Halloween is soon coming. What are some of the best songs you play at a Ghoulie Bash???
I'll list some of mine tomorrow. What I would like to do is actually set up some posts for different holidays, or occasions where theme music is needed. Lets try and start with this for now though. We can work on X-mas, and New Years next month or so. Then there's also St. Patricks day, Valentines day, so on, and so forth. Halloween is one of my favourite bashes to do though. I got some good ones for ya all.
Tha Dogg

I have the same question. I am booked for a hallowen gig on halloween. It is for a local high school. Do you think I could play the same kinda music like I owuld play at a regular dance? I will bring my special "halloween" lighting package, complete with strobes dry ice etc. Any suggestions?

Monster Mash . . . it's a must
Thriller. . . MJ it's a must . .

THRILLER DON'T FORGET IT!
Plus here's a very good one... Bump In The Night - Allstars.

MJ = Michael Jackson, if you don't remember. lol

I find that anything by the backstreet boys and Nsync tends to be a pretty spooky song for any occasion.

ICE ICE BABY.

-LKJ

Well, I don't know if any DJ has ever tried it but, movie scores are just a goldmine for spooky or downright frightening music, but then, if it's a dance, it should only serve as intros, outros background for beats. I guess it really depend if you are a DJ who is there to answer to public request (Which I think most DJs are) or if you are a more edjy kind of DJ who try to drive people to discover new types of music (Which is of course very risky if you want to keep the interest of the public).

Anyway, back to the music :

Horror scores :
Remember theese names : Christopher Young, James Newton Howard, Eliot Goldenthal, John Debney, Goblin, John Carpenter. Most of the time, when theese guys do an Horror score, it's just, wow !

Special mention :
FearDotCom by Nicholas Pike : Creepy as hell Mimic by Marco Beltrami : Really eerie in some places
Donnie Darko by Michael Andrews : Dark but incredibly Beautiful
Mulholland Drive, Twin Peaks fire Walk with me and Arlington Road by Angelo Badamalenti (Not all the songs, only some of them)
Hardware (Songs and score), by Simon Boswell. Good collection of songs, with the classic Order of Death by Public Image Ltd.
The Cell by Howard Shore : Just incredible, I've got no more words for this underrated score.

Dark Pounding tracks on scores :
The last track by Cevin Key on the End of Days score (John Debney)
The first track on the Serial Experiments : Lain soundtrack Cyberia Mix (The manga)

Drum and Bass :

Low Profile Darkness and Twisted Designz by Panacea
Controlled Developments by Source Direct
Forms and Function by Photek
Anything by Technical Itch and friends (Compil)
Arcon 2
Antek (Not commerically released, avalaible on this MP3 site you all know...)

Hardcore Techno
Manu le Malin and friends (Compil)

Conteporary Music :

Anything by Krzysztof Penderecki (Even the name is creepy !)
Some Gyorgy Ligeti, Requiem and Lux aeterna come to mind

Overall Creepyness :

The For Carnation
Queen of Siam by Lydia Lunch
Godspeed you Black Emperor (For a Post-Apocalyptic mood)
Spiritual Archives by Delerium
The Place where the Black Stars Hangs by Lustmord (For Backgournd only ! Beleive me :-))
Diamanda Galas (Beware, this can be downright scary, maybe at the end of the evening, to make everybody run for the exit :-))

Well that's about it for now, there is a lot more, but these are ideas to begin with. Beware though, this stuff can be too dark, depressing, or weird for most peoples tastes, so you'll just have to be moderate, I guess. Anyway, it alls depends of the audience in the end.

Sorry for the lenght thoug !

Luc Desjardins

Dont worry about the length dude....
if it gets too long i'll just take out my scissors...

X-TREME now that's what I was looking for. I use a lot of movie scores, and like you said you can only use it as mainly intro music. I have that stuff on when people are coming into the hall to set the mood. ANGELO BADALAMENTI one of my all time favs!!!! I know I said I would post mine today, however I'm just on my way out the door going to Niagara Falls for the weekend for my first anniversary. Married for one year now. We's gonna hit the casino, do dinner, and a few shows, so I'll post when I get back on Sunday, or Monday. In the mean time keep em coming. Wait till you see my list. It goes on, and on, and on. Some of it is off the wall kind of stuff.

most def....
THRILLER!! Its a classic

Here's a few more:
Purple People Eater
Time Warp
Disco Inferno
Ghostbusters
Soul Man
Bad Moon Rising

Gleened right off the back of a Halloween mix CD I picked up for $3.00. Although I found out later that it wasn't the original artists, so I was bummed. Well, for $3...

Cool idea about movie scores. That's why this place rocks. You always learn something new.

Oh, and congrats Dogg! Trust me, it gets easier as time goes on...

Aside froma ll of the "spookey" themed songs would the song that you would play at areular dance be okay to? I don;t see why not

Yeah, You can't play theme music all night, you got to play the regular stuff, however there are a lot of regular songs that relate to Halloween indiscretely too. I'm getting my list ready.

1. After Dark - The Blasters
2. Bad Moon Rising - CCR
3. Bat Out Of Hell - Meatloaf
4. Black Magic Woman - Santana
5. Candy Man - Roy Orbison
6. Cleanin' Up The Town - The Bus Boys
7. Could This Be Magic - The Dubs
8. Devil Behind That Bush - The Cramps
9. Devil In Disguise - Elvis Presley
10. Devil Inside - Inxs
11. Freaks Come Out At Night - Whoodini
12. Goblin Girl - Frank Zappa
13. Conehead - Frank Zappa
14. Devil Or Angel - The Clovers
15. Devil With A Blue Dress - Mitch Ryder
16. Dragula - Rob Zombie
17. Every Day Is Halloween - Ministry
18. Feed My Frankenstein - Alice Cooper
19. Ghost Busters - Ray Parker Jr.
20. Ghost In You - Psychedelic Furs
21. Ghost Town - Cheap Trick
22. Halloween - Japan
23. Halloween - Dead Kennedys
24. Halloween - Souxie And The Banshees
25. He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask) - Alice Cooper
26. I'm Your Boogie Man - White Zombie
27. In The Midnight Hour - The Rascals
28. Little Red Riding Hood - Sam Sham & The Pharoahs
29. Love Potion #9 - The Clovers
30. Lullaby - Alice Cooper
31. Monster Mash - The Big O this is the best version of this song.
32. Peter Pumpkinhead - Crash Test Dummies
33. Teenage Frankenstein - Alice Cooper
34. Thriller - Michael Jackson
35. Time Warp - Rocky Horror
36. Too Much Blood - Rolling Stones
37. Trick Or Treat - Fastway
38. Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
39. Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
40. Twilight Zone - 2 Unlimited
41. Unfinished Sweet - Alice Cooper
42. Weird Science - Oingo Boingo
43. Welcome To My Nightmare - Alice Cooper
44. Werewolves Of London - Warren Zevon
45. Black Cat - Janet Jackson
46. Halloween Parade - Lou Reed
47. Flesh To Flesh - Lamont
48. Haunted - The Pogues
49. No One Lives Forever - Oingo Boingo
50. Cry Little Sister - Gerrard McMann
51. Joan Crawford - Blue Oyster Cult
52. Divine Wind - Blue Oyster Cult
53. Sweet Transvestite - Rocky Horror
54. Black Leather Lagoon - The Cramps
55. Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps
56. Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
57. Unfinished Sweet - Alice Cooper
58. No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper
59. Dracula From Houston - Butthole Surfers
60. Boris The Spider - The Who
61. Nosferatu - Blue Oyster Cult
62. The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
63. Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult
64. Jean Geni - David Bowie
65. Devils Radio - Traveling Wilburys
66. Zombie Zoo - Traveling Wilburys
67. Burn The Flames - Roky Erickson
68. Flesh To Flesh - I Have to check for artist
69. The Witch's Song -
70. Pet Cemetary - The Ramones
71. Surfin' Dead - The Cramps
72. Party Time (Zombie Version)- 45 Grave
73. Eyes Without A Face - The Flesheaters
74. Dead Beat Dance - The Damned
75. Haunted Head - Concrete Blonde
76. White Night - Torch Song
77. Mindwarp - Lords Of The New Church
78. Strange Things Happen - Stewart Copeland
79. Riders On The Storm - The Doors
80. Fall Of The House Of Usher - Alan Parsons
81. Halloween (She Get So Mean) - Rob Zombie
82. The Halloween Dance - Reverend Horton Heat
83. Werewolf - Southern Culture On The Skids
84. Gravewalk - Satan's Pilgrims
85. Ribcage Mambo - Frenchy
86. I Drink Blood - Rocket From The Crypt
87. Little Demon - The Amazing *****s
88. No Costume, Not Candy - Swingin' Neckbreakers
89. The Munsters Theme - Los Straitjackets
90. Sinister Purpose - Zacherle & Southern Culture on the Skids
91. Werewolves On Wheels - The Born Losers
92. Psychic Voodoo Doll - Deadbold
93. Banshee Beach - The Ghastly Ones
94. The Creature Stole My Surfboard - Dead Elvi
95. Extrasensory Deception - Davie Allan & The Phantom Surfers
96. Spooks Night Out - The Legendary Invisible Men
97. Happy Halloween - Zacherle
98. Bark At The Moon - Ozzy Osbourne
99. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
Then there are movie scores from the movies: Night Of The Living Dead, Return Of tHe Living Dead, Fright Night, Nightmare On Elm St. I'll add more later......
There's also way more Alice Cooper stuff, along with Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Krokus, Motorhead, the list goes on.

Some of the T.V Themes are : Casper the Friendly Ghost, Munsters, Addams Family, I Dream Of Jeannie, Twight Zone, Alfred Hitch****, Bewitched, Monty Python, The Outer Limits, and The Three Stooges, More to come........later....

This Is Only My Partial List By The Way.....
THA DOGG.