Posted in: Musicouching by Cactus Cat on December 9, 2009 | 0 Comments
Dig up this ghoulishly good selection of beastly beats, terrifying tunes, and funky frighteners and create an alternative halloween music mix with bite.
For a superbly spooky Halloween, dress to distress and unleash this disturbing array of evil alternative music about werewolves, vampires, zombies, monsters and other nastiness. Best time to compile your Halloween compilation is in the dead of night (preferably a stormy night).
Songs about Werewolves
I was a teenage werewolf – the Cramps
No band has managed pulled off tongue in cheek horror rock as well or as convincingly as the Cramps. In their prime, the Cramps were the undisputed royalty of psychobilly horror rock and witnessing their wild stage shows was something to behold. From their freaky look and stage names (Lux Interior, Poison Ivy) to the band’s electric performances (they once infamously did a chaotic gig in a mental asylum), the Cramps are a must for Halloween and I was a Teenage Werewolf is a jaw crunchingly good Halloween party track.
Key Lyric: A Midwest monster, of the highest grade. All my teachers thought, It was growing pains. Oh no no, somebody stop this pain, ohhh…
Songs about Zombies
I walked with a Zombie – Roky Erickson and the Aliens
Founding member of psychedelic 60’s garage band the 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson went on to bend his mind beyond recognition with hallucinogenic drugs which eventually led to a spell in a hospital for the criminally insane where he was subjected to shock treatment. Little wonder that one of his latter works has popped up here. I Walked with a Zombie comes from an album called The Evil One which is loaded with strange songs about ghouls, aliens, demons and general weirdness.
Key Lyric: I walked with a Zombie, last night! (and that’s about it all the way through)
Songs about Vampires
Bela Lugosi’s Dead – Bauhaus
Thin, pale faced, cloaked in black, and harbouring a morbid fascination for all things horror, Bauhaus are regarded as the band who invented the goth rock genre, and Bela Lugosi’s Dead is often cited as the first true goth single. Complete with unsettling guitar effects, dark lyrics, and a haunting vocal track by Pete Murphy, this is probably the finest vampire song ever recorded and the only Dracula tune you’ll ever need.
Key Lyric: The bats have left the bell tower, the victims have been bled. Red velvet lines the black box, Bela Lugosi’s dead.
