Here Are Two Halloween Playlists (One for the Party and the Other for Instilling Fear and Horror)
Since I’m a sickly ghoul, Halloween is my favorite holiday, so I’ve put together a couple of Halloween playlists to share the joy and horror. The first is packed with must-have Halloween spooky hits aimed at all the boys and ghouls on the dance floor, like Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Stevie Wonder’s Superstition, but I’ve added a few season-appropriate tricks like Helen Reddy’s Angie. Baby ”is the best ghost song ever recorded.
Check it out:
Lifehacker’s Killer Halloween Party Playlist
List of Halloween Party Tracks:
1. Stevie Wonder – Superstition
2. Jackson 5 – “The Boogie Man”
3. Rockwell – “Someone Is Watching Me”
4. Billie Eilish is the “bad guy.”
5. Donovan – “Season of the Witches”
6. David Bowie – “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)”
7. Kanye West, JAY-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Bon Iver – “Monster”
8. Little Nell, Patricia Quinn, Richard O’Brien – “Time Warp”
9. Gnarles Barkley – “Boogie Monster”
10. John Carpenter – “Halloween Theme”
11. Helen Reddy – Angie Baby
12. Rihanna – “Disturbia”
13. Sir Mix-A-Lot – “Monsta ‘Mack”
14. Michael Jackson – Thriller
15. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – “A Nightmare On My Street”
16. Oingo Boingo – “Strange Science”
17. Bobby “Boris” Pickett – “Monster Mash”
18. Jeff Richmond, Tracy Morgan – “Werewolf Bar Mitvah”
19. Geto Boys – “Reason Deceives Me”
20. Outcast – “Dracula’s Wedding”
21. Ray Parker Jr. – Ghostbusters
22. Kim Petras – “There Will Be Blood”
23. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Red Right Hand
24. Post Malone, Ozzy Osbourne, Travis Scott – “Take what you want”
Lifehacker’s really scary Halloween playlist
If you’re like me and counting as an amateur Halloween night because you’ve been living in the dark all year round, I’ve compiled a second, obviously more horrific playlist. These songs will free the dance floor and make your guests gaze into the distance, reflecting on the shared fate of kings and beggars.
Actually a creepy track listing
1. William Bolcom, John Murphy – “A Graceful Haunted Rag”
2. Tom Waits – “What is he building there?”
3. B.F. Shelton – “Oh Molly Darling”
4. Sinead O’Connor – “Jackie”
5. Reverend Gary Davis – “Death Has No Mercy”
6. Devendra Banhart – “Eyes of Insects”
7. Violent Femmes – “Country Song of Death”
8. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – “The Curse of Milhaven”
9. Ima Sumak – “Sansa (Victory Song)”
10. The Louvain brothers – “The Knoxville Girl”
11. Throbbing Gristle – “Hamburger Lady”.
12. Flanagan and Allen – Run Rabbit Run
13. Steroid Maximus – “Bad Day at Greenpoint”
14. Doc Boggs – Oh Death
15. Barbara Moncure – “The frog he would like to courting”
16. Pink Floyd – “Careful with the ax, Eugene”
17. UNKLE, Thom Yorke – “The Rabbit in Your Headlights”
18. Suicide – “Frankie Tyrdrop”
19. The Tinseltown Players – “There Was a Crooked Man”
20. Radiohead – “The Fitter Is Happier”
21. Niko – “Roses in the Snow”
22. Nina Simone – “Pirate Jenny”
23. Pogu – “Worms”
“I often heard sounds that filled me with vague dread – dread of vague surprise and brooding mystery. It’s not that the sounds were awful, because they weren’t; but that they kept vibrations, offering nothing on this globe. “
—G.P. Lovecraft, The Music of Erich Zann