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Spotify playlist: Halloween rock

Spotify playlist: Halloween rock

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As featured in the Irish Independent’s Insider magazine, with bonus tracks on Spotify.

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Them

I’m Your Witch Doctor

A psychedelic fever dream from 1965.

Them - I'm Your Witch Doctor (1967)

Oingo Boingo

Dead Man’s Party

“Walkin’ with a dead man over my shoulder / Don’t run away it’s only me.” *Closes door*

Oingo Boingo Dead Man's Party

The Edgar Winter Group

Frankenstein

It helps that Winter looks like a lost child from a horror movie.

Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein

Alice Cooper

Feed My Frankenstein

As heard in the classic horror film Wayne’s World.

Alice Cooper - Feed My Frankenstein (Official Video)

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins

I Put A Spell On You

Because the blues was was often considered the devil’s music.

Screamin Jay Hawkins - I put a spell on you

The Who

Boris The Spider

For many, there’s nothing scarier than a creepy crawly.

The Who - Boris The Spider

Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs

Haunted House

A Halloween song you can jive too.

Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - Haunted House

Jack And Jim

Midnight Monster’s Hop

Get down and boogie with some furry friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0X4ifznyZU


Sheb Wooley

The Purple People Eater

A 1958 novelty classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL1ZH0Ke92A


Warren Zevon

Werewolves Of London

The chorus is basically a howl so this qualifies for everything Halloween-related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhSc8qVMjKM

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