Halloween Playlist

[ninj]

Feel free to post your favourite Spooky, Creepy, Dark, Weird, Funny songs appopro to the Halloween season. I have a bunch, but I'll just throw out one for now.
This one took me all night to download the extended version from Napster via dialup in 2001.

 

[Jaebius]

Feel free to post your favourite Spooky, Creepy, Dark, Weird, Funny songs appopro to the Halloween season. I have a bunch, but I'll just throw out one for now.
This one took me all night to download the extended version from Napster via dialup in 2001.

That's a nice picture of a globe, but Halloween's not celebrated worldwide

 

[JayneWonders]

@Jaebius -- bit of topic.

@ninj

I remember my brother playing this 45 in the basement of our mutual house.

 

[Jaebius]

@Jaebius -- bit of topic.

@ninj

I remember my brother playing this 45 in the basement of our mutual house.

 

[Jaebius]

The post has changed

 

[Luce NDs]

As monsters known by different labels in parts ... disassembly? Thus the eclectic ID's ... dissipated?

 

[ninj]

 

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[Mendalla]

Given my Halloween story this year is a vampire story, how about some vampires?

 

[Mendalla]

And of course, the title track from Michael Jackson's album Thriller is quintessential Halloween viewing, directed by John Landis (American Werewolf in London is his main credential for doing this video but he is also known for non-horror fare like Animal House and The Blue Brothers). Which somehow starts as a werewolf movie and ends as a zombie movie but whatever. The highlight for me in the day was the Vincent Price "rap" since I was much more a fan of Price than Jackson, though I did enjoy this video as a tribute to the horror genre.

 

[JayneWonders]

Not sure if Hallowe'en...but, well, it popped into my mind.

 

[Mendalla]

Camille Saint-Saens' famous Danse Macabre is a Halloween piece if there ever was one. From the Wiki article on it:

According to legend, Death appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death calls forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (here represented by a solo violin). His skeletons dance for him until the cockerel crows at dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.

When Dutch amusement park Efteling opened a new Halloween attraction based on it in 2024, they invited Dutch symphonic metal band Epica to do their own riff on the piece. And it is a beauty. The band's keyboardist and composer Coen Janssen adapted Saint Saens' music and wrote the lyrics, which are delivered with vocalist Simone Simons' usual incredible skill and power. So here is "The Ghost in Me (Danse Macabre)" by Camille Saint Saens and Epica.

 

[Mendalla]

And for those not into chugging guitars and blast beats, a straight orchestral performance of the Saint-Saens original (but give the Epica adaptation a shot, it's fantastic).