Sean's Ultimate Halloween Playlist (2018)
If anyone looks past this post, I basically shut down this blog back in March. However, with Halloween coming up in a few short weeks, I needed a place to post this update.
Halloween was a big thing in our house when the kids were younger. I always took off from work to spend the day trick-or-treating with them (and yes, I usually went in costume). Over the years, I compiled a list of Halloween themed songs to play. They aren't all as obvious as you might think. Would you have considered The Beatles "Run For Your Life" or "Savoy Truffle" to be Halloween songs? They are singing about killing their girlfriend and eating a lot of candy, right?
Here is my list of 186 songs about monsters, death, darkness, costumes, characters and, of course, treats. Please let me know if you have any other songs to add.
13 Cats - Hell Bop; Jungle Man; and Poison Candy
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap); Hell's Bells; and Highway to Hell
Al Wilson - The Snake
Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein; No More Mr. Nice Guy; Poison; and Welcome To My Nightmare
Andi Almqvist - Low-Dive Jenny
The Animals - We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place
The Archies - Sugar, Sugar
Atlanta Rhythm Section - Spooky
The Band Perry - Better Dig Two
Barry Dransfield - The Werewolf
The Baseballs - Bleeding Love; and Candy Shop
The Beatles - Devil In Her Heart; Maxwell's Silver Hammer; Run For Your Life; and Savoy Truffle
Bernard Herrmann & Marius Constant - The Twilight Zone
Betty Johnson - The Little Blue Man
Billy Joel - Stiletto
Bing Crosby - The Headless Horseman
Black Sabbath - Iron Man; and Paranoid
Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper; and Godzilla
Bobby Bare - Marie Laveau
Bobby "Boris" Pickett - Monster Mash
Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Death-Cab For Cutie; and Look Out There's A Monster Coming
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Trouble Train; Hoodoo Voodoo Doll; and Dead Man Incorporated
Carrie Underwood - Two Black Cadillacs
Cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I Can Make You A Man; Over At The Frankenstein Place; and Time Warp
The Castle Kings - You Can Get Him Frankenstein
Charles Gounod - Alfred Hitchcock Presents Theme (Funeral March of a Marionette)
The Charlie Daniels Band - The Devil Went Down To Georgia; and The Legend Of Wooley Swamp
Cher - Dark Lady
Cherry Poppin' Daddies - Zoot Suit Riot
The Chieftains & Mick Jagger - The Long Black Veil
The Chordettes - Lollipop
Chris Cornell & The Zac Brown Band - Heavy Is The Head
Christina Aguilera - Candyman
Cliff Richard - Devil Woman
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire
Cream - Strange Brew
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
Danny Elfman - This Is Halloween
Dave Edmunds - Creature From The Black Lagoon; and I Hear You Knockin'
David Seville & The Chipmunks - Witch Doctor
DJ Bobo - Vampires Are Alive
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - A Nightmare On My Street
Don Hinson & The Rigormorticians - Riboflavin-Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood
The Doors - Peace Frog; and People Are Strange
Dr. John - I Walk On Guilded Splinters; and Season Of The Witch
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
The Eagles - Witchy Woman
Electric Light Orchestra (E.L.O.) - Evil Woman
Elvis Presley - Devil In Disguise; and Wolf Call
Fleetwood Mac - Hypnotized
Gary Paxton - Spooky Movies
Gene (Willy Wonka) Wilder - Pure Imagination
George Harrison - Beware of Darkness
George Thorogood & The Delaware Destroyers - Alley Oop [Live]; Bad to the Bone; Born to Be Bad; Cops and Robbers; Crawling King Snake; Devil In Disguise; Hellbound Train (Downbound Train); Night Rider; Night Time; and Purple People Eater [cover]
Golden Earring - Twilight Zone
Grateful Dead - Friend Of The Devil; and Hell In A Bucket
Groucho Marx - Lydia the Tattooed Lady
Guns N' Roses - Used To Love Her
Harry Belafonte - Zombie Jamboree
Heart - Magic Man
Huey Lewis & The News - Bad Is Bad
Jack & Jim - Midnight Monsters Hop
Jack Marshall - The Munsters Theme
Jennifer Lawrence - The Hanging Tree (Rebel Remix)
John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band - On The Dark Side; and A Season In Hell (Fire Suite)
John Fred & His Playboy Band - Judy In Disguise
John Lennon - My Mummy's Dead (Acoustic Demo); and Scared
Johnny Cash - Ghost Riders In The Sky
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
Jumpin' Gene Simmons - Haunted House
K.C. & The Sunshine Band - I'm Your Boogie Man
The Keytones - I Was A Teenage Monster
The Kinks - Destroyer; Lola; and Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues
KISS - Creatures Of The Night; God Of Thunder; Hotter Than Hell; and King Of The Night Time World
Led Zeppelin - Gallows Pole
Lee Rocker - Evil; and Put Your Cat Clothes On
Levi Stubbs & Rick Moranis - Feed Me, Seymour (Git It)
Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
Lonnie Donegan - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour
Lou Reed - Halloween Parade
Marty Robbins - Devil Woman
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Michael Crawford & Sarah Brightman - The Phantom Of The Opera
Michael Jackson - Bad; and Thriller
Michael Sembello - Maniac
Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang, My Baby Shot Me Down
Ne-Yo - Beautiful Monster
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Death Is Not the End
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party; and Weird Science
OutKast - Dracula's Wedding
Pat Carroll - Poor Unfortunate Souls
Paul McCartney - Dress Me Up As A Robber; Let 'Em In; and Magneto And Titanium Man
Queen - Another One Bites The Dust; and Killer Queen
Queen Latifah - Walk The Dinosaur
The Rainmakers - The Lakeview Man
Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
Redbone - The Witch Queen Of New Orleans
Richard Thompson - I Can't Wake Up to Save My Life
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
Rodney Atkins - If You’re Going Through Hell
The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black; Sympathy For The Devil; and Undercover Of The Night
Rose & The Arrangements - The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati
Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs - Li'l Red Riding Hood
Sammy Davis Jr - The Candy Man
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Sarah McLachlan - Building A Mystery
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
Screaming Lord Sutch & The Savages - She's Fallen In Love With The Monster Man
The Sharks - Dracula's Daughter; and Jack The Ripper
Sheb Wooley - Purple People Eater
Shirley Temple - Good Ship Lollipop
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hell
Steve Martin - Dentist; and King Tut
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Superstition
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Tom Jones - Daughter Of Darkness
Tom T. Hall - Sneaky Snake
Tom Waits - What's He Building?
Trace Adkins - Welcome To Hell
Train - 50 Ways To Say Goodbye
Twenty One Pilots - Heathens
Van Halen - Ice Cream Man; and Running with the Devil
Vic Mizzy - The Addams Family Theme
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy; Things To Do in Denver When You're Dead; and Werewolves of London
Whodini - Freaks Come Out At Night
The Who - Boris The Spider; and Substitute
Will Smith - Men in Black
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man