Halloween Songs
The most frightening aspect about Halloween is that it signals the arrival of the holiday season. I saw the first Christmas decoration of the year: a tinsel tin soldier with flashing lights on the window of a lonely porno shop in North Beach.
American Halloween may not resemble those pagan harvest festivals of yore, but monster songs are GO!
- ADRENALIN O.D. -- A.O.D. vs. Godzilla
- AFGHAN WHIGS -- Big Top Halloween (Thanks George Everett!)
- ALEXANDER, WILLIE -- Zombie Strut
- ALICE DONUT -- Halloween
- ANGRY SAMOANS -- The Todd Killings
- ARVEDON, DAVID -- Till the Stroke of Dawn
- BAD MANNERS -- Monster Mash
- BALLARD, RUSS -- Halloween (Thanks George Everett!)
- BARNES & BARNES -- Cemetery Girls
- BAXTER, LES -- (Dunwich Horror soundtrack)
- BLUE ÖYSTER CULT -- Godzilla/ Nosferatu
- BONGWATER -- Talent is a Vampire
- CAPTAIN BEEFHEART -- When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy/Making Love to a Vampire with a Monkey on My Knee
- CASSIDY, TED -- The Lurch
- CHANEY, JR., LON -- Spider Baby
- CHURCH OF BETTY -- Electric Crematorium
- CLARK, ROY -- Spooky Movies
- COCTAILS -- Down in the Crypt
- COOPER, ALICE -- I Love the Dead
- CRACKERBASH -- Halloween Candy (Thanks George Everett!)
- CRAMPS -- (several)
- CRISWELL -- Someone Walked Over My Grave
- CROSS, JIMMY -- I Want My Baby Back
- DA TOMMY BOY -- Halloween (Thanks Jan Bellekens!)
- DAVE MATTHEWS BAND -- Halloween (Thanks Jan Bellekens!)
- DAWSON, RONNIE -- Rockin' in the Cemetery
- DEAD KENNEDYS -- Halloween
- DEADLY ONES -- Monster Surfin' Time/ (several)
- DIDDLEY, BO -- Bo Meets the Monster
- DREAM SYNDICATE -- Halloween
- EDMUNDS, DAVE -- Creature from the Black Lagoon (Thanks Michael Memmo!)
- EMMA PEEL -- Hero in a Purple Dress
- ERIKSON, ROKY -- I Walked with a Zombie
- EVERCLEAR -- Halloween Americana (Thanks George Everett!)
- EYELINER -- Do the Zombie
- FAIRPORT CONVENTION -- After Halloween (Thanks Jan Bellekens!)
- FAST, THE -- B Movies
- FIEND MASTERFREAK -- Evil Dead
- FIVE BLOBS -- The Blob
- FLAMING LIPS -- Godzilla Flicks/ Halloween On the Barbary Coast
- FLESHTONES -- Return of the Haunted House
- FORTUNE & MALTESE -- Vampyra
- FUZZTONES -- (several)
- GAYNOR, JOEY -- The Addams Family
- GHASTLY ONES -- Spook Master
- GROOVIE GHOULIES -- (several)
- GOBLIN -- (Dawn of the Dead and other soundtracks)
- HALF-JAPANESE -- (several)
- HAUNTED GARAGE -- (several)
- HAWAIIAN PUPS -- Spook Opera
- HAWKINS, SCREAMING JAY -- Whistling Past the Graveyard
- HAYDOCK, RON, & THE BOPPERS -- Halloween
- HEAT, REVEREND HORTON -- The Halloween Dance (Thanks George Everett!)
- HELLBILLYS -- Bucket o' Blood
- HELLOWEEN -- Halloween
- HIGHTOWER, DEAN -- The Purple Monster
- HITCHCOCK, ALFRED (with JEFF ALEXANDER) -- Music to Be Murdered By
- HOPKINS, KENYON -- The Tell-Tale Heart/Red-Eyed Rats/Monster Meet
- HUBBARD, L. RON -- March of the Psychlos
- HUBLER, MANFRED (with SIEGFRIED SCHWAB) -- (Vampyros Lesbos soundtrack)
- HUDSON & LANDRY -- Bruiser LaRue Meets Count Dracula
- JOHNSTON, DANIEL -- Casper the Friendly Ghost (Kids soundtrack)/A Ghostly Story
- KING DIAMOND -- Halloween
- KOMEDA, CHRISTOPHER -- (Rosemary's Baby soundtrack)
- LAMBERT, HENDRICKS & ROSS -- Halloween Spooks
- LEGENDARY PINK DOTS -- Hellowe'en
- LONEY, RON, & THE PHANTOM MOVERS -- Rockin' in the Graveyard
- MacCOLL, KRISTY -- Halloween
- MANSON FAMILY -- (any)
- MARSHMALLOW OVERCOAT -- 13 Ghosts
- McFADDEN, BOB, & DOR -- The Mummy
- ME FIRST -- Scary Monster
- MEKONS -- Big Zombie
- METEORS -- (several) (Thanks John Dillinger!)
- METHOD ACTORS -- Halloween (Thanks George Everett!)
- MINISTRY -- Halloween
- MISFITS -- Halloween
- MORRICONE, ENNIO -- (Bird with the Crystal Plumage soundtrack)
- MORROW, BUDDY -- Ullulame
- MSR SINGERS -– Monster Man (MSR Madness 4 comp.)
- MUDHONEY -- Halloween (Thanks George Everett!)
- MUMMIES (a.k.a. PLEASURE SEEKERS) What a Way to Die (Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls soundtrack)
- MX-80 SOUND -- Halloween
- NEKROMANTIC -- Trick or Treat
- NORMAN, NEIL -- One Step Beyond
- PRESSURE BOYS -- Hallows Eve
- OPHELIAS -- The Night of Halloween (Thanks George Everett!)
- PETER THOMAS SOUND -- Monster (Playgirl soundtrack)
- PHANTOM ROCKERS -– Halloween Night/Vampire Love
- PHANTOM SURFERS -- Horror Beach
- PICKETT, BOBBY "BORIS" -- (Thanks Sherman Wilson of WIZS-AM!)
- REED, LOU -- Halloween Parade
- SAM THE SHAM & THE PHAROAHS -- Little Red Riding Hood (Thanks Sherman Wilson of WIZS-AM!)/ The Phantom
- SCREAMING LORD SUTCH LOONEY PARTY-- Murder in the Graveyard
- SHAGGS -- It's Halloween
- SHERMAN, ALLAN -- My Son the Vampire
- SIOUSXIE & THE BANSHEES -- Halloween
- SLICKEE BOYS -- The Brain That Refused to Die/ The Crawling Hand
- SOCIAL DISTORTION -- Mommy's Little Monster
- SONIC YOUTH -- Halloween
- STARR, JACK -- Godzilla We Love You
- STRANGE, BILLY -- Theme from The Munsters
- SWAMP ZOMBIES -- Love Zombie
- 3-D INVISIBLES /ZOMBI SURFERS -- (several)
- THROW THAT BEAT IN THE GARBAGE CAN -- Mummy Mummy
- TOO MUCH JOY -- Pride of Frankenstein
- TRACY & THE HINDENBURG -- Dug Up Mother
- TUBES -- Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman
- VENOM -- Halloween
- WHODINI -- Haunted House of Rock
- WESLEY WILLIS -- Vampyre Bird
- WHO -- Boris the Spider (Thanks D.F. Reynoso!)
- WOGGLES -- (several)
- WOLFMAN JACK & THE WOLF PACK -- Wolfman Boogie, part 2
- WRAY, LINK -- Hillbilly Wolf
- YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS -- Halloween 247 (Thanks George Everett!)
- ZACHERLE, JOHN -- Dinner at Dracs/ Igor
- ZEVON, WARREN -- Werewolves of London (Thanks Sherman Wilson of WIZS-AM!)
Songs about Serial Killers
Many of the bands above show up in the following list of serial killer songs. Saucy Jack tops out as best loved psycho with thirteen entries!
(Thanks to for several contributions!)
- ABDUCTED -- Judy is a Serial Killer
- AC/DC -- Night Prowler (Thanks Brash Fink!)
- ADVERTS -- Gary Gillmore's Eyes
- BALL, OTIS -- Charles Manson’s Birthday
- BATTIATO, FRANCO -- Serial Killer
- BIG BOYS -- Psycho
- BLIND MELON -- Skinned (Ed Gein) (Thanks Alexis Pate!)
- BLUES TRAVELER -- Psycho Joe (Goes to the Electric Chair) (Thanks Frédérique Longrée!)
- BOLAND & BOLAND -- It's a Wonderful Knife (A Life in the Day of a Serial Killer) (Thanks Henrik Barkman!)
- CANNIBAL CORPSE -- The Pick-Axe Murders
- CAVE, NICK -- Jack the Ripper
- CHEAP TRICK -- Ballad of TV Violence (Thanks Michael Memmo!)
- CHAD MITCHELL TRIO -- Lizzie Borden
- CHILD MOLESTERS -- I Am the Hillside Strangler
- CONSUMERS -- Ballad to the Son of Sam
- COPPER -- Serial Killer
- CORPUS DELECTI -- Psycho on Saturday
- DANZIG -- Stalker Song (Thanks Brash Fink!)
- DAVID J -- Serial Killer Blues
- DEAD BOYS -- Son of Sam (Thanks Daniel Foy!)
- DEATH IN VEGAS -- Aisha (Thanks Frédérique Longrée!)
- DIESEL QUEENS -- Manson Family Feud
- DONNAS -- I Wanna Be a Unabomber
- ELECTRIC HELLFIRE CLUB -- Mr. 44 (Thanks Daniel Foy!)
- ELIAS, HANIN -- Girl Serial Killer
- FANTOMAS -- Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer (Thanks Daniel Foy!)
- FIBONACCIS -- Old Mean Ed Gein
- FLAMING LIPS -- Charlie Manson Blues
- FRIEDMAN, KINKY -- Ballad of Charles Whitman (Thanks Erich Ploechl!)
- FRONT 242 -- Serial Killers Don’t Kill
- FUZZTONES -- Jack the Ripper
- GOREFEST -- Confessions of a Serial Killer
- GRUESOMES -- Jack the Ripper
- HAIRY PATT BAND -- Richard Ramirez
- HEADBOYS -- The Ripper (Thanks Jan Bellekens!)
- HORRORS -- Jack the Ripper
- JANE'S ADDICTION -- Ted, Just Admit It (Thanks Petty!)
- JUDAS PRIEST -- Jack the Ripper
- KINGSTON TRIO -- Tom Dooley (Thanks Brash Fink!)
- KLAATU -- Mister Manson
- LA MUERTE -- Serial Killer
- LAIKA & THE COSMONAUTS -- Psyko/Vertigo
- LYDON, JOHN -- Psychopath
- MACABRE -- Serial Killer/ Apartment 213 (Jeffrey Dahmer)/ Fritz Haarman (Thanks Alexis Pate!)
- McCRACKINS -- Mickey & Mallory
- MORRISSEY -- Jack the Ripper
- MUDVAYNE -- Nothing to Gein (Thanks Daniel Foy!)
- NEITHER/NEITHERWORLD -- Son of Sam
- NIXON, MOJO -- Richard Speck (Thanks Lou Brutus of XM Satellite Radio!)
- NOACK, EDDIE -- Psycho
- ONE WAY STREETS -- Jack the Ripper
- OSBOURNE, OZZY -- Bloodbath in Paradise (Thanks Brash Fink!)
- P -- Michael Stipe (Thanks Jan Bellekens!)
- PIG -- Serial Killer Thriller
- PINK FILTH -- Psycho/Psycho
- PLAINFIELD -- Winter of 1942
- POLICE -- Mother (Thanks Chuck Maddox!)/ Murder By Numbers (Thanks Frédérique Longrée!)
- RADIOHEAD -- Clim Up the Walls (Thanks Frédérique Longrée!)
- RAY, LINK -- Jack the Ripper
- RED RIVER DAVE -- Californina Hippie Murders
- RIGHTEOUS PIGS -- Manson Klan
- RITTER, TEX -- (several)
- ROLLING STONES -- Midnight Rambler (Thanks Brash Fink!)
- RUGBURNS -- Hitchhiker Joe (Thanks Sarah the Splendid!)
- SATELLITERS -- Jack the Ripper
- SCREAMING LORD SUTCH -- Jack the Ripper
- SLAYER -- Dead Skin Mask (Thanks Frédérique Longrée!)
- SMITH, ELLIOTT -- Son of Sam
- SMITHS -- Jack the Ripper (Thanks Brash Fink!)/ Suffer Little Children (Moors Murderers) (Thanks Petty!)
- SONS OF KRYPTON -- Jack the Ripper
- SPRINGSTEEN, BRUCE -- Nebraska (Thanks Frédérique Longrée!)
- STEVENS, SUFJAN -- John Wayne Gacy, Jr. (Thanks Frédérique Longrée!)
- SUN CITY GIRLS -- Jack the Ripper
- SWAMP ZOMBIES -- Ballad of Ed Gein
- TALKING HEADS -- Psycho Killer
- THROBBING GRISTLE -- Very Friendly (Thanks Frédérique Longrée!)
- ULTRAVIOLET EYE -- SST Superstar Charles Manson (Thanks Frédérique Longrée!)
- VILETONES -- Richard Speck (Thanks Frédérique Longrée!)
- VIOLENT FEMMES -- Dahmer is Dead (Thanks Frédérique Longrée!)
- WILLIS, WESLEY -- Richard Speck
- YOUNG, NEIL -- Revolution Blues (Thanks Frédérique Longrée!)
- ZEVON, WARREN -- Excitable Boy (Thanks Frédérique Longrée!)
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