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Post by jekyllandhyde » Sun Sep 03, 2006 12:38 am

Hello! New Halloween junkie on board :twisted:

This weekend I'm working on some of the details for this year's Halloween party. We are throwing a witch's ball and I plan to play spooky tunes all night long. I've got a fairly good list going and have covered all the obvious but I need more. I plan to play Halloween related music (Nox Arcana, Monster Mash, etc) but also things like Billy Squire's In the Dark and Three Days Grace The Animal I've Become. Anything you can throw at me would be appreciated as I have a lot of time to fill.
It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . .

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Post by MichaelMyers » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:20 pm

OK-here is one we play at out parties-its hard rock and is called "Don't Fear the Reaper" and is sung by the Blue Oyster Cult. HTH :)
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Post by Pennywise11 » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:27 pm

Excellent song. You know I have loved that song for a long time. I read Stephen King books and when I am refering to the book "The Stand" I think of this song and how the world could be pretty much wiped out .... like in the book.... I find it a very lonely creep yet deep sinking song...for me anyway. Oh also I seen a SNL show (I am also a big fan of that show) and anyway it was one when Christopher Walkens was the guest star and they were doing a funny skit with the regulars of the show being Blue Oyster Cult and Christopher Walkens being the band manger, was calling for more Cow bell....It was hilarious anyway. Anybody see it?
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Post by geekmidwinter » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:29 pm

I love this! Okay, I had a huge party last year and made a comemorative 4-disc cd set of the songs I played, so here you go (I apologize in advance for the length):

Band/Song:
My Chemical Romance/Helena
Credence Clearwater Revival/I Put a Spell on You
Kiss/God of Thunder
Danny Elfman/Beetlejuice theme
Alice Cooper/Welcome to My Nightmare
Q-Lazarus/Goodbye Horses (Silence of the Lambs)
Rolling Stones/Paint it Black
Michael Jackson/Thriller
Pantera/Cemetary Gates
Ghostbusters Soundtrack/Magic
Emiliana Torrini/Gollum's Song (from LOTR)
Concrete Blonde/Bloodletting
Type O Negative/Black #1
The Eagles/Witchy Woman
ACDC/Who Made Who
The Pixies/Where is my Mind?
The Cure/Fascination Street
Alice Cooper/Feed my Frankenstein
Bernard Hermann/Day the Earth Stood Still
Glen Danzig w/Roy Orbison/Less than Zero
Jimmy Buffett/Desperation Samba (Halloween in Tijuana)
LA Guns/Ballad of Jayne
Sisters of Mercy/Cry Little Sister (from Lost Boys)
Golden Earring/Twilight Zone
Credence Clearwater Revival/Midnight Special
Misfits/Halloween
Ozzy Ozbourne/Mr. Tinkertrain
Queen/Don't Lose Your Head
Ramones/Pet Cemetary
The Smiths/How Soon is Now
Mike Oldfield/Tubular Bells (from the Exorcist)
Vince Guaraldi/Great Pumpkin Waltz (my favorite)
Motley Crue/Shout at the Devil
Rockwell/Somebody's Watching Me
Greig/In the Hall of the Mountain King
Peter Schilling/Major Tom
Jimi Hendrix/Voodoo Chile
Procol Harum/Whiter Shade of Pale
Undertaker's Original WWF Entrance Music
J. Geil's Band/Fright Night
Echo and the Bunnymen/People are Strange
Rocky Horror Picture Show/Time Warp
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince/Nightmare on My Street
Blue Oyster Cult/The Reaper
Resident Evil Main Theme Suite
Rolling Stones/Sympathy for the Devil
Nine Inch Nails/The Perfect Drug
Radiohead/There, There (the Boney King of Nowhere)
Warlocks/Jam of the Witches
Tenacious D/Tribute
Samhain/Halloween II
Saint Saens/Danse Macabre
David Bowie/Space Oddity
Rob Zombie/Living Dead Girl
Jefferson Airplane/White Rabbit
Warren Zevon/Werewolves of London (Halloween Remix)
Lemonheads/Skulls
Murray Head/One Night in Bangkock
Ozzy Ozbourne/Mr. Crowley
Credence Clearwater Revival/Bad Moon Rising
Queen/Princes of the Universe
Ivy/Long Distance (Theme to Steven King's Kingdom Hospital)
Sammy Sham/Little Red Riding Hood
Danzig/How the Gods Kill
Sting/Moon Over Bourbon Street
John Carpenter's Halloween Theme
Ministry/Everyday is Halloween
Bonnie Tyler/Here She Comes (from Metropolis)
Mc Hammer/Addams Groove
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Post by uncletor » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:06 pm

Very nice selection of songs! Always interesting to see where tastes overlap...some of yours couldn't MAKE my tape based on hard experience..THRILLER, for instance just wasn't gonna be on after the trial, for obvious reasons..despite Vincent Price..DON'T FEAR THE REAPER should have been, but it didn't time out, and there were a couple of songs that I couldn't make fit...like one not on your list..DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORIGA by Charlie Daniels..go ahead, TRY and fit that sucker into any context you can think of. I gave up...
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Post by geekmidwinter » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:52 pm

Forgive my ignorance, somone else made the liners for me, but honestly, I wouldn't have known that anyway, so thanks for the heads up!
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Post by MHooch » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:21 am

Geekmidwinter...I am VERY impressed. Any list of songs with Bernard Hermann on it is OK with me! :wink:
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Post by Pennywise11 » Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:20 am

Great selection Geekmidwinter. I have been starting to make a few music cds for this years holiday and your list will be a great help.
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Post by uncletor » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:15 am

Oh, think nothing of your mistake. It was still a great selection. It was a lot of work and there are great songs there. And besides, what I was REALLY after was for you to get interested enough to actually dial up some Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs. Everyone should hear the classics once before they die..
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Post by geekmidwinter » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:17 pm

Well, since you brought it up, the version that I have on my set is actually called "Little Red Riding Hood Goes to Bald Mountain" and is credited to Sam Sham and Moussorgsky. It's pretty cool. I think I forgot to mention, too, that there are tons of sound effects and screams and other spooky stuff interspersed with all the music. I am so glad you guys appreciate this, and I'm glad I could share it with you.
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Post by geekmidwinter » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:19 pm

MHooch wrote:Geekmidwinter...I am VERY impressed. Any list of songs with Bernard Hermann on it is OK with me! :wink:
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So, are you a film score geek or just an old movie buff? (and I say both of those with all the affection in the world, some of my favorite people are both of those things!)
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Post by MHooch » Thu Sep 07, 2006 11:51 pm

geekmidwinter...I am both a film score geek AND an old movie buff. Movies are my other favorite pastime. We have two big parties a year, Halloween and Oscar night. We've even had Hollywood themed Halloween parties (you know, come as your favorite character). And Bernard Hermann is one of my favorite composers...the score from Vertigo is one of my all-time favorites, it is so beautiful and haunting.
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Re: Halloween tunes

Post by LivingDeadGirl » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:16 am

jekyllandhyde wrote:Hello! New Halloween junkie on board :twisted:

This weekend I'm working on some of the details for this year's Halloween party. We are throwing a witch's ball and I plan to play spooky tunes all night long. I've got a fairly good list going and have covered all the obvious but I need more. I plan to play Halloween related music (Nox Arcana, Monster Mash, etc) but also things like Billy Squire's In the Dark and Three Days Grace The Animal I've Become. Anything you can throw at me would be appreciated as I have a lot of time to fill.
Another for Three Days Grace is "Scared".

And pretty much any Rob Zombie song.
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