# How about some Halloween Music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937 "2010-10-21T21:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/1 "2010-10-21T21:29:00Z")
Last year for Halloween, my wife and I allong with some neighbors hung out in our front yard with a firepit and a few beers during the candy distribution ceremonies. A good time was had by all but after it was all done, I realized it would have been that much more fun if I had some songs going for it. So for this year, I’m working on a playlist to play when we do this again. I’ve got some songs already figured out: Pet Cemetery by the Ramones Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon Thriller by Michael Jackson Zombie Graveyard Party by Be Your Own Pet Zombie Boy by Magnetic Fields Hell by Squirrel Nut Zippers Back from the Dead by Spinal Tap Zombie Zoo by Tom Petty More Human than Human by White Zombie Zombie Eaters by Faith No More Spider-Man by the Ramones (My boy is dressing as Spider-Man) Something from Bauhaus (not figured out yet) Doctor Who theme (because, why not?) All right kids, this is just a start. Can you think of some more Halloween-themed songs that I can use? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/2 "2010-10-21T21:30:23Z")
_This is Halloween_ from Nightmare Before Christmas. Bonus points for using the Marilyn Manson cover. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/3 "2010-10-21T21:31:08Z")
Dead man’s party and Weird Science by Oingo boingo. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/4 "2010-10-21T21:32:33Z")
Black Sabbath/Black Sabbath ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/5 "2010-10-21T21:36:06Z")
_MONSTER MASH!_ Greatest song ever. 🆒 I have a bunch of Halloween songs on my computer though. I’ll list some of my favorites when I get home. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/6 "2010-10-21T21:37:27Z")
The [zombie portion](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=563545) of the program, at least, has been looked into. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/7 "2010-10-21T21:39:49Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > Dead man’s party and Weird Science by Oingo boingo. I do have those and I was thinking of Dead Man’s Party. Great suggestions. Also Monster Mash. It may annoy my wife, but I’m willing to take that chance! ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/8 "2010-10-21T21:56:03Z")
The traditional “Top 40” songs are [“Monster Mash”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0R_oDEvYUY) (Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers) and [“Haunted House”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzAJ0An2AqM) (Jumpin’ Gene Simmons [no, not that Gene Simmons]). ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/9 "2010-10-21T22:04:04Z")
I’ve had success in spooking people (especially those who weren’t familiar with it) using excerpts of Grateful Dead [“Space”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK_Ev996UAs) jams. They did the '80s [_Twilight Zone_ intro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF-yh4mU6ps), after all. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/10 "2010-10-21T22:55:26Z")
_I Like The Fright_ - Sheena Easton _Somebody’s Watching Me_ - Rockwell _Night Time Without You (After Midnight)_ - Juice Newton ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/11 "2010-10-21T23:04:14Z")
[Dracula’s Pajama Party](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo4tzrxyXsA) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/12 "2010-10-21T23:06:15Z")
“Diamonds and Guns” by the Transplants “Mysterious Mose” by R Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/13 "2010-10-21T23:08:00Z")
[Everyday is Halloween](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIMfdlVGmqM&feature=related) by Ministry. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/14 "2010-10-21T23:09:39Z")
Werewolf Bar Mitzvah by Tracy Jordan/Morgan Seriously, Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in D Minor Night on Bald Mountain Tubular Bells The Omen theme “Ave Satanas” Saint-Saeans’ Dance Macabre “Halloween” (Michael Myers) Theme Lloyd-Webber’s Phantom of the Opera Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Theme (used in Lugosi’s Dracula & Karloff’s The Mummy) Soundtrack to Coppola’s DRACULA Diamanda Galas’ version of Gloomy Sunday ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/15 "2010-10-21T23:16:22Z")
Another vote for “Monster Mash”. It was a graveyard smash. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/16 "2010-10-21T23:24:50Z")
If you’re including instrumental/classical stuff, how about Liszt’s [Mephisto Waltz](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCnmFBVEFWo) The “March to the Scaffold” and/or “Witches’ Sabbath” movements from Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique Grieg’s “[In The Hall of the Mountain King](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVRGZ2ag9tk)” ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/17 "2010-10-21T23:26:54Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YllIiZjTogM) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/VVbGnspgy_8/maxresdefault.jpg "One Eyed, One Horn, Flying Purple People Eater (Animated Music Video, 2002)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVbGnspgy_8) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCU5hTCynkQ) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Lc0Lra9cI) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InpCzx5OQRU) _Caveat auditor_ on that last one–it may be just _too_ horrible! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/18 "2010-10-21T23:35:32Z")
“The Man in the Long Black Coat” is a great, spooky song. It’s a Dylan original but [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0OhFBBCfOM) is a good cover version, too. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/19 "2010-10-22T01:30:42Z")
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orNpH6iyokI](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orNpH6iyokI) Liszt, _Totentanz_ (Dance of Death) part 1 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2NnN\_IlmtE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2NnN_IlmtE) part 2 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-3VZKcxkbo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-3VZKcxkbo) ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937/20 "2010-10-22T01:47:07Z")
How have we gotten this far in the thread without a mention of Edgar Winter’s [Frankenstein](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1mV_5-bRPo)? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-about-some-halloween-music/557937.md?page=2)