My Halloween Selection

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Halloween, depicted as the time of year, when it's okay to be weird, and hide in the

costume of our choice. It could be something simple and sweet like a butterfly or a popular

movie or music Icon, or it can be more sinister like an evil witch or Michael Myers, with equipped with a dripping bloody knife. Honestly though the choice is ours, and that’s why I devised what I chose to

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believe a set of creepy songs, to set the mood and experience for a night of terror and fun. This is

my playlist that will set the mood for the end of October and open the minds of Halloween lovers

everywhere.

So, let's kick it off starting with song number one. Now this song doesn’t show right off the bat

that it shows much of the Halloween vibe, however if I were to be throwing a Halloween party

for friends and family, I would want this very low-key and “chill” type song to set the feel and

tone for the playlist. I want it to be an experience not just artists that sound and fit the holiday

mood and tradition, but something that makes each track increase the intensity of what we have

come to know Halloween as, (anything spooky) and that’s what I hope I set out to do.

Next, we follow with a song that gets the heavy thrashers into the mix. First off, the name of this

song catches my eye, not to mention the title of the album.

This album itself gives off a very “freakish”

feel. From everything from the way, the guitars sound, to the coursing and haunting lyrics along

with the vocals, I think this song meshes perfectly for the feel of what I would want for a

Halloween party.

My next pick sets the mood for anything tarot and anything that makes you think of the future.

For Halloween, anything with this band, shows a carnival, and dark orchestrated feel.

To me this song really has the feel of dancing skeletons, and creepy talking zombies.

Moving along the sound is getting heavier but let's throw a lude and creepy story in there as well.

This song is extremely obvious as it's called “Halloween on Military Street” Aside from the

strong and adult language that is in this song, this is a scary a tale of children going down a

spooky Halloween Street. The description and storytelling paint a beautiful picture of what you

might binge watch on Halloween night.

(As I already pointed out there is extraordinarily strong language in this song, but overall, the

picture in your head is where the nightmares originate.)

Anything ICP or from this record label is out of this word, with a heavy dose of comedy mixed

with over-the-top gruesome ideas this is very Halloween fitting.

For this next choice, we go back to Massive Attack. This song is extremely calming, but the

songs itself has a effectively beautiful feel. I love the sultry lyrics, and overall beat of this song.

Along with the lyrics of this song, it sounds like this person is going to break free from

something. I believe its either A: escaped from, or B: (even worse) I just did. It's a song that

opens your mind and shows a very dark side of ourselves. Showing our truths can be one of the

scariest things we ever experience.

I have included in the list many instrumental songs, as well as highly descriptive creepy songs,

not only does this create a sensation of something sinister coming for you, but the instruments

create a feeling of what the character of your Halloween story may be experiencing or going

through.

“Passive” This song belongs in my list, not only for the saddening tone and heavy lyrics of "the

world is failing me sensation” But it brings back the scenes of the movie it was created for.

the movie “Costintine.” A man that can fight demons, and sees what hell is in real life.

what more to get you in the spirt of Halloween than slaying demons and thought of the

afterlife...

Okay so the journey has only started on this playlist, I mentioned before how there are several

instrumental songs include in my lengthy list of tracks this next set up, lays out a strong

Halloween theme, starting with a creepy intro of a dub clip of an old time movie to give off an

erriee feel. Then cross fading into the hauntingly beautiful a famous TARTINI.

To set the background of why this is so fitting for my Halloween playlist, we start with the fact

that this song was born from a creepy urban legend.

Legend has it, This man had dreamed that the devil himself was at his bed side and offered the

deal of his soul to be the greatest Violinist) as the song is named “The devil’s Sonata in G minor.

This must be one of the most cryptic classical pieces of work I’ve ever come across, the overall

work this musician put in to perfecting this instrument and composition is unfathomable.

It’s beautiful and very luring from start to finish. However, enough about the artist and just his

story. This composition definitely sets the Halloween atmosphere, and it’s a very low to high

song, so it can be exceptionally smooth in the start, where many people can conversate over the

first half, then you have the upbeat swing and tempo of the violin. This song speeds up in tempo

to where it can also become a very carefree and fun tune to tap your toes to, then quickly falling

a version of seeing a man with a candle lit writing with a Quill. What’s he writing?

maybe a will... or a suicide note... one thing is for sure the imagination is free to dream.

There are many levels to this song, overall the picture is painted in your mind for sure when this

song is playing in the background

Everybody loves, Halloween movies.

My playlist has something a little bit for everyone, I stated I would already have experience to

this list, who better to be the conductor on this spooky trip, thank Danny Elfman himself. Having

a section Of one the big classic Halloween movies, that everyone likes to include, “Nightmare

before Christmas”

Danny Elfman in everything he does has a spooky and obviously orchestrated feel.

Following this song, was another Ghostly lyrical tale, of a drunken sailor that caused a single

parent to fall ill, and her young son vowed revenged.

Oh, I can smell the Smores already. This is a campfire tale, that describes a very supernatural

tale, that sets the Halloween mood.

The light melodic shanty makes for a very ghost story and has everything you would think for

the fall season.

Gary Jules, mad world song, is everything that not only fits the holiday season, but makes any

outsider feel comforted.

It’s a song about the crazy world around us, and what better time to let the weird side of life

shine, other than Halloween.

The next few tracks, defitnley fit a theme of course starting with the American Horror story

theme, this chilling intro, already flashes pictures from the title theme. And you can see it all

replay as you listen to this shorten fright intro.

Then it falls into Rob Zombie the theatrical metal band, that always makes people think of

everything creepy and bloody.

Of course, all the movies from House of thousands of corpses to devil rejects replays the

thoughts of finding that perfect Hollywood thriller, so anything Rob Zombie is a must when it

comes to a Halloween playlist.

Then we fall into a very unheard and maybe forgotten band Merciful Fate, this is another chilling

tale about witches and the oak tree of the dead, this has everything halloween stories are made

of, and one that may be put in a Hollywood thriller. (more description)

Then the king of creepy Ozzy Osbourne the man known most for biting a live bat during a stage

performance. This man has so very strong vocals that makes you thing everything otherworldly

and creepy. But of course, then follows the tale of Mr. Alister Crowley which this song is a

tribute, and even more chilling is many classic rock artists followed this mans works and

sayings, with a strong background and sacrilegious rituals and sacrifices, this song, is a big

headline to maybe why ozzy bit that bat in the first place. Many say its for show, but afer hearing

this song, feeling its idea, and hearing its lyrics, one can wonder....

What would list be without the theatrics of Avenge sevenfold, this metal band not only has its

chops in skilled guitar composition and heavy metal undertones, but they can tell a story as good

as any Halloween fright you might want for at the end of October.

So this song is basically about two lovers who wrong one another, and then ultimately end up

together in the afterlife. The man gets so jealous of the woman he claims to love and murders

her, while keep her corpse around to do ungodly things.

And then the second half of the song, is base on the woman coming back to reap revenge. It’s a

very "errie" tale of love and hate, but ultimately plays out beautifully and its based off the stuff of

pure nightmares, and its why it makes the list in my playlist.

Following through then we have Pantera’s popular hit

Cemetery Gates

This song, is as exactly as you may think..

It's about a past love, that has died and the one who loved them is left to feel the pain and regret,

and loneliness.

Its has very heavy upliting tones, that get torn down by sorrow of the one who wrote the song.

Its very fitting for Halloween I would say as it’s based off of wanting this person to come back

but knowing they never will, and what would a halloween be without a graveyard?

Then to connect this chillin segment of songs, we have the Crawling feeling of someone leaving

someone behind, the pain and sorrow the person experiences. The late night nightmares, and

feelings of abandonment and regret, that it may have been their fault.

It’s a very real song about depression and how the human phyce perceives a close death, very

chilling, and very fitting for this playlist.

The next two songs, are in my opinion coupled with the previous songs of Little piece of heaven,

Cemetery gates, and Crawling.

Now we follow with Sweet Dreams and Seven.

Okay it’s a big stress on how these songs connect, but in my opinion, crawling falls into the

category of sleepless nights, and feeling of disillusionment, and hallucinations.

So Sweet dreams is not a happy song, no on the contrary, its describing someone who is bothered

with continuous nightmares, and saying sweet dreams as almost an ironic statement, or idea.

Then we fade into the classics of Danny Elfman, the composer that makes us all thing everything

HALLOWEEN.

Not only did he bring the theatrics of Tim Burton’s Nightmare before Christmas and Beetlejuice

Juice to life, but he never fails, to compose a hauntly beautiful masterpiece with every song.

This next choice is from the movie Sleepy Hollow, giving us the feel and theme for the name

“The Tree of Death.” What’s spookier than a headless horseman riding about a supernatural

town, wreaking havoc on its unexpected citizens, and only Ichabod crane can stop this evil rider.

The feel and composure of this tune, paints the picture, and sets the scene.

The next bit of selection gets the party going heavier with a set of songs that bring out the heavy

bit of metal.

Although this song is based on something of a controversial topic of experience a hallucinogenic

trip, the picture being painted with these lyrics are something that come from our worst

nightmares, at least that’s what I think.

Following this is heavier metal tunes, such as the American witch from Rob zombie, which

everyone knows with his movie and musical background this man is a favorite for the holiday

season.

We also have Slipknot added to the list, before he was just acoustically Corey Taylor, this band,

was something that straight out of Hollywood horror nights, I mean the masks alone, but to add

the depth of their metal instrumental with the growling vocals, this something to kick the party

up a Noch and have everyone moshing their brains all over the place.

We start winding down from the metal slightly to fall into some absolute classic rock, such as the

eagles and electric light orchestra.

Hotel California arises on this list, because even though this sounds like a song based on a world

based in a paradise, the overall lyrics describe something much darker.

Yes, it may be a destination that seems to lure everyone in, but “you can never leave” “you can

stab it with a steely knife, but you just can’t kill the beast.” This sounds more like a paradise in

based in Hell

The Good old, ELO with Evil woman, I think this song made my play list, as Disney even has

depicted this song about an evil witchy, woman, something about a rotten woman that trick and

deceives a man.

We also have more of Avengesevenfold in the countdown of this playlist, with beast in the

harlot, the guitar licks alone in this song, make it the stuff of nightmares, but the overall title

should grab you and make you grab your Halloween party hat!

We start falling into a cycle here of evil woman, following with “Demon Woman” which just as

the song states this is about a Demon woman, she has evil on her mind, and She's going to get

you.

But the fact that he says about the black cat in the lyrics of this song, start painting a picture of

witch.

Okay so we have evil woman/ witches. We have death trees and evil metal music that breeds the

spirit of Halloween, and among all these evil and cryptic sounds, we fall into A tree for hanging

which again the title and style of playing lets you develop an evil imaginative picture in your

mind.

But then we come across the song “tonight you belong to me.” Now I know we jumped a bit in

the playlist here, but the set up for this plays out perfectly and after watching the first season of

popular thriller show “American Horror Story” I can’t help but picture a murderous scene when I

hear it this fifties hit, regardless it’s an uplifting small song, to lead down through the rest of the

place, and mesh with the other tunes that end the thrilling night and chilling experience.

So winding down we have so more creepy songs, about cerial killer and famous murder, John

Wayne Gacy, this guy and his story alone, Is something we all know about, and we all would

freak out if we saw the ghost of this man, not to mention would make a killer Halloween

costume, but this abstract band known as Dog fashion Disco is found a few times in my playlist

because of their haunting lyrics, and orchestrated musical fashion, that this song definitely is one

to jam out too, and one that you listen to and you are just like “ wow Hes talking about John

Wayne Gacy.” The famous serial killer dressed as a clown and murder a slew of people who then

hid their bodies in his, this is definitely a great ghost story set into a song.

We then start moving into the classics, we have a remake of “ I put a spell on you.” Perform by

another Hollywood creeper, Marilyn Mason.

And the Haiti Troupe, by another abstract band known as “Man Man” Again this is another

chilling tale, or tales of people who like to cut up people and eat them, I just see my binge

watching of scary movies come to life and converted into my stereo.

We start winding down with more traditional Halloween music instrumental of music for

the first vampire, and then more Danny Elfman.

Of course, the list ends with classical composure, this is a ride that will put you in all types of

chilling feels for the Holiday spirit.