Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Banjo Odyssey” — The Dead South (2014)

Tore up the restraining orderI don’t care, I’m comin’ overWhat your daddy said isn’t goin’ over too wellDon’t you know not to kiss and tell? Mother said, she’s my brother’s daughterAnd I don’t even know who’s my fatherI guess she’s my cousinBut she needs some sweet lovin’ anyway.. Well we’re a few days out from…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Killers” — Iron Maiden (1981)

You walk through the subwayHis eyes burn a hole in your backA footstep behind youHe lunges prepared for attackScream for mercyHe laughs as he’s watching you bleedKiller behind youHis blood lust defies all his needs… That’s the thing about Iron Maiden, though;they were pre-designed for Halloween playlists. Hell, their entire iconography feels like a master…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Lucifer Sam” — Pink Floyd (1967)

Lucifer Sam, Siam catAlways sitting by your sideAlways by your sideThat cat’s something I can’t explain Jennifer Gentle you’re a witchYou’re the left sideHe’s the right side, oh no!That cat’s something I can’t explain… I was wondering when I was gonna get around to Pink Floyd’s Lucifer Sam. It feels like, except among Floyd fans…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Steel and Glass” — John Lennon (1974)

This is a story about your friend and mine(“Who is it, who is it, who is it?”)There you stand with your L.A. tanAnd your New York walk and your New York talkYour mother left you when you were smallBut you’re going to wish you wasn’t born at allSteel and glass, steel and glass… OK, so……

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “No Anchovies, Please” — J. Geils Band (1980)

This is the story of a young couple in Portland, Maine. While waiting for her husband Donto return home from work, she reaches for a can of anchovies.As she spreads the tiny fish across a piece of lettuceshe notices a small note at the bottom of the can.Written on it is a telephone number… I…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Tarot Woman” — Rainbow (1976)

I don’t want to goSomething tells me noNo, no, noBut traces in the sandThe lines inside my handSay go, go, go Beware of a placeA smile on a bright shiny faceI’ll never return, how do you know?Tarot womanI don’t know… No Ronnie James Dio? No Halloween. I mean it. As such, I am saving Halloween…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “St. James Infirmary Blues” — Cab Calloway (1931)

Folks, I’m goin’ down to St. James InfirmarySee my baby thereShe’s stretched out on a long, white tableShe’s so sweet, so cold, so fair Let her go, let her go, God bless herWherever she may beShe will search this wide world overBut she’ll never find another sweet man like me… Have you ever known anyone…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Carmina Burana” — Carl Orff (1937)

O Fortuna, velut lunaStatu variabilisSemper crescis, aut decrescis;Vita detestabilisNunc obdurat et tunc curatLudo mentis aciem,Egestatem, potestatemDissolvit ut glaciem… Now this is where the armor starts clanking and the heavens start trembling. Because I was ten years old in April 1981 when John Boorman’s epic masterpiece Excalibur hit theaters. And my entire world shattered into chivalric…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Magnu” — Hawkwind (1975)

Magnu horse with golden maneI want your help yet once againWalk not the Earth but fly through spaceAs lightning flash or thunder’s raceSwift as the arrow from the bowCome to me so that no one can know,Sunbeams are my shafts to kill,All men who dare imagine ill… A few things you should really know about…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “The Curse of Millhaven” — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (1996)

Our little town fell into a state of shockA lot of people were saying things that made little senseThen the next thing you know the head of Handyman JoeWas found in the fountain of the Mayor’s residenceFoul play can really get a small town goingLa la-la-la, la la-la-lieEven God’s children, they have to die! The…