens mind-control. You should too.

[tomonsterboy]

MUST be from The Alligator People(?) Comic-book acid nightmare!!!

[Saillcoosp]

The Hellacopters made a great Version fromthis Song. Check it out !!!

[halfcabdisaster7]

Not bad, not bad at all.

[Savedleech]

*smile

[bellydweller]

aligator persons in the bog? "It's a cold night for aligators when men turn into them in the night" sound like reptoids to me.

[August138]

The song is based on events in Roy Del Ruth's 1959 B-Movie, THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE, starring Beverly Garland and Lon Chaney Jr.

[Skulldini]

Yeah, I've seen the flick on television ( Monster Vision, Fright Theatre, Elvira and the like ). Somebody aught'a make a vid of this song set to footage of that flick,..that'd work realy well.

[Zakop]

I have

[stupidguyx]

Anyone have the lyrics to this? My hearing is really bad, and I can't find them anywhere. (Google included.)

[Simonfishdude]

one of his best songs

[afwef1]

is roky still alive?

[Jabberw0cky7]

Yes he is. And he is in good health and still perform. A legend !!!

[glenmann62]

roky was spaced out for many years because his mother would,nt allow him to get the meds he needed to be normal , his brothers got the right to be his caretaker and after years of treatment he,s now pretty much back to normal , their is a documentary about him and his family trying to help him and getting him the help to bring him back from his long long trip on acid!

[MotorheadMf]

good fucking music!!!

[Upstreamprovider]

Great stuff, but the Elevators were in a dimension of their own...literally probably!!

[Jabberw0cky7]

How can I miss out on this artist for all these years ?

[MINKYTIME]

Beautiful, really Beautiful

[roger9876]

one of the best song ever

[BoDiddleyHeadHunter]

the version from gremlins have pictures is AMAZING!!!

[Distorcionbeto]

GREAT! from perv

[theledzeppguy]

Love it. Roky is one of my top favorites.

Definitely one of my top 5 favorite song writers, that is for sure.

[hulkienburk]

fuck i should have that song in my skate part rarrrrr!!!

[Hessian]

yea u fucked up........

[chrisairs]

This is in sean eaton's part in the beginning skate flick.

[hulkienburk]

waa it the best song eva!!!!!!!!!!

[fetkuk12]

fucking awsome, love from sweden

[ronkey17]

Love it! i think this is his best track, which is saying a lot!

[PhsycadelicRock]

Indeed it is!

[AJtheory]

@ronkey17

I like this track a lot; it's tough for me to put it past "Bermuda", and so many other songs by him...his music is amazing...it's got to be the most chilling electrifying stuff out there