All Hallows’ Eve Essentials

During the time of the Autumn season coming up to the end of October, Halloween (All Hallows' Eve) is such a sugary, spooky and slightly shivery time of a festive period for the night of the 31st.

It is also the time of pumpkin carvings transformed to Jack O' Lanterns spotlighting in orange through the spook-tacular night, kids of all ages dressed up in many different and dashing costumes so scream-worthy for Trick or Treatin round the neighbourhood for their favourite sweets (candy) and chocolates, house parties decorated with Bats, Spiders, Cob Webs and Skeletons in designs of haunted houses for a disco with games of apple bobbing, and many other Boo's, Scream's and Frights of the ghost chilling event (not to mention the ceremonious event of the Day Of The Dead on November 2nd).

If Trick or Treatin or partying isn't for you for whatever case how you choose to celebrate All Hallows' Eve, and no matter what you dress like a Witch, Vampire, Ghost, Devil etc. here is an example of an essential playlist of popping and jam rocking songs to listen to around Halloween either at a party, having a little stroll round the neighbourhood Trick or Treatin or just at home watching gorging on sweets and binge watch scary movies on Netflix, well you've come to the right place.

Some of these songs may or may not relate to the All Hallows' Eve natural themes but they certainly can keep the night going to feel the joy and spirit of a happy haunting at a party or at home.

#12 - Beautiful Monster - Ne-Yo

The lyrics and the music video may have nothing to do with any spooks or frights referring to Halloween on this track, but the lyrics of the chorus as sung out by Ne-Yo "She's a Beautiful Monster, but I don't mind" gives a sense of a girl acting like a "Monster" with her being so "Beautiful" but the singer does not seem to mind her in that way. The world Monster though relates to the event, in a way if one was to dress up in some sought like one to show of to friends at a party or even act wild like a party animal depending how long you can last for the night.

#11 - I'm Your Boogie Man - KC And The Sunshine Band

Also not related to any theme of All Hallows' Eve, although the title and the song itself brings out a sense of joy at a party and referring to the Boogie Man. Only with the lyrics being a symbol and meaning of love and laughter from a catchy disco 70's classic.

#10 - Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo

Now that we are in the zone of spookiness for the Halloween spirit, this track in a way represents a theme almost like Day of the Dead (only with more rock and roll).

The lyrics certainly relate like a horror show with Dead Man's Party as also titled on the band's album. If you imagine like your at a late night Halloween house party or maybe at a disco, you could feel the flow and the rhythm of the emblazoned show for the night. Even the music video brings all the All Hallows' Eve prosper with clay-motion skeletons appearing in a way of playing like the band at a club.

This song was also featured in horror and thriller related films and T.V. shows such as Nightmare Before Christmas, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Chuck.

#9 - Wall To Wall - Chris Brown

This tune has lyrics that may have nothing to do with Halloween as it mainly involves love, sex and flirty vibes. The music video however involves horror themes of vampires, sharp fangs, gargoyle statues, darkness settings and with blood-sharpened titles at the beginning.

The music video is also an imitation to the Blade films as Chris Brown was inspired by Michael Jackson's Thriller. The video also contains sexy, flirtatious female vampires, a gothic style club and involves epic dance moves especially on one dance sequence on the "wall".

#8 - Disturbia - Rihanna

This tracks lyrics relates more to horror style than in a Halloween sense, although the music video definitely relates to it. The music video shows Rihanna in a surrealistic, circus-like torture chamber where she is dressed in black, wearing dark make-up and long black nails like some kind of dark bad-ass boss on a throne. She is also imprisoned wearing lenses that make it look as if her eyes have rolled into the back of her head.

She is also with multiple people dressed in some kind of a horror show around her holding her in front of a gas chamber. The dancers also perform a thriller esqué routine. There are also other shocking and disturbing scenes where Rihanna drags a man doll around a metal web and wearing metal spines while tarantulas are all over her body with her hands are being stuck in the wall and her legs in the floor. The music video looks bizarrely R-rated but brings an excellent example to listen to around Halloween.

#7 - I'm In Love With A Monster - Fifth Harmony

Harmonizers calling, Fifth Harmony lights up the scene to make this an essential track to listen to during the ghostly greetings event.

With both the lyrics and music video strongly referring to the event even though it may not be everybody's main pick of choice to listen to at a party but still rather joyous to listen to at home just to feel like you're in the mood to embrace the Happy Hollows.

The music video shows the girls in fun, yet gothic style and a Halloween-themed décor is common from beginning to end. All the members of the band are dressed in 1940s style attire, dancing in front of a hotel they are about to explore accompanied by a variety of monsters with decors of skulls, candles and dim lighting throughout the area.

The song is also the soundtrack of the film Hotel Transylvania 2 with clips of the film spliced on, the song can also be heard at the beginning, on the end credits and snippets heard on the sequel Hotel Transylvania 3.

#6 - Men In Black - Will Smith

Will Smith makes a surprise to gives us a real treat for the spooky event. The lyrics and music video may not refer to any horrors of Halloween as the song mentions mainly of Men In Black with being the soundtrack of the film, and the music video appearing as more of science fiction themes with aliens, gooey slime, high tech gadgets and of course men (and women) dressed in black.

However, it gives us something to be entertained not only by the clips of the film, but of the dance scenes Will takes part in along with a strange freaky alien by his side and the agents in the background. Aliens and even dressed in black with shades and a of Neuralyzer can also be something to dress part of rather like visiting a Comic Con event with always fun to take part in as well.

#5 - Monster - Michael Jackson (feat. 50 Cent)

Although there isn't a music video included with this track and probably not a first choice pick to play at a disco, it certainly relates to Halloween in a way rather like Ne-Yo's Beautiful Monster, with snippets of screams and a catchy R&B and hip-hop tune from MJ's compilation album, along with featuring 50 Cent to add more rhythm to the beat.

#4 - Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell

Here's another natural choice of a tune to play during Halloween as Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell, which also includes features of Michael and Jermaine Jackson in the chorus as additional backing vocals that partially but closely relates to the event of October 31st.

On the lyrics of the chorus makes us feel as though we are being watched either by ghosts or demons in an imaginary sense. The music video however speaks differently in volumes, it shows the singer staying at a weird disturbing hotel (or a mystery house of some sought) with creepy daunting animal heads on the walls along with a graveyard in the back garden. The singer is also constantly being watched by eerie characters in the scenes watching him everywhere he goes, especially the strange postman staring at him around as though he is being crept on relentlessly like there is all sought of paranormal activities going of.

Also there is a scene of the shower where the water changes to red appearing to be blood to indicate that the music video contains themes of horror if not the event of All Hallows' Eve.

#3 - Everybody (Backstreets Back) - Backstreet Boys

This makes a brilliant example of a song to listen to during the spook-tacular event with a blast from the Backstreet Boys.

Very little comparisons are involved with spooks and frights, but the music video strongly relates to a haunting theme and genre of Halloween.

The video begins after the boybands bus breaks down and are having to stay at some kind of a haunted mansion and the bus driver insists that they spend the night there until he gets help. Once all the members are asleep, they all dream when the track plays as they are all appear as different movie monsters: one as a Werewolf, the other as Dracula; the other member as a mummy, one masked and dressed as the Phantom of the Opera and the last as a hybrid of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, in a half-transformed lizard like state. Throughout the beginning and middle of the song, the band all as monsters mainly appear in their own individual vignettes related to their own characters. The band all perform a dance routine with a group of additional dancers in thriller/horror based theme esqué routines. Until they all awake in normality only to find the bus driver possessed and making the boys scream in horror at the end.

The aesthetic of the haunted house for the music video was inspired by Michael Jackson's Thriller.

#2 - Ghostbusters - Ray Parker, Jr

It certainly wouldn't be an All Hallows' Eve playlist without the theme song of Ghostbusters.

The film franchise strongly relates to ghoulish ghosts which is also heavily involved as a theme for the horrors of Halloween not to mention the fact it is a song choice kids and adults of all ages can enjoy to.

The lyrics are just the perfect example of the chorus constantly repeated through singing and chants with the lines "Who you gunna call? GHOSTBUSTERS". The music video also reveals clips of the film with freaky ghosts being tracked down by the team along with funny dance routines alongside the singer and of course with the famous Ghostbusters logo seen here there and everywhere.

#1 - Thriller - Michael Jackson

Most importantly and as a tradition since it's release decades ago, the one, the only, the essential Michael Jackson's Thriller.

The songs lyrics is almost of a relentless scary horror story filled with frights and scares to many themes of Halloween itself that also includes Vincent Price as a spooky narrator on a spoken rhyme word sequence with an evil laugh at the end. The music video is also something of phenomenal and epic global smash to the event with referencing numerous horror films. The music video was directed by John Landis and Quincy Jones who was Michael's music producer also helped produce the video.

It has since had a lasting impact on popular culture, such as the zombie dance and the famous red jacket, as fans worldwide re-enact the dance with it being still popular on YouTube.

Besides from the horrifying but amazing werewolf transformation to begin with, but the most entertaining part shows of Michael also transforming to a zombie and dancing along with the zombies appearing from the graveyard to show how extraordinary and unique the video appears with the facial expressions from the zombies either haunting or compelling they appear.

The music video is also of a short film of Michael and his girlfriend leaving the cinema after watching a horror film until they are encountered by zombies with Michael becoming one himself. After the dance they chase her to an abandoned house until they break in after her. Only for her girlfriend to realise it was all a dream, once he offers to take her girlfriend home, he looks over his shoulder and grins towards the camera, revealing his werewolf eyes. After the end credits the zombies then walk back to the graveyard with three of the zombies showing of one last dance routine until another zombie of an elderly woman staring in front of the camera with a haunting terrifying look as the song ends.

I also would not recommend listening to the track whilst home alone late at night playing the song on your headphones, as the door opening sequence can give you quite a disturbance thinking as though a dark random stranger might have walked straight through your door of intrusion.

Parental guidance may also be needed for children to watch as well so that they don't get too frightened for Halloween.

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Try to enjoy Halloween with as much fun but with much safety included as possible with friends and family and have a fun gooey majestic Halloween.

Witches don't forget your broomsticks and cauldrons, beware the undead passing by the graveyards and watch for any superstitions of ghosts on the thrilling enchanting evening on the 31st.

"Halloween arrives in as a knight upon black horse, as if the light was concentrated in the shadows this very eve".