I’m posting selections from my personal Halloween playlist on BlueSky right now, with a new theme daily. I thought I’d share each themed post here this month. I feel like I’ve done this before, but I can’t find the post and it was so long ago.
These are far from comprehensive, and there are still albums, songs, and soundtracks that I would like to purchase eventually. I didn’t include some artists that I still play on my list but have engaged in heinous bullshittery. I also didn’t include the Cranberries’ “Zombie.” I’m firmly on the side of it being a horror song, but people feel very strongly about it being on Halloween music lists, because it definitely isn’t a party song (like Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is definitely not a Christmas song).
There are all kinds of music genres here, from musical theater to rap, because I’m more interested in content than genre.
Yesterday, I posted the Vampire list and today I posted the Devil/Demon list, so I’ll do both today here.
Vampire:
- “Uninvited” – Alanis Morissette
- “Love Song for a Vampire” – Annie Lennox
- “Blood Like Lemonade” – Morcheeba
- “Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)” – Concrete Blonde
- “Transylvanian Concubine” – Rasputina
- “Masquerade Ball”/”Save Me” – Jorne Lande and Trond Holter (whole Swing of Death album, really)
- “Nosferatu” – Blue Oyster Cult
- “Love Bites (So Do I)” – Halestorm
- “Bleed” – Fractured
- “Master of the Living and the Dead”/”Dracula’s Soliloquy” – Possessed: The Dracula Musical
- “Possum Kingdom” – The Toadies
- “Damned and Divine” – Tarja
- “Vampire” – Xandria
- “Within My World” – Dracula concept album
- “Total Eclipse of the Heart” – Bonnie Tyler
- “Solar Midnite” – Lupe Fiasco
- “Bela Lugosi is Dead” – Bauhaus
- “Creatures” – Delain
- “Enter” – Within Temptation
- “First Blood” – LVCRFT
- “Vampires Will Never Hurt You” – My Chemical Romance
- “Vampire” – Bap Kennedy (added by a recommendation in the replies)
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