What songs should be included on a playlist for a Halloween party? Therre are some obvious ones, and I think there are some less obvious. I’m not as familiar with really dark bands like Type O Negative, or even Black Sabbath/Ozzy.
While I wouldn’t consider Type O or Ozzy to be “really dark bands” by any stretch, “Bark at the Moon” (Ozzy) and “Black No 1” (Type O) would be particularly appropriate for Halloween.
The glaring omission is ‘I put a spell on you’ by Screaming Jay Hawkins.
I also came up with:
Halloween Parade - Lou Reed
Season of the Witch - Donovan
Love Potion Number 9 - The Clovers
Witchy Woman - The Eagles
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Boris the Spider - The Who
Don’t Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence
Late to the party but for the record:
Living Dead Girl - Rob Zombie
This is Halloween - Prefer Marylin Manson version but either one
Iron Man - Black Sabbath
Dead - My Chemical Romance
Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
I know I’m more than a month late to the game here, but when I read this thread in October, I knew there was a great old tune missing; stumbled onto the tune tonight:
Came back tonight to post that tune, and realized that I had not read all the text in every response - it was there all along. The Creedence version of this tune is also nice, but nobody did it like Screamin’ Jay.