Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Everybody Dies” — Ayreon (2017)

Doom, gloom, the world goes boom None will be spared so don’t assume Not ragged clothed nor silver spooned You’re all the same when extinction looms… October. FINALLY. At long freakin’ last. October has arrived and we here at HokeyCorps Industries LLC (still entirely fictitious) can drop the pretense of accepting the long, hot, miserable…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Hallowed Be Thy Name” — Iron Maiden (1982)

The Sands of Time for Halloween have run low. And with those last few grains of October come the end of yet another year of Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs. And this makes us at Hokeyblog very, very sad. But it’s one been (pardon the overuse) one BUTTKICKIN’ year for us. We got to feature more songs…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Stranded In The Jungle” — The Cadets (1956)

Baby, baby, let’s make romance You know your old-time lover hasn’t got a chance He’s stranded in the jungle, as mad as he can be So come on pretty baby, just you and me An’ meanwhile, back in the jungle… This is really all Howard Stern’s fault. Or rather, that of his father, Ben Stern.…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Go To Hell” — Alice Cooper (1976)

You’d poison a blind man’s dog and steal his cane You’d gift wrap a leper and mail him to your Aunt Jane You’d even force-feed a diabetic a candy cane! You can go to Hell… I told you I’d be back with some more Alice Cooper. And an even better song too. Go To Hell…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Der Hund von Baskerville” — Cindy & Bert (1970)

Nebel zieht in dichten Schwaden übers Moor von Forrest Hill, grün-gespenstig grinst ein Irrlicht, es ist Nacht in Baskerville. Fog draws in dense swaths over the moor of Forrest Hill, a will-o’-the-wisp grins green and ghostly, it is night in Baskerville…. This is like a Hammer horror film come to life… Accuse me of including…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Little Drop Of Poison” — Tom Waits (1997)

Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping Someone said you’ll never get a wish from a bone Another wrong goodbye and a hundred sailors That deep blue sky is my home… Tom Waits… man. With his inimitable vocal stylings, you could go with any one of a zillion of his songs and…