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Spooky, Saccharrin Songs
Imagine the following: You’re at a party on Halloween and you listen to the same songs every year for Halloween. You can only do the Monster Mash so many times before it gets old. Even scrolling on TikTok and listening to Oh! Klahoma by Jack Stauber is getting a little but too curated for your taste. You feel like it's not nearly as fun and scary to experience this Halloween as it used to be.
By Elizabeth Karns-Waters4 years ago in Beat
Happy Howl-oween!
Coming in at 31 songs and just under 2 hours long, here is the playlist I created for the “Graveyard Smash” 2021 challenge on Vocal.media! It’s not just a playlist made for boo-geying, however, as a good Halloween playlist - to me - should always include at least one track that tells a story! I am also a huge fan of remixes and alternative versions and am versed in multiple versions of many songs, so while the titles may look familiar, be advised most versions here are not the most well-known or popular.
By Megan Baker (Left Vocal in 2023)4 years ago in Beat
Bloody Broadway: A Halloween Cast Recording
Halloween is about dressing up and playing make-believe for a single night. Musical theatre is about doing the same thing year round. So who would know better how to throw a Halloween bash than a cast of Broadway triple threats?
By Micah Delhauer4 years ago in Beat
80s Horror: A Soundtrack
After taking a back seat in the 1950s and 60s, the horror genre began to build momentum again in the 70s and outright exploded in the 1980s. This new generation of splatterpunks eschewed the trappings of yesterdecade’s gothic fantasies in favor of more visceral, modern terrors. The filmmakers were young and reckless, the actors were young and desperate, and the audiences were young and bloodthirsty. As such, it was inevitable that the music would take on a hipper, fresher sound.
By Micah Delhauer4 years ago in Beat
Get Your Spook On
Halloween is my favourite time of year, for a bunch of reasons. First, costumes are fun to wear; it’s the only day of the year I can wear a cape and not get weird glances about it. Second, it takes place during my favourite season (Autumn). Third, I really like horror movies. Four: it’s not up its own butt with pretentious messages about togetherness (oddly promoting neighborly interaction via “Trick or Treating”). Fifth, and most importantly, it’s the most unique looking of the “holidays,” where the objective is to let loose your inner darkness and scare, rather than love or cherish.
By B.D. Reid4 years ago in Beat
Halloween Music
Not that there's anything wrong with "Monsters Mash", and it's definitely on my playlist, but you'll need to expand your definition of Halloween music unless you want to drive party guests crazy with the same few songs on repeat all night.
By Kevin McMechan4 years ago in Beat
Halloweened
I'm not a huge Halloween fan. This is a surprise to you, isn't it? After all, aren't I the one who dresses up and goes to the Comic conventions with my grandchildren? Aren't I the one who takes advantage of a passing resemblence to a certain someone who held a writer hostage and made him write a sequel her way?
By Paula Shablo4 years ago in Beat
My Halloween Night sound
I love Halloween so to create a playlist for it, it's a great time machine for me through years, sound and variety of what I can recall for this day.
By Lightness4 years ago in Beat
The Perfect Halloween Playlist For Poetry Lovers
As I approach my 23rd Halloween, I would be lying if I said that the holiday hasn't lost some of its novelty. Being past the socially acceptable age to go trick or treating and no longer in the era of Disney Channel's Monstober event, Halloween has become more of a responsibility in many ways than a fun day full of free candy. So what does an adult do to gain back some of that old Halloween spark? Look for ways to spice it up, of course.
By C.R. Hughes4 years ago in Beat
Skeletons Can Dance Too
Halloween is my favorite holiday. The only one I like, to be exact. Foods and confections aside, Valentines' Day gets a pass, Easter is more often than not forgettable, and Christmas, as backwards as it is, gives me the heebie-jeebies. For some twisted reason, my anxious self decided very early on in life that I was going to be obsessed with anything and everything horror, from literature to visual arts, cinematography, and of course, music.
By Elsa Fleurel4 years ago in Beat
Halloween Playlist – Prince of Darkness
Little Weiner was tired of being only the second most feared supervillain in Gotham, he wanted the top spot, to be the leader of the pack. For people to fear him as they did no other. What better way to make it happen than to create the most listen to playlist for Halloween. The one holiday that strikes fear in all men’s hearts.
By Steve Lance4 years ago in Beat
Halloween hit list runs the gamut from comedy to tragedy
This was an especially enjoyable Challenge by the Vocal team especially for someone like me who loves music as well as scary movies, stories and poems. Australia doesn't really celebrate Halloween but I'm getting into the spirit -- ha ha -- nonetheless. Here's my play list of 13 songs (appropriately) in which I have tried to include some Aussie classics:
By Shirley Twist4 years ago in Beat