Off the top of my head, in no particular order…
“Monster Mash”
“Werewolf Bar Mitzvah”
Grand Buffet, “Candy Bars”
S.O.D., “Freddy Kreuger”
Van Morrison, “Season of the Witch”
Frank Sinatra, “Witchcraft”
Everything by Danzig (“Twist of Cain” being best)
Everything by the Misfits (“Night of the Living Dead” being best)
Everything by Samhain (November Coming Fire LP being best)
The Plan “God Told Me to Kill” (sounds like new Misfits playing old Misfits songs)
Rock versions of the Nightmare Before Halloween songs ("Marilyn Manson’s “This Is Halloween” and Fiona Apple’s “Sally’s Song” being best)
Moose A. Moose, “I Don’t Like Candy Corn”
David Cross & pals, “Do They Know It’s Halloween”
Testament, “Alone in the Dark”
Everything by White Zombie
Everything by Rob Zombie (except “Foxy Foxy”)
Can’t leave out John Carpenter’s Halloween theme
Austrian Death Machine’s cover of Terminator Theme
Frank Zappa, “Goblin Girl”
Frank Zappa, “The Radio Is Broken” (sci fi)
Warren Zevon, “Werewolves of London”
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, “Devil Bunnies”
B-52s, “Monster (in My Pants)”
Spinal Tap, “Stonehenge”
Blue Oyster Cult, “Godzilla”
Danzig, “Her Black Wings” (great succubus jam)
David Bowie, “Cat People” (or Danzig cover)
The Misfits, “Kong Unleashed”
The Misfits, “Halloween”
The Misfits, “Halloween II”
The Lemonheads “Skulls” (acoustic Misfits cover)
Edgar Winter Group, “Frankenstein”
Creedance Clearwater Revival, “Bad Moon Rising”
Sonic Youth, “Halloween”
Marylin Manson, “Sweet Dreams” (it’s creepy enough, right?)
Gravediggaz, “Bang Your Head” (totally aggressive horrorcore hip-hop)
Wolfpac, “Something Wicked This Way Comes”
Misfits, “Abominable Doctor Phibes” (would make great wrestling entrance music)
Sir Lord Baltimore, “Kingdom Come” (obscure classic rock, kool riffage, wizard lyrics)
The Gutter Twins, “The Stations” (it’s dark and eerie enough to count)
Geto Boys, “My Mind Is Playin’ Tricks on Me”
Dead Kennedys, “Halloween”
Black Sabbath, “Black Sabbath”
Dio, “Rainbow in the Dark”
Johnny Cash, “13” (close enough)
Megadeth, “Black Friday”
Metallica, “Last Caress/Green Hell”
The Misfits, “Die Die My Darling” (as heard in Buffy)
Prince, “Batdance” (why not?)
Sound of Urchin, “Jack-O-Lantern” (fun rock song)
Sound of Urchin, “Dracula Bite”
Sound of Urchin, “Mr. Hanalei” (heavy jammin’ tune the borrows the scary-tastic narrative from the Brady Bunch Hawaii trip, click here for video: http://vimeo.com/1893367 )
goth suite:
Bauhaus, “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”
The Birthday Massacre, “Looking Glass”
The Birthday Massacre, “I Think We’re Alone Now”
Suicide Girls’ “Blackheart Retrospective” mix album, with a ton of great stuff from 80s & 90s
Bauhaus, “St. Vitus Dance”
New Order, “Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix)” <-not exactly Halloweeny, but it’s the song from the opening blood-rain rave scene in the first Blade movie)
Anything by Hanzel Und Gretyl
And Bauhaus’ cover of Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust” isn’t exactly Halloween, but it’s fricken amazing.
//youtu.be/6a_YQXFs7Ts
And as long as we’re talkin’ Halloween, Wonderful Wonderblog is, by far, my favorite Halloween-Christmas-Monster-Nostalgia blog, with all kinds of awesome downloads and some reading:
http://wonderfulwonderblog.blogspot.com/
And as long as we’re talking scary tunes, the Amazon.com download comp “The 99 Darkest Pieces of Classical Music” is a must-have, and it’s a frickin’ steal, like 11 hours for $5.99. Een if you don’t listen to classical music, if you’re a GWCer, you’ll recognize a bunch of the tunes from movies and such:
http://www.amazon.com/99-Darkest-Pieces-Classical-Music/dp/B0048NUUS2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317520546&sr=8-1
