I had high hopes of starting the day, as I do every year, by hearing me some "Ghostbusters," "Monster Mash," and "Thriller" on the radio during my commute. It must be some vast right-wing conspiracy going on, because I haven't heard any of them all week. It's doubly bad because now I've got a little Peter Venkman fan in the backseat demanding that I find a Halloween song right now.
Lucky for me, I've got all the good stuff on my iPod. I made a cool playlist last year that has songs on it that, although maybe not all actual Halloween songs, have scary titles or lyrics:
- Ghostbusters
- Monster Mash
- Ghost Train (Madness)
- Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band)
- Be Still My Beating Heart (Sting)
- Behold! The Night Mare (Smashing Pumpkins)
- Black Cat (Janet Jackson)
- Black Magic Woman (Fleetwood Mac)
- Cast No Shadow (Oasis)
- Cold Brains (Beck)
- Cyclops Rock (They Might Be Giants)
- Devil's Haircut (Beck)
- Devil in My Car (B-52s)
- Dig Your Grave (Modest Mouse)
- Dirty Creature (Split Enz)
- Don't Pay the Ferryman (Chris DeBurgh)
- Dr. Evil (They Might Be Giants)
- Dracula's Castle (New Order)
- Exquisite Dead Guy (They Might Be Giants)
- I Feel Possessed (Crowded House)
- It's a Sin (Pet Shop Boys)
- Killer in the Home (Adam and the Ants)
- Last Living Souls (Gorillaz)
- Losing My Mind (Pet Shop Boys)
- Magic (Olivia Newton-John)
- Maneater (Hall and Oates)
- Masquerade (Berlin)
- Murder by Numbers (The Police)
- Murrow Turning Over in His Grave (Fleetwood Mac)
- October (U2)
- Psycho Killer (Talking Heads)
- Rat in Mi Kitchen (UB40)
- Satin in a Coffin (Modest Mouse)
- Scarecrow (Beck)
- Screaming (Pet Shop Boys)
- Sister Madly (Crowded House)
- Spider (They Might Be Giants)
- Spiders (Moby)
- Spiderwebs (No Doubt)
- Spirits in the Material World (The Police)
- Spooky (New Order)
- Synchronicity II (The Police)
- Temptation Waits (Garbage)
- The Seer (Big Country f/Kate Bush)
- Vampires (Pet Shop Boys)
Whew. If you're still hungry for more Halloween thrills, check out the header on Yahoo! today--there are zombies doing the Thriller dance. And I still love this video of the inmates in the Philipines doing their rendition of this classic dance routine.
2 comments:
How about "Superstition" (Stevie Wonder), "Witchy Woman" (Eagles), "Freaks Come Out at Night" (Whodini), and "Somebody's Watching Me" (Rockwell)?
Trivia: "Thriller" and "Somebody's Watching Me" both entered the Billboard Top 40 on February 11, 1984.
All good ones (but I don't own them). I have been hearing a few Alice Cooper songs, such as "Welcome to My Nightmare" and "Feed My Frankenstein." And I always love "Werewolves of London" by the immortal Warren Zevon. And some years they like to play Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein," which has no words but sounds scary anyway!
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