It’s Halloween 2016 and The Arcade is back with our annual Halloween Music Special to fill up your auditory pillow case with treats of a musical sort. We strive to present a variety of songs and styles on these shows, and this year is no different.  Our adventure beings with the Ludicrous Leadoffs, which this year, is built around a central theme… haunting horror hip-hop! Did you know the Crypt Keeper did a rap song in the early 90’s?  Or that Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff made a song for A Nightmare on Elm Street 4? Have you ever heard Warwick Davis rap as the Leprechaun in Leprechaun V?  We’ve found all these oddities and play them for you in our opening block.  From there, we class the show up a bit and explore what the world of Creepy Classical and Spooky Symphonies for us.  The class, however, will only last so long as we have to include the obligatory heavy metal group.  What could be more Halloween than the image of blood raining down from the sky as sung by Slayer, or Peter Steele using his bass-baritone vocals to sing an ode to All Hallows Eve?  This Halloween show closes out by paying homage to some of the great musical talents who left their mortal coil and joined the afterlife this year as we’ll play seasonally appropriate selections from Motörhead, David Bowie, and Prince.  So tune in and let us be your soundtrack for this scary season.  As always, we encourage you to follow the iTunes links below to purchase these songs for yourself, to enjoy at Halloween and beyond.

What Was Played:
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• The Crypt Keeper – Crypt Jam
• Warwick Davis – Lep in the Hood
• The Monster Squad – The Monster Squad Rap
• DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – A Nightmare on my Street
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Dance Macabre
• Disney’s Silly Symphony – The Skeleton Dance
• Slayer – Raining Blood
• Dissolution – Bloodlust
• Type O Negative – All Hallows Eve
• David Bowie – Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
• Motörhead – Boogeyman
• Prince – Batdance

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The giver of chocolate, the taker of souls

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