Halloween mixes

[mandocrucian]

Been compiling another set of "seasonal mix" discs, especially useful if you're throwing a get together or party.

Halloween seems to be an odd grab-bag of material, at least in the US. #You've got (and there's overlap between categories):

1) The Supernatural & ghost tales (pre-Christian in origin or pagan/heathen residue), ritual human sacrifice, voodoo

2) Devil stuff, demons, Hellfire, brimstone and all that, the grim reaper

3) Monster stuff ala the movies (Frankenstein, Dracula, etc.) or TV (Adams Family, Munsters, etc)

4) now expandeded to the creepshow psycho/serial killings ala slasher flicks, cannibalism

5) and "mysterioso vibe" songs or instrumentals - just cause they are creepy or atmospheric, but nothing particular Halloweeney about them otherwise

Mandocrucian Halloween DISC 1

1 Welcome To My Nightmare - Alice Cooper
2 Last Night I Had A Dream - Randy Newman
3 Tombstone Shadow - Creedence Clearwater Revival
4 Monster Mash - Bonzo Dog Band (Bobby "Boris" Pickett)
5 They're Making A Monster - Copperhead [John Cipollina post-QMS]
6 People Are Strange - The Doors
7 I Put A Spell On You - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Screamin' Jay Hawkins)
8 Allison Gross - Steeleye Span
9 Tam Lin - Fairport Convention
10 Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen #- Santana (Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac)
11 Bears - Quicksilver Messenger Service
12 Dolly Dagger - Jimi Hendrix
13 Mr Fox - Mr. Fox
14 Witchwood - The Strawbs
15 The Ghost - Fleetwood Mac
16 Murder In The Red Barn - Tom Waits
17 Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
18 Look Out There's A Monster Coming - Bonzo Dog Band


Mandocrucian Halloween DISC 2

1 Born Under A Bad Sign - Cream (Albert King)
2 Werewolves of London - David Lindley (Warren Zevon)
3 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
4 Black Wings - Tom Waits
5 The Old Man Down The Road - John Fogerty
6 Witchy Woman - The Eagles
7 Witch's Promise - Jethro Tull
8 Since The Last Time - Lyle Lovett
9 I Scare Myself - Dan Hicks
10 Pink Moon - Nick Drake
11 Black-Eyed Dog - Nick Drake
12 Black Flowers - Chris Isaak
13 Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix
14 Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult
15 Psyko (surf guitar "Themes from "Psycho/Vertigo") - Laika & The Cosmonauts
16 Riders On The Storm - The Doors
17 I Walk On Gilded Splinters - Dr. John


Mandocrucian Halloween DISC 3

1 The Werewolf #- Michael Hurley
2 Twilight Zone - Michael Hurley
3 Haunted House - Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs
4 Loop Garou - Dr. John
5 Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya - Dr. John
6 Gravedigger - New York Rock Ensemble
7 Hellhound On My Trail - Robert Johnson
8 The Revenant - Michael Hurley
9 Ghostbusters - Ray Parker
10 When I Was A Boy I Watched The Wolves - Paul Kantner & Grace Slick
11 Sinister Purpose - Creedence Clearwater Revival
12 Making Love To A Vampire With A Monkey On My Knee - Captain Beefheart
13 Zydeco Gris-gris - Beausoleil
14 King Henry - Steeleye Span
15 The Wee Wee Man - Steeleye Span
16 Thriller - Michael Jackson
17 Somebody's Calling My Name - Ry Cooder
18 Crossroads - Ry Cooder (Robert Johnson)
19 Jump At The Sun (instrumental) - John Kirkpatrick


and...material for further discs:

Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters (or Allman Bros)
One Of These Days - Pink Floyd
Highway To Hell - AC/DC
Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Dust To Dust - John Kirkpatrick
Hellbound Train - Savoy Brown
Superstition - Stevie Ray Vaughan (Stevie Wonder)
Munsters Theme - original soundtrack
Mysterious Mose - R. Crumb & The Cheap Suit Serenaders
Down Down Down - Tom Waits
Hell's Bells - AC/DC
Career of Evil - Blue Oyster Cult
Careful With That Ax Eugene - Pink Floyd
She's As Beuatiful As A Foot - Blue Oyster Cult
Stonehenge - Spinal Tap
Vampire - Claudia Schmidt
The Scarecrow - Mike & Lal Waterson
The Hanged Man - Mr. Fox
Seventh Son of A Seventh Son - Rory Gallagher
Got My Mojo Working- Muddy Waters
Earth Died Screaming - Tom Waits
Fire & Brimstone - Link Wray
Eye Of The Zombie - John Fogerty
Fire - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown
Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers

and if you want to include 50's alien invasion sci-fi movie type stuff;
It Came Out Of The Sky - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Flying Saucer Rock Roll - Billy Lee Riley #(or the cover by Robert Gordon with Link Wray)

and there's always....
Bringing Mary Home
Ghost Riders in The Sky
Zombie Jamboree
Sweet Sunny South
Invasion of the Notation Aliens
Purple People Eater
Phantom 409


No doubt there's as many useable potential tracks I've missed or haven't thought of as I've listed....

your additions.........?

[AlanN]

Didn't see Blues For Dracula, with the classic Bela Lugosi impression by Philly Jo Jones.

'Bite yo momma goodnight'
'Go play with the bats in the belfry'

I Scare Myself....man, that's a good one.

[Walter Newton]

"Zomby Woof" - Frank Zappa

[JEStanek]

Bella Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus!
Practically anything by Siuoxie and the Banshees.

Jamie

[GTG]

'It's just the night' - Del McCoury Band

Also, it's the epitome of cheesiness, but it seems some Meatloaf might fit in somewhere in your list ('Bat out of hell', or 'Hot Summer Night', if only for the ludicrous dialogue at the beginning - "...would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red rose?"

[JeffD]

"Zomby Woof" - Frank Zappa
And don't forget Zappa's "The Torture Never Stops"

[lgc]

Anything by Justin Timberlake. Man is he scary.

[foldedpath]

Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo, great Halloween party tune.

The creepiest new tune I've heard recently is "In the Basement," from the Generation Nation album by Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, sung by Aoife O'Donovan. And it's acoustic string music too (although no mandolin). You can hear a preview on the iTunes music store.

[Bret Roberts]

Sorry about this, but as I'm a fan #I will have to add in the entire back cataloug of the punk band the MISFITS.

I really have no idea if any of this could ever be played on the Mandolin.

Just a FEW of the songs

Vampira
Ghouls Night Out
Mommy Can I go Kill Tonight?
Crimson Ghost
American Psycho
Pumpkin Head
Fiend Club

Their whole on stage shtik and music is based on fiftys “B” grade monster movies.

Wow, discusing the Misfits on the MANDOLIN CAFE that has to be a first.

[entau]

Joni Mitchell The Wolf that Lives in Lindsey -

"his grandpa loved an empire
and his siter loved a thief
and lindsey loved the ways of darkness
beyond belief
girls in chilly blouses"

Bela Bartok String quartet # 2

Pink Floyd- careful with that axe eugene

[Walter Newton]

The mention of punk reminded me of "Halloween" by The Dead Kennedys.

[Klaus Wutscher]

Mando related:

He had a long chain on Tim O´Brien and the O´Boys

[squirrelabama]

'Devil Doll' by my favorite punk band.... X. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

[luckylarue]

Nice call Jamie - Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead" is my all-time favorite Halloween song. Great tune to crank up while dispersing treats.

Also, don't forget the amazing Roky Erickson catalogue:

I Walked With A Zombie
If You Have Ghosts
A Cold Night For Alligators...

[mandroid]

Long Black Veil, get on the list?
Addams family theme
"Id rather be dead" Harry Nilsson, [son of schmilsson]
'Suicide is painless', [aka theme from MASH tv series]

as mentioned..., tom waits' phantom 409 is a fave

there is all that 'wild man Fisher' stuff too.

[B. T. Walker]

"Highway Cafe of the Damned", by the Austin Lounge Lizards.

[squirrelabama]

I love that Bauhaus tune..... Hopefully Mr Niles will crank out an instrumantal CD similar to The Vultures , but Halloween themed! what would the album be called?? What would Niles's band be called!? Can I play??
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[squirrelabama]

Oh yah....Jim Richter does an awesome verson of Voodoo Chile on YouTube...on an F2 to boot! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/blues.gif

[entau]

forgot Entwistle's "Boris the Spider"

Zepplin - "no quarter"

Gillian Welch - "Caleb Meyer"

and the BG classic - "Pretty Polly"

of course - Edgar Winter Group - "Frankenstien"b

[Stanley Cox]

How about "Eli Renfrow"? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif
Stanley

[Steve Ostrander]

How about:
"Walls of Time" by Monroe
"Tom Dooley" (trad. arr. Steve Earle, et al)
"Oh Death" (Ralph Stanley)
"Gallows Pole" (trad. arr. Led Zeppelin, et al)

And as long as long as we're including 70's punk bands:
"I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement" (Ramones)
"Homicide" (999)

[ira]

devil went down to georgia (daniels)
death don't have no mercy (davis)
dire wolf (g.dead)
friend of the devil (g.dead)
sympathy for the devil (stones)
devil in disguise (elvis)
ghost (phish)
sold my soul to rock and roll (b.midler-the rose)
frankenstein (e.winter-no lyrics but approp name)

[mandocrucian]

Mandocrucian Halloween Mix DISC 4

1 Earth Died Screaming - Tom Waits
2 One Of These Days #- Pink Floyd
3 Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
4 Ghosts In The Wind - Thompson, Richard
5 Vincent's Crows - Nash The Slash
6 The Scarecrow - Mile & Lal Waterson
7 Dust To Dust - John Kirkpatrick
8 She Moves Through The Fair - Fairport Convention
9 Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
10 Down Down Down - Tom Waits
11 Underground - Tom Waits
12 Children of the Night - Nash The Slash
13 Hell's Bells - AC/DC
14 Vampire - Claudia Schmidt
15 Fog On The Barrow Downs- Bo Hansson
16 Journeyman's Grace - Fairport Convention
17 Stonehenge - Spinal Tap
18 Kelpie - Jethro Tull
19 Munsters Theme (1966 version)


Mandocrucian Halloween Mix DISC 5

1 #Munsters Theme (1965 version) #
2 #Don't Scream (It's Only Halloween) - Andrew Gold
3 #Mysterious Mose - R Crumb & The Cheap Suit Serenaders
4 #I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night - Electric Prunes
5 #Highway To Hell - AC/DC
6 #Fire - Arthur Brown
7 #Hellbound Train - Savoy Brown
8 #Mr. Crowley - Ozzy Osborne
9 #Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
10 #Got My Mojo Working - Muddy Waters
11 #Seventh Son of 7th Son - Rory Gallagher
12 #Crossroads (from The Black Rider) Tom Waits
13 #The Back Rider - Tom Waits
14 #T'aint No Sin - Tom Waits
15 #Careful With That Ax Eugene - Pink Floyd
16 #Run Through The Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Revival
17 I Ain't Superstitious - Jeff Beck Group
18 #Frankenstein - Edgar Winter

"Dire Wolf" (one of my favorite Dead tunes) never crossed my mind. It'll go on #6, along with "Midnight Rambler (Stones), "Scream Thy Last Scream" (Syd Barrett), "Hoochie Coochie Man" (can't decide between Muddy or the Allmans rave-up). #Mave I'll clip a bit of Count Floyd audio off some 2nd City TV dvds. Should tape the intro music for the Hitchcock TV (and Twilight Zone) show too.

Need more blues/r&B "Hoodoo" related stuff. John-the-conqueroo, mojohand, crossroads, 7th son and that type of stuff. #

Not as much UK trad supernatural stuff as I first though either.

Don't have any Roky Erikson except a fairly recent live show I taped off XM. Have to play that one and hear what's on it.

NH

[jbrwky]

I always thought Maxwell's Silver Hammer was pretty creepy. Massachusett's Mining Disaster is another weird vibe. But for me the 1970's cult hit, D.O.A. is the all time yuck factor winner.

[Dave Gumbart]

"Need more blues/r&B "Hoodoo" related stuff..."

Hoodoo Voodoo, Wilco, off the first Mermaid Avenue cd they did with Billy Bragg.

[8STRINGR]

Definately include "Monster Mash". If he's the same guy I'm thinking about didn't Bobby Pickett pass away earlier this year?

Also, didn't see "Footsteps So Near" by HotRize. Kind of a Ghost Story to it. #http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/coffee.gif

[mandocrucian]

Mandocrucian Halloween Mix DISC 6

1 Scream Thy Last Scream - Pink Floyd
2 Something Following Me - Procol Harum
3 The Dead Man's Dream - Procol Harum
4 Season Of The Witch - Dr John with The Blues Bros 2000 Band
5 Spellbound - Robin Trower
6 Darkness, Darkness - Youngbloods
7 The Hanged Man - Mr. Fox
8 Housecarpenter - Pentangle
9 Juicy John Pink - Procol Harum
10 Time Has Come Today - Chambers Brothers
11 Facing The Wind - Nico
12 What's He Building In There? - Tom Waits
13 In Germany Before The War- Randy Newman
14 Sweet Sunny South - Debbie H
15 Alfred Hitchcock Show theme
16 Little Red Riding Hood - Sam The Sham
17 No More Hot Dogs - Hasil Adkins
18 Midnight Rambler - Rolling Stones
19 Medicine Man - Sam The Sham
20 Heebie Jeebies - Little Richard
21 The Cracks Are Showing - Vivian Stanshall

[8STRINGR]

Alright, I'm going way off the edge here but how about "Creatures Of The Night" or anything in that nieghborhood by KISS ? It's Halloween with those guys all year long! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[garyblanchard]

Glad to see that "Season of the Witch" finally got mentioned. I prefer the original version by Donovan on the "Sunshine Superman" album; Stills, Bloomfield, and Kooper also did a neat version on the "Supersessions" album. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

[Tosh Marshall]

Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You
Skin Alley - Graveyard Shuffle
Traffic - Graveyard People
Budgie - In For The Kill
Rory Gallagher - Cloak & Dagger
Gentle Giant - Spooky Boogie
John Mayall - The Super-Natural
Ian Campbell Folk Group - Death Comes Easy

[JeffD]

Here ya go

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2931/skeleton_street_show/

[mandolirius]

"Eli Renfrow" - Del McCoury

[mandolirius]

<Definately include "Monster Mash". If he's the same guy I'm thinking about didn't Bobby Pickett pass away earlier this year?>

Bobby "Boris" Pickett. The local public radio station
re-played a recent interview with him when he passed away. He sounded like a pretty happy guy. Of course he did other stuff, but he was basically able to live a quite comfortable existence off the royalties from "Monstor Mash". That kind of thing always amazes me. One song. It seems so easy. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[mandocrucian]

Time to bring this one back onto page 1.

[Trey Young]

didn't see these listed, but perhaps I over looked them...

Psycho Killer-Talking Heads
Howlin' At the Moon-Sam Bush
Devil Chased Me Around the Stump-Traditional/Norman Blake

[jim simpson]

One Halloween for the tricker treaters, I put on Fall Breaks and Back to Winter (Woody Woodpecker Symphony) from the Beach Boy's album, Smiley Smile. I had outdoor speakers on the porch and the cd player set on repeat for that track. It was scaaaarrry!

[Phillip Tigue]

And don't forget Zappa's "The Torture Never Stops"

And don't forget Zappa's "Gobblin Girl"

Oh, oh, oh, and ANYTHING by Type O Negative...especially, "Black #1"