Oh Lord, Oh Lord, what have I done?I’ve fallen in love with a man on the runOh Lord, Oh Lord, I’m begging you pleaseDon’t take that sinner from meOh don’t take that sinner from me… Man, Halloween is replete with all kinds of blood-curdling screams aplenty. But sometimes nothing’s more chilling than a whisper. We’re…
Oh, I had a dreamIt seemed I stood aloneAnd the veil of all the yearsGoes sinking from my eyes like a stone A king shall fall and put to death by the English parliament shall beFire and plague to London come in the year of six and twenties threeAn emperor of France shall rise who…
I’m King Kong and I’m ten feet long,Got a big six gun and everybody is scared.I’m King Kong, got a hydrogen bomb,I can blow up your houses so you better beware. Everybody wants power,Everybody wants fame.Everybody wants money.La-la-la-la-la, King Kong… Well, here’s a monster for ya! OK fine, sheesh, Dad jokes aren’t popular among some…
You start a conversation you can’t even finish itYou’re talkin’ a lot, but you’re not sayin’ anythingWhen I have nothing to say, my lips are sealedSay something once, why say it again? Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est? What’s that supposed to be, you ask in French? Looks like it’s little more than Simon Le Bon…
I’m going to dispense with the Buttkickin’ Halloween etc. crap for a moment. Because my heart is entirely broken. Ace Frehley died today. Paul Daniel Frehley (1951 – 2025) and Kiss was my entry drug into the world of hard rock and heavy metal. When I was 7 I received both Kiss Alive II and…
Ghost made Satan swing again, and “Ritual” was the opening prayer. Turning damnation into theater, and theater into joy, it’s an essential Halloween song.
Sighs in frustration… Only Broken Peach could get me to include Enter Sandman in my Halloween playlist. Because otherwise I can’t stand the freakin’ song. But damn do I love my Peaches. So let’s get this out of the way. Enter Sandman. Arguably Metallica’s most mainstream hit. The one your annoying little sister and all…
And if I die today I’ll be the happy phantomAnd I’ll go chasin’ the nuns out in the yardAnd I’ll run naked through the streets without my mask onAnd I will never need umbrellas in the rainI’ll wake up in Strawberry Fields every dayAnd the atrocities of school I can forgiveThe happy phantom has no…
A sparse, haunting piano waltz that ruminates on our brief mortality, “Suspirium” by Thom Yorke is the perfect Halloween song.
Celebrate Tom Lehrer and his ode to jaunty nuclear incineration with “We All Go Together When We Go”, the latest addition to our Halloween playlist.