All these posts about horror movies, it’s about time there was a post devoted to music for Hallowe’en!

I have a couple of Hallowe’en compilation CDs, this playlist puts together various songs not on those collections.  Some of the choices are obvious horror themes (“The Number of the Beast”, “Nasty”); others are more tenuous (“Devil in Disguise”, “Hotter Than Hell”).  Other selections are related, directly or not, to great scary movies: you know where “Bad Moon Rising” is from, right?

Either way, there’s a variety of styles here – suitable for (most) Hallowe’en gatherings…

1. Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Bad Moon Rising”
2. The Damned – “Nasty”
3. Elvis Presley – “(You’re the) Devil in Disguise”
4. Ramones – “Pet Semetary”
5. Motorhead – “Hellraiser”
6. Johnny Cash – “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky”
7. Iron Maiden – “The Number of the Beast”
8. The Misfits – “Vampira”
9. Kiss – “Hotter Than Hell”
10. Rolling Stones – “Sympathy for the Devil”
11. Zombina & The Skeletones – “Nobody Loves You (When You’re Dead)”
12. Ozzy Osbourne – “Mr Crowley”
13. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – “I Put a Spell on You”
14. GBH – “Horror Story”
15. Van Halen – “Runnin’ with the Devil”
16. David Bowie – “Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)”
17. The Cult – “The Witch”
18. Jimi Hendrix Experience – “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”
19. Alice Cooper – “I Love the Dead”