Currently airing Sunday nights at 12:15am EST during the [adult swim] line-up, Lucy, Daughter of the Devil is the story of the Devil, his daughter Lucy, and a DJ named Jesus. It’s also the story of mish-Mexican novelty themed karaoke restaurants operated by the Devil, the street magic airs of DJ Jesus, and a team of clueless priests and a high-strung nun charged with hunting down the Devil’s offspring… the continually put-upon, slightly neurotic, but affable young Antichrist named Lucy.

As an exclusive to Quick Stop Entertainment and a gift to the fans, show creator Loren Bouchard (of Dr. Katz and Home Movies fame) is providing us with the title songs and various music cues from each episode. Unless otherwise noted, all tracks are by Loren Bouchard. We’ll be putting the previous episode’s music up every Friday, just in time for a brand new episode. Download, enjoy, share them with your friends, or make your very own bootleg CD! The possibilities are (mostly) endless.

EPISODE 9: SATAN’S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

• TITLE SONG: Pound My Tom Tom (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “This episode – ‘Satan’s School For Girls’ - features a supposed ‘disco’ hit from 1975 called ‘Pound My Tom Tom’. It plays several times throughout the episode - which, if we had used a licensed song, would have cost us big money (you have to pay something every time a song reoccurs in an episode). This inspired us to make our own. What you have here is horns and back-beat courtesy of Apple Loops, and vocals, floor tom, cowbell and guitar by me.”

• END SONG: Get Out Of The Pool, Buddy (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “‘Satan’s School For Girls’ ends big - there’s a flashback to a mass murder and there’s a present-time confrontation with some mean catholic school girl ghosts. In the music throughout the episode, we were referencing/ripping off ‘The Shining’ as much as possible (in terms of feel and sound), though we also keep hearing ‘Pound My Tom Tom’. This last number kind of brings them together, driven along by some real drums - played by John Keith.

John was here in town when this was due so I was able to record him here in the studio on my shitty drum set. I’ve got the kick drum pedal turned upside down so it hits the bottom of the floor tom - making it a pseudo cocktail kit.“

 

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EPISODE 8: DREAMSTER

• TITLE SONG: Dreamster Theme (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “A fair amount of music in this episode - not all of it works that well out of context and/or by itself, but the theme song is pleasant enough: this is Satan singing to a random old lady who bought one of his Dreamster sound effects machines. He sings her to sleep and then he causes her to be crushed to death in her Kraftmatic adjustable bed, all over the opening credits.”

• SONG 01: The Stroke (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “Later in the episode, we’re treated to a nightmare version of ‘The Stroke’ by Billy Squier. It’s part of DJ Jesus’s dream in which he’s made to perform a stunt called the ‘Resur-rock-tion’. I was disappointed that this song also turned up recently in Blades of Glory. I thought we had it all to ourselves. This is the beginning of it.”

• CUE 01: Dreamster End Theme (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “The end music is just some scary aquaphone sounds and heavy guitar chords and then, when our heroes are rescued from their nightmares, a sweet and gentle return to the theme music - this time without vocals.Used heavily in this episode: my new old Roland spring reverb. Real springs inside this box. I’m not a huge fan of reverb in general, but this sound is a little more interesting than digital reverb, I think, and appropriate for such a dreamy episode. I put Benjamin’s vocals through it, and all the aquaphone FX and a few other things.“

EPISODE 7: THE SPECIAL FATHERS VS. THE VAMPIRE ALTAR BOYS

• TITLE SONG: Boogie Oogie Oogie (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “Hello… This week’s episode is called ‘The Special Fathers Vs. The Vampire Altar Boys’. In addition to vampire altar boys, there are also vampire choir boys. The episode opens with vampire choir boys singing ‘Boogie Oogie Oogie’. The quiet part at the start is over the death of a priest, and the slightly less than harmonious steel guitar stings are where the vampire choir boys attack their choir director and the piano lady. The chorus is over the opening credits. It’s a terrible cover (singing by me), but the piano is great. It was played and programmed by John Keith.”

• CUE 01: Scary Groove (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “Also in this episode is a vampire-ass-kicking montage. The music for this section is called ‘Scary Groove’. I made it as a test when I first started trying to figure out how to make music for this show. It’s a corny little thing. It was sitting around waiting for a home, and now it has one. No music-related pictures this week, but in honor of the Special Sister, who has a big role in this episode, I offer this jpeg - an early test-render of her.”

EPISODE 6: THE BUSBOY

• TITLE SONG: Meat Music (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “Hello, please enjoy some music (and sound effects) from this week’s episode - ‘The Busboy’.

This episode opens and closes with pseudo-classical music, and features the inimitable Jon Benjamin as Satan singing Roberta Flack’s ‘I Feel Like Making Love’ in the middle.

Not much to say about the fake classical music except that it’s so fun to mess around with that stuff. If you haven’t played with strings and brass and timpani in a program like Reason or Garage Band, then you haven’t truly felt the power of computers. I’m interested in getting out of the computer as much as possible to make the music for this show - but if you’re gonna break that rule, orchestral sample libraries is the place to do it.

The show opens with a ‘Moonlight Sonata’-like piece that I wrote on a Casio at my kitchen table. Arpeggios are great. I’ve included the sound effects and scary music that precedes it because our sound designer, John Keith, did such a good job with the having-sex-with-meat sounds.

You’ll notice a very high pitched sound throughout this episode - used mostly as a scary sting/effect. It’s an aquaphone. The aquaphone is filled with water and then struck or bowed. You can kind of twirl the water around to hear the pitch/harmonics change eerily. It also creates its own natural reverb. There is no processing on the sound - no other effects, just a cheap cello bow being dragged across those tongs.

I’d also like to introduce this lap steel guitar. I was thinking about getting an old one from eBay, but I found this one new at an incredibly reasonable price from a guy in Australia who makes them and auctions them on eBay as they come out of his shop. Really nice instruments. His outfit is called Jupiter Creek Music. This isn’t Metalacolypse - we don’t have any endorsement deals - but if we did, I’d want it to be from a guy like this.”

• SONG 01: Feel Like Making Love (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “Here’s ‘Feel Like Making Love’. Satan sits in with a jazz band at a fund raiser and performs this song while, unbeknownst to him, his daughter is kidnapped by a meat-fucker. This is the song that sealed the deal for me in regards to our music licensing contract. When I heard that they had this track in their library, I knew it was meant to be - Satan must sing this song.“

• CUE 01: The End Of The World (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “And then at the close of the story, we hear this bittersweet tune. I wrote it a long time ago as a love theme for Lucy and DJ Jesus – I called it ‘The End Of The World’ - but it seemed to fit better as a wrap-up for the various threads in this episode. It makes the senator’s fate (to be tortured by Satan) seem more sad and human… and maybe it makes meat-fucking a little more human, too.“

EPISODE 5: HUMAN SACRIFICE

• TITLE SONG: Go To Hell (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “This week’s opening theme is an incredible cover of Alice Cooper’s ‘Go To Hell’, performed entirely by my friend and collaborator (and amazing musician) John Dylan Keith, who also selected the song. It’s sung by Jon Benjamin.“

• CUE 01: Minions, Worship Me (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “This piece is called simply ‘Human Sacrifice Theme’ on the official cue sheet, but I’m re-titling it ‘Minions, Worship Me’ for our purposes here. It’s from the middle of the human sacrifice episode, when everyone goes to Bohemian Grove for the sacrifice/presidential campaign announcement. I was trying to reference cheesy 60’s and 70’s Italian horror scores - the arpeggios on piano, the Morricone four note electric guitar line, the mellotron choir sound… In this case, it’s just one phrase repeated over and over again - with instruments joining in as we get closer and closer to Satan addressing the minions. Then, as you know, the whole thing takes an abrupt left turn because Satan thinks this is a great time to bring out a stand up comedian - hence the drum roll at the end.“

• CUE 02: Boss Meets Casio (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “This track is called ‘Boss Meets Casio’. You might not have noticed it in the human sacrifice episode because it’s ’source music,’ mixed pretty far back - it’s just supposed to be some groovy music that DJ Jesus is listening to when the senator calls him. I like it because it’s the first time two of my favorite electronic instruments from the 80’s got a chance to be together. The keyboard and bass sounds are courtesy of my absolute favorite Casio, the MT-70.

The drums are from the adorable little Boss DR-110, which I got only recently from eBay. I think it sounds nice. And look at those happy little icons on the buttons… that hand clap button looks like a Keith Haring graphic. Make a great t-shirt…”

• SONG 1: Gloria (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “And finally, I present our silly cover of ‘Gloria’, which is featured at the end of the episode – DJ Jesus puts it on and all the satanic minions/political big wigs go crazy dancing to it (and the Special Fathers and the Special Sister and Lucy, too). Then, over end credits, as the song plays, we pull out from Bohemian Grove to northern California, then to the world, then the galaxy, and then the universe. All of which is meant to imply that DJ Jesus has created some cosmic effect by playing this song in this place on this night. I programmed most of the music on my old Korg EM-1. It’s good for dance beats, synth bass, etc. Then I asked John Keith to play the percussion parts. He’s really good. All those fills are him. That’s me singing. This version is mercifully chopped off at about 2 minutes.”

EPISODE 4: TERRY THE TERATOMA

• TITLE SONG: Friend Of The Devil (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “Here’s our version of ‘Friend of the Devil’, with me on uke and Jon Benjamin on vocals (high and low). Next is a silly music cue from this week’s episode, wherein Terry the Teratoma and Becky the devil’s advocate lock eyes and something stirs in both of them. I call the cue ‘Indie Movie Music’. It’s supposed to feel like a heavy handed Wes Anderson moment, or something.“

• CUE 01: Indie Movie Music (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “This next one is pretty. Little ukulele, bass, vibes, and drum thing with effects - from the ‘Lacy’ part of the story.“

• CUE 02: Lacy (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “I kind of hate to include this last track, but I will anyway. It fits nicely in under the middle part of the episode, but hearing it by itself, all of my timing errors are revealed - and they’re worse than usual. There are some really spazzy moments. I don’t know why I didn’t solo the track and stop and just clean that shit up. But I didn’t. And I’m too lazy to do it now, so here it is. It’s called ‘Teratoma Noir’.“

• CUE 02: Teratoma Noir (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “I’m also sad to say that - aside from the uke - this episode featured way too many midi controlled, sample-based instruments, so I don’t have a quirky, eBay-bought instrument to show off/admit to this week. Not one from the episode soundtrack, anyway. Instead, I’ll include this painting, which I found on the street. It now hangs here in the studio and inspires all of us, I hope.”

EPISODE 3: TEMPTASIA

• TITLE SONG: Holding Hands Around The World (MP3, right-click to download)

• CUE 01: Lost In The Desert Part 1 (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “This is a picture of my keilani uke. It can be heard in ‘Temptasia’ and throughout the season. This one has a soprano body with a concert neck - also known as a super soprano. It’s my third ukulele. I got my first one at a flea market. Second one as a present from my wife. This one from eBay. I really want to get good at ukulele. It’s a truly great instrument - fits my hands much better than a guitar, and it sounds great on TV.”

“Also heard in this episode: tremolo! Tremolo is the coolest effect in the world. It makes me feel funny inside.”

EPISODE 2: DILDO FACTORY

• TITLE SONG: Sperm Waltz (MP3, right-click to download)

• SONG 01: Sinsperations Song (MP3, right-click to download)

• SONG 02: Sinsperations Song Reprise (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “Heard on these tracks: this glass xylophone...”

EPISODE 1: ESCAPEOKE

• TITLE SONG 01: Paint The Town Red (MP3, right-click to download)

• TITLE SONG 02: Paint The Town Red plus dialogue (MP3, right-click to download)

NOTES FROM LOREN: “Here’s some more horror-esqe cues from ‘Escapeoke’. The most interesting thing about these stings is that I’m bowing a Chiquita Travel Guitar that I got from eBay with a cello bow I also got from eBay.“

• CUE 01: Escapeoke Stings 01 (MP3, right-click to download)

• CUE 02: Escapeoke Stings 02 (MP3, right-click to download)

• CUE 03: Escapeoke Stings 03 (MP3, right-click to download)

Comments:

2 Responses to “Lucy, Daughter Of The Devil - The Music: Episode 9” Glenn Crotty Says: September 24th, 2008 at 3:20 pm Thanks for making music available. One of my favorite shows. I got all episodes dvred but I’m still anticipating the release of the dvd. Colin Says: October 3rd, 2008 at 5:16 am Awesome music LB. Thanks for posting it. I love “Pound my Tom Tom” And FOD opening Ep.4 surprised me (big Dead fan), good cover. Two request though if possible: 1. Satan and DJ Jesus sing “Shadows of the Night” 2. The end theme from Temptasia. I read somewhere that you had sort of used a song by The Knife to make this song. I listened to that song (”heartbeats” I think) and it was alright but your version was much better. Love that synthesizer. Thanks again. Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website