Its Halloween. I love Halloween, more so the season and the vibe than the actual day. Check out my posts... I love going to all of the spooky festivals and reading books about ghosts and monsters.
Really, I'm an all year long Halloween person. I do go into full Christmas mode on November 1st, but right around the start of January, I'm back to Halloween.
I heard a program on NPR the other day. They were talking about Halloween music. Its not as defined as Christmas music. The show played a few songs (many I had never heard of). Of course, "Thriller" and "The Monster Mash" were played.
I talked to a friend the other day. He shared his "Halloween playlist" with me. I have a similar playlist. The only song we had in common was Donovan's "Season of the Witch."
He had a couple of songs from the Shining Soundtrack on his. I hadn't listened to those outside of watching the movie.... but they were good and creepy. I'll be hunting down that soundtrack soon.
I probably have 100 songs on my Halloween playlist. Most of mine are just dark or have a weird scary or ghostly reference. Some I remember hearing at a Halloween party from years ago.
If you care, here are a few of my favorites- Van Morrison- Into the Mystic, Langhorne Slim- Zombie, John & Mary- Angels of Stone, Equation- Drowning Man, Dar Williams- Christians and Pagans, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown- Fire, Patty Larkin- Phone Message, John Prine- The Sins of Mephisto, Huck 2- Evelyn, Cheap Trick- Ghost Town, Crash Test Dummies- The Ghosts That Haunt Me, Gil Scott- Heron- Me and The Devil, Tori Amos- Happy Phantom, Jane Voss- Do You See That Moon, The Low Anthem, Ghost Woman Blues, and others. A few obvious ones are themes from the X-Files, and Twilight Zone, and Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London.
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