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Best Songs for Halloween Playlist. Your opinions?
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Posted on 10/26/2016 8:13:15 AM PDT by dangus

Halloween playlist

Rockwell (featuring Michael Jackson): Somebody's Watching Me

Michael Jackson: Thriller

David Bowie: Space Oddity

Shakespeare's Sister: Stay

The Police (or, Sting's solo version): Shadows in the Rain

Sting: Moon over Bourbon Street

Adele: Hello. (That's right, it's Halloween because the singer's character is dead!)

Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil

Blue Oyster Cult: Don't Fear the Reaper.

Warren Zevon: Werewolves of London

Eminem (featuring Rihanna): The Monster

Ray Parker, Jr.: Ghostbusters

Billy Idol: White Wedding, Dancing with Myself, Rebel Yell or Eyes without a Face. Not specifically Halloween-themed, but creepy. And great Halloween-y videos.

Bonnie Tyler: Total Eclipse of the Heart. I'd recommend the Nikki French version; Bonnie Tyler's is better, but French's is more suited to a dance party. Oh, yes: it is about vampires.

Roger Daltry: Don't Let the Sun Go Down On Me. Twists the love ballad into a vampire song. And it's from "Lost Boys."

Echo and the Bunnymen: People are Strange. Not an improvement over the Doors' version, but a little more danceable.

Ciara: Paint it Black. Again, simply more danceable than the Stone's version.

Not on my personal playlist:

Zombie, by the Cranberries. Fantastic song. But it's about children in a real-life war.

Demons, by Imagine Dragons. Another solid song. But it just doesn't feel very Halloween-y to me. Disagree?

Monster Mash. The "chicken dance" song of Halloween, but has anyone noticed it's a lousy dance song?


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To: dangus

Dead Man’s Party : Oingo Boingo


21 posted on 10/26/2016 8:31:04 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dangus
Sympathy For the Devil - Rolling Stones
Season of the witch by various different artists.
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Hells Bells - AC/DC Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Creep - Radiohead
Werewolves of London - Waren Zevon
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Deal With The Devil - Pop Evil
This Is Halloween - Marilyn Manson
Spooky - Classics IV
Dead Man's Party Oingo Boingo
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Bad Moon Rising - Credence Clearwater Revival
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
Friend of The Devil - Grateful Dead
Only The Strange Remain - Micky Hart
22 posted on 10/26/2016 8:31:16 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: MUDDOG

Camille Saint-Saens “Danse Macabre”

Modest Mussorgsky “Night on Bald Mountain”


23 posted on 10/26/2016 8:31:51 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: dangus

Poor Skeleton Steps Out - XTC


24 posted on 10/26/2016 8:32:23 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BenLurkin

Well, then let’s go all the way with Pink Floyd, then, shall we?

Careful with that Axe, Eugene

Another One of My Turns/Another Brick in the Wall (Part THREE)

Shine On You Crazy Diamond, (Parts Three to Five only)

Time/Breathe


25 posted on 10/26/2016 8:32:30 AM PDT by dangus
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To: BenLurkin

Pink Floyd : Atom Heart Mother Rocks!


26 posted on 10/26/2016 8:32:36 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: Nothingburger

“Night on Bald Mountain” in Fantasia really did scare me.


27 posted on 10/26/2016 8:33:50 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: dangus
Ah, yes, I have a suggestion. I experienced Hell yesterday. Sitting in a Taco Time waiting for my takeout gruel, a dozen or so screaming kids running around, and over the cheapest loudspeaker system in the world is "The Witch Doctor" - you remember, "Oo ee oo ah ah, Ting tang, walla walla bing bang" - that one? Done at an accelerated pace by Alvin and the Chipmunks. Loudly.

If it had been the Inquisition, I'd have confessed.

28 posted on 10/26/2016 8:36:45 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: dangus

Professor Elemental: The Attic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvLqgwu-XHI


29 posted on 10/26/2016 8:36:49 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck?Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Robert DeLong

Some great choices!

I listed a bunch of those, but I’m mad at myself for forgetting Superstition. I like the Stevie Ray Vaughn version, myself. But Stevie Wonder is awesome.

A few I left off because they’re more Satanic than spooky.

Never would have thought of Creep. I’m trying to think if it works as a dance song... it’s a little slow, but I think it’s probably better than “Live to Tell,” for instance, by Madonna.

A few suggestions of “Bad Moon Rising.” Doesn’t feel very Halloween to me, but that’s because I always hear, “There’s a bathroom on the right.” J/K.


30 posted on 10/26/2016 8:37:06 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Nothingburger

I’m not that familiar with Saint-Saens, but I think “The Aquarium” in “Carnival of the Animals” is one of the most psychedelic pieces ever.


31 posted on 10/26/2016 8:37:24 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: dangus

You can’t leave out The Five Jones Boys “Mister Ghost is Going to Town”. A 1938 smash!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyu1FkPgLo8


32 posted on 10/26/2016 8:38:21 AM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: Billthedrill

Ah, yes... that’s almost as unbearable as “The Worms.”


33 posted on 10/26/2016 8:39:03 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

Suggest you replace Monster Mash with:

Little Darlin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV8VU3Wiq2I


34 posted on 10/26/2016 8:40:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

LOL! Just what kind of parties are you throwing?


35 posted on 10/26/2016 8:42:00 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus

Carman - A Witch’s Invitation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYegOwzLb3A


36 posted on 10/26/2016 8:48:26 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: dangus

DIO “Dream Evil”
RAINBOW (also sung by Ronnie James DIO) “Lady Evil”


37 posted on 10/26/2016 8:50:21 AM PDT by Married with Children
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To: dangus

Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

Weber Phantom of the Opera

TV Theme - Munsters


38 posted on 10/26/2016 8:50:42 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: dangus
Creedence Clearwater Revival has a number of Halloweenie songs: Tombstone Shadow, It Came Out of the Sky, Graveyard Train, and Sinister Purpose, among those that have already been mentioned.

From The Who, I'd suggest Boris the Spider, along with their fantastic, freaky version of Hall of the Mountain King.
39 posted on 10/26/2016 8:52:25 AM PDT by drjimmy
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To: Married with Children

Black Sabbath (with Ronnie James Dio) not Rainbow- oops


40 posted on 10/26/2016 8:52:52 AM PDT by Married with Children
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