Last year, I talked to a couple of musicians about their favorite Christmas music, and that got me thinking that I should do the same thing with Halloween music. And so as I interviewed several guests this year, I started off by asking them just two simple questions: What are some of your favorite Halloween songs? and How do people find you and your music online? Of course, sometimes the conversation went in other directions, but that’s the main part of the discussion.
Songs mentioned by the artists in the episode:
Bedford Level Experiment
- “Nightmare on My Street” – DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
- “Thriller” – Michael Jackson
- “The Friendly Haunted Mansion” – Blanket Truth
Beefy
- “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” – from 30 Rock (by Donald Glover and Tracy Morgan)
- “Munsters Theme Song”
Bolonium
- “Thriller” – Michael Jackson
- “Witches Brew” – Hap Palmer
- “Spooky” – Classics IV
- “Nature Trail to Hell” – “Weird Al” Yankovic
- Ernest Scared Stupid Opening Credits
- “Kookie Jar” – Bolonium
Boy Meets Robot
- Dead Man’s Party / “No One Lives Forever” – Oingo Boingo / anything by Danny Elfman
- “Thriller” – Michael Jackson
Count Jared
- “Grim Grinning Ghosts” – from the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney
- “Little Red Riding Hood” – Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
- “Monster Mash” – Bobby Pickett
- “Science Fiction Double Feature” – from Rocky Horror Picture Show
- “Munsters Theme”
Dino-Mike
- “Halloween” – Stephen Lynch
- “Monster Mash” – Bobby Pickett
- “Halloween Nights” – Dino-Mike
- “Zombie Girl” – Dino-Mike
Marc with a C
- Welcome to My Nightmare / Welcome 2 My Nightmare – Alice Cooper
- “Toccata” – Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
- Suspiria / Dawn of the Dead Soundtracks – Goblin
- “Boris the Spider” / “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” – The Who; also music by John Entwistle
- LP 2 of Can’s Tago Mago – “Aumgn,” “Peking O,” and “Bring Me Coffee or Tea”
Megathruster
- “Grim Grinning Ghosts” – from the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney
- “It’s Halloween” – The Shaggs
Mikal kHill
- “Mind Playing Tricks on Me” – Geto Boys / anything by Geto Boys
Nuclear Bubble Wrap
- It Follows soundtrack
- Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack
- “Monster Mash” – Bobby Pickett
- “Lame Monster Party” – Paul and Storm (I mentioned it)
- “RE: Your Brains” – Jonathan Coulton
- “Halloween on the Barbary Coast” – The Flaming Lips
Rhiannon’s Lark
- “Monster Mash” – Bobby Pickett
- “Little Red Riding Hood” – Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
- “Werewolves of London” – Warren Zevon
- “Thriller” – Michael Jackson
- Pagan music by Burning Sage
Rock, Paper, Cynic
- Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack
- The Flaming Lips are the ones who covered “This Is Halloween”
Smashy Claw
- Nightmare Before Christmas Revisited
- Anything by Danny Elfman
- Halloween Howls, “In Our Haunted House,” “The Creature from the Tub” – Andrew Gold
- “Grim Grinning Ghosts” – from the Haunted Mansion ride at Disney
- They did release an EP of Goosebumps-inspired Halloween tracks
Ultra Magnus and DJ SLAM!
- “What’s a Girl to Do” – Bats for Lashes (specifically the video)
- “The Horror” – RJD2
- “Bogus Boys”– Ali G
- “Coffee” – Aesop Rock (also mostly for the video)
- “Bath Salts” – A$AP Rocky w/ Flatbush Zombies
You can send questions, comments, and suggestions for future guests to darthaqueous@gmail.com or via Twitter at @Darthaqueous.
Intro music provided by Smashy Claw
Outro music:
“Guess Who” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Featured image photo by William Warby
