The Floral Ghost
Halloween is one of those holidays that I enjoy, but I was the kinda kid who would wait ’til the last minute on the costume and end up wearing an old floral sheet with eyes cut out. My neighborhood was also short on other kids, so besides a few pumpkins, it was a quiet night on our street. But my best friend’s dad would pick us up and drive us over to the fancier ‘hoods, where there were loads of kids, and we’d come back with pillowcases bursting with candy. For many years, it was one of the best nights of my life.
Halloween Treats
While I gotten away from even trying with a costume, I still love to eat candy and exclaim over the little kids wearing an old sheet. We carve a couple of pumpkins and say we’ll try harder next year, seeing as our current neighborhood is Halloween central, but we’re kinda lazy. Many of my pals are really tuned into Halloween, and it’s great fun to see everyone get all kinds of creative with it. My main contribution to the festivities is the humble playlist.
I try to do a new one for Halloween every year, but it didn’t make the task list this year. However, I couldn’t let you down when it comes to cool tunes. Here’s a remix of playlists from All-Hallow’s Eve Past to help get all those zombies on the dance floor.
Happy Halloween!
Musical Candy
- Me And The Devil – Gil Scott-Heron
- Buried At Sea – MC 900 Ft Jesus
- Hell – Squirrel Nut Zippers
- Zombie – The Cranberries
- Voo Doo – The Neville Brothers
- Dracula’s Wedding – Outkast
- Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) – David Bowie
- Blood Makes Noise – Suzanne Vega
- Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead – Ultravox
- Werewolf – Southern Culture On The Skids
- Eve White Eve Black – Siouxsie & The Banshees
- Who Can It Be Now? – Men At Work
- Ghost Town – The Specials
- It’s Bad You Know – R.L. Burnside
- Girl Anachronism – The Dresden Dolls
- Psycho Killer – Talking Heads
- The Kill In Me – P.O.S.
- Blood & Roses – The Smithereens
- Waking The Witch – Kate Bush
- Where Is My Mind – Pixies
- Devil Woman – Cliff Richard
- Thriller – Michael Jackson
- Boris The Spider- The Who
- Executioner’s Song – The Fresh and Onlys
- Pet Semetary – The Ramones
- Strangeboy- Brazilian Girls
- The Hanging Garden – The Cure
- Wolf Like Me – TV On The Radio
- My Boy Builds Coffins – Florence And The Machine
- Synchronicity II – The Police
- Whistlin’ Past The Graveyard – Tom Waits
- Texas Funeral – Jon Wayne
- Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) – Concrete Blonde
- Somebody Done Hoodooed the Hoodoo Man – Louis Jordan
- Organ Donor – Jeremy Messersmith
- Nightmare – Artie Shaw
- Bus to Beelzebub – Soul Coughing
- VooDoo Working – Charles Sheffield
- Frenzy – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
- Ghost Song – Air
- Excitable Boy – Warren Zevon
- Addictive – Faithless
- The Witch Queen Of New Orleans – Redbone
- Headless Horseman – Kay Starr
- Satan Takes A Holiday – John Cali
- Red Right Hand – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
- Somebody’s Watching Me – Rockwell
- Freakshow on the Dancefloor – The Bar-Kays
- Fresh Blood – Eels
- Pretty Girls Make Graves – The Smiths
- Who’s That Creepin’?- Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
- Living Dead Girl – Rob Zombie
- Bad Things – Jace Everett
- Hunting For Witches – Bloc Party
- Gary Gilmore’s Eyes – The Adverts
- Bones – Little Big Town
- Season Of The Witch – Donovan
- Only A Lad – Oingo Boingo
- Play With Fire – Cobra Verde
- Things That Scare Me – Neko Case
- Carmina Burana: O’fortuna – Carl Orff