Eat, drink and be scary!

Most people say that Christmas or Thanksgiving are their favorite holidays. Not me…no sir. Halloween is far and away my favorite holiday of the year. Christmas has been so commercially bastardized that it’s lost it’s meaning and Thanksgiving is truly just the celebration of the white man encroaching on the Native American people and raping their land and culture and I think people should be thankful every day of the year…not just the fourth Thursday of November.

Halloween is different around the world and originally it was celebrated in Ireland and Great Britain as the Pagan festival Samhain. It is now celebrated all over the world and while not every culture participates, it depends on which society you are in how you will celebrate. You can read up on the history and evolution of Halloween here. It's quite interesting, really.

So, in honor of my favorite holiday, I give you some Halloween-esque tunes from my library to get you in the mood to trick or treat tonight. Not all of them are truly appropriate content wise but they've all got some pretty rad titles regardless. Whether you're going to a party in a slutty or scary costume to drink yourself sick and puke on the porch, out to see the latest scary flick (Saw IV and 30 Days of Night are my recommendations) or like me are taking the wee ones house to house begging for food and threatening retaliation if none is given be safe out there and enjoy yourselves!



The Eagles - "Witchy Woman"

Wolfmother - "Witchcraft"

Indigo Girls - "Ghost"

Jethro Tull - "The Witch's Promise"

Katie Melua - "Scary Films"

Rob Zombie - "Dragula"

Warren Zevon - "Werewolves of London"

Roy Orbison - "Running Scared"

Smashing Pumpkins - "The Killer in Me"

Spoon - "The Ghost of You Lingers"

The Automatics - "Monster"

The Doors - "The Ghost Song"

The Doors - "People Are Strange"

B.C. Camplight - "Blood & Peanut Butter"

Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Bad Moon Rising"

Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Tombstone Shadow"

The Go! Team – “Phantom Broadcast”

Nina Simone – “I Put A Spell on You”

Sting - "Ghost Story"

Chrisopher Blue – “Scarecrow”

Sparklehorse – “Ghost in the Sky”

The National Lights – “The Dead Will Walk”

Jon Auer - "Cemetery Song"

The Fashion – “Dead Boys”

Lovedrug - "Ghost by Your Side"

The Rolling Stones – “Paint it Black”

The Rolling Stones - "Sympathy for the Devil"

Margot & The Nuclear So & So's - "Skeleton Key"

Margot & The Nuclear So & So's - "Vampires in Blue Dresses"

Ray Parker Jr. – “Ghostbusters”

White Zombie – “I’m Your Boogie Man”

Stevie Wonder - "Superstition"

Jeff Buckley - "Witches' Rave"

Ill Lit - "The Ghost of Presston Brown"

Edgar Winter Group – “Frankenstein”

DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince – “Nightmare on My Street”

Self Against City – “Becoming a Monster”

Blue Oyster Cult – “Don’t Fear the Reaper”

Santana – “Black Magic Woman”

Atlanta Rhythm Section - "Spooky"

Bon Iver - "Creature Fear"

Alice Cooper – “Welcome to my Nightmare”

Cloud Cult – “Dance for the Dead”

Kevin Devine - "Go Haunt Someone Else"

Kiss - "Creatures of the Night"

The Beatles - "Helter Skelter"

The Push Stars - "Drunk is Better than Dead"

The Faders - "Better Off Dead"

Charlie Daniels Band - "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"

Ryan Adams – “Halloween Head”

Devotchka - "This Place is Haunted"

Ministry – “Everyday is Halloween”

Radical Face – “Haunted”

Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Blood Sugar Sex Magik"

Milosh - "Creepy"

The Smiths - "Pretty Girls Make Graves"

Tom McRae - "Human Remains"

Umbrellas - "Vampires"

Chris Garneau – “Halloween”

Dustin Kensrue – “Blanket of Ghosts”

Dave Matthews - "Gravedigger"

Counting Crows - "Friend of the Devil"

Albert Hammond, Jr. - "Scared"

Donovan - "Season of the Witch"


And no Halloween post would be complete without mentioning MJ's pre-scandal masterpiece...

Michael Jackson - "Thriller"