Witch vibe songs11/1/2023 ![]() What to know about her 2023 concert at Ak-Chin Pavilion The Minus 5, 'Lies of the Living Dead' It shares a title with a classic zombie film from 1943, and lyrically there's not much too it, with Erickson repeating "I walked with a zombie, I walked with a zombie, I walked with a zombie last night" until it's clear the zombies hypnotized his fractured mind and sent him back to share his haunted visions with the world. The former leader of psychedelic garage-rock legends the 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson recorded this wholly believable account of his walk with a zombie at the helm of a new band, the Aliens, in 1981. The guitar riff is among the finest AC/DC ever hammered home, while the solo does more with the raunchier side of the Chuck Berry template than any lead guitar break since the early Kinks. But chances are, he would've sung that bit about a "season ticket on a one-way ride" regardless. Or course, he didn't know he was about to die. ![]() "My friends are gonna be there, too," the singer gleefully proclaims. AC/DC, 'Highway to Hell'įrom AC/DC's final album with Bon Scott on vocals, "Highway to Hell" finds Scott romanticizing hell as the ultimate rock-and-roll promised land. "I put a spell on you because you're mine," Hawkins sneers in the opening verse. Hawkins has said he was drunk the day he cut "I Put a Spell on You" and that explains a lot, but his performance still brings chills with maniacal laughter punctuating what sounds like the ranting of a half-mad stalker. Carried onstage in a flaming coffin, Hawkins would rise from the box wearing a black satin vampire cape and serenade a skull named Henry, which Hawkins would carry around on a stick, with songs like this. Long before Alice had met his untimely demise in a guillotine, Screamin' Jay Hawkins was making the world safe for spooky rock-and roll-theatrics in the '50s. Playlist: 20 best David Bowie songs of all time Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 'I Put a Spell on You' The title track to David Bowie's 1980 classic "Scary Monsters" finds the former Ziggy Stardust observing a woman's descent into madness and, as such, those super creeps and scary monsters may be nothing more than figments of a mind gone mad. Bela Lugosi's dead." David Bowie, 'Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)' And these goth-rock pioneers delivered with a haunting post-punk tapestry of strange guitar effects, a dark, descending bass line and lead singer Peter Murphy eventually making his way to the mike to deliver the eulogy several minutes in: "The bats have left the bell tower. But The Who did their legacy proud in Phoenix Bauhaus, 'Bela Lugosi's Dead'Ī Hungarian film star best remembered for his starring role in "Dracula," Lugosi made an ideal subject for a Bauhaus single. As the late, great bassist puts it, "He's come to a sticky end." By the final verse, he's gone from merely observing the spider to fearing the spider to beating the spider to death with a book. ![]() The dark, descending bass line makes it sound like horror-movie soundtrack fare, and Entwistle's voice on the chorus is particularly creepy. John Entwistle's demented genius fueled a number of the Who's most offbeat early tracks, including this - a creepy, creepy, crawly, crawly ode to a spider named Boris. ![]() What was Alice Cooper like in high school? Friends and bandmates share stories The Who, 'Boris the Spider' The only thing missing is a children's choir. "Nothing." Other lines that make this song the greatest Halloween track ever? "I never even knew your now-rotting face." "While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave, I have other uses for you, darling." And the sing-along chorus is genius. And this one is a ghoul-tide gem, from the opening verse, "I love the dead before they're cold. It seemed more fair for the sake of this list to limit each artist to a single track. In fact, I did a separate list called the Ultimate Alice Cooper Halloween playlist if you want to dig a little deeper. I could have filled the list with Alice Cooper songs. ![]()
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