Happy Halloween
Today is the first Halloween in 15 years that I've had to work. Christina and Austin are out and about on their own with their friends today. No one needed me to make any costumes for them - they handled it themselves. We did have some joint Halloween fun when the three of us wore costumes to the pre-school literacy program that we presented at the public library on Saturday. Christina was a pirate lass. Austin a baseball player. I wore my StarFleet uniform (medical officer, NextGen movie era).
Still, Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year, and I'm not out there for it this year. I'm consoling myself with the following playlist on my MP3 player (aided by many of you folks who contributed titles during last year's search for new Halloweenish songs):
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Monster Mash
Charlie Daniels Band - Devil Went Down To Georgia
Danny Elfman - This is Halloween
Dave Edmunds - Creature From The Black Lagoon
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Nightmare on My Street
Harry Belafonte - Zombie Jamboree
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
Lonnie Donegan - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight
Ne-Yo - Beautiful Monster
Ray Parker, Jr - Ghostbusters
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
Sheb Wooley - Purple People Eater
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Superstition
The Creepies - Teach Me How To Rock and Roll
The Rainmakers - The Lakeview Man
The Who - Boris The Spider
Van Halen - Running With The Devil
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
Johnny Cash - Ghost Riders In The Sky
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Queen - Killer Queen
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
George Thorogood - Howling For My Baby (or Howling For My Darling, depending on which version you have)
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
Cast of Rocky Horror Picture Show - Over At The Frankenstein Place
Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knockin'
George Thorogood - Born To Be Bad
Michael Jackson - Thriller
John Lennon - Scared
The Beatles - Helter Skelter
George Thorogood - Bad To The Bone
Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil
Elvis Presley - Devil In Disguise
George Thorogood - Crawling King Snake
Paul McCartney - Let 'em In
Huey Lewis and The News - Bad is Bad
Steve Martin - Dentist
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
Grateful Dead - Hell In A Bucket
The Kinks - Destroyer
Jumpin' Gene Simmons - Haunted House
I know I've missed a few common ones (Witchy Woman, Black Magic Woman, for instance), but those are generally songs that don't appeal to me.
Any other suggestions?
In any event, have a safe and Happy Halloween!
Still, Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year, and I'm not out there for it this year. I'm consoling myself with the following playlist on my MP3 player (aided by many of you folks who contributed titles during last year's search for new Halloweenish songs):
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Monster Mash
Charlie Daniels Band - Devil Went Down To Georgia
Danny Elfman - This is Halloween
Dave Edmunds - Creature From The Black Lagoon
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Nightmare on My Street
Harry Belafonte - Zombie Jamboree
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
Lonnie Donegan - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight
Ne-Yo - Beautiful Monster
Ray Parker, Jr - Ghostbusters
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
Sheb Wooley - Purple People Eater
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Superstition
The Creepies - Teach Me How To Rock and Roll
The Rainmakers - The Lakeview Man
The Who - Boris The Spider
Van Halen - Running With The Devil
Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare
Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
Johnny Cash - Ghost Riders In The Sky
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Queen - Killer Queen
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
George Thorogood - Howling For My Baby (or Howling For My Darling, depending on which version you have)
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
Cast of Rocky Horror Picture Show - Over At The Frankenstein Place
Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knockin'
George Thorogood - Born To Be Bad
Michael Jackson - Thriller
John Lennon - Scared
The Beatles - Helter Skelter
George Thorogood - Bad To The Bone
Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil
Elvis Presley - Devil In Disguise
George Thorogood - Crawling King Snake
Paul McCartney - Let 'em In
Huey Lewis and The News - Bad is Bad
Steve Martin - Dentist
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
Grateful Dead - Hell In A Bucket
The Kinks - Destroyer
Jumpin' Gene Simmons - Haunted House
I know I've missed a few common ones (Witchy Woman, Black Magic Woman, for instance), but those are generally songs that don't appeal to me.
Any other suggestions?
In any event, have a safe and Happy Halloween!