It’s almost Halloween, and time to put together some music to get you in the mood to brew up some apple cider and Captain Morgan, flip on the porch light, and hand out some “fun size” candy bars. We’ve compiled the best songs to get you in the mood for Halloween, and even loosely categorized them for you. Here goes…
Treats
Was there anything worse than the old lady down the street who gave “treats” like a box of raisins, apples, pencils, or pennies? It makes me want to cry for her.
1. Candy Floss – Wilco
2. Candy Man – Grateful Dead
3. Chocolate – Snow Patrol
4. Pour Some Sugar on Me – Def Leppard
5. Like Eating Glass – Bloc Party
Scary Halloween Animals
This set of songs contains probably my favorite random lyric of all time from Warren Zevon, “…and his hair was perfect.” No clue why Zevon threw that in there. Anyway, no Halloween is complete without some scary animal songs.
6. Werewolves of London – Warren Zevon
7. Bats in the Belfry – Dispatch
8. Spiders (Kidsmoke) – Wilco
9. Wolves – Josh Ritter
The Devil – Worst Guy Ever
This set of songs reminds me of this time some random drunk guy bought me and a bunch of friends a shot at a bar, then toasted us with, “See you in hell.” Ummm…thanks, I think. He then walked out the door and started peeing on the sidewalk just outside the window.
10. The Devil Went Down to Georgia – Charlie Daniels Band
11. Don’t Fear the Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
12. Devil’s Haircut – Beck
13. Devils Painted Red – Golden Bear
14. Sympathy for the Devil – The Rolling Stones
15. Runnin’ with the Devil – Van Halen
16. Friend of the Devil – Grateful Dead
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Thanks for not including any Rocky Horror.
What about Thriller!!!!
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what the heck?? GhostBusters??? wheres that one on the list? This list sucks!
Dude, uh don’t know if you can count or not, but this ain’t 50 songs…
Dalek – did you see that the title says “part 1″? Part 2 has the rest.
Awesome.
I’m in the mood for halloween now.
thanks.
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” – Metallica
“Psycho Killer” – The Talking Heads
“Season of the Witch” – Donovan
“Satan Said Dance” – Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah
“Scarecrow” – Beck
“Brain Damage” or “Sorrow” – Pink Floyd
“Magic Man” – Heart
“Boris the Spider” – The Who
you forgot the ballad of halloween
by: ben & the peanut butter problem!
halloween song; the ballad of halloween
DUDE. Seriously. no nightmare before christmas, thats new and different. But YEAH Thriller. needs to be there. Somebodys watching me. Totally a halloween song.
good looking out for obscurities though.
OTHER “HALLOWEEN” SONG SUGGESTIONS…
WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE
COLD ETHYL
I LOVE THE DEAD
FEED MY FRANKENSTEIN – ALICE COOPER
GOO GOO MUCK
HUMAN FLY
ROCKIN’ BONES
SURFIN’ DEAD- THE CRAMPS
SHE’S MY VAMPIRE GIRL – GROOVIE GHOOLIES
FREAKS COME OUT AT NIGHT – WHODINNI
DEVILS IN MY CAR – B-52’s
DINNER WITH DRAC – JOHN ZACHERLY
IT’S ALIVE – BOBBY ‘BORIS’ PICKETT
BLOODLETTING (A VAMPIRE’S SONG) – CONCRETE BLOND
HALLOWEEN – SUZIE SOUIX & THE BANSHEES
PEEK-A-BOO – DEVO
HAUNTED HOUSE – “JUMPIN” GENE SIMMONS
Checked out Nettwerk’s Youtube channel yesterday! It’s awesome, they added some great music videos for halloween.. of course, great bands.
check it out..
youtube.com/nettwerkmusic
purple people eater? ;p
cher – dark lady
cliff richard/marty robbins – devil woman
atlanta rythm section – spooky
the eagles – witchy woman
blue oyster cult – don’t fear the reaper
searchers – love potion #9
addams family theme
Halloween – A.F.I. or the original one by Misfits.
Wake the Dead – The Used
The Devil’s Ball – World/Inferno Friendship Society
Creepy Doll – Jonathan Coulton
The Sharpest Lives – My Chemical Romance
The last three aren’t necissarily about Halloween, infact the Devil’s Ball is about the day before Halloween, called the Devil’s Day, and Creepy Doll isn’t crrepy, but they’re good to have anyway.
Whoop. Nearly forgot Vampires Will Never Hurt You, also by MCR.
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