Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Not To Touch The Earth” — The Doors (1968)

Not to touch the earthNot to see the sunNothing left to do, butRun, run, runLet’s runLet’s runHouse upon the hillMoon is lying stillShadows of the treesWitnessing the wild breezeC’mon baby run with meLet’s run Well I’m sure this comes as a no surprise to anyone who knows me even just a smidgen, because as I’m…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Dinner With Drac Pt.1” — John Zacherle (1958)

A dinner was served for threeAt Dracula’s house by the seaThe hors d’oeurves were fineBut I choked on my wineWhen I learned that the main course was me! The waitress a vampire named PerkinsWas so very fond of small gherkinsWhile she served the tea, she ate 43Which pickled her internal workins! Three things to know…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Kiss The Go-Goat” — Ghost (2019)

It ain’t always what it seems When you cling onto a dream It ain’t always there to please you But he’s the guy you wanna do And you know that it takes two Luckily he wants to do you too Satan Lucifer Osculum Obscenum… Another Halloween playlist, another Ghost song, another perfectly prickly pile of…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” — Napoleon XIV (1966)

Remember when you ran away And I got on my knees and begged you Not to leave because I’d go berserk? WELL! You left me anyhow and Then the days got worse and worse And now you see I’ve gone completely out of my mind. AND: They’re coming to take me away, ha-haaa… All this…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Burn” — Deep Purple (1974)

The sky is red, I don’t understand Past midnight I still see the land People are sayin’ the woman is damned She makes you burn with a wave of her hand The city’s a blaze, the town’s on fire The woman’s flames are reaching higher We were fools, we called her liar All I hear…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Grim Grinning Ghosts” — Disney’s Happy Haunts (1969)

When hinges creak in doorless chambers And strange and frightening sounds Echo through the halls Whenever candlelights flicker Where the air is deathly still That is the time when ghosts are present Practicing their ghoulish delight… Oh, hey there. Welcome BACK, Foolish Mortals. I don’t know what in high holy haberdashery happened but somehow it…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Bark at the Moon” — Ozzy Osbourne (1983)

And so it ends. Sadly, but inevitably, it ends. But not without one final blast of lyncanthropic license. Here we are, on October 31st 2020. Halloween. The moment, quite frankly, many of us wait for and celebrate with infinite happitude. We live for these weeks of spooky atmos and supernatural ethos leading up to that…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Dance of the Shadows” — Derek Fiechter (2017)

We’ve at last reached Halloween. By tonight some serious spookifying will be going down, and I will feature our final Buttkickin’ Halloween Song for the year. Sadly. Until then enjoy this wondrously spooky instrumental, a haunted waltz entitled Dance of the Shadows, composed by Derek Fiechter. This is absolute Halloween joy. I’ll see you all…