Music of the Season
Halloween is not only my overall favorite time of year but my favorite time of the year for music. Now, I could sit here and give you a list of wonderfully Witchy Pagan artists to listen to this time of year like Inkubus Sukkubus, Unto Ashes, Wendy Rule, etc. I could; but I’m not going to. Most of you already know this is one way to go but I think that we sometimes forget about the fun of the kitchy, more popular Halloween music that most of us grew up listening to. For me Halloween was almost as important, if not more so, than Christmas when I was a kid. Back then and even now Halloween and Samhain are the official “kick off” for the holiday season to me. Once I start getting ready for Samhain and once the MLB post season starts, that’s when I know we’re in full-on holiday season.Earlier I sent a message on Twitter commenting that I was going to be listening the cheesy Halloween music while I worked on a Samhain post for later. I was surprised at the number of messages I got asking what I was listening to. So I’ll share with you all my current Halloween playlist. I have this saved on my computer and burned to a disc, which every year goes into the CD player in my car and stays in heavy rotation there until well into November (much to my husband’s chagrin). So check this out and make yourself a nice little mix of Halloween music fun!
Halloween - Siouxsie and the Banshees The Addams Family Theme Abracadabra - The Steve Miller Band Witch Doctor – David Seville This Is Halloween - Marilyn Manson Somebody’s Watchin’ Me (remix) – Beatfreakz Witchy Woman – The Eagles Purple People Eater – Sheb Wooley (Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult Hell – Squirrel Nut Zippers Feed My Frankenstein – Alice Cooper Welcome to my Nightmare – Alice Cooper Monster Mash – Bobby “Boris” Pickett Season of the Witch – Donovan People are Strange – The Doors Everyday is Halloween – Ministry Zombie Jamboree – Harry Belafonte I Put A Spell On You – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Bat Out Of Hell – Meat Loaf Thriller – Michael Jackson Dead Man’s Party – Oingo Boingo Bark At The Moon – Ozzy Osbourne Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr. Super Freak – Rick James House of 1000 Corpses – Rob Zombie Somebody’s Watching Me – Rockwell Black Magic Woman – Santana Love Potion #9 – The Searchers Ghoul’s Night Out – The Misfits Die, Die My Darking – The Misfits Halloween – The Misfits Mommy, Can I Go Out And Kill – The Misfits The Time Warp – The Rocky Horroy Picture Show Film Cast The Munsters Theme Werewolves of London – Warren Zevon The Witch Queen of New Orleans – Redbone Bad Things – Jace Everett Halloween (She Get So Mean) – Rob Zombie and The Ghastly Ones Devil Woman – Cliff Richard -
The Blob – The Five Blobs
So there you go! That along with whole CDs by Midnight Syndicate and Nox Arcana and then naturally the more Pagan oriented stuff for Samhain (as opposed to Halloween) and I’m good for a while. Enjoy!