Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “After Dark” — Tito & Tarantula (1996)

Is it already over? šŸ™ Well here we are, Halloween. It’s roughly about 5:45 PM on October 31st, and Boots and I are slowly lounging around in preparation for heading out later tonight, for drinks and dinner and costumes and karaoke and Halloween fun.Ā  And here I am, lamenting that I won’t be able to…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Heavy Metal (Takin’ A Ride)” — Don Felder (1981)

It’s not a big surprise to feel your temperature rise You’ve got a touch of redline fever ‘Cause there is just one cure that we know for sure You just become a heavy metal believer… This is a song about a freakin’ car, and it rules. And I can’t stand The Eagles anymore, but hot…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “St. John’s Eve on Bald Mountain” — Modest Mussorgsky (1867)

Ā Saint John’s Eve on Bare Mountain. Or “Night On Bald Mountain” as it is most commonly known in English. Already it sounds creepifying, but this orchestral fantasy/musical picture by Modest Mossorgsky (and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov) vividly details a terrifying picture of witches and demonic hordes racing through the Slavic night, terrorizing villages in the shadow of…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Forbidden Zone” — Oingo Boingo (1979)

Moving in the wrong direction brings bad luck Living without protection reallyĀ sucks It’s so hard when you’re on your own You might fall into The Forbidden Zone Ye gods… It had to be a good 25, maybe closer to 30 years ago, when I first saw the whackadoo independent underground art/wtf musical film Forbidden Zone.…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “A Desolation Song” — Agalloch (2003)

Here’s to love, the sicknessThe great martyr of the soulHere’s to life, the viceThe great herald of misery… Nothing like a sweet love song to get the heart a-tittering, right? Metal band Agalloch created a most chilling neo-folk tune with their 2003 track A Desolation Song. And could any song title be any more apropos…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “It’s A Monster’s Holiday” — Buck Owens (1974)

Frankenstein was the first in line And the Wolfman came up next Dracula was doing his stuff Breathing down my neck… Well, I mean they can’t ALL be dark, terrifying, horrific, and morbid right? So let’s veer off into a much more FUN direction… and this song is the living definition of goofy Halloween fun. I’ve…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Return of the Phantom Stranger” — Rob Zombie (1998)

My sinister sounds sweep the grounds Stillborn I lie beneath it I throw it away, the freaks all stay Deformed and laughing screaming… Rob Zombie is no stranger to anything and everything horror. I mean really, his name is a dead giveaway right? No one gets slightly unnerved by “Rob Cutebabyelephants”, do they? Unless they’re…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Mr. Krinkle” — Primus (1993)

Say there Mr. Krinkle let’s cruise the Bastard boat Damn then sonsabitches with their gill-nets set afloat I flip on my tele and I watch the waters die C’mon Mr. Krinkle tell me why… Oh good, more creepy pig imagery… Primus is a band that will always make you leap out of your skin and go…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Psycho” — Eddie Noack (1968)

I’ve seen my ex last night, Mama At a dance at Miller’s store She was with that Jackie White, Mama I killed them both, and they’re buried Under Jenkins sycamore. Don’t you think I’m psycho, Mama? Is there anything creepier than old, scratchy, mono country/western tunes? I hear those first few opening bars and I…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “March of the Pigs” — Nine Inch Nails (1994)

All the pigs are all lined up I give you all that you want Take the skin and peel it back Now doesn’t that make you feel better? Strictly speaking this is nowhere near a “Halloween” song. It isn’t even really a “scary” song, per se, although it’s damn eerie and spooky in delivery. Nonetheless,…