Haloween songs that don't suck

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I have to dj at a halowe'en party for some friends, and being a lazy fuck thought i'd ask for suggestions of halowe'en songs that don't suck. The crowd are not gonna be all music addicts, so far i'm looking at
release the bats - birthday party
haloween - misfits
zombie nation - kernkraft 4000
Satan - Orbital
freaks come out at night - whooddini
pretend were dead - L7
Scary monsters - bowie
ghost rider - Suicide

Which should be enough to clear the party. Can anyone suggest any more, that don't suck and your average joe/sharon might like?

Thanks for any help...

― 20JazzFunkGreats, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

the dream syndicate - "halloween"

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

whodini - haunted house of rock
sheb wooley -- purple people eater
the shaggs -- it's halloween

whoever that dark metal band was that did an 10-minute song called "halloween" on some compilation a couple years ago (beseech, maybe? i forget)

― chuck, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Ministry -- Everyday is Halloween

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Sonic Youth "Halloween"

― Drew Daniel, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Rob Zombie - "House of 1000 Corpses" (or maybe "Dragula," though that's less specifically cheesy haunted-house-esque)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Voodoo - Rachel Sweet
Ghost on the Highway - the Gun Club
Spooky - oh, pick any version
The Witch - the Sonics
Billy the Monster - the Deviants

― babyalive (babyalive), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

A whole lot of BOC songs.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"I'm a Mummy" by someone whose name I don't remember, but it's on "Really Strange Music Vol. 612"-- or something like that.

― King Korn Carn, Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and "Boris The Spider" by The Who

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"El Dia de los Muertos," Siouxsie and the Banshees
"Werewolves of London," Warren Zevon
"Don't Shake Me Lucifer," "If You Have Ghosts," pretty much anything from 'The Evil One' by Roky Erickson and the Aliens

And "2000 Light Years From Home" used to creep me out in a most delicious way when I was a kid.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 26 October 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, "I Put a Spell on You"

Dan Hicks, "I Scare Myself"

Bow Wow Wow, "I Want Candy"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

and "ghost riders in the sky" by gene autry

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Screamin' Jay! "Alligator Wine"!

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

""I'm a Mummy" by someone whose name I don't remember, but it's on "Really Strange Music Vol. 612"-- or something like that.
-- King Korn Carn (skesjlkf...), October 27th, 2004."

By Bob McFadden & Dor. The Fall covered it on the 'Levitate album'

Dead Kennedys - Halloween

Half Japanese - Thing With A Hook

Heaps of Coil songs. 'The First Five Minutes After A Violent Death' p'raps?

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Halloween Parade - Lou Reed
Monster Mash - Bobby Boris Picket
The Ballad Of Dwight Fry - Alice Cooper. What the heck, it's weird.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Bobby Gimby - Ghostin'
Rodd Keith - Run Spook Run
Frantics - The Werewolf
Scatman Crothers - Ghost Riders in the Sky (a great version)
Big Bee Kornegay - At the House of Frankenstein
Bauhaus - you know the one

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 06:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Drake - In The Well (or anything off of the "Skull Mailbox" album.
Joost Visser - It's Halloween

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 06:30 (twenty-one years ago)

MX-80 Sound's cover of "Hallowe'en", John Carpenter's theme from his movie of the same name.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 06:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Chucky" - Geto Boys (I wish I could find a clean edit of this show that I could play it on my radio show. If anyone knows where to get one, let me know!)

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

clean edit of this "song" I meant ...

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Helloween - Halloween

Masquerade, masquerade,
Grab your mask and don't be late
Get out get out well disguised
Heat and fever in Ihe air tonight

Meet the others at the store,
Knock on other people's door
Trick or treat they have the choice
little ghost's are makin'lotsa noise

But watch out . . beware -
listen . . .take care

In the streets on Halloween
There's something going on
No way to escape the power unknown
In the streets on Halloween
The spirits will arise
Make your choice, it's hell or pardise
Ah - it's Halloween
Ah - it's Halloween..tonight!

Someone's sitting in a field,
Never giving yield
Sltting there with gleaming eyes
Waiting for big punpkin to arise
Bad luck if you get a stone
Like the good oId Charlie Brown
You think Linus could be right
The kids will say it's just a stupid lie

But watch out...beware -
listen...take care

Listen now- we are calling you...
And there's maglc in the air
Magic in the air... on Halloween

Black is the night full of fright
You'II be missing the day
What will be here very soon
Changing your way
A knock at your door
Is it real or is it a dream
On trembling legs you open the door
And you scream. . . . .on Halloween

Darkness
Where am I now
Is there anybody out there
What has happened
Am I in heaven
Or is it hell

I can see a Light comin'
It's comin' nearer
It's shining
It's shining so bright
It's shining on me

I am the one, doom 's in my hands
Now make your choice,
redeemed or enslaved

I'll show you passion ang glory
He Is the snake
I'll give you power and abundance
He's the corrupter of man

Save me from the evil one
Give me strength to carry on
I will fight for all mankind's
deliverance and peace of mind

But watch out...beware -
listen...take care

Yeah, It's Halloween
Yeah, it's Halloween. . .tonight

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Bloodrock - "DOA"

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

that dracula song by the jimmy castor bunch...born on halloween by blue magic

― mucho, Wednesday, 27 October 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Did anyone say "Dracula's Wedding" by Outkast?

― poop (poop), Thursday, 28 October 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Loads of these songs really don't suck, but i think some people are missing the point.

It's a party were there are gonna be people who want to dance, and are normal, and not into music (like your Mum).

Love bug starsky - Amityville is more the type of thing, than Rob Zombie - "House of 1000 Corpses".

Thanks for trying everyone, but your mostly wildly off mark.

Still some good song suggestions if it wasn't a party for average Joe's.

I'm gonna have to just play Thriller and the Monster Mash all night i guess.

― 20jazzfunkgreats.blogspot.com, Thursday, 28 October 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Screaming Lord Sutch - "'Till the Following Night" and "Jack the Ripper"

― Mike O., Thursday, 28 October 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

On the spoken, non-song tip, there's T. Valentine's "Vampire Radio Spot" from his HELLO LUCILLE, ARE YOU A LESBIAN collection. And Louise Huebner's "Seduction Spells Through Witchcraft" (I can't remember if that is the title of the track or the CD though).

Have fun while the gates are open!

― The Millennium Asshole, Friday, 29 October 2004 05:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Flaming Lips - "Halloween on the Barbary Coast."

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

that one "Night of the Vampires" song on It's Hard to Believe It: The Amazing World of Joe Meek.

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 29 October 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ray Parker Jr. - "Ghostbusters"
R. Dean Taylor - "There's a Ghost in My House"

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 29 October 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

ghostbusters

― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

phew, Helloween are here already.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

haha sorry about the Rob Zombie

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 29 October 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

the whole of Cocteau Twins Garlands and Virgin Prunes If I Die I Die

― Paul (scifisoul), Saturday, 30 October 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

fantomas

― doomie x, Saturday, 30 October 2004 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I wrote one, once. It is not my best work, but it doesn't really suck. It's in B, that is quite unusual for me.

― the bellefox, Saturday, 30 October 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Black Widow 'Come To The Sabbat'

― misterchildren, Saturday, 30 October 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

My personal favorite Halloween-themed song is Redbone's "Witch Queen of New Orleans", so that could be a good song to add to the list.

Um, hi and bye.

― Accept No Substitutes (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 30 October 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

(Also: Depeche Mode, "Pimpf". Spookalicious!) (Again, hi and bye.)

― Accept No Substitutes (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 30 October 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

The Revels - Midnight Stroll

― my future wife has to love talking about the ninja turtles (los blue jeans), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 04:33 (sixteen years ago)

Bobby Bare Jr - Rock'n'roll Halloween

― clotpoll, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 08:34 (sixteen years ago)

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/10/parade_of_the_d.html

Some of these songs are awesome, some not so, but Chuck Miller's "Lookout Mountain" is so freakin' classic.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 11:16 (sixteen years ago)

Bach - "Toccata & Fugue in D Minor"
Jaydee - "Plastic Dreams"
Chapter One - "Unleash The Groove"
The Shinys (Shiny Toy Guns) - "It's Halloween" (Yo! Gabba Gabba)

― Paul, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 11:59 (sixteen years ago)

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