Hey blog readers. I just wanted to write a little note since I actually have the time to do it. These days much of my free time gets eaten up with household chores/errands. We’re very understaffed at work, and one of my co-workers recently had to take bereavement leave because of a dead family member. I haven’t even been doing too many virtual trivia games, but not for the reasons you’d think. We’ve had some nice evenings for sitting outside, so my husband and I have been enjoying sitting on our deck and watching wildlife. We recently saw some cottontail rabbits doing their courtship dance, though they weren’t kind enough to let us watch them doing the “bunny boogie!”

On a recent afternoon, I took some “laundry time” to update my Halloween music playlist. This playlist was born in 2018 when I took a trip to Harrisville State Park to stay in a cabin for two nights. By sheer accident, we rented the cabin on a weekend when Halloween events were occurring. Including trick-or-treating in the campground! My husband and I don’t have kids and had to hastily do…something. We visited a nearby Dollar General and bought a few Halloween decorations, though most had already been picked over. Even the candy supplies were scarce. To add a certain “something” to the trick-or-treaters’ experience, I put together a list of Halloweenish songs I had saved on my hard drive.

Since then, that list has expanded exponentially! There are songs from movies about Halloween, songs about devils/witches, disco tracks, alternative tracks, rock tracks, metal tracks, new wave tracks, hip-hop tracks, at least one country track and one classical track (hey I try to be diverse)!

Please note, this playlist isn’t intended for children! You’ll find no songs about purple people eaters or monsters mashing. Most of them should be findable on Spotify, except the tracks from the Ravenous motion picture soundtrack (which are downloadable on Amazon).

Halloween 2021 Playlist (Updated)

Runnin’ With the Devil, Van Halen

The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead, XTC

Main Theme, Halloween (John Carpenter)

Main Theme and Rocky Mountain Theme, The Shining (Wendy Carlos)

Sympathy for the Devil, The Rolling Stones

Nightmare on My Street, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

Dragula and Living Dead Girl, Rob Zombie

Partyman, Prince (Batman soundtrack)

Treehouse of Horror theme music, “The Simpsons”

Season of the Witch, Donovan

The Ballad of Dwight Fry, Alice Cooper

Waltz to the Death and Descent into Mystery, Batman soundtrack

Dead Souls, nine inch nails (from The Crow soundtrack)

Stranger at the Window and Colquoun’s Story (Ravenous Motion Picture soundtrack)

Shelob’s Lair, Howard Shore (Return of the King soundtrack)

Night on Disco Mountain, Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack (David Shire)

Lullaby, The Cure (from the “Mixed Up” remix album)

Witchy Woman, The Eagles

Toccata and Fugue, J.S. Bach

The City Sleeps, MC 900 Foot Jesus

Worlock, Skinny Puppy

New additions:

• Jack’s Lament, The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Cry Little Sister (The Lost Boys soundtrack)
• The Devil Inside, Inxs
• Main Titles, Trick ‘r Treat soundtrack
• March of the Dead (Army of Darkness soundtrack)
• Happy Phantom, Tori Amos
• Black Magic Woman, Carlos Santana
• Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice Cooper
• Pretend We’re Dead, L7
• Is It My Body, Alice CooperDead Babies, Alice Cooper
• Killer Inside Me, MC 900 Foot Jesus
• Psycho Killer, Talking Heads
• Heirate Mich, Rammstein
• A Forest (Tree Mix), The Cure
• The Devil Went Down to Georgia, Charlie Daniels Band