Listen Up! Halloween Edition
This week, Listen Up!—our music column featuring songs from bands and performers coming through town—celebrates Halloween with a playlist of monster-themed pop and rock songs.
By
Alejandro Salinas
Update: We're bumping this up so you can enjoy these tunes on Halloween day. Happy haunting! If the player does not load on this page, click on the "Pop-Out Player" option tab. Don’t get us wrong: We love Halloween classics like “Thriller” and “Monster Mash,” but there are only so many times you can listen to those songs before you stop dancing like a zombie and start wishing actual zombies were feasting on your brain. (Yum!) So we scoured the Internet, ransacked our record collection, and tortured some music experts—all in search of much-needed new blood for a Halloween-themed playlist.
Below you’ll find a collection that incorporates the classics with the contemporary, the obvious (Type O Negative’s “All Hallows Eve”) with the more esoteric (Nelly Furtado’s “Maneater,” anyone?), the danceable with the downright creepy.
Think we made some glaring omissions? Leave us your thoughts in the comments and we’ll add your suggestions to our playlist, compiling a—pardon the easy pun—monster Halloween playlist that’ll raise the dead on Friday night.
This playlist is no longer available. Sorry, folks!
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Comments
How about these goodies:
Three - "Halloween" (maybe it’s 3?)
Slayer - "Raining Blood"
Rocky Horror Picture Show - "The Time Warp"
"I Put a Spell on You"
Squirrel Nut Zippers - "Hell"
Posted by: Jesseka, Oct 31, 2008 08:23:21 AM
Let it be known: I heart Interpol.
Posted by: Emily, Oct 31, 2008 08:14:15 AM
Great suggestions, guys. Mother Mother in particular. I’ve added all the ones I could find on playlist and I just thought of another one: Matt Pond PA’s "Halloween." So obvious I was kicking myself when it finally popped into my head.
Posted by: Alejandro (washingtonian), Oct 30, 2008 01:11:48 PM
Red Right Hand by Nick Cave. It’s got that cliche graveyard at night bell sound in it.
Posted by: tbag, Oct 30, 2008 12:03:51 PM
There’s also David Bowie’s "Dance Magic" from the Jim Henson masterpiece Labyrinth. Simply amazing.
Posted by: Matt, Oct 29, 2008 01:21:39 PM
Nothing from the Gothic Archies or Bryan Scary? For shame.
Posted by: bell, Oct 29, 2008 11:16:37 AM
"Somewhere a clock is ticking" by Snow Patrol
"Cry Little Sister" by Sisters of Mercy
"In a Gadda Da Vida" by Iron Butterfly
Posted by: Berg, Oct 29, 2008 07:48:46 AM
The obvious Smashing Pumpkins candidate here is "We Only Come Out at Night"
Also shocked that with Catherine Andrews on staff, you didn’t come up with Mother Mother’s "Ghosting."
Posted by: Julian Sanchez, Oct 28, 2008 03:35:42 PM
From the Home Front:
Local troubadour Vandaveer has "Marianne, You’ve Done It Now" from his album "Grace & Speed"...all about murder, mayhem and ghosts...
Posted by: J. Tom, Oct 28, 2008 02:57:04 PM
Mad World. Gary Jules’s remake for Donnie Darko. Soooooooo creeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy.
Posted by: Emily, Oct 28, 2008 02:18:39 PM
I love the playlist - especially Wolf Like Me - that song is amazing.
I was just thinking Graveyard Girl by M83 would be a nice addition as well. Everyone loves a good song about a goth/emo/Angela Chase-esque girl around Halloween.
Posted by: Jolly, Oct 28, 2008 02:05:19 PM
There are also a wealth of good ol’ traditional American Murder Ballads:
-Banks of the Ohio: done by everyone, although the Monroe Brothers version is the creepiest
-Pretty Polly: Dock Boggs
-Delia’s Gone: Johnny Cash’s version.
-Dreadful Wind and Rain: Jerry Garcia/David Grisman
-Fatal Flower Garden: From the Harry Smith Folk Anthology
Posted by: J. Tom, Oct 28, 2008 01:49:16 PM
Nick Cave has such a wealth of great Halloween material he could have his own playlist:
-Song of Joy (from Murder Ballads) is the aural equivalent of The Strangers...and O’Malley’s bar from the same record could be the goriest song put to tape.
And lest we forget The Mercy Seat, Deanna, or The Carny...
Posted by: J. Tom, Oct 28, 2008 01:37:54 PM
"They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!!" - another Sufjan Tune. Also, a Smashing Pumpkins song, perhaps?
Posted by: Carlos, Oct 28, 2008 01:33:19 PM
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