Move Your Dead Bones

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A group whose dead bones, bones, bones Zarla (top right) has inspired to movement

The live-action version at Megaplex

"Move Your Dead Bones" is a techno song by Dr. Re-Animator. The song originates from a music video on the DVD to the horror/comedy film Beyond Re-Animator. The song itself is found on the compilation album Disco Estrella 2003, also known as Disco Estrella Volume 6. The quirky song and video feature a well-manicured European scientist singing in a very gruff voice that is modified with an Auto-Tune. The song was written and produced by Jordi Cubino, who is best known as David Lyme, one of the most successful performers of Italo-Disco music from Spain in the 1980's.

This track was made popular among the furry fandom by a music video entirely animated in Flash by Zarla, which comically poked fun at the world of slash (and was not intended as a furry work).^[1] Zarla's video features a wide variety of characters borrowed from different fictional settings, including:

Edgar Vargas and Johnny from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
Vrumugun and Zangulus from Slayers
Sirius Black from Harry Potter
Zorn and Thorn from Final Fantasy 9
Dahlia Gillespie, Harry Mason, Mary, Eddie Dombrowski, and Michael Kaufmann from Silent Hill
Boromir from Lord of the Rings
A Metroid hatchling from Super Metroid
Zarla herself, as well as two of Zarla's original characters, Kax and Scriabin

The animation spread quickly thanks to a posting by Arcturus on his LiveJournal and from there, subsequent postings to fchan. In 2006, the Megaplex variety show included a performance of the song in fursuit (starting off rather ominously with a scene of dead fursuiters). A re-enactment of the reanimation scene from the movie was performed during the Further Confusion 2007 variety show, and won first place.^[2]

[edit] References

↑ Comment from Zarla noting that Move Your Dead Bones is not intended as a furry video
↑ So we did this thing..., Far Raptor's LiveJournal (2007-01-25)