Halloween Pop
I like Halloween. I like costumes. I like fun size candy bars. I like scary stories—you better believe I will be busting out the Poe come Saturday. I also like the pop music. These are my top three:
1. No One Lives Forever, Oingo Boingo
Trippy No One Lives Forever cartoon mash up
2. Bela Lugosi Is Dead, Bauhaus
3. Halloween Head, Ryan Adams
Chilled out live version of Halloween Head
Honorable mention: Country Death Song (Violent Femmes), People Are Strange (Doors; spookier cover: Echo and the Bunnymen), Camouflage (Stan Ridgeway), Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon), Don’t Fear the Reaper (Blue Oyster Cult), Psycho Killer (Talking Heads), Bad Moon Rising (CCR; spookier cover: Rasputina), Pet Cemetery (Ramones).
October 30, 2009 in Uncategorized | Comments (6)
Sorry, no one beats Nature Trail to Hell by Weird Al.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWME4d1BRCk
Comment by Ian Cook — October 30, 2009 @ 8:30 am
You are both wrong. The #1 Halloween song is and always will be Ministry’s “Everyday is Halloween.”
Comment by Wm Morris — October 30, 2009 @ 9:08 am
Perhaps this one.
Do they know it’s halloween? This one is a UNICEF benefit song with Beck and others.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1620327
Comment by Ian Cook — October 30, 2009 @ 9:35 am
Bollock Brothers – Horror Movies is a good one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiszAHA4VL0
If you want just scary-sounding, Graves at Sea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX_4ZnMXmhk
Nick Cave can be pretty creepy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUlgN__Jrxk
So can this Peggy Lee song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9kKf7SHco
I also think some old jazz vocals can be rather creepy:
Sarah Vaughan
Comment by Susan M — October 30, 2009 @ 10:34 am
Agreed, Wm Morris, agreed…
Comment by gabby — October 30, 2009 @ 3:55 pm
“Dead Babies/Killer” by Alice Cooper (I always listened to them as one song)
“Hammer Horror” by Kate Bush
“The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati” by Rose and the Arrangement
“Diamond Dogs” by David Bowie (especially the spoken-word opening that they always cut out of the compilation albums)
“Tubular Bells (Main Theme)” by Mike Oldfield (and only because nearly everyone who hears it associates it with “The Exorcist”
Comment by Mudhead — November 3, 2009 @ 2:54 pm