The Boogie Monster

I’ve got a monster in my closet

Someone’s underneath my bed

The wind’s knocking at my window

I’d kill it but it’s already dead

Gnarls Barkley “The Boogie Monster” (St. Elsewhere, 2006)

Hello everyone, and happy Sunday!

So in following my last post (about Halloween movies) I decided to give you some songs for your Halloween party that probably is, let’s be honest, not going to happen this year (damn you Corona!).

I find that when it comes to supplying the soundtrack, subtlety is key. I mean, don’t be afraid to put “The Monster Mash” on your playlist, just don’t play “Thriller” afterwards. I’m offering some maybe not so obvious (and obvious) bangers to get you in that spooky state of mind.

• Gnarls Barkley “The Boogie Monster”
• Bauhaus “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Heads Will Roll”
• David Bowie “Scary Monsters”
• The Misfits “Vampira”
• Rocky Horror Picture Show “Time Warp”
• Rockwell “Somebody’s Watching Me”
• Kanye West “Monster”
• Marianne Faithful “Witches’ Song”
• The Rolling Stones “Paint it Black”
• The Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil”
• Annie Lennox “Love Song for a Vampire”
• Talking Heads “Psycho Killer”
• Warren Zevon “Werewolves of London”
• Dusty Springfield “Spooky”
• Morissey “Ouija Board, Ouija Board”
• The Cramps “Sheena’s in a Goth Gang”
• The Ramones “Pet Semetary”
• Donovan “Season of the Witch”
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds “Red Right Hand”
• Echo & the Bunnymen “People are Strange”
• Blue Oyster Cult “Godzilla”
• ACDC “Hells Bells”
• Oingo Boingo “Dead Mans Party”
• Rihanna “Disturbia”
• Alice Cooper “Feed My Frankenstein”
• Outkast “Dracula’s Wedding”
• Siouxsie and the Banshees “Spellbound”
• The Eagles “Witchy Woman”
• Santana “Black Magic Woman”
• Fleetwood Mac “Rhiannon”
• The Black Keys “Howlin’ For You”
• Duran Duran “Hungry Like the Wolf”
• Cigarettes After Sex “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby”
• Rob Zombie “Living Dead Girl”
• Princess Nokia “Brujas”
• Joy Division “Dead Souls”
• The Woggles “Dracula’s Daughter”
• Pink Floyd “Careful With That Axe, Eugene”
• Beck “Scarecrow”
• The Weeknd “The Hills”
• Sonic Youth “Halloween”
• Billie Eilish “Bad Guy”
• Lady Gaga “Monsters”
• Nelly Furtado “Maneater”
• The Smiths “Cemetary Gates”
• Devo “Jocko Homo”
• Vampire Weekend “Walcott”
• Meatloaf “Bat Out of Hell”
• Kate Bush “Get Out of My House”
• The Cramps “I Was a Teenage Werewolf”

Okay guys, I feel like this should be enough to get you through this super spooky month. I go back to work tomorrow (boo!) and it’s going to be a busy week. I have a meeting with my advisor, my brother’s bday is tomorrow, and I need to fill out my early ballot and mail it in. So on that note be excellent to each other, and go listen to some music!