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Cold and wet here in Ontario. Let’s see some of your Oct 31st tunes …

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  9. There’s a fair few Alice Cooper tunes that spring to mind, here’s a couple (hopefully not the obvious ones) , one from the group and one from the solo years

    The Ballad of Dwight Fry

    The Nightmare Returns

  11. My 2025 Halloween mix features original 78rpm discs from the 20’s to the 50’s with twists of Country, Blues and Big Bands.

    Harlem Wildcats : Zombie
    Preston Love & His Orchestra : Voodoo
    Broadway Dance Orchestra : Haunting Blues
    Paul Whiteman with Jack Teagarden : Jeepers Creepers
    Nat Gonella & His Georgians : The Skeleton In The Cupboard
    Hank Williams : Howlin’ At The Moon
    Lonnie Johnson : Blue Ghost Blues
    Bessie Smith : Graveyard Dream Blues
    Jack Ross & His Orchestra : Bogie Man Boogie Part 1
    Cliff Jackson & His Krazy Kats : The Terror
    Gene Kardos & His Orchestra : Zombie
    Woody Herman & His Orchestra : Mr. Ghost Goes To Town
    Henry Hall & His Orchestra : Hush, Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bogeyman
    Douglas Williams : Slow Death
    The Arkansas Travellers : Boneyard Shuffle
    Fess Williams Royal Flush Orchestra : Phantom Blues
    Artie Shaw & His Orchestra : Nightmare
    Alvina Rey & His Orchestra : Picnic In Purgatory
    Ozzie Nelson & His Orchestra : The Black Cat
    Atlanta Syncopators : That Wicked Stomp

    mixcloud.com/Gardener/halloween-78s/

  16. German Hair Metal time … if you’re going to call your band Halloween, be sure to include some pumpkin imagery, and have a song that includes the name
    (the full version is 13 minutes of German Hair Metal screeching, this being the radio edit)

  19. The Damned have a number of possible inclusions for this thematic trot through all things end-of-October-ish.
    And this fits too .. latest release is a cover of There’s A Ghost In My House

    • I see Monty Oxymoron must have upped his retainer, as he appears twice in that video. Does anyone know his purpose in the band, and has anyone ever heard whether his keyboards are actually ever plugged in?

      • They are, and he provides the choral bits on “History of the World”, “Eloise”, “Curtain Call”, etc. To the degree The Damned are a 60s psych garage band (which I think there is a good argument for), they need a keyboard player, and his being a mate since primary school, for me he is ideally suited until Gong or Cardiacs make him an offer he can’t refuse.

        • Machine Gun Etiquette contained some one-fingered keyboard parts provided by Captain Sensible.
          From The Black Album, the keyboard has been an additional instrument (on that album it was Hans Zimmer).
          From Strawberries, Roman Jugg joined up.
          Monty has now been in the line-up for 30 years

      • I saw them live last year and he was definitely playing his keyboards. Very focussed – just as much as the rest of the band. To paraphrase Dolly Parton, you have to be highly skilled to sound that rough.

  20. I had a great Halloween synchronicity moment when I was living in Tokyo. It was back in the days of iPods, and mine was on shuffle when I emerged out of the Metro station into my neighbourhood on October 31st. The place was full of little Japanese kids in costume, sheets over their heads, vampire fangs, the lot. So I was navigating past all this lot, barely any of whom reached my hip, smiling at their parents in my usual haha I’m an idiot gaijin way, when the gods of randomness started this up in my ears

  21. The best song, and the best video, from one of the biggest artists of all time: Jacko’s Thriller. I remember the hype when this was released, and fortunately it really lived up to it. What a performer he was.

    Carrying on the Michael Jackson theme, here’s the Spanish group Broken Peach and their mash-up of Bad and Ghostbusters, with all the Halloween make-up you could want.

  26. Bloody hell, a Halloween list that doesn’t include Warren Zevon’s WOL

    Far from his best or most representative song, but anything that raises
    Warren’s profile is surely a good thing

  28. After running Halloween events at work all day, I fell asleep on the sofa and managed to to miss most of the evening. Shame, as I’d recently tracked down a copy of this and had planned to play it.

  29. Incidentally.
    When you save a YouTube URL to embed it here(or anywhere else for that matter), I recommend stripping out the tracking parameters and other optional query parameters that come after the core video identifier.

    The essential parts of a YouTube URL are:
    The domain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= or the short form https://youtu.be/. and the unique 11-character video ID.

    Everthing else is superfluous and may cause an automatically-generated playlist to be shown after the clip you posted finishes.

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