So What Halloween Tunes Are You Playing Tonight?

So what Halloween music are you playing tonight? I'm starting out with my 180 gram Black Sabbath-We Sold Our Soul then my red vinyl Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack then onto 80's Goth with The Cult,Sisters of Mercy,and Bauhaus Bella Lugosi's Dead 12"

 

Live 365 radio - various songs, various Halloween stations:

 

I just picked up the reissue of Pil's First Issue on vinyl. Seemed a perfect mood setter.

 

Just somewhat psychedelic

 

I just watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with my daughter and my wife. It was my daughter's first time seeing it and she enjoyed. My wife and I also wanted to watch because we are going ro see the band Primus tomorrow in NJ do their interpretation of the soundtrack which should be weird and trippy as only Primus can do it.

Later I'm gonna play Frank Zappa's Halloween DVD-A.

 

The Who - Cobwebs and Strange & Boris the Spider, both of which are on the same album side.

Also Soundgarden's Superunknown, but just for the Halloween colors on the album cover

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation, because I can't seem to get enough of the album.

 

Spinning Welcome to My Nightmare now. Just got to Vincent Price's speech.

 

I haven't really been listening to any Halloween music, but I did take the plunge and bought the 15 disc Collector's Edition Blu-Ray set of the Halloween movie franchise. I am amazed at how John Carpenter's very minimal musical score can add so much to the first movie. I can't imagine the movie without that creepy piano line, in this case less really is more. So I'm basically having a Halloween marathon. Can't wait until I get to Halloween III with that damn commercial for the Silver Shamrock Masks. The jingle is already getting stuck in my head...

 

That's a great choice, I completely spaced on that album, will be listening to it at some point tonight. Also will give Welcome 2 My Nightmare, the sequel a spin. Love both albums, glad you mentioned that or I probably wouldn't have even thought about listening to them.

 

Halloween for some reason has become blues night for me so I played Showdown and then an early Albert Collins album ...

 

Started playing Rocky Horror, but only made it a little ways in. Also played a good chunk of the Halloween soundtrack, but the piano really freaks my doggie out so I pulled it!

 

Played a few more Ministry's Everyday Is Halloween original 12" (b side to All Day).side 3 of Tones On Tail Weird Pop (blue vinyl) and The Cure-Disintegration 180 gram vinyl reissue

 

Morgus The Magnificient, Monster Mash, Munsters Theme, Dead Man's Party

 

Soundtracks from Eraserhead, The Shining, Halloween…

 

I have a whole Halloween playlist but no tune compares with Tom Waits' "Poor Edward".

 

At the moment it's Judas Priest, Sin After Sin. 70's Priest is consummate Halloween music.

 

Monster Mash Original Single..

 

We had some friends over about a week ago who were decorating pumpkins, and I was asked to provide tunes for the occasion. As my own collection is in storage, I went to YouTube and started to play both common and uncommon songs that were creepy, kooky, mysterious, ooky and/or altogether spooky. A splendid time was had by all.

"Monster Mash," Bobby (Boris) Pickett & the Crypt-Kickers
"Witch Doctor," David Seville
"The Purple People Eater," Sheb Wooley
"Dead Man's Party," Oingo Boingo
"Main Theme: The Addams Family (vocal version)" Vic Mizzy
"Main Title (Theme from Jaws)," John Williams
"Ghostbusters," Ray Parker Jr.
"Welcome to My Nightmare," Alice Cooper
"Somebody's Watchin' Me," Rockwell
"Werewolves of London," Warren Zevon
"I Put a Spell on You," Screamin' Jay Hawkins
"Martian Hop," The Ran-Dells
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper," Blue Oyster Cult
"Spooky," Classics IV
"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaaa!," Napoleon XIV
"Thriller," Michael Jackson
"Sympathy for the Devil," Jonathon Round
"Season of the Witch," Donovan
"A Nightmare on My Street," DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
"Psycho Killer," Talking Heads
"Dinner with Drac, Part 1," John Zacherle
"The Blob," The Five Blobs
"Tubular Bells (Theme from The Exorcist)," Mike Oldfield (US single version)
"Time Warp," Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack
"Theme from The Munsters"
"Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen," Santana
"Bad Moon Rising," Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Werewolf," Five Man Electrical Band

 

Began the evening with Hergest Ridge, next up OmmaDawn, and I am currently listening to Tubular Bells {Grand Piano introduction is spoken as I struck that keystroke). I am amazed when anyone says Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn are superior works to Bells. At this point in time, I do not see it, Tubular Bells is his masterwork.

I am moved by that last work to no end.

 

Having a supremely funky Halloween...

 

Alice Cooper Welcome to my Nightmare!

 

I played that one first, followed by:

Alice Cooper - Goes To Hell
Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love
Blue Oyster Cult - Tyranny & Mutation
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

 

I made the below short playlist on Tidal. I also like to turn up Tom Waits' Bone Machine and the soundtrack to Suspiria to give the neighborhood a fright

"Dead Man's Party," Oingo Boingo
"Ghost Town (Extended Version" The Specials
"Halloween" Siouxsie and the Banshees
"I Put a Spell on You," Screamin' Jay Hawkins
"Weird Science" Oingo Boingo
"Howlin' For You" Black Keys
"Dragula" Rob Zombie
"Welcome to My Nightmare," Alice Cooper
"The Ghosts of Saturday Night" Tom Waits
"Psycho Killer," Talking Heads