My wife and I are trying to compile a CD of fun Halloween party music. Trying to stay away from metal, or depressing songs. Here is what we have so far:
MOSTER MASH
BORIS THE SPIDER- THE WHO
WITCHCRAFT- FRANK SINATRA
GHOSTBUSTERS- RAY PARKER JR
SCARY MONSTERS- DAVID BOWIE
THE GHOST IN YOU- PSYCHEDELIC FURS
WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE- ALICE COOPER
Slim pickins so far. Any more suggestions?
Oingo Boingo: Weird Science; Dead Man’s Party
Thriller
Werewolves of London!
How could you folks forget the Purple People Eater?!!? :eek:
More Oingo Boingo: Hour of the Wolf
Also, “Zombie Jamboree”, preferably by Rockapella (hard to find) but the original by the Kingston Trio is good as well.
Meatloaf’s “Bat Out of Hell”
Most selections from “Rocky Horror Picture Show” and “A Nightmare Before Christmas”
For instrumentals, try some of the soundtrack music from “Beetlejuice”.
Get the “JuJu” album by Siouxsie and the Banshees if you want serious chills. Songs like Monitor, Spellbound, Head Cut, Halloween, and Voodoo Dolly ought to help set the proper mood–not to mention Night Shift, a loving (in the Biblical sense) tribute to a corpse. And ya gotta love the banshee howls. I’m no goth, far from it, but I love this one on Halloween.
“Bela Lugosi’s Dead”
or for that matter most anything by Bauhaus
“I Put a Spell on You” by Screaming Jay Hawkins
I actually started a thread about this last year, if you would like to do a search, I got a lot of great suggestions.
“Why Can’t Every Day be Halloween” by I forget who (late 80s/early 90s, some smart person will probably name the band in a minute).
“Nemesis” by Shreikback:
“Preists and cannibals, prehistoric animals…”
You gotta love a song that contains the word “parthenogenesis”!
Anything by Lee Greenwood or Celine Dion is pretty scary.
“Home By The Sea” a haunted house song by Genesis on their self-titled album
“Don’t Fear the Reaper” by Blue Oyster Cult from AGENTS OF FORTUNE (there are other BOC songs worth checking out)
“Black Number One” by Type O Negative from BLOODY KISSES (oops, maybe getting too much into heavy metal here)
Steve Biodrowski
http://www.thescriptanalyst.com
Don’t forget “Frankenstein”! For something a little different, try The Ventures version instead of Edgar Winter.
Ini Kamoze, “Hole In The Pumpkin” cool reggae Halloween!
But if you want to save yourself some time, Rhino Records has several Halloween compilations,
Elvira Presents/Haunted Hits
including:
Monster Mash - Bobby “Boris” Pickett & The Crypt-Kickers *
Haunted House - Jumpin’ Gene Simmons *
Ghost Busters - Ray Parker, Jr. *
Out Of Limits - The Marketts *
The Blob - The Five Blobs *
The Creature From The Black Lagoon - Dave Edmunds *
The Purple People Eater - Sheb Wooley *
The Addams Family (Main Title) - Vic Mizzy *
Welcome To My Nightmare - Alice Cooper *
Twilight Zone - Neil Norman & His Cosmic Orchestra *
Dead Man’s Party - Oingo Boingo *
Halloween Spooks - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross *
Horror Movie - The Skyhooks *
I Put A Spell On You - Screamin’ Jay Hawkins *
I Was A Teenage Werewolf - The Cramps *
Voodoo Voodoo - LaVern Baker *
Full Moon - Elvira *
Dr. Demento Presents/Spooky Tunes & Scary Melodies
Werewolves Of London - Warren Zevon
A Nightmare On My Street - D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
The Haunted House Of Rock - Whodini
Attack Of The Fifty-Foot Woman - Tubes
Castin’ My Spell - The Johnny Otis Show
Halloween Spooks - Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
Bo Meets The Monster - Bo Diddley
My Son, The Vampire - Allan Sherman
Nature Trail To Hell - “Weird Al” Yankovic
Somebody’s Watching Me by Rockwell (mid-80s R&B/dance hit with Michael Jackson on backup vocals)
Spooky by the Atlanta Rhythm Section (late 70s pop-rock, sort of slow moving)
It kind of depends on the type of party/crowd you’ll be having.
Too bad you’re avoiding metal. Twisted Sister’s Captain Howdy is pretty eerie.
back in third grade there was a song in our music class book called “Hooray for Halloween”
spine-tingling.
I believe Laughing Lagomorph is referring to an early Ministry song. It is a great one. It is the early alternative dance club music Ministry not the Industrial “Stigmata” Ministry.
Another one:
Halloween : On the Barbary Coast : The Flaming Lips
See, what did I tell you! Thanks, tevya!
hey Vinnie, found it (hope it helps)
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=42708