Spooky tune recommendations plz

[alan nagsworth]

Okay so I'm doing a DJ set at a Halloween  birthday bash this October 31st and I have some bangers lined up and all that for the late night dancefloor action, but I need to do a more conservative Halloween set of standard spooky tunes back to back for early in the evening, when there will still be family/kids of the birthday chap in attendance still. I don't mind how obscure the music is as long as it has a kind of kitsch cool scary vibe. The funkier, the better! I'm thinking Monster Mash OBVIOUSLY and also stuff from Messer Chups and maybe a couple of soundtrack scores. All suggestions welcome! GET BUSY SO I DON'T HAVE TO! thanks in advance :) xxx

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Something from the Blacula soundtrack would fulfil both the horror and funk remit.
Gene Page - Blacula (The Stalkwalk) Blaxploitation 1972

[Sivead]

Is it Ghostbusters II?

Ghostbusters 2 [Run D.M.C] [HD]

[Why I Hate Tables]

First thing that comes to mind is Bela Lugosi's Dead by Bauhaus, and now I've suggested that I want to hear Peter Murphy take on the Monster Mash.
Other frankly useless suggestions from me are I Was A Teenage Werewolf by The Cramps (or one of the many other Cramps songs are about B movies instead of sex); Singapore by Tom Waits; and Release The Bats by The Birthday Party.

[Jemble Fred]

I used this Fireman track in the last Verbwhore Halloween story, because to me it sounds like the greatest ghost story theme ever – the first moviemaker to realise its potential is the winner.

Paul McCartney "The Fireman" - Traveling Light

[Neville Chamberlain]

Anything off this album might be good:



The tracks are mostly short, so might be good for occasionally dropping in between your longer, funkier tracks.

Read about it here:  http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2440-the-skull-mailbox-and-other-horrors/

[Serge]

Get hold of this fella:



...which will give you plenty of options. My particular favourite is 'Zombie Jamboree' by Lord Jellicoe.

[Dead kate moss]

Off the top of my head

Spooky - Dusty Springfield
There's a ghost in my house - R Dean Taylor/The Fall
You must be a witch - The Lollipop Shoppe
Witch Queen of New Orleans - Tom Jones
Witch - The Sonics
Let's Go To Hell -  God Bullies

or these albums

[Brundle-Fly]

It has to be the groovy The Vampires Of Dartmoore --- Dracula's Music Cabinet LP (Germany 1969)

http://www.discogs.com/Vampires-Of-Dartmoore-Draculas-Music-Cabinet/release/1145348

Oh and MC Hammer's Addams Family single. "They do what they wanna do. say what they wanna say, the Addams family"

[Famous Mortimer]

Ah yes, "Burn the Flames" by Roky Erikson off the ROTLD soundtrack is a cracker.

You could do worse than go to captaincrawl.com and search for "Halloween mix".

[Brundle-Fly]

How could I forget Vampyros Lesbos --- Sexadelic Dance Party. One of the greatest soundtracks ever!

[Jemble Fred]

My band's doing a Halloween show next week, and we're having to learn all sorts of shit – last year we did the obvious ones, 'Spooky', Bad Moon Rising', 'Monster Mash' etc, and have to go more obscure this time. I don't mind doing 'Poison' by Alice Cooper, but now I'm having to research some Iron Maiden tot to please my drummer. 'Number of the Beast'. Never heard of it before, but luckily, it seems to be mainly two chords.

[Benjie Trufflesnort]

A bit unusual but why not try The Jezebel Spirit from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - it's got a recording of a real excorcism on it. Well, as real as any excorcism can be.

[Doomy Dwyer]

A nice bit of Screamin' Jay Hawkins never goes amiss 'Alligator Wine', Little Demon' and of course 'I Put a Spell on You' should see you right. Dr John with his voodoo stylings - 'Danse Kalinda da Boom' and 'Walk on Gilded Splinters' cooking up some mumbo gumbo. Nick Cave's 'Song of Joy' is a good 'un, most anything off of 'Murder Ballads' will do you, 'Curse of Millhaven' and his majestic 'Stagerlee'[nb]Although Nick does use a bit of 'language' in this one. It's a funky mother though.[/nb]. There's some good live versions of 'Stagerlee' which are far more menacing than the album version so try them. You should have 'Release the Bats' too. Nothing says halloween like a bellowing junkie.

Tindersticks do a tres sinister version of '(I've Been) Loving You Too Long' which takes the sentiments of the Otis original and mixes in a couple more dessert spoons of obsession, jelousy and homicidal longing. All swirling organ and repeats of the phrase "I can't stop" in a very worrying manner. It's an absolutely blinding version of a truly fucking wonderful song.

That should get 'em dancing.

[Johnny Textface]

This ones spooky as a wooky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sEPoqGQRQ0

[Neville Chamberlain]

Dr John with his voodoo stylings - 'Danse Kalinda da Boom' and 'Walk on Gilded Splinters' cooking up some mumbo gumbo.

I second this - a fantastically evocatiove album if ever there was one. I swear the percussion on some tracks is played on bones.

[lipsink]

The main 'Tenebre' theme by Goblin? It's funky as fuck and you can dance to it, but not really the 'Suspiria' theme.

[Benjie Trufflesnort]

And of course The Blue Wrath by I Monster - or Shaun of the Dead as most people would know it.

[Rubismus]

This slice of Joe Meek should have the kitschy cool covered:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8oBFIwB5rA

[Bog Dadley]

My particular favourite is 'Zombie Jamboree' by Lord Jellicoe.

A mighty piece of work, indeed.

I recommend a slice of J Saul Kane:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyrrxXbRl7k

Wilmot by Sabres of Paradise has a nice voodoo quality to it, too. 

[lipsink]

You could always have 'Cannibal Holocaust' for the slow dance section.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf1Vt6r-sj8

Such a beautiful piece of music for such an ugly (but great) film.

[boki]

It's probably not particularly spooky in and of itself, but this has got a ton of creepy-by-association:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D9M0mgO_G0

[Catalogue Trousers]

Or how about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bso0I_wZkrs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GxwDJyqHDI

More the tune here. It gets a little bit crude, but it still fits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh1FGUr_JQI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4YiM4JcLtA&ob=av2n

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1G8hI7aSSc

And this, with a vocal half-way between LSD in The Producers and Bill Oddie in one of his "I'm rockin' out here, honest I am" moments...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUE2jW61arA&NR=1

[Brundle-Fly]

And of course The Blue Wrath by I Monster - or Shaun of the Dead as most people would know it.

Good call. Then we should also add The Gonk from the Dawn Of The Dead CD (Trunk Records). All the library music that wasn't provided by Goblin.

[Brundle-Fly]

Or how about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1G8hI7aSSc

Composed by Our Lord, Burt Bacharach!!!

[Marv Orange]

http://www.last.fm/music/Apeonaut/_/Number+of+the+Beast

For that halloween in the late 90's feeling.

[Jumble Cashback]

Old Man Mose Is Dead.

And a whole slew of Tom Waits songs too numerous to mention.

[m...wW(wwMww)Ww...m]

Not at all spooky, but in the same novelty vein as "Monster Mash", Sheb Wooley's "Purple People Eater":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVbGnspgy_8

[Ignatius_S]

Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon

The Meteors - Little Red Riding Hood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8xBFULf0kY

The Living Dead; The Creature from the Black Leather Lagoon – The Cramps

Feed My Frankenstein - Alice Cooper

Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo

Psycho Killer – Talking Heads

Lagartija Nick - bauhaus

Ghost Town – The Specials

Waltz In Black - the Stranglers

The Munsters Theme

Peekaboo - Devo

Not at all spooky, but in the same novelty vein as "Monster Mash", Sheb Wooley's "Purple People Eater":...

I read once that 'purple' referred to the colour of people it ate, rather than the monster itself... who knows?

[Benjie Trufflesnort]

I read once that 'purple' referred to the colour of people it ate, rather than the monster itself... who knows?

There's much debate under that very video about that.