I’m always looking to expand my spooky music list. Last year I spent a lot of October listening to '20’s-30’s vintage stuff, Can’s Aumgn and H.P. Lovecraft’s (the band) The White Ship.
What new stuff have you added to your Halloween repetoire?
@mike808 So you think yours is more “spooky”?
OK, you can avoid dark alleys with Annie Lennox and her orchestra. I’ll avoid dark alleys with Jay Hawkins and his tusks.
Just because you tend to feel more in-tune with a different version, does not take detract from the value or suitability of someone else’s choice.
[Incidentally, Lennox’s “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” was one of my faves of all the 80’s, so it’s not as if I don’t like her.]
@phendrick
Just saying that if someone is going to cover my song, I want that someone to be Annie Lennox.
That performance was recorded at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans, which arguably has some serious Halloween bona fides. Anne Rice’s Halloween parties were legendary.
Both versions are “spooky”. They’re about putting a spell on someone.
Not a big fan of the “tribal jungle” trope, either. That said, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was a legend.
We’ve reached the part of the month where I try, once more, to get people to listen to all my favorite super-proggy occult rock groups. Tonight, I learned that there is live footage on youtube of Black Widow performing Sacrifice in its entirety on the German music program Beat-Club. Enjoy, in order. If you can only watch one, make it Come to the Sabbat, but know that In Ancient Days starts with casting a magic circle and invoking the four watchtowers. And a dancer in diaphanous robe shows up in Seduction and sticks around. Long story short, he probably shouldn’t have cast that magic circle, but, having done so, he definitely shouldn’t have left it. In Ancient Days
Way to Power
Come to the Sabbat
Conjuration/Seduction/Attack of the Demon/Sacrifice
Not really “spooky-themed,” but these two instrumentals feature musical moments within the first minute or so that triggered a stress/anxiety/fear reaction in me the first time I heard them.
Doot Doot!
@mike808 You should indeed post this wherever appropriate (or not!).
The Skeleton Dance
Hot Dog French Fries
Spooky Boys and The Charm of Souls
by Dom Fera
just a few of my Favorite Halloween Songs
Anything by Skinny Puppy is fair game this time of year.
/youtube skinny puppy worlock extended
The Severed Heads
/youtube severed heads
Not new, relatively old, but still notable, with its very own kitsch:
@phendrick
Annie Lennox killed that joint too.
/youtube annie lennox put a spell on you
@mike808 So you think yours is more “spooky”?
OK, you can avoid dark alleys with Annie Lennox and her orchestra. I’ll avoid dark alleys with Jay Hawkins and his tusks.
Just because you tend to feel more in-tune with a different version, does not take detract from the value or suitability of someone else’s choice.
[Incidentally, Lennox’s “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” was one of my faves of all the 80’s, so it’s not as if I don’t like her.]
@phendrick
Just saying that if someone is going to cover my song, I want that someone to be Annie Lennox.
That performance was recorded at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans, which arguably has some serious Halloween bona fides. Anne Rice’s Halloween parties were legendary.
Both versions are “spooky”. They’re about putting a spell on someone.
Not a big fan of the “tribal jungle” trope, either. That said, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was a legend.
Too obvious?
/youtube jorgenson every Day is Halloween acoustic
Compare:
Alice Cooper, Black Juju
Lydia Lunch, Black Juju
In honor of @hchavers pining for the candy cornpocalypse!
Slapp Dat Bass!
MYSTERIOUS MOSE
Tardigrade Inferno
@mike808 Timely soundtrack for reading the latest in tardigrade news!
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/07/1044057076/rare-tardigrade-fossil-discovered-ancient-amber
BOMB, I Loved You Then I Died
We’ve reached the part of the month where I try, once more, to get people to listen to all my favorite super-proggy occult rock groups. Tonight, I learned that there is live footage on youtube of Black Widow performing Sacrifice in its entirety on the German music program Beat-Club. Enjoy, in order. If you can only watch one, make it Come to the Sabbat, but know that In Ancient Days starts with casting a magic circle and invoking the four watchtowers. And a dancer in diaphanous robe shows up in Seduction and sticks around. Long story short, he probably shouldn’t have cast that magic circle, but, having done so, he definitely shouldn’t have left it.
In Ancient Days
Way to Power
Come to the Sabbat
Conjuration/Seduction/Attack of the Demon/Sacrifice
Compare:
Michael Hurley, Werewolf Song
Barry Dransfield, The Werewolf
Kamelot, The Zodiac
Opeth, Porcelain Heart
Moonspell, Luna
Cradle of Filth, Necromantic Fantasies
Not really “spooky-themed,” but these two instrumentals feature musical moments within the first minute or so that triggered a stress/anxiety/fear reaction in me the first time I heard them.
How about
/youtube Riders On The Storm
@f00l
More from The Doors
People Are Strange
The End
@f00l I think Annabel Lamb did a nice cover of ROTS.
/youtube Annabel Lamb riders on the storm extended
@f00l @mike808 The spookiest thing about that video is the station wagon (flashbacks to childhood family car trips) & her hitchhiking technique!
/youtube
Found this looking for something else.
@mossygreen
MAMBO DE LA MUERTE
@mossygreen What the…?! That piano player is creepy AF!
Only 2 doots left!
@mike808 But who’s counting? (Put the candy bar down, that’s for the trick or treaters!
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