Mood Music for Halloween

[fringey]

A bit of discussion about Halloween music in another post got me thinking about this. Other than the myriad of sound effects albums out there, what kind of music sets the mood for Halloween for you? I love a lot of the Goth stuff, like Bauhaus and Nosferatu. I also love Type O Negative. There are also the movie soundtracks to Halloween and the Exorcist, which are decidedly creepy. My favorite mood music is just about anything by a band called Midnight Syndicate. With CDs like Realm of Shadows, Born of the Night, Gates of Delirium, and Vampyre : Symphonies from the Crypt, these guys just know how to do creepy music. This is the perfect soundtrack for any Halloween party. Any others you folks can think of?

Patrick
a.k.a. Fringey, The Fringe Element
"A life lived without passion is a life not lived.

[cooky37]

Wow! thats some deep stuff. Personaly i go for the prepackages cottoncandy music for Holloween Mosnter mash, Adams Family theme, Ware wolf Of london ... Have you heard of Drew's Party music? it's not the origional artist but they are good copulations of themed music and relatively cheap

Will someone shut that man up
NEVER!

[ninjabear]

Evanescence is not only the first and most important skill a ninja must master, but it's also a magnificent musical group led by a marvelous, menancholy songbird.
I fully recommend their first album, Fallen, for your Halloween (and year 'round) enjoyment.
I've seen an ad for a new album and I have a birthday coming up so gift to myself!

[scryer41]

I'll post a list of music I've collected over the years. But for sheer creepiness, the sound track to Stephen King's The Shining (the t.v. mini-series) is just plain out of sight. The theme song is the best for terror sound tracks!

Of course, I do so love the old, original, Dark Shadows sound track. I have that on cd now. Took awhile to find, too. Hearing Jonathan Frid speaking gothic poetry to the music is just awesome!

I like the Halloween sound track but it gets to much play. So I play other sound tracks a bit more, living Halloween 1 & 2 as the final ones. Night of the Living Dead has some good stuff too. Especially the voice overs from the film. "They're coming to get you, Barbra. They're coming for you! Look... There's one of them now!"

I'll post the more rock and roll party stuff in a bit. I put them on cd and created a fake band called Children Of The Night who is suppose to be singing the songs. I used these cds when when I ran horror RPGs and the group would enter a goth bar or some such place.

Stay tuned!

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Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, or ----, or greed.
Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land.
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Shun him. Drive him back into his jungle lair.
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[scryer41]

Ok, here's a list of SOME my music for Halloween. If I sat here all day I wouldn't be able to put it all on here. LOL

Classical:

1 The Funeral March
2 Symphony Fantastique: Dream of the Witche's Sabbath (That's the one you hear played at the beginning of Stanly Kubrick's The Shining.)
3 In The Hall Of The Mountain King
4 The Banshee (By Henry Cowell)
5 Night On Bald Mountain
6 The Gnome
7 Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima
8 Toccata in D Major (Phantom Of The Opera)
9 Danse Macabre (Saint Saens)
10 The Sorcerer's Apprentice
11 Theme From Alfred Hitchcock Presents
12 Night Of The Vampire (From a D&D game)
13 Ava Satanious (Theme from The Omen)
14 Funeral For Queen Mary
15 Dark Shadows Theme
16 A Darkness At Collinwood (from Dark Shadows)
17 Seance (from Dark Shadows)
18 Night Of The Pentagram (from Dark Shadows)
19 The Old House (from Dark Shadows)
20 The Fall Of The House Of Usher (Alan Parsons Project)

Jazz:

1 Skeleton In The Closet
2 Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered
3 The Great Pumpkin Waltz
4 That Old Black Magic
5 The Witch Queen Of New Orleans
6 The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea
7 I Put A Spell On You
8 Haunted Heart
9 Old Devil Moon
10 That Old Devil Called Love
11 Phantomesque
12 Pumpkin
13 Haunt Me
14 Witch Doctor
15 Mysterioso
16 The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
17 Creepin
18 Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance
19 Mojo Woman
20 Little Demon
21 The Blob
22 The Addams Family
23 The Twilight Zone (Manhatten Transfer)
24 Voodoo Voodoo
25 Spooky
26 Miss Ghost

Rock:

1 Clap For The Wolfman
2 The Ravin (Alan Parsons Project)
3 Don't Pay The Ferryman
4 I'm Your Boogieman (K.C. & The Sunshine Band)
5 The 7th Son
6 Strange Magic
7 Devil With The Blue Dress
8 Twilight Zone (Rush)
9 Little Devil
10 Zombie Jamboree
11 Sympathy For The Devil
12 Little Red Riding Hood
13 Mean Green Mother From Outer Space (Little Shop Of Horrors)
14 Hoodoo Voodoo Doll
15 Eye Of The Zombie
16 One Of These Nights (Eagles)
17 Enter Sandman
18 Dead Man's Party
19 Witchy Woman
20 Don't Fear The Reaper
21 Thriller
22 Ghost Town
23 Frankenstein
24 Black No# 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)
25 Devil In The Black Dress
26 Hoodoo Witch
27 Suspended In Dusk
28 Superstition
29 Building A Mystery
30 Bad Moon Rising
31 Horror Show
32 Nosferatu
33 Love Song For A Vampire
34 Creepy Green Light
35 Supernatural
36 Freakers Ball
37 Mama Told Me Not To Come
38 t-----s & Beer (Frank Zappa)
39 Season Of The Witch
40 Bark At The Moon
41 Love Potion #9
42 Black Cat (Janet Jackson)
43 Goblin Girl (Zappa)
44 Monster In My Pants (B52 (?))
45 Children Of The Grave
46 Zombie Zoo
47 My Little Demon
48 Nightmare On My Street
49 The Great Milenko
50 Hokus Pokus
51 House Of Horrors
52 Highway To Hell
53 Trick Or Treat
54 Fright Night
55 Dr. Hecklyll & Mr. Jive
56 Boogie Woogie Wu
57 People Are Strange
58 In The Midnight Hour
59 Cemetary Girls
60 Bela Lugosi Is (Un)Dead
61 Abracadabra
62 Ghost Riders In The Sky
63 Liveing Dead Girl
64 Devil In My Car
65 Texas Chainsaw Boogie
66 Weird Science
67 Go-Go To The Graveyard
68 Mr Time
69 Devil's Food/Black Widow
70 Hungery LIke The Wolf
71 Stray Cat Strut
72 She Blinded Me With Science
73 Hoodoo Voodoo Medicine Man
74 Cold Hearted Snake
75 Can't Take It With You
76 Black Magic Woman
77 Science Fiction Double Feature
78 Creature From The Black Lagoon
79 The Purple People Eater
80 Transylvainian Concubine
81 Wolf Moon
82 Werewolves of London
83 The Time Warp
84 Call Of The Zombie
85 I, Zombie
86 Dragula
87 The Torture NEver Stops
88 Halloween Hootenanny
89 Spook Show Baby
90 Meet The Creeper
91 More Human Than Human
92 Hollywood Halloween
93 Psycho Therepy
94 Tombstone Shadow
95 Black Sabbath
96 Running With The Devil
97 Godzilla
98 Back In Black
99 Voodoo Chile
100 Am I Evil?
101 Skeletons In The Closet (Alice Cooper)
102 Cemetary Gates
103 Feed My Frankenstein
104 Teenage Frankenstein
105 Addams Family Rap
106 Highway Man
107 Not Of This Earth
108 Scary Monsters
109 Hell's Bells



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Across the Sands of Time, along the Shores of Life, the Traveler rides on. For he knows his journey ends in lovers meeting.

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Beware the beast Man for he is the Devil's pawn.
Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, or ----, or greed.
Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land.
Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert out of his home and yours.
Shun him. Drive him back into his jungle lair.
For he is the harbinger of death.

The Sacred Scrolls: 29th Scroll, 6th Verse

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Visit my website at www.angelfire.com/oh5/scryer41 to see my art, poems, short stories and photos.

[cooky37]

Good Greif scryer!
to play all that music you'd have to start on labor day
good list though

Will someone shut that man up
NEVER!

[scryer41]

I have 2 cds full of Classical stuff for Halloween, 2 cds full of Jazz, 2 cds full of Blues, 20 cds for Rock, 2 Celtic cds, all three cds that Elvira put out, 1 cd of Country, and several of Dr. Demento Halloween. Of course, I have several sound tracks from horror films. I guess you could say I like Horror music. I have been collecting this stuff for about 10 years now. There's a lot of junk out there, so I've had to wade through it all to get the better stuff. I can't stand stuff that simply screams at you and you can't understand anything they are saying.

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Across the Sands of Time, along the Shores of Life, the Traveler rides on. For he knows his journey ends in lovers meeting.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Beware the beast Man for he is the Devil's pawn.
Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, or ----, or greed.
Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land.
Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert out of his home and yours.
Shun him. Drive him back into his jungle lair.
For he is the harbinger of death.

The Sacred Scrolls: 29th Scroll, 6th Verse

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Visit my website at www.angelfire.com/oh5/scryer41 to see my art, poems, short stories and photos.

[valarules (deleted)]

You know when its close to Halloween when all the radio stations start playing 'Monster Mash' and you hear the song at least three times in an two hour period.

I really don't see how Evanescence is Halloween music. (maybe,maybe a few songs)

Look, I didn't hear any screaming or squishing sounds.

[fringey]

Scryer, I love the lists. However, I want to bring up the fact that you have NO KISS songs in your rock & roll lists!!! And did I miss Alice Cooper??? Kings of the Night Time World, God of Thunder, and Creatures of the Night definitely fit in there, off the top of my head. I would also mention Scary Monsters by David Bowie and If You Want Blood by AC/DC for your consideration. Of course, just about anything by Alice Cooper would fit in, including Feed My Frankenstein, Man Behind The Mask, Teenage Frankenstein, and the entire Welcome to My Nightmare album (with Vincent Price speaking on Black Widow!) You should definitely check out Midnight Syndicate. I think you would love their stuff.

Patrick
a.k.a. Fringey, The Fringe Element
"A life lived without passion is a life not lived.

[ninjabear]

Vincent Price raps on Michael Jackson's Thriller---it's a hoot!
Vala, have you listened to track five on the album Fallen?
The title is "Haunted", the lyrics are gothic and disturbing---but track nine makes me very, very sad.
The whole album tricks as it treats---but I just got a copy of The Open Door. Shutting down to slip it into the CD player now.

[scryer41]

Pat, Feed My Frankenstien and Skeletons In The Closet are both Alice Cooper and are in the list. I have most of everything you've mentioned, including Kiss's Creatures Of The Night. I just posted a few of the songs in my collection.

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Across the Sands of Time, along the Shores of Life, the Traveler rides on. For he knows his journey ends in lovers meeting.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Beware the beast Man for he is the Devil's pawn.
Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, or ----, or greed.
Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land.
Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert out of his home and yours.
Shun him. Drive him back into his jungle lair.
For he is the harbinger of death.

The Sacred Scrolls: 29th Scroll, 6th Verse

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Visit my website at www.angelfire.com/oh5/scryer41 to see my art, poems, short stories and photos.

[valarules (deleted)]

ninjabear wrote: Vincent Price raps on Michael Jackson's Thriller---it's a hoot!
Vala, have you listened to track five on the album Fallen?
The title is "Haunted", the lyrics are gothic and disturbing---but track nine makes me very, very sad.
The whole album tricks as it treats---but I just got a copy of The Open Door. Shutting down to slip it into the CD player now.



I own the CD as well as the new one. That's why I was saying maybe a few songs.

Look, I didn't hear any screaming or squishing sounds.

[fringey]

ninjabear wrote: Vincent Price raps on Michael Jackson's Thriller---it's a hoot!

It took me a while, but I finally forgave Vincent for that one.

Patrick
a.k.a. Fringey, The Fringe Element
"A life lived without passion is a life not lived.

[fringey]

scryer41 wrote: Pat, Feed My Frankenstien and Skeletons In The Closet are both Alice Cooper and are in the list. I have most of everything you've mentioned, including Kiss's Creatures Of The Night. I just posted a few of the songs in my collection.



I see them now! Must have been brain cramping when I hit your list. Scary Monsters is there too. Have you heard the version by Frank Black? Pretty cool. I know what you wean about having lots of songs. I have over 1600 songs on my MP3 player. I still have room for about 700 more too! woo hoo!!! Are any of you folks on the Music Passions list, too? That forum is D E A D!

Patrick
a.k.a. Fringey, The Fringe Element
"A life lived without passion is a life not lived.

[cooky37]

I know what you mean. It took me three passes of the list to catch Sceince Fiction Double Feature And Time Warp. Scryer Do have the Complete Rocky Horror Soundtrack?

Will someone shut that man up
NEVER!