Halloween is pretty much the greatest holiday of all time.
When you’re young you get to dress up and run around with a bunch of friends and hijack everyone’s free candy. When you get older you also get to dress up, but instead of candy you get to have some “adult candy” and get all crazy.
There’s nothing like watching a giant penguin do some grinding on Gumby, or watching Isaac try to walk down a flight of stairs in heels while dressed up as Goldie Locks, and pretty sure there was someone dressed up as Danzig at the party I went to last year (awesome!).
The randomness and the pure comedy that comes from getting a bunch of random intoxicated characters together is priceless.
However, one of the most important aspects to a Halloween party is a killer Halloween playlist. So in order to help out with all your candy-filled drunken shenanigans tonight, the staff at B.G.M. have created The Best Halloween Playlist of All Time (okay maybe not the best of all time, but it is pretty legit) for your listening pleasure.
Oh, also since everyone always puts playlists on shuffle anyway, these songs will be listed by each B.G.M. staff members picks.
The Best Halloween Playlist of All Time:
Javier’s Picks
Prince “Partyman” / Michael Jackson “Thriller” (naturally) / Snake River Conspiracy “Breed” / Monster Mash (of course) /Roots Manuva “A Haunting”
Melissa’s Picks
Timber Timbre “Demon Host,” “Run From Me” / Dead Man’s Bones “My Body’s a Zombie For You” (Kevin Silva pick as well), “Flowers Grow Out of My Grave” / UNKLE “Rabbit in Your Headlights”
Kevin Silva’s Picks
The Specials “Ghost Town” (Issac also requested this one) / Oingo Boingo “Dead Man’s Party”
Milner’s Picks
Nurse With A Wound “Six Buttons of Sex Appeal” / Brian Eno and David Bryne “The Jezebel Spirit” / Timber Timbre “Hot Dreams” / Sisters of Mercy “Lucretia My Reflection” / The Cure “Burn” / Bauhaus “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” (Vana also requested this one)
David’s Picks
Funeral For a Friend “Roses For The Dead” / Royal Blood “Little Monster” / Lonely The Brave “Black Saucers” / Counting Crows “Ghost Train”
Josh’s Picks
Blue Oyster Cult “Don’t Fear The Reaper” / AFI “Fall Children”/ Misfits “Halloween” (Vi also wanted this song) / Radical Face “Haunted” / Alkaline Trio “Calling All Skeletons” / Strung Out “Bring Out Your Dead”/ Harley Poe “I Am The Living Dead” / Tiger Army “Ghostfire”
Phil’s Pick
Mariah Carey feat. Ol’ Dirty Bastard “Fantasy (Remix)” – Editors note: Every playlist needs a Mariah Carey song on it!!
Chad’s Picks
Misfits “Die My Darling” / The Deadlines “Go-Go to the Grave” / Nerve Agents “The Poisoning,” “Jekyl and Hyde,” “The Vice of Mrs. Glossy”
JP Gorman’s Picks
King Tuff “Black Moon Spell” / Queens of the Stone Age “Song for the Dead” (Vana also picked this one too) /Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil” / Talking Heads “Psycho Killer” (Vi also wanted this too) / TV on the Radio “Wolf Like Me” / Warren Zevon “Werewolves of London” / Dr. Dog “Vampire” / White Stripes “Little Ghost” / Wolf Parade “Fine Young Cannibals” / King Khan and the Shrines “Land of the Freak”
Vi’s Picks
Yeah Yeah Yeah “Heads Will Roll” / Tegan and Sara “Walking With a Ghost”
Danielle’s Pick
Sufjan Stevens “John Wayne Gacy Jr.”
Isaac a.k.a. Goldie Locks’ Picks
Type O Negative “Black No. 1” / Dead Mans Bones “Pa Pa Power” / Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds “Red Right Hand”/ Rockwell “Somebody’s Watching Me”/ White Zombie “Children of the Grave” (Black Sabbath cover)/ Slaughter “Up All Night”/ Q Lazzurus “Goodbye Horses”/ Nicky Twist “Cry Little Sister” / Murder By Death “My Hill,” “Three Men Hanging”
Dan’s Picks
Kanye West “Monster” / Classics IV “Spooky”
Amanda’s Picks
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins “I Put a Spell On You” (JP also requested this song) / Marilyn Manson “Sweet Dreams” / The Cranberries “Zombie” / David Bowie “Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)” / Santana “Black Magic Woman” / Jimi Hendrix “Voodoo Child”
My Picks
Portishead “Cowboys” / White Zombie “Super Charger Heaven” / Massive Attack “Black Milk,” “Flat of the Blade” / DJ Shadow ” Mutual Slump” / Danzig ” She Rides” / Blackalicious “Cliff Hanger” / Dr. Octagon ” Girl Let Me Touch You” / Rob Zombie “Living Dead Girl”
Nate’s Picks
Lacuna Coil “Zombies” / Ministry “Everyday is Halloween”
Vana Black’s Picks
Black Mountain “Evil Ways” / Crystal Castles “Magic Spells” / The Cure “Fascination Street” / Dead Man’s Bones “Dead Man’s Bones” / Eagles of Death Metal “Chase the Devil” / Ghost B.C. “Satan Prayer” / Gnarls Barkley “The Boogie Monster” / Iggy Pop “Nice to be Dead” / Joy Division “Dead Souls” / The Magnetic Fields “Zombie Boy” / Nancy Sinatra “Bang Bang”/ Queens of the Stone Age “Burn the Witch” / Roky Erickson and the Aliens “Night of the Vampire”/ Siouxsie and the Banshees “Helter Skelter,” “Halloween” / Tom Waits “Redrum” / Doyle Bramhall II “Oh Death” / Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Graveyard” / Acid Bath “Vampire”
This is a pretty diverse playlist and it pretty much rules! Thanks to our staff for getting their picks together. Hope this makes your weekend of Halloween partying that much better. Enjoy!!
P.S. If there are any songs that you think need to be included on here feel free to leave them in the comments section. Thanks!