Rob Zombie! “Living Dead Girl” and “Dragula” are probably his best known, and would work for this.
Psst:
Sorry dude, but seriously you can’t get any more halloweeny. Specially than that first one.
And she does do plenty of “songs.” Find her rendition of “I Put a Spell on You,” or “Gloomy Sunday.”* Lifechanging.
Ooooooh!
Well, you didn’t SAY Diamanda Galas or I would have clicked on those plus not mentioned her again! L
And here’s another very very 'weeny Diamanda piece (You’ll have to cut and paste; I borked the link because they’s lots of NSFW imagery in the vid.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sLDAMpiDmY&feature=related
Ooh, even 'weenier, and no NSFW!
For some quick metal options off the top of my head:
Iced Earth’s Horrorshow album. It’s a theme album about various famous monsters and horrors including Dracula, Frankenstein, The Omen, Jeckyl and Hyde, etc.
There’s also a fairly decent band called The Vision Bleak that has a very Power Metal/Goth sound that incorporates a lot of classic horror music sounds infused with metal sounds and rhythms. They also use imagery that would be appropriate to the music and, thus, approrpiate for Halloween like werewolves, living dead, witches, ghosts, horror stories, etc. It generally comes across as pretty lighthearted about the topic to me so it stays fun.
Actually, on that thought, there’s quite a few bands out that fancy themselves vampires and, of course, tons of random Death and Black metal bands that sing about demons and zombies and stuff, but most of them probably take it a bit too seriously to really be appropriate for Halloween, so I won’t bother there.
Lizst Totentanz (dance of death) - variations on “Dies Irae”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2NnN_IlmtE (part 1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-3VZKcxkbo (part 2 - start at about 6:30 through the end for the most dramatic part)
Verdi Requiem, “Dies Irae”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDbMzp86tOc&feature=fvw (Toscanini conducting, live performance recording - at 3:15 he shouts “Louder, louder!”)
If you get Dr. Demento’s radio show in your town, listen (don’t record it, of course, because that would be WRONG!) this Sunday and next Sunday. He’s doing a two-week salute to Halloween novelty music…TRM
This week’s playlist: The Dr. Demento Show #09-42 - October 18, 2009
Witch Doctor- Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang
Love Potion Number 9
Gypsies Tramps and Thieves by Cher
Johny Came Home Headless by The Arrogant Worms
Scary Ned by The Arrogant Worms
Rapture by Blondie
I’ll post this. I’m having trouble finding what I want.
Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers
Ouija Board Ouija Board - Morrisey
A lot of the songs featured in the movie Donnie Darko had a creepy vibe. These come to mind:
The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
Under the Milky Way - The Church
Mad World - Gary Jules
Only The Killing Moon really has Halloweenish lyrics, but the other two have a foreboding tone.
Other “creepy vibe” songs:
Riders on the Storm - The Doors
Time of the Season - The Zombies (inexplicably creepy vibe, although the lyrics are perfectly harmless) (crappy audio here, but you get the idea)
Black Sabbath
Not music per se, but worth seeking out: Disney’s Chilling Thrilling Sounds of The Haunted House.
Witch Queen of New Orleans - Redbone
And as for “I Put a Spell on You,” there are at least a couple of great versions:
I Put a Spell on You - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
I Put a Spell on You - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Other versions I’ve heard just don’t measure up to those two.
Another “creepy vibe” song:
Little Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
•All the Myths Are True—Abney Park
•Abominable Dr. Phibes—The Misfits
•As Chronos said, Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.
•Move Your Dead Bones—Dr. Re-Animator
•Tales from the Far Side—Bill Frisell
•Voodoo—Godsmack
•Transylvanian Concubine—Rasputina
•Dig Up the Conjo—Blondie
•The Mourn—Skinny Puppy
•Most of the score to The Crow
•Creation of the Female Monster—Bride of Frankenstein soundtrack
I used to have a radio show and here’s the playlist to one of my Halloween shows. I’ve tried to find links to YouTube versions of the songs whenever possible. In some instances I could only find live versions instead of album versions. Some I couldn’t find at all.
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Halloween
Toyah - The Creepy Room
Happy Rhodes - Asylum Master
Jane Siberry - The Strange Well
Hugo Largo - Scream Tall
Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You
Carla Bley - Musique Mecanique III
Danielle Dax - The Passing Of The Third Floor Back
Dead Can Dance - De Profundis
Diamanda Galas/John Zorn - Metamorfosis
Kate Bush - Carmilla (she was like, what, 13? Give her a break)
Kate Bush - The Infant Kiss
Happy Rhodes - Ecto
Toyah - Angel & Me
Mary Kelley - Ghostriders In The Sky
Kate Bush - Get Out Of My House
Annibel Lamb - Things That I Fear
Fibonaccis - Old Mean Ed Gein
Barbara Thompson’s Paraphernalia - Fear Of Spiders
The World Of Skin (Swans, Jarboe) - Blood On Your Hands
Kate Bush - Mother Stands For Comfort
Fibonaccis - Leroy
Nico - Janitor Of Lunacy
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Trust In Me
Happy Rhodes - I’m Going Back
Kate Bush - Waking The Witch
Dead Can Dance - Mesmerism
Diamanda Galas - Wild Women With Steak Knives
Valaida Snow - You Bring Out The Savage In Me
Lene Lovich - You Can’t Kill Me
Kate Bush - Hammer Horror
Santra - Mein!/As A Mirror
Buffy St. Marie - The Vampire
Lemon Kittens - (? I didn’t write it down at the time)
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Head Cut
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Voodoo Dolly
The Shaggs - It’s Halloween (I wouldn’t recommend listening to this one. I played it on a dare)
Worms - The Pogues
Dracula’s Greatest Hits Classic Television Showbiz: It's that Gene Moss time of year...
I’m sure it must have been mentioned, but I don’t see it anywhere above:
O Fortuna (part of Carmina Burana) by Carl Orff - a mainstay of horror movies, what with latin chanting and diabolical crescendoes.
Phantom of the Opera.
And Re: Your Brains. (I already suggested this one today…)
What, no Misfits?
and Bloodletting by Concrete Blonde seems to be missing