Hello, world. Given the roller-coaster ride everyone and everything has been on the last several months, at least we have a small bit of normalcy return with our annual Halloween Music Special! As always, we strive to present a selection of seasonally appropriate ditties that you’ve never heard before. Sorry, friends, but you won’t be hearing the Monster Mash, Thriller, or the Ghostbusters theme here. We start this year’s show with a group of songs themed around the idea of “Halloween in the Old West”, which brings us songs from Sir Christopher Lee, country singer Buck Owens, and the game Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare. After the Old West, we take a trip back in time with a handful of selections from when the music industry was an actual industry and cranked out Halloween novelty songs like clockwork. Returning for another appearance is the Obligatory Metal Group, which this year is themed around cannibals and features choice cuts from Cannibal Corpse, Heaven & Hell, and a pre-Type O Negative song from Peter Steele. Rounding out this year’s program is a group of songs that honors the many appearances of the world’s foremost bio-exorcist, Beetlejuice! We’ll be honoring the character with some selections from the Beetlejuice soundtrack, the animated series, some of his video game appearances, as well as from the recent big-budget Broadway musical. So sit back, relax, and enjoy some haunting sounds during these spooky times.
What Was Played:
(click on the links below to listen!)
- Kreeps – Bad Voodoo
- Christopher Lee – Ghost Riders In The Sky
- Eddie Noack – Psycho
- Buck Owens – It’s A Monster’s Holiday
- The Jayhawks – The Creature From Outer Space
- The Caravans – The Spook
- James Duhon – Graveyard Creep
- The Nu Trends – Spooksville
- Terry Teene – Curse of the Hearse
- Cannibal Corpse – Edible Autopsy
- Heaven & Hell – Eating the Cannibals
- Carnivore – Predator
- Beetlejuice (The Animated Series) – Intro Theme
- Beetlejuice (NES) – Title Theme
- Lego Dimensions – Beetlejuice (Spooky)
- Beetlejuice (1988 Movie) – Main Titles
- Beetlejuice (1988 Movie) – Beetle-Snake
- Beetlejuice (Broadway Musical) – The Whole Being Dead Thing
Dennis’s Nickname:
The man who thinks that this year’s worst Halloween costume is a “Sexy Anti-Masker”
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