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…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Devil’s Backbone” — The Civil Wars (2013)

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…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Nostradamus” — Al Stewart (1973)

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…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “King Kong” — The Kinks (1968)

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…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Psycho Killer” — Duran Duran (2023)

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…

Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Shock Me” — Kiss (1977)

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…