How about “Sinister Minister” by Bela Fleck and the Flectones?
Ghost Town - The Specials
Theme from “Jaws” - John Williams
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr. or get more obscure Run-DMC’s version from the sequel
Chainsaw - The Ramones
You Should Never Have Opened That Door - The Ramones
Yesterday I took the kids trick-or-treating at Sea World, and in addition to the usual Halloween standards (Monster Mash, Thriller, Werewolves of London) their mix loop had a lot of candy themed song (The Cars “Candy-O”, New Edition “Candy Girl”, Bow Wow Wow “I Want Candy”, Iggy Pop "Candy). That was a different take on Halloween music that I hadn’t heard before.
I like that idea.
Dickie Goodman - Frankenstein Meets The Beatles.
Purple people eater? - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C_MM9ug2D4
That always says Halloween to me.
Great suggestions everyone. Carmels with those vanilla centers for eveyone!
Score!
I always go here…www.wonderfulwonderblog.blogspot.com and he has great links to compilations to download – some really vintage stuff and some really off-the-wall stuff.
Just remember to tell us what you pick, when you’re done—I’d be curious!
Only because of the lyrics. Without those, it’s not scary at all.
Try “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite.” Even if you don’t understand English it’s a scary song. It’s like the sound track to a nightmare–especially if you play it over and over again.
Any of Elvira Mistress of the Dark’s CDs.
Or downloads thereof.
Also the Manhattan Transfer’s Twilight Tone.
Graveyard Train by Creedence Clearwater Revival from Bayou Country
The Torture never stops by Frank Zappa from Zoot Allures
Have a disturbed night, everyone.
Love
David
The Pogues “Turkish Song of the Damned”
H.I.M “Don’t Fear the Reaper” (I find their version fits the Halloween mood better than the original).
If you’re cool with instrumentals, check out pretty much everything by Midnight Syndicate, particularly their first one, Born of the Night (title track here). Excellent, excellent spooky mood music.
How could I have forgotten The Cramps? Start with *Songs the Lord Taught Us *& keep going…
Today’s MP3 daily deal at Amazon.com is The 99 Darkest Pieces of Classical Music, in case anyone’s interested in looking at the track list (or even buying it).
This might be a little late, but I just discovered that Pandora has a “Halloween Party” station on its Genre Stations list. It’s pretty good.
I played Joy Division and Pil to entertain the wee ones tonight.