Forgive me guys for the “mega-list” I put together. I left off some of the iconic TV and movie theme songs, like The Exorcist, Halloween and The Twilight Zone. I also love to use “trailers” for many of those cheesy B-movies from the ’50s and ’60s in the midst of the songs on this list. I also left off, yet love to use my album of Halloween Nuggets which contains some of the greatest garage rock Halloween sounds of the mid-’60s. If you love the Nuggets collections that have been released in the past, then that collection is a great source of some off-beat Halloween music. But, for this list, I stuck with the “classics”. Enjoy! Let the countdown begin…
- “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” – Blue Öyster Cult
- “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky” – The Outlaws
- “A Ghost to Most” – Drive-By Truckers
- “A Night with the Jersey Devil” – Bruce Springsteen
- “A Nightmare on My Street” – DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
- “Bad Moon Rising” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- “Bark at the Moon” – Ozzy Osbourne
- “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” – Bauhaus
- “Black Magic Woman” – Santana
- “Black Sabbath” – Black Sabbath
- “Black” – Pearl Jam
- “Bones” – The Killers
- “Boris the Spider” – The Who
- “Candy Shop” – Madonna
- “Candy” – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
- “Careful with That Axe, Eugene” – Pink Floyd
- “Cat People (Putting Out the Fire)” – David Bowie
- “Children of the Grave” – Black Sabbath
- “Clap for the Wolfman” – The Guess Who
- “Creature with an Atomic Brain” – Roky Erickson & the Aliens
- “D.O.A.” – Bloodrock (This may be the creepiest song to EVER hit the Top 40!)
- “Dance with the Devil” – Prince
- “Dancing in the Moonlight” – King Harvest
- “Dead Babies” – Alice Cooper
- “Dead Man’s Party” – Oingo Boingo
- “Dead Souls” – Joy Division
- “Death Valley ‘69” – Sonic Youth
- “Demons” – Imagine Dragons
- “Demons” – The National
- “Demons” Sleigh Bells
- “Devil in My Car” – The B-52’s
- “Devil with a Blue Dress Medley” – Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band
- “Devil Woman” – Cliff Richard
- “Devil’s Child” – Judas Priest
- “Do They Know It’s Halloween?” – North American Halloween Prevention Initiative
- “Dracula’s Daughter” – Redd Kross
- “Dracula’s Wedding” – Outkast
- “Dragula” – Rob Zombie
- “Enter Sandman” – Metallica
- “Everyday Is Halloween” – Ministry
- “Evil Eye” – Franz Ferdinand
- “Evil Fantasies” – Judas Priest
- “Evil Genius” – Pat Benatar
- “Evil Urges” – My Morning Jacket
- “Evil Walks” – AC/DC
- “Evil Ways” – Santana
- “Evil Woman” – Electric Light Orchestra
- “Evil” – Interpol
- “Eye of the Zombie” – John Fogerty
- “Fear of the Dark” – Iron Maiden
- “Feed My Frankenstein” – Alice Cooper
- “Fire” – The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
- “Firestarter” – The Prodigy
- “Frankenstein” – Edgar Winter Group
- “Frankenstein” – The New York Dolls
- “Frankie Teardrop” – Suicide
- “Freaks Come Out at Night” – Whodini
- “Gary Gilmore’s Eyes” – The Adverts
- “Ghost Dance” – Patti Smith Group
- “Ghost Dancing” – Simple Minds
- “Ghost Rider” – Suicide
- “Ghost Ship” – Blur
- “Ghost Story” – Coldplay
- “Ghost Town” – Cheap Trick
- “Ghost Town” – Kurt Vile
- “Ghost Town” – The Bicycles
- “Ghost Town” – The Specials
- “Ghost Train” – Counting Crows
- “Ghost Train” – Elvis Costello
- “Ghost Train” – Feargal Sharkey
- “Ghost Writer” – Garland Jefferys
- “Ghost” – Katy Perry
- “Ghost” – Lianne La Havas
- “Ghost” – Neutral Milk Hotel
- “Ghost” – Pearl Jam
- “Ghostbusters” – Ray Parker Jr.
- “Ghosts of Princes in Towers” – Rich Kids
- “Ghosts” – Dan Fogelberg
- “Ghosts” – Japan
- “Ghosts” – Michael Jackson
- “Ghosts” – The Head and the Heart
- “Ghosts” – The Jam
- “God of Thunder” – KISS
- “Halloween Parade” – Lou Reed
- “Halloween” – Dead Kennedys
- “Halloween” – Mastodon
- “Halloween” – Misfits
- “Halloween” – Mudhoney
- “Halloween” – Siouxsie & the Banshees
- “Halloween” – Sonic Youth
- “Halloween” – The Dream Syndicate
- “Halloween” – The Gaslight Anthem
- “Heads Will Roll” – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- “Hellhound on My Tail” – Eric Clapton
- “Helter Skelter” – The Beatles
- “Highway to Hell” – AC/DC
- “Hip Priest” – The Fall
- “Howlin’ Wolf Boogie” – Howlin’ Wolf
- “I Love the Dead” – Alice Cooper
- “I Put a Spell on You” – Marilyn Manson
- “I Put a Spell on You” – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
- “I Want Candy” – Bow Wow Wow
- “I Was a Teenage Werewolf” – The Cramps
- “I, Zombie” – White Zombie
- “I’m Your Boogie Man” – KC & the Sunshine Band
- “I’m Your Boogie Man” – White Zombie
- “Intruder” – Peter Gabriel
- “It’s Halloween” – The Shaggs
- “Jizzlobber” – Faith No More
- “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.” – Sufjan Stevens
- “Kill V. Maim” – Grimes
- “Killer” – KISS
- “Little Ghost” – The White Stripes
- “Living Dead Girl” – White Zombie
- “Maggot Brain” – Funkadelic
- “Magic Man” – Heart
- “Magic” – Olivia Newton-John
- “Magic” – The Cars
- “Man in the Box” – Alice in Chains
- “Moanin’ at Midnight” – Howlin’ Wolf
- “Monster Jam” – Spoonie Gee Meets The Sequence
- “Monster” – Fred Schneider & the Shake Society
- “Monster” – Kanye West featuring Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & Bon Iver
- “Monster” – Lady Gaga
- “Monster” – Michael Jackson Featuring 50 Cent
- “Monsterman” – Devo
- “Mr. Crowley” – Ozzy Osbourne
- “Nightmares” – A Flock of Seagulls
- “Nightprowler” – AC/DC
- “People Are Strange” – The Doors
- “Pet Sematary” – Ramones
- “Polly” – Nirvana
- “Psycho Killer” – Talking Heads
- “Psycho Killer” – Velvet Revolver
- “Psycho” – Muse
- “Psycho” – System of a Down
- “Psycho” – The Sonics
- “Psychotic Reaction” – Count Five
- “Raining Blood” – Slayer
- “Running with the Devil” – Van Halen
- “Satan Rejected My Soul” – Morrissey
- “Scarecrow People” – Andy Partridge
- “Scarecrow” – Counting Crows
- “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)” – David Bowie
- “Scream” – Michael & Janet Jackson
- “Season of the Witch” – Donovan
- “Sick Things” – Alice Cooper
- “Skeletons” – The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- “Skull Ring” – Iggy & the Stooges
- “Skulldiggin’” – Black Joe Lewis
- “Skulls” – Lemonheads
- “Skulls” – Misfits
- “Skulls” – The Pretticoats
- “Somebody’s Watching Me” – Rockwell
- “Spiderwebs” – No Doubt
- “Spirit in the Sky” – Doctor & the Medics
- “Spirit in the Sky” – Norman Greenbaum
- “Spirit” – Doug E. Fresh & the Get Fresh Crew
- “Spirits in the Material World” – The Police
- “Spooky” – Atlanta Rhythm Section
- “Starman” – David Bowie
- “Supernaturally” – Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
- “Supernature” – Cerrone
- “Superstition” – Beck, Bogert & Appice
- “Superstition” – Stevie Wonder
- “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” – Marilyn Manson
- “Sweet Transvestite” – Tim Curry
- “Sympathy for the Devil” – The Rolling Stones
- “That Smell” – Lynyrd Skynyrd
- “The Beautiful People” – Marilyn Manson
- “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” – Dave Edmunds
- “The Creature from the Black Lagoon” – The Cramps
- “The Devil Inside” – INXS
- “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” – The Charlie Daniels Band
- “The Evil Men Do” – Iron Maiden
- “The Ghost and the Black Hat” – The Go-Betweens
- “The Ghost at Number One” – Jellyfish
- “The Ghost in You” – The Psychedelic Furs
- “The Ghost In-Between Us” – Plasticsoul
- “The Ghost Is Gone” – The Shelters
- “The Moan” – The Black Keys
- “The Monster Mash” – Bobby “Boris” Pickett & the Crypt Kickers
- “The Monster” – Eminem featuring Rihanna
- “The Raven” – The Alan Parsons Project
- “The Time Warp” – The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- “The Witch” – The Sonics
- “The Wolfman’s Brother” – Phish
- “Thriller/Heads Will Roll” – Glee Cast
- “Thriller” – Michael Jackson
- “Vampira” – Misfits
- “Vampire” – Peter Tosh
- “Voodoo Chile” – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- “Welcome to My Nightmare” – Alice Cooper
- “Werewolves of London” – Warren Zevon
- “What’s Behind the Mask” – The Cramps
- “When Worlds Collide” -Powerman 5000
- “Witch Doctor” – David Seville
- “Witchy Woman” – Eagles
- “Zombie Dance” – The Cramps
- “Zombie” – The Cranberries
Happy Halloween!
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