Halloween Party Music Playlist
Last year, Julia and I had a halloween party for a group of friends. Of course, we needed music for the thing, and I was put in charge of that. I have a lot of music, so I figured it would be fun to put together a good halloween music playlist.
Unfortunately, whenever you look around for halloween music, you typically find CDs full of creepy sounds, thunderstorms, cackling, etc. While these CDs are definitely "halloween" they certainly aren't much fun to listen to. Generally they are obnoxious.
So last year, I set about trying to find good songs by regular artists that could go on the playlist. Every song had to be by someone who people would listen to regularly, and every song needed to relate to halloween in some way.
Considering the kind of music I listen to, this wasn't too terrible of a challenge, but it definitely was time consuming. I figured that I'd go ahead and publish the playlist in order to save anyone with similar goals from spending time on this.
Below is the complete playlist. It's total running length is a little over 8 hours, which is long enough for pretty much any party. If you have any suggestions for things to add, please feel free to leave comments, but remember that it has to be regular music that relates to halloween in some way, not actual halloween music.
30 Seconds To Mars - The Kill
A Perfect Circle - Passive
A Tribute To Tool - 06 - Die Eier Von Satan (Haujobb)
A.I. - Alien Sex
ACDC - DC - Hells Bells
ACDC - Highway To Hell
Alice In Chains - Them Bones
Alice In Chains - We Die Young
Andrew W.K. - Ready To Die
Beck - Devil's Haircut
Better Than Ezra - The Killer Inside
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
Bush - Headful Of Ghosts
Cake - Satan is My Motor
charlie daniels band - the devil went down to georgia
Cold - Witch
Course Of Empire - Freaks
Curve - Killer Baby
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
Deadbolt - Zulu Death Mask
Deftones - Knife Party
Disturbed - Fear
Dmx - Damien
Drown - Monster
Drowning Pool - Bodies
Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
Eminem - Evil Deeds
Evanescence - Haunted
Fatboy Slim - Demons
Fear Factory - National Panel Beating (Body Hammer)
Filter - It's Gonna Kill Me
Front Line Assembly - Maniacal
Futuristic Sex Robotz - Snakes On A Plane
Garbage - Wicked Ways
Gnarls Barkley - The Boogie Monster
God Lives Underwater - How To Make A Monster (Rob Zombie)
Godhead - Ghost Of Your Memory
Godsmack - Vampires
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Gravity Kills - Guilty
Horrorpops - psychobitches outta hell
Insane Clown Posse - House of Horrors
INXS - Devil Inside
Jakalope - Bad Dream
Kidneythieves - Before I'm Dead
KMFDM - Go To Hell (Fuck Mtv Mix)
KoRn - Make Me Bad
Kyuss - Demon Cleaner
London After Midnight - Psycho Magnet
Lords Of Acid - Kiss Eternal
Luxt - Witchhunt (Animoo Mix By Acumen Nation)
Marilyn Manson - The Death Song
Mdfmk - Witch Hunt
Megadeth - Devils Island
Metallica - Some Kind Of Monster
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Mindless Self Indulgence - Diabolical
Ministry - Bad Blood
Monster Magnet - See You In Hell
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - The International Sin Set
Nine Inch Nails - Sin
Nirvana - Lake Of Fire
ohGr - Devil
Orgy - Fiend
Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
Poe - Haunted
Pop Will Eat Itself - Menofearthereaper (The Concrete No Fee, No Fear Mix)
Powerman 5000 - All My Friends Are Ghosts
Primitive Radio Gods - Devil's Triangle
Queens Of The Stone Age - Monsters In The Parasol
Rage Aganst The Machine - Born As Ghosts
Rammstein - Zerstoeren
Richard Cheese - Down With The Sickness (Disturbed)
Rob Zombie - American Witch
Rob Zombie - Dragula (Si Non Oscillas Noli Tintinnare Mix)
Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl
Rob Zombie - The Devils Rejects
Rob_Zombie_-_Demon_Speeding(Dirty_Black_River_remix_by_Chris_Vrenna)
Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
Rorschach Test - Satan
Rush - Ghost Rider
Skinny Puppy - Ghostman
Skold - Devil Inside
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Sneaker Pimps - Small Town Witch
Snoop Dogg - Murder Was The Case
Spawn Movie Soundtrack - Satan
Stabbing Westward - Haunting Me
Static-X - Night Terrors
System Of A Down - Ddevil
The Bloodhound Gang - Something Diabolical
the cranberrys - Zombie
The Crystal Method - Murder (3 Nords)
The Eagles - Witchy Woman
The Misfits - Halloween
The Nightmare Before Christmas - This Is Halloween
The Prodigy - Medusas Path
The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
The Union Underground - South Texas Deathride
Timo Maas - Devil Feel
Tool - Aenima
Traci Lords - Good-N-Evil
Tricky - 10 - My Evil Is Strong
Tweaker - Movement of Fear
Type O Negative - Haunted
Type O Negative - Wolf Moon (Including Zoanthropic Paranoia)
Underworld Evolution Soundtrack - The Undertaker (Renholder Mix)
Van Halen - Running With The Devil
Vast - I Am a Vampire
videodrone - The Devil's Sweepstakes
Voodou - For Thyne Enemy
Weird Al Yankovic - Nature Trail To Hell
White Zombie - I Zombie
White Zombie - More Human Than Human (Meet Bambi In The King's Harem Mix)
Wumpscut - Tomb
Zeromancer - Raising Hell
anthony:
Good list! had to scroll down and make sure dragula was on there, myself ;-)
8 October 2006, 3:12 pmanthony:
oops, got my own website backwards :-o
8 October 2006, 3:13 pmMaki:
hehe I was about to tell you to add Evanescence - Haunted, but you already got it. Great song.
10 October 2006, 2:42 amNice list btw, do tell us if your friends liked it.
Jason:
“Disarm” by the Smashing Pumpkins perhaps? You really need something by the Smashing Pumpkins just because of their name.
10 October 2006, 7:36 pmAlso, “It’s Halloween” by the Shaggs would be hilarious. Beware though, it’s the worst song ever created (…by humans).
Rod:
Jason, I have Bullet With Butterfly Wings on there :)
10 October 2006, 7:43 pmCJ:
On a semi-related note, I’d highly recommend C17H19NO3’s (lovingly referred to as “Cithignoe” (hard C sound there) by myself and one other person) “Terra Null” in terms of ambient appropriate-for-Halloween-but-still-awesome music. http://www.grindertool.com/c17.html Fantastic stuff. Should be pretty easy to find. Doesn’t quite fit your criteria, but hey.
(The companion disc “Terra Damnata” is pretty lame - the one I’m talking about is mostly instrumental.)
10 October 2006, 8:26 pmCJ:
(well, I guess now that I listen to it again, Terra Null actually has more vocals in it than Damnata. Hm. Anyway I stand by the “lame” comment)
10 October 2006, 9:52 pmLeigh:
…how about The Mercyful Fate Medley by Metallica off Garage Inc…too many crazy!
11 October 2006, 7:01 amRuss:
Moon Over Bourbon Street by Sting, Horror Movie by Skyhooks, Deadeyes Open (Remix) by Severed Heads.
How about Ballad Of The Skeletons by Allen Ginsberg? Okay, maybe not.
11 October 2006, 4:01 pmRyan Ferneau:
How could you leave out the Monster Mash??
12 October 2006, 12:29 amJason:
Rod,
12 October 2006, 3:14 pmSorry, I looked through the list for “Smashing Pumpkins” not “The Smashing Pumpkins.” :-)
John C. Kirk:
I think you could get a couple of Meatloaf songs in there, e.g. “Bat out of hell” and “I’d do anything for love” (the latter has vampires in the music video, even if the song itself doesn’t seem that relevant).
12 October 2006, 11:28 pmmark:
Mr. Hilton,
13 October 2006, 7:59 pmJust wanted to say thank you. I’m a deployed soldier (deployed since July 2005) and my unit recently requested that I DJ our Halloween party this year. I’ve DJ’d for almost as many years as I’ve been a soldier (10yrs) and have to say that your list gave me the spark I needed to ensure my fellow soldiers a great time. Thanks again. PS: Midnight Syndicate (full alb.), Alice Cooper (Feed my Frankenstein), Billy Idol (In the Midnight Hour), Marylin Manson (I Put a Spell On You -also done by Bette Middler and Screamin Jay Hawkins)… I can go on more, but don’t want to use up all your space. Thanks Again for juste enough “spark”…..
Rod:
Mark,
Thank you for your kind words. I’m glad you enjoyed the list, and thank you for your suggestions.
Good luck out there, wherever they have you. Hopefully you can be home sometime soon.
14 October 2006, 1:35 amvbopmc:
Extremely good list. There are certainly a few picks I’d disagree with, but you make up for it all just by including “Hell Awaits” by Slayer and a couple of AC/DC songs. My only criticism is that you left out the single best Satan-oriented song ever written: “Black Sabbath”, by the band of the same name. It’s fantastic.
15 October 2006, 4:54 amKatherine Baskin:
How about Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ “Red Right Hand”? I had it on my Halloween list last year, and it went over really well.
However, the music I added from Zombies Ate My Neighbors didn’t…
16 October 2006, 6:29 amCindy:
What about Ghostown by The Specials?
26 October 2006, 3:57 amJake:
Just found this list of random Halloween mp3s you might want to check out.
26 October 2006, 1:47 pmMaurs:
I would recommend Fingathing’s Iron Man from their new Apocalypso EP. They are british and obscure, but the song is just begging to be on a halloween playlist.
30 October 2006, 6:17 amMike C.:
I’m also setting up a playlist for Halloween. A few outside yours…Concrete Blonde “Bloodletting: The Vampire Song”; Warren Zevon “Werewolves of London”, and “92 Degrees” and “Cities in Dust” by Siouxsie and the Banshees (more Goth than Halloweenie…but danceable!)
14 August 2008, 11:16 pm