# Recommend some Halloween songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 9, 2004, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238 "2004-03-09T04:01:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/21 "2004-03-09T11:20:00Z")
> [@Manatee](#): > > Any way, as a fellow Halloween junkie, I’d recommend some Rob Zombie (especially “Dragula”) " Rob Zombie also put out a halloween comp called [“Halloween Hootenany”](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB040401221521482938&sql=Afcec97r0krgt) with a bunch of punk/surf/garage bands. He even sings with one of the bands. I’m not a RZ fan, but he sounds way cool singing the punk rock. The Fuzztones also have an album of halloween Songs called [“Monster A Go Go”](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=UIDSUB040401221521482938&sql=Asiom964odep3) that’s essential for any halloween party. Just about any song by Danzig’s old band Samhain will put you in that halloween mood. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2004, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/22 "2004-03-09T11:49:08Z")
**Thriller** by Michael Jackson \*\*God of Thunder \*\*by Kiss **Witchy Woman** by the Eagles **I Put a Spell on You** by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins That British song about a guy who picks up a hitchhiker who leaves a sweater in his car and turns out to be a ghost ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/23 "2004-03-09T13:26:51Z")
No specific Hallowe’en ideas, but I always think these songs sound pretty spooky: The Smashing Pumpkins: Pug Nick Cave: The Mercy Seat; or Red Right Hand (or so many others) Public Image Ltd: Order of Death Aphex Twin: Come To Daddy And especially, _anything_ from the new Liars’ album. It’s all about witches! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/24 "2004-03-09T13:32:50Z")
Our six-year-old, **MilliCal** , cracked me up last Halloween with her song **Rudy, the Red-Nosed Fruit Bat** , a direct parody of (of course) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". Most of it was uninspired substitution, but then she got to the line: …Then one foggy Halloween Dracula came to say “Rudy with your Nose so Bright…” …and I lost it. ---
**Author:** ![lachesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@lachesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lachesis)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/25 "2004-03-09T16:16:12Z")
i’m pretty sure there was a similar thread around Halloween last year, looking for musical recommendations. to repeat some previous entries (both my own and perhaps others’): _Night on Bald Mountain Danse Macabre March to the Scaffold_ from _Symphonie Fantastique_ (i think) _Zombie Jamboree_ and _With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm_ by The Kingston Trio _Tubular Bells_ (Theme from _The Exorcist_) by Michael Oldsfeld (?) (LP version preferably, if you can find it) _I Hold Your Hand in Mine_ and _Irish Ballad_ by Tom Lehrer _Marie Laveau_ by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show and… (don’t hit me) _Wildfire_ (forgot who did that one, but if you want onset-of-winter-y…) ahem. anyway… yes, Halloween rocks. you might also look for a CD called _New Wave Halloween_. nothing **but** themed songs on it (and nearly half of them are titled (surprise!) “Halloween”.) i was just working on my inventory of Halloween CDs (more slanted towards sound effects for hauntings than actual music). if you still have any interest, i can grab additional titles from the “background music” CD i burned last year (stuff to play for customers waiting in line). it veered back and forth between classical, comedy and horror movie themes. speaking of which, don’t forget things like the themes from _Psycho, Halloween, Jaws, X-Files_ and those of like genre. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/26 "2004-03-09T16:20:51Z")
> [@Skeezix](#): > > Gaaah. > > Forgot Blue Oyster Cult’s _Don’t Fear the Reaper_ It’s such a good song, but it really needs more cowbell. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/27 "2004-03-09T17:20:24Z")
_Oculus Infernum_ by Van Helsing’s Curse. This is Dee Snider’s attempt to make a soundtrack for Halloween. _The Puppet Master_ by King Diamond. One of the few story albums where you can figure out the story just by listening. _Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls_ by the Murderdolls. There’s some great B-movie type humor on here (“She Was a Teenage Zombie” is a fantastic song). ---
**Author:** ![dbygawdcapn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dbygawdcapn/32/3995_2.png) [@dbygawdcapn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbygawdcapn)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/28 "2004-03-09T17:42:48Z")
**"Are You Happy Now?" - Richard Shindell “When Fall Comes To New England” - Cheryl Wheeler “I Want Candy” - Bow Wow Wow** ---
**Author:** ![beajerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@beajerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beajerry)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/29 "2004-03-09T17:48:47Z")
I love the feeling of autumn and halloween, too! It’s the best time of year. Here’s some songs not about halloween, but capture the feeling for me: Kiko and the Lavender Moon, Los Lobos Night Parade, Robbie Robertson (& pretty much most of his self-titled album which captures the end of Summer and start of Fall with Somewhere Down The Crazy River, Hells Half Acre and Sonny Got Caught in the Moonlight, and, well, all of his Storyville album actually…ok, and his Contact From The Underground Of Redboy album as well.) Goblin Girl, Frank Zappa And I loved the accordian music from the movie Milagro Beanfield War, but I don’t know who it’s by. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/30 "2004-03-09T19:48:53Z")
“Dead Man’s Party” by Oingo Boingo “Funeral for a Friend” by Elton John “Strange Brew” by Cream ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/31 "2004-03-09T19:54:20Z")
> [@dbygawdcapn](#): > > \*\* > “I Want Candy” - Bow Wow Wow\*\* When I saw that, my first thought was “how is that halloween-y?” Duh. Sometimes I think I’m not all that bright 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@Captain\_Lance\_Murdoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Lance_Murdoch)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/32 "2004-03-09T20:04:18Z")
I’m A Vampire - Future Bible Heroes Grimly Fiendish - The Damned Blood Makes Noise - Suzanne Vega Poor Skeleton Steps Out - XTC Haunted - The Pogues Just not Ghostbusters. ---
**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:** [March 9, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/33 "2004-03-09T20:35:59Z")
> [@lachesis](#): > > _Wildfire_ (forgot who did that one, but if you want onset-of-winter-y…) IIRC, that was James Michael Montgomery. Now nothing says “November” to me like “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” ---
**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:** [March 9, 2004, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/34 "2004-03-09T21:09:21Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > IIRC, that was James Michael Montgomery. Actually, it was Michael Martin Murphey. Until today, I never realized that these two guys were not the same person. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/35 "2004-03-09T22:05:09Z")
[Mannheim Steamroller’s Halloween](http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=2880925) DISC 1: MUSIC DISC: 1. Toccata In Demole (Bach) 2. Hall Of The Mountain King (Grieg) 3. Harvest Dance 4. Flying Dutchman (Wagner) 5. Z-Row Gravity 6. Funeral March Of The Marionettes (Gounod) 7. Rock And Roll Graveyard 8. Night On Bald Mountain (Mussorgsky) 9. Crystal 10. All Hallow’s Eve 11. Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Dukas) 12. Rite Of Twilight 13. Ride Of The Valkyries (Wagner) DISC 2: EFX DISC: 1. Enchanted Forest 2. Other Side, The 3. Enchanted Forest II 4. Reaper, The 5. Ghost Voices 6. Alien Spaceship 7. Enchanted Forest III 8. Mountain King 9. Digital Death 10. Souls Demise ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2004, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/36 "2004-03-09T22:11:32Z")
Bah, I can’t believe no one else has mentioned Bauhaus. They’re the classic goth band. Anyway, Vamypre Erotica by Inkubus Sukkubus is also quite a good halloween song. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/37 "2004-03-10T00:18:52Z")
Someone mentioned _ **The Legend of Sleepy Hollow** _, but I don’t believe their link included the lyrics to the little diddy/poem: > [@](#): > > Now gather 'round, while I elucidate > About what happens outside when it gets late. > Around about midnight, the ghosts and banshees > Get together for their nightly jamboree. > > There’s ghosts with horns and saucer eyes, > And some with fangs about this size. > Some short and fat, some tall and thin, > And some don’t even bother to wear their skin. > I’m telling ya, brother, it’s a frightful sight, > To see what goes on in the night. > > When the ghosts have a midnight jamboree, > They break it up with fiendish glee. > Ghosts are bad, but the one that’s cursed > Is the Headless Horseman, he’s the worst. > > When he goes a-jogging cross the land, > Holdin’ his noggin in his hand, > Demons take one look and groan, > And hit the road for parts unknown. > > For there’s no ghost like a spook who’s spurned, > They don’t like him, and he’s really burned. > He swears to the longest day he’s dead, > He’ll show them that he can get a head. > > Now he likes them little, he likes them big, > Part in the middle, or a wig. > Black or white or even red, > The Headless Horseman needs a head, > > With a hip-hip and a clippity-clop, > He’s out lookin’ for a top to chop. > So don’t stop to figure out a plan, > You can’t reason with a headless man. My dad loved to scare the holy hell out of kids around Halloween. I still get goosebumps as I recall the way he used to launch into his spoken-word performance of this poem, from memory. He passed away in the summer of 2002. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/38 "2004-03-10T05:35:14Z")
_Tales of Mystery and Imagination_ by **The Alan Parsons Project** Particularly the instrumental “Fall of the House of Usher.” ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/39 "2004-03-10T06:05:19Z")
_I’m Looking Through You_ - not the Beatles version, but the Muppet Show version, sung by a bunch of ghosts. ---
**Author:** ![HDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@HDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HDS)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238/40 "2004-03-10T13:24:18Z")
Time Warp and Sweet Transvestite always get me feeling Halloweeny. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-halloween-songs/233238.md?page=3)