Happy Halloween!

Halloween, for many people and many different reasons, is one of the best holidays the year can offer. Aside from consciously creating cavities, the eve of All Hallows Day has transformed into (nearly) a week's worth of reasons to dress up in something bizarre and go out and have fun. It would make perfect sense to find some "spooky" songs or some "haunting" stories to please your senses, but why not do the obvious?

I could just combine a list of Clay Aiken and Paris Hilton tracks and go "BOO!" to the same effect, but that'd be taking the easy route. Thanks to an insightful list from Halloween/music lover Dave White (a former Louisville classic rock DJ) compiled, I've managed to showcase the (somewhat) scary MP3s and a portion of the cynical lyrics that accompany them - resulting in a far more haunting effect than any version of "Monster Mash" may have had on you.

[MP3] Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London
"I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand / Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain / Better stay away from him / He'll rip your lungs out, Jim!"

[MP3] Jim Stafford - Swamp Witch
"Blackwater Hattie lived back in the swamp, where the strange green reptiles crawl / Snakes hang thick from the cypress trees, like sausage on a smokehouse wall! / Where the swamp is alive with a thousand eyes, and all of 'em watchin' you / Stay off the track of Hattie's shack in the back of the Black Bayou!"

[MP3] Alice Cooper - This House Is Haunted
"I was sitting in my room, dark and gray and crying / Someone in my life, I fear, was at the point of dying / A cold wind blew right up my spine, it was the break of dawn / A little voice way deep inside told me she was gone"

[MP3] The Doors - Ghost Song
"The music and voices are all around us / Choose, they croon, the ancient ones / The time has come again! / Choose now, they croon, Beneath the moon, Beside an ancient lake!"

[MP3] Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
"Big black shape with eyes of fire / Telling people their desire / Satan's sitting there, he's smiling, watch those flames get higher and higher / Child cries out for his mother / Mother's screaming in the fire / Satan points at me again, opens the door to push me in!"

[MP3] Led Zeppelin - The Battle Of Evermore
"The drums will shake the castle wall / The ringwraiths ride in black, Ride on / Oh dance in the dark of night, sing to the morning light / The magic runes are writ in gold to bring the balance back"

[MP3] The Kinks - Wicked Annabella
"In a dark and misty house, where no Christian man has been / Wicked Annabella mixes a brew that no one's ever seen! / Don't go into woods tonight, cause underneath the sticks and stones / Are lots of little demons enslaved by Annabella, waiting just to carry you home!"

Practice your debauchery responsibly, eh? Have a great night!

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