Spooky tune recommendations plz

[Serge]

Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon

How could I forget that one? "His hair was perfect."

[DocDaneeka]

I second the Cramps recommendation, I would go for What's Behind The Mask as though it's clearly about a sexy gimp mask it works well as a horror tune as well.

[Marty McFly]

you need Ace Records!





oh and this one, if you fancy surf music by the undead.. "Bela B Good", "The Little Old Lady From Transylvania", and "Be True To Your Ghoul"..

[Pedro_Bear]

John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness soundtrack[nb][noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTVFlMy5kdw[/noembed] The opening titles alone are sublime.[/nb] is full of neat synthpop instrumentals ripe for monster mashing'n'mixing, ditto In The Mouth of Madness[nb][noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--wAw7gBQxU[/noembed] Again, lots to work with.[/nb], in a more 80's guitar-y way.

Anything from Nox Arcana's Grimm Tales[nb][noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tYUDfYRqd4[/noembed] Disney haunted house music it may be, but it's good Disney haunted house music.[/nb], again synthpop, and cheesy synthpop at that, but that's pretty much their thing.

Danny Elfman's[nb]Studious avoiding mentioning The Nightmare Before Christmas, as that is just played out, with the possible exception of Flyleaf's cover version of What's This?, and that's a Christmas song anyway.[/nb] Beetlejuice is probably his very best comedy horror album, full of his signature over the top orchestration. It's also one that is instantly recognisable to audiences without them being able to place it. Sleepy Hollow has the definitive creepy child choir on More Dreams[nb][noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBae9edbJbw[/noembed] More Dreams starts at about 5:53 here, OOOOh-oooh-ooh-OHHHHHHHHH...[/nb], but it's mostly slow-paced atmospheric stuff otherwise. Corpse Bride has the very beautiful Victor's Piano Solo,  The Piano Duet, and a cracking instrumental version of The Wedding Song, but we're into arch goffic cool[nb]Oh, and if you haven't heard the awful good-ness that is Almost Alice the side-soundtrack from the Tim Burton Alice film, hand in your Goff badge right now at Hot Topic. It is mandatory listening, especially the pure guilty pleasures of Kerli's Tea Party ([noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY58uPtAM68[/noembed] Go on, you know you want to click it...), and Franz Ferdinand's The Lobster Quadrille.[/nb] here, rather than outright spooky. The Ball & Socket lounge jazz is fun though.

If you can work up mp3s, The Broken Notes is a free project re-imagining Silent Hill themes (and other computer game music), and is rather beautifully done, I've plundered this site more than once for spooky cleverness. Final Fantasy VIII has some quite brilliant horror themes, but more twisting than outright spooky[nb]And since we're dangerously close to the borders of wapanese territory, Halloween obviously means Flan'n'Remi TouHou Project time, and the following versions of Flandre's motif U.N. Owen was Her? work at room level:
[noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOW6JSw5DyA[/noembed] SWING HOLIC's The Fifth Man, Last Man (is you)
[noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utX7hehcA6k[/noembed] OTAKU-ELITE's SCARLET DISCO
[noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zVZuZvf_YE[/noembed] Toho Grand Orchestra's version from Sound. /Ecriture
[noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_837it7UhX8[/noembed] Ripples by DJ Sackman
[noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVvDJy6zXyo[/noembed] SOUND HOLIC's Sympathy For The Scarlet Devil
... etc etc and so on. Going to stop there, because this is a list that never ends, and once fully tainted with TouHou Project we are doomed worse than with our creepy pedo cartoons...[/nb].

Step forward Mediaeval Babes with Unrentide's Summerisle (The Maypole Song)[nb][noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pwXFVCsuvU[/noembed] onthatbrachtherewasanest[/nb], Dance of The Trolls, and Omnes Gentes Plaudite, yet we're firmly in creepy/cheesy faux-Latin, lolwiccan chanting territory here. And while we're here, far more creepy and wtf is Art Bear's Winter Songs, but good luck mixing any of it into a set[nb][noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfXu9jXmgYo[/noembed] Rats and Monkeys.[/nb]...

Abandoned Toys' The Witch's Garden is spooky ambient goodness[nb][noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSTH-esyF40[/noembed] The Witch's Garden (Prelude).[/nb], albeit not outright horror. It's more layering the supernatural over a subdued arcadian soundscape. Not party music, but works great for a chill out room.

Scott D. Davis Pianotorium has the most awesome piano version of Master Of Puppets[nb][noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RlwtPcC424[/noembed] FUCK YEAH![/nb]. Most of anything[nb][noembed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nORtRzPrLl8[/noembed] Epilepsy Is Dancing.[/nb] by Anthony and The Johnsons is unsettling, and readily sampled for more ambient sets.

Eminem 3am, ICP Three little Piggies, Tenacious D Beelzeboss, all good for pulling yourself back out of a self-dug audience boredom hole...

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

The Director's Cut by Fantômas has a lot of horror tunes on it, although most of the arrangements are a bit metal for folk to bop to. This here one has something of that cheesy Monster Mash sort of sound to it though:
Spider Baby- Fantômas+ Lyrics

[Johnny Yesno]

Thirded for Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead and The Cramps - I Was A Teenage Werewolf. Also:

Tom Waits - What's He Building? What's He Building?

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire Crazy world of arthur brown - fire

The Cure - Subway Song The Cure - Subway song

The Cure - Lullaby The Cure - Lullaby

Siouxsie & the Banshees - Peek-a-boo Siouxsie & The Banshees Peek a boo

[Buchstansangur]

Most of Coil is a bit scary, but I'm not sure how suitable any of it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gj8JtD0Ass

This one is the closest they get to kitsch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZhpIDs_VQ4

[Ignatius_S]

So, basically anything by The Cramps.

How could I forget that one? "His hair was perfect."

Because all the YouTube links weren't being displayed when I posted, I had a horrible feeling that I was not going to be the first to suggest that one...

[Ignatius_S]

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

Ah, cheers - I'll take a little look as I didn't check out the link.

[Serge]

Because all the YouTube links weren't being displayed when I posted, I had a horrible feeling that I was not going to be the first to suggest that one...

I still can't believe that John Landis didn't put it in 'An American Werewolf In London'. I know the running joke is that all of the songs have 'Moon' in the title, but he must have been tempted.

_{Or maybe he couldn't clear the rights.}

[Buchstansangur]

Correct; he couldn't get the rights.

[Neville Chamberlain]

Though probably not suitable for a Halloween knees-up, the track Street Scene off the album Hex by Bark Psychosis is, in true Bark Psychosis tradition, both beautiful and sinister (listen from 5:00)...

Bark Psychosis - Hex [Pt. 1]

Fuck I love Bark Psychosis, not seen them mentioned round here I don't think...

[Serge]

'Hex' is a great album! Also has possibly my favourite album cover of all time.



They invented Post Rock, you know.

[massive bereavement]

The Who "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde" (1968), apparently it was actually about Keith Moon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX58SHVg1dA

Ringo Starr "Spooky Weirdness" (1976)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYJJA3TtetY

[Jemble Fred]

For what it be worth, this is the tentative longlist for the Halloween show we're doing on Thursday (don't mind the numbers, just songbook details). Some are tenuous as fuck:

Blue Moon    Two: 078
Devil & The Deep Blue Sea, The   Two: 124
Midnight Special    Two: 094
Mister Sandman    Three: 082
Night Has 1000 Eyes, The    Seven: 004
Witch Doctor    Seven: 124
Young Blood    Seven: 013
Bad Moon Rising   One: 036
Eloise   Six: 035
She's Not There    Four: 085
Spirit In The Sky   One: 024
Wild Thing   Three: 029
Black Night    Seven, 076
Devil Gate Drive    Seven: 119
Magic    Four: 079
Werewolves of London    Three: 112
Mack The Knife    Five: 039
Girl From Mars    Six: 079
Shining, The    Three: 091
Insect Nation    Six: 058
Eternal Flame   One: 090
Baby's In Black    Two: 097
Piggies    Four: 018
She's Got The Devil In Her Heart    Three: 054
Beautiful Zelda    Three: 107
Look Out There's A Monster Coming   Five: 116
Monster Mash, The   One: 082
Ashes To Ashes    Seven, 102
Ring of Fire   One: 002
Mulder & Scully    Six: 120
Scooby Doo    Two: 096
Ghost Riders In The Sky   Three: 012
Season of the Witch   One: 102
People Are Strange    Seven: 118
Wild Boys   One: 094
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots   One: 012
Black Magic Woman   Six: 021
Landlord's Daughter, The   Seven: 117
Thriller    Seven: 124
Wild Wood    Seven: 043
Beryl The Ignorant Mermaid   Six: 121
Delilah    Six: 120
Death Of A Clown    Two: 055
Poison   Eight: 003
Moondance    Two: 114
In The Midnight Hour    Four: 055
Ghostbusters   One: 090
Stagger Lee    Five: 114
Stuck In The Middle With You   One: 107
Forever Autumn    Four: 008
Music Of The Night, The    Three: 088
Suddenly Seymour    Four: 036
Timewarp, The    Six: 119
She's Electric    Seven: 126
In Dreams    Seven: 057
Heart    Two: 107
It's A Sin    Six: 090
Psycho Killer    Five: 114
Devil Woman    Six: 077
Unchained Melody    Five: 037
I Can't Decide    Six: 001
More You Ignore Me, The    Two: 052
Spooky   Seven: 001
Ride A White Swan    Six: 045
Bad Things    Seven: 019
Moons & Horror Shows    Three: 072

[greencalx]

This Portishead remix of the Earthling track "Nefisa" has a pretty eerie vibe to it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbUkt0t4huA

There's a version with vocals downloadable from iTunes/Spotify/...

[CaledonianGonzo]

Speaking of Walk On Gilded Splinters, I'd choose the Marsha Hunt version for preference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lML6N6XVeOE

(As opposed to the Paul Weller one, naturally).

[Serge]

Cher does a pretty good version on '3614 Jackson Highway', too.

[PaulTMA]

Not the title track from 'It's Spooky', but this is even moreso:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t44FjWn0OfY

Oh god, this came on the ipod walking to the studio in the dark in Stockholm a few years ago and I just about shat my pants:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDQ2yQwiNwA

[Phil_A]

Nina Simone doing Pirate Jenny, but it has to be this version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7awW5nrDHk

[CaledonianGonzo]

Nina Simone doing Pirate Jenny, but it has to be this version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7awW5nrDHk

Oh - good call.

Similarly, some Billie Holiday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs