As I turn to revising my Halloween mix for this year, I'll be walking away from this thread with some new ideas, and will throw in a few from my extant mix:
- Turkish Song of the Damned by the Pogues, a chilling shipwreck ghost story ("the dead have come to claim a debt from thee")
- Toccata and Fugue in Dm--Bach, preferably on pipe organ
- Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead by either XTC or Crash Test Dummies; I prefer the Dummies' version, even though it leaves out a verse
- Synchronicity II by the Police, with all its dark Scottish loch stuff
- Addams Family and Munsters themes, just to be creepy and kooky
- The Time Warp, from the Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner
- The Graveyard Symphony by ??
- Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon, to round out a creepy Zevon trilogy with the aforementioned "Werewolves of London" and "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner"
- X-Files theme
- Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Dukas
- Rattle My Bones by the Suburbs, a fabulous local Minneapolis new wave/punk band from the eighties that no one's ever heard of ("head bone's connected to the headphones, now dig the word of the Lord")
- Paint it Black by the Rolling Stones
- Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf
- King of Pain by the Police, again
- Psycho theme
- Rock Lobster by the B-52s, which just has a kind of Halloweeny feel to it
I'm thinking of adding a number of those mentioned above (esp. "Skeletons In My Closet" (the actual title of "48 Years") which I never would've thought of, even though I once thought of learning it--thanks, Grab!, never thought I'd see it mentioned on the 'Cat!), plus Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King."
Chris