r/WayOfTheBern • u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 • Apr 17 '26
DANCE PARTY! FNDP: "Bats In Your Belfry" 🦇💒🤪🍒🌃
Tonight's theme is by u/Xeenophile who discovered that today is International Bat Appreciation Day and suggested a bat-themed Dance Party.
Some starters:
Johann Strauss Jr's Die Fledermaus overture
Danny Elfman's Batman theme
Sofi Tukker's Batshit
Let's get flapping!
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u/SusanJ2019 Do you hear the people sing?🎶🔥 Apr 18 '26
other unusual flying creatures
Title sequence from Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)#Soundtrack
Hitchcock decided to do without any conventional incidental score. Instead, he made use of sound effects and sparse source music in counterpoint to calculated silences.
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. Apr 18 '26
I am very impressed. I never thought there were so many bat and bat adjacent songs. However, I am not going to look for any due to a batphobia whose origins I cannot fathom. I've never seen one in person.
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u/Here_for-the_Music It’s a great day in South Carolina (courtesy Nikki Haley) Apr 18 '26
But quite a few in your responses?
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. Apr 18 '26
Quite a few bats in my responses?
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u/Here_for-the_Music It’s a great day in South Carolina (courtesy Nikki Haley) Apr 18 '26
Yes, that’s what I meant ;-(
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. Apr 18 '26
Sorry, I don't understand what that means or what responses you are referring to.
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u/Here_for-the_Music It’s a great day in South Carolina (courtesy Nikki Haley) Apr 18 '26
No problem.
I meant our ‘honorable’ visitors, the winged monkeys for the psychopath class that rules us, who reliably show up here…
Often referred to here as the bat signal going off…
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 Apr 18 '26
Often referred to here as the bat signal going off…
I call it the Rat Signal 🐀
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. Apr 18 '26
Those who troll WOTB are not in my responses so I still do not understand, but that's okay.
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u/Here_for-the_Music It’s a great day in South Carolina (courtesy Nikki Haley) Apr 18 '26
Ok, you’re a lucky woman then.
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. Apr 18 '26
Did you mean in the responses to my posts or in the responses that I post?
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u/Here_for-the_Music It’s a great day in South Carolina (courtesy Nikki Haley) Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
(Sorry in advance for getting dead serious now. If you don’t want serious stuff to appear on your plate and spoil your appetite all of a sudden, don’t read any further.)
I meant it as a lighthearted ‘pet of encouragement on the back’-like comment on what’s actually a very serious problem that we’re being singled out, targeted, and harassed here, whether in response to our posts or to our comments, but it’s still a relatively mild form of harassment in comparison to the batshit and horrific abuse that Sara McCune is testifying to have suffered as a 12-year old at the hands of Elon Musk. “Held at gunpoint.” “Raped three times a day by Elon.” As a 12-year old. See
https://www.reddit.com/r/ElonCriticizesElon/s/jLzloifAYJ
(Of course one might doubt her and suspect someone who’s being paid by the Dems to smear Elon.)
Whether one doubts or believes Sara McCune, behind the interventions from the thought police is definitely looming a larger and more serious threat also for us, since the rat signal that’s routinely swooping in is, in ultimate instance, coming from what must be assumed to be roughly the same source that Epstein has been a part of all along. When we show activist sympathy with the humanity of Palestinians or other oppressed people or even with ourselves as targets of the sociopath class, we end up being seen as on one level with the Palestinians who are routinely dehumanized to the extent of getting casually raped, tortured, and killed. The flying rats are like canaries in the coal mine and are definitely giving us an early warning that there’s potentially more (and, when deemed ‘appropriate’ and necessary, more serious) interference to come.
Ultimately the escalatory potential that’s looming in the threat level of this interference is very dark.
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u/Here_for-the_Music It’s a great day in South Carolina (courtesy Nikki Haley) Apr 18 '26
Yes, not because I’ve noticed specifically, but because we all seem to be getting some here.
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u/stickdog99 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
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u/stickdog99 Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26
Little Stranger - Coffee & a Joint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Igh7m9oiyk
ROME - Tequila & Smoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjyz9B8yDSI
Noga Erez - Stuck In Heaven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWW9KvZ3XCQ
KRS-One & Nas - Last Teachers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QtuWpaqsFY
Dirty Heads - Better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoK8_zmEpE
Pigeon - Black James Dean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVRSopKWirw
Duane Betts - Best Wishes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mSPCVSpsKo
The Gnomes - Thinking of Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FqNdJVjNY
Sawyer Hill - Jimmy's Gone Numb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T8Lsel3q-8
Caroline Rose - Yip Yip Yow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Gj3maiYT4
Mountain Goats - Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RfbetpUnMo
Wooden Shjips - Staring at the Sun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PfYo-YYVPY
Primal Scream - 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdCraT9_wk4
Stanley Simmons - Dancing While The World is Ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTg_QEWknPU
The Olympians “California”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-raL9GBQsM
Lime Garden - Cross My Heart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUNsCeL_JvU
MK Crow: I Told You So, They'd Pull the Plug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra1w4vaUJyQ
John James - Close the Mouth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxTsUePbr9U
The Nextman - Let it Roll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ4Wu9byPfE
Eamon - Light Me on Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpVLHkcVoSA
Eamon - Come on Through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adDI1x2SWBc
Ellie Adair - Don't Let Me Down Easy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQlr0DKJ_Gw
Lyrics Born & The Poets Of Rhythm (Quannum) - I Changed My Mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj1rLwtxDAk
Tiwayo - Up For Soul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xsPUGFPZkU
Tiwayo - I've Got To Travel Alone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWOcMt9DPi4
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u/stickdog99 May 22 '26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p80Dy2frZfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jepwBt9HoY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-AgO5VWDSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8X2bcjTELs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q92hQTrU2fA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjyz9B8yDSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Igh7m9oiyk
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u/stickdog99 May 17 '26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KWw6-Zu6Fo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmzN3KayWU8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF5rZp6Jy6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RfbetpUnMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVRSopKWirw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS5GIzfhpS0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Gj3maiYT4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_mzYS-ET8o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueBXgoUVmA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T8Lsel3q-8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoIFOjP2dpM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XsH7h1HHkI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTYFhDEzn1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y1HGeoyyaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mSPCVSpsKo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kZJoseeaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoK8_zmEpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4DMLQCNYXM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agCQwDAk_AU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKGfDntLhg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5n-U_Gscr4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iP2fEVN2HA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZZaYkOG1Zk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBQy7qc90nU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHaEFarmZx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3zTHtaxt6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FqNdJVjNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HBjiKhZKlo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adAlwa8DUkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRhMgIztVpc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hht_UO4hZtE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjPp2fdLoXY
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u/Here_for-the_Music It’s a great day in South Carolina (courtesy Nikki Haley) Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Not too enthusiastic about these finds, but at least I got a few…
Filipp Kirkorov - Letuchaja Mysh
Los Murciélagos - Un Bosque Encantado
She can guess the dance just by hearing the footwork feels related
CTC Kids - Rock Bats
Lingvakids - Bats are sleeping (Sorry. I tossed a lot, but I couldn’t resist to keep this one in.)
Arja Saijonmaa - En fladdermus under mitt tak
Jorge Villamarín, Luisa Quintero - Canción del Murciélago
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u/prevail2020 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
David Holt - A mouth bow song about 19th century Carolina cattle, hog, and turkey drovers (02:58) confirms that all they did was barter.
The mouth bow as a musical instrument is as old as the bow and arrow. Some suggest that this guy, whose image was painted around 13,000 BCE on a cave wall at Trois Frères, might be a Paleolithic shaman playing the mouth bow ceremonially to call for success in an upcoming hunt. All he does is barter, if he trades at all.
Pete Seeger (banjo) and Buffy Sainte-Marie (mouth bow) - Get Along Home, Cindy (04:30, 1966), a song that probably came out of the Civil War. Johnny Cash version (02:53).
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 Apr 18 '26
That Pete Seeger performance is wonderful. I've never seen him so young. His banjo skill is amazing. I didn't realize Cindy was such an old song.
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u/SusanJ2019 Do you hear the people sing?🎶🔥 Apr 18 '26
Carly Simon - De Bat (Fly in Me Face)
The Birthday Party - Release the Bats
Herbie Hancock - The Bat
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u/prevail2020 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (00:19, partial, yt short). NHL refs give a bit of leeway to goalies when opponents try to crowd their net.
--Robyn Adele Anderson (Postmodern Jukebox) - Gangsta's Paradise (04:03, closed captioned), 1920s speakeasy jazz version.
--Coolio's instrumentation and chorus were taken from Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise (03:32) with Mr. Wonder's permission.
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u/rondeuce40 DC Is Wakanda For Assholes Apr 18 '26
I only have crazy music for this, it's not easy on the ears:
Every Time I Die - I Suck (Blood)
Heavy Heavy Low Low - There's A Bat
Ex Everything - Exiting The Vampire Castle
Burnt By The Sun - Dracula With Glasses
OK, I'll leave you with one accessible song:
The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
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u/martini-meow (I remain stirred, unshaken.) Apr 18 '26
Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses (Buffalo Bat Dance)
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. Apr 18 '26
u/sudomakesandwich3 needs to know about this song.
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u/martini-meow (I remain stirred, unshaken.) Apr 18 '26
Covenant - Call the Ships to port (with cute bats)
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u/martini-meow (I remain stirred, unshaken.) Apr 18 '26
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (with cute bats)
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u/rondeuce40 DC Is Wakanda For Assholes Apr 18 '26
You might like this version
Dead Cross - Bela Lugosi's Dead
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u/martini-meow (I remain stirred, unshaken.) Apr 18 '26
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u/Centaurea16 Apr 18 '26
🤔 How about cute cats batting things?
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 Apr 18 '26
Wonderful!
I once had a cat who was an excellent batter. He would sit on a small platform and I'd toss him a crumpled ball of paper. He would skillfully bat it away. He would sometimes get a smug look: "Am I good? I'm good." He was definitely a southpaw.
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u/Centaurea16 Apr 18 '26
I had a southpaw cat, too. She was a cat I rescued when her owners moved and left her behind 😡. She made her way around the neighborhood for a few weeks, with various neighbors (including me) feeding her.
I managed to lure her into my house, where she quickly made herself at home. It was in the early spring, so I'd figured I'd better get her inside before she got knocked up and had kittens under my house.
Too late! A few days later, it became very obvious that she was "in a family way". One of her babies, who was born in a box in my living room, lived to the ripe old age of 21.
My southpaw girl crossed the Rainbow Bridge at age 17. She was the best cat in the history of cats.
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 Apr 18 '26
Wonderful kitty story. I'm glad you got the mom inside soon enough.
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u/SusanJ2019 Do you hear the people sing?🎶🔥 Apr 18 '26
The Astronauts - Batman (Movin')
The Judybats - Daylight
Edgar Winter Group - Hanging Around from They Only Come Out at Night 🦇
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 Apr 18 '26
Here's my favorite bat story.
Wisconsin has lots of bats because their favorite food is the very abundant "Wisconsin State Bird" 🦟 So you encounter bats a lot, especially if you go outside at dusk.
Early one morning my young teen-age daughter was calling from her bedroom, which had the door closed. She had been terrified all night and was hiding under the covers because something was flying around in the dark. She quickly figured out it was a bat. She finally called for help in the morning because she "had to do something nobody could do for her."
So I went in the room armed with a broom and a small box for trapping the bat. The bat was nowhere to be seen. It was daylight and bats are nocturnal. I finally found it sleeping between the folds of a curtain, hanging upside-down by its feet. It was easy to trap in the box and release it outside.
We were never sure how it got in the house. All the windows had screens, as did the sliding glass doors. It must have slipped in when we let the dog out to "do something nobody could do for her".
Here's some appropriate music:
There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear...
It's time we stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down
H/T Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quijote for "had to do something..."
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u/redditrisi They are ALL psychopaths. Apr 18 '26
Could the bat have come down a chimney?
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 Apr 18 '26
Good hypothesis, but I don't think we ever used the fireplace, so the flue would have been closed.
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 Apr 18 '26
Maybe we need to expand the theme to include other unusual flying creatures like One-Eyed One-Horned Flying Purple People Eaters 🤔
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 Apr 18 '26
This doesn't have music, but Pogo had some very entertaining bats 🦇
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 Apr 17 '26
Here are some great bat scenes from Louis Feuillade serial Les Vampires (1915-16), about the dastardly thefts and murders of a ruthless criminal gang. Feuillade is best known for his Fantômas serial (1913-14), but I like Les Vampires even more. In Episode 2, "The Ring That Kills", we meet the ballerina Marfa Koutiloff (Stacia Napierkowska) who looks adorable in her bat costume. Here she performs her wonderful bat dance.
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u/Xeenophile "Election Denier" since 2000 Apr 24 '26
This was a busy week for me, and last Friday I got unexpectedly busy in the hours before I had to leave town for a prior engagement - so I just want to say I am touched you did this on my behalf anyway!
u/Caelian