Ol’ buddy Quasi started a similar threada couple years ago. He’s not been on the boards much lately, but that old thread got me thinking, and I’m hoping some new tunes can be added to the list. Quasi, if you’re reading this I hope we can give you some new ideas for your playlist this year.
I put together a Halloween playlist every year, plug the mp3 player into my car stereo and basically leave it on shuffle for three weeks. This year’s list has some old favorites, and some new discoveries. The list so far:
Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, Bela Fleck and the Flectones. This was used as the background music on a Halloween episode of Northern Exposure, and I’ve associated it with Halloween ever since.
Kashmir, Led Zeppelin. I heard a 15 second snip of this song when I was about 13, while scanning through radio stations on Halloween night. Not being a LZ fan, it was 15 years until I heard enough of the song to place it as Zeppelin and start searching. Finally found it a couple years ago.
My playlist is - most all of it? A whole lot, anyway. With just a couple cherry-picked albums worth from Nekromantix because all of theirs added would have made the list a few hours longer than the 15 hours it already is. I’m a little choosy, I still have to like it even if it’s a genre I don’t usually listen to.
One of my favorites is the “Summer Breeze” cover by Type O Negative.
I’ll be checking back, anyway, because you never know what someone will pull out that I don’t already have!
