Can’t forget o Fotuna. You get some fun-sized Butterfingers.
Here’s what’s on my Halloween mix that I haven’t seen mentioned yet:
Bloodletting and Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man by Concrete Blonde
Marie Laveau Bobby Bare
A whole bunch of Rob Zombie
Cold, Cold Night The White Stripes
Feed My Frankenstein Alice Cooper
The Long Black Veil the Chieftains
Moon Baby, Vampires, and Voodoo Godsmack
Carnival of Souls Combustible Edison
Transylvanian Concubine Rasputina
Hoodoo Voodoo Doll Brian Setzer Orchestra
Hall of Heads and SpiderThey Might Be Giants
A Nightmare on My Street D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (Hahahahaha!)
Nymphetamine Cradle of Filth
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) David Bowie
Let’s see…from one of Ranchoth’s All-Purpose Preprepared Playlists:
He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)—Alice Cooper
Dragula—Rob Zombie
Ave Satani—Jerry Goldsmith (The Omen)
Voodoo—Godsmack
Whisper—Evanescence
Transylvanian Conclubine—Rasputina
What’s He Building?—Tom [URL=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSh2a3sfm_E”]Waits
Russian Dance—Tom Waits
Dead Souls—Sopor Aeternus
The Mourn—Skinny Puppy
The Fine Art of Poisoning—Jill Tracy
Move Your Dead Bones—Dr. Re-Animator
All the Myths are True—Abney Park
Piano Sonata 2 (Funeral March)—Chopin
The Witch Queen of New Orleans—Redbone
Tales from the Far Side—Bill Frisell
Magic—Mick Smiley
Opening from “The Shining”
Killer—Tiger Lillies
Dig Up the Conjo—Blondie
Inferno—The Crow (Soundtrack)
Vampire Hunters—Bram Stoker’s Dracula soundtrack
Creation of the Female Monster—Bride of Frankenstein soundtrack
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida isn’t exactly Halloween-themed but it’s “scary” sounding because of the organ; I would use that. I’ll never forget the infamous scene in Manhunter when it was used to great dramatic effect in the battle between Peterson and Dollarhyde.
I swear I plugged this already, but it must have been a different thread.
My better half is a composer and she has a great little short orchestrated instrumental piece that may fit the bill, free to download.
I can’t believe we haven’t hear
The Black Widow, Alice Cooper yet.
Certain selections from Rocky Horror Picture showcould work.
Ah, good ones. And from the same album, Turn Around.
Mad Not Mad by Madness has always sounded spooky to me. Also, their Shadow of Fear
I did, thanks Cookies. You get some M&Ms.
Psycho Killer
Midnight Rambler
Boris The Spider
John Entwistle did a whole album’s worth of Halloween-worthy songs with his soundtrack album, Music from Van-Pires
Nick Cave - “The Carny” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqfS7NdcwdM)
Pretty much anything off You Have Been Warned by A Midnite Choir, but especially “Happy Hour in Hell”, “Amelia” (we learn that it rhymes with “necrophilia”), or “The Drunken Elephant March”. (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/midnitechoir)
Rockapella’s version of “Zombie Jamboree”.
Spike Jones and the City Slickers’ version of “My Old Flame”.
Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Nightmare”.
Vincent Price’s appearance on The Muppet Show doing “You’ve Got a Friend”.
Verdi Requiem, “Dies Irae” (Live performance, Toscanini shouts “Louder, louder” at 3:14) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDbMzp86tOc
Also, from their album Lincoln, Where Your Eyes Don’t Go.
“Should you worry when the skull-head is in front of you, or is it worse because it’s always waiting where your eyes don’t go?”
Forgot to mention: You might want to check out Za Frumi. Some of their stuff can be kinda creepy. (They essentially do radio plays about orcs, vampires, and so forth, with dark ambient music interspersed with folk music.) e.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBcSKDhdNg8
While poking around on Youtube for Za Frumi clips, there were a few links to Teatro Satanico, which might fit the bill. e.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMfR_liqYKI
Another possibility I forgot to mention might be Halo Manash (disturbing ambient drone, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0fPW0kG7Y)
Voodoo Voodoo - LaVern Baker
“Experiment in Terror” (AKA the *Chiller Theater *theme) - Al Caiola
I was gonna throw in O Fortuna. I missed it when I searched on Carmina Burana.
Maybe a reach, but how about the theme to True Blood, Jace Everett’s “Bad Things”
Missed the edit window.
“Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” by Warren Zevon
“Werewolf” by Five Man Electrical Band
I don’t celebrate Halloween, but I have to quick examples of music off the top of my head anyway:
Horror Show by Iced Earth - It’s a concept album with each track devoted to the villain of a classic horror flick like Dracula, Frankenstein, Damien, Jeckyl and Hyde, the Mummy, etc. It’s all power metal in the vein of Iron Maiden too, so it’s fairly accessible.
And pretty much anything by The Vision Bleak as, at least their first two albums, focus heavily on themes associated with traditional horror, like Werewolves, witches, ghosts, zombies, mummies, and even Kutulu (as they spell it). It’s also very musically appropriate, using a lot of musical themes associated with horror, like organs, choirs, harsichord, strings, and relatively simple melodies in minor scales and the vocalist is even a deep baritone, so it sounds like it could be the theme for an old 40-50s era horror flick if not for the gothic metal crunchy guitar work.
Good stuff, good stuff. We’re hosting a Halloween party this weekend, so we’ve been putting together a Halloween song playlist. I just got “Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man” thanks to this thread (I love that song, period, never mind Halloween). I’m waiting on “Frankenstein” - ah, there it is. Lovely.
Some of the ones we have that I haven’t seen yet (if they’re already here, my apologies):
People Are Strange (Echo and the Bunnymen)
Cry Little Sister (Gerard McMann)
Dracula From Houston (Butthole Surfers)
Dracula’s Lament (Jason Segel)
Nasty Little Perv (Perry Farrell)
Ghost Riders in the Sky (Johnny Cash)
The Ghost in You (Psychedelic Furs)
Ghosts of You (Chantal Kreviazuk)
Scream (Michael and Janet Jackson)
Devil’s Slide (Joe Satriani)
Evil Woman (ELO)
Twilight Zone (Golden Earring)
Witchy Woman (The Eagles)
(You’re The) Devil in Disguise - Elvis Presley
Voodo Chile (Slight Return) - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Voodoo Thang (Colin James)
Black, Black Heart (David Usher)
Superstition (Widemouth Mason)
Pet Semetary (The Ramones)
Feed Me, Seymour (Levi Stubbs)
Alfred Hitchcock Theme
Stonehenge (Spinal Tap)
How Soon is Now? (The Smiths)
A Criminal Mind (Gowan)
Every Breath You Take (The Police) - put this creepy song where it belongs - at a Halloween party, not at a wedding
Murder By Numbers (The Police)
All Your Base Are Belong To Us (Invasion of the Gabber Robots)
Good Old Days (“Weird” Al Yankovic)
Burning Down The House (Talking Heads)
Armageddon (Prism)
Electric Chair (Prince)
Rapture (Blondie)
Eyes of a Stranger (Payola$)
Eyes Without a Face (Billy Idol)
Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing (Chris Isaak)
Bat Out of Hell (Meatloaf)
Bitten By the Wolf (Chickenfoot)
Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden)
Dance After Curfew (Nash The Slash)
Flesh Under Skin (National Velvet)
Hell Hole (Spinal Tap)
Hell Hound On My Trail (Eric Clapton)
Hell Is For Children (Pat Benatar)
Hell’s Bells (AC/DC)
Hell’s Half Acre (Robbie Robertson)
Highway To Hell (AC/DC)
Most of the Lost Boys and Rise of the Lycans soundtracks