No surprise that the scariest holiday of all comes with it’s own spooktacular tunes. It’s so fun to decorate your living space with ghosts, cobwebs, spiders, vampire gravestones, bat guano and witch brooms. But don’t leave out the scary music and the sound effects!
Long before the technology was there, I would string speaker wire up to the roof on into a tall tree so that bloodcurdling screams and monster growls could rain down upon the tricksters from out of nowhere. It was a chore though, scaring the crap out of the little ghosts and goblins while juggling vinyl and handing out 3 Musketeer bars. Thank goodness I made it to the future where I can do most of that with a hypnotic podcast of fear and laughing
.The format this week is a little different. This is 2 hours of Halloween music and atmosphere. No stories, no reminiscing, no breaks in the action. Punch up Old School #35 and let the sounds to the rest, whether you are rocking the neighborhood kiddos, or using this to fuel some demonic party or rip roaring rave.
(If you need stories and Professor Mikey rants, tune in to the previous episode Career of Evil which also works on Halloween.)
Parental discretion? Sure, there are scary sounds that could frighten really little kids. But for the normal grade school, middle school, junior high or high school student who is forced to endure bullying as well as active shooter drills on a regular basis, this is lightweight. Innocent horror in the worst of times.
From the earliest days of rock and roll through the ghostbusting 80s, here are rarities, obscurities, phantasmic favorites, haunted hits and zombie stomps. The kind of music you listen to once a year while you are eating food you eat just as often. It’s the sound equivalent of popcorn balls and candy corn.
Okay, before the sun comes up, punch up your own speaker, pair your phone or your pad, charge those devices on Frankenstein’s neck bolts if you have to, hit the list and let it roll.
The children of the night are ready for a couple of hours of highly silly possession.
Fangs for the memories. It is The Haunting of the Blue Tooth.
ROCKIN’ IN THE GRAVEYARD Jackie Morningstar
I WAS A TEENAGE MONSTER The Keytones
VAMPIRA Bobby Bare
ZOMBIE STOMP Billy Ghoulston
JACK THE RIPPER The Elites
NIGHT OF THE PHANTOM Larry and the Blue Notes
THE SALEM WITCH TRIAL Kiriae Crucible
VOODOO PLAN The Headliners
EARTH VS FLYING SAUCERS Fred Sears
FRANKENSTEIN STOMP Lorry and the Biters
LITTLE DEMON Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
HAUNTED HOUSE Sam the Sham
BATMAN, WOLFMAN, FRANKENSTEIN The Diamonds
FRANKENSTEIN TWIST The Crystals
BE TRUE TO YOUR GHOUL The Ghouls
THE HALLOWEEN DANCE Rev Horton Heat
BURN THE WITCH Queens of the Stone Age
EVERY DAY IS HALLOWEEN Ministry
MONSTER MASH The Misfits
PET SEMATARY The Ramones
GRAVEYARD ROCK Tarantula Goul
HORROR MOVIES Dickie Goodman
MONSTER MOVIE BALL Spike Jones
THE BAT The Ventures
DRAC THE KNIFE Gene Moss and Fred Rice
THE INVASION IS COMING Invasion
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE TRAILER
WOLFBANE Bobby “Boris” Pickett
I’M THE WOLFMAN Round Robin
AT THE HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN Big Bee Kornewgay
FRANKENSTEIN ROCK Eddie Thomas
BO MEETS THE MONSTER Bo Diddley
SHE’S FALLEN IN LOVE WITH THE MONSTER Screaming Lord Sutch
NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Kim Fowley
STRANGE THINGS Curtis Knight & the Squires (feat. Jimi Hendrix!!)
SCREAM OF THE DEMON LOVER Jose Luis Merino
THE WITCH The Sonics
SHE PUT A HEX ON YOU Them
EVIL HOODOO The Seeds
ROCKIN’ ZOMBIE The Crewnecks
JEKYLL AND HYDE Jim Burtgett
BORIS THE SPIDER The Kords
THE DEVIL’S RUMBLE Davie Allen and the Arrows
LUCIFER SAM Pink Floyd
THIS IS HALLOWEEN Citizens of Halloween
SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS Andrew Gold
THE TWILIGHT ZONE The Ventures
DRACULA “YE-YE” Doctor Explosion
YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE IT’S HALLOWEEN Muse
DREAM GIRL EVIL Florence + The Machine
THE WITCH QUEEN OF NEW ORLEANS Redbone
GHOST TOWN The Specials
THE ADDAMS FAMILY THEME City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
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