All par for the course for Welch, who told the Independent in 2009 that she’s “always been attracted to dark imagery.” In this macabre tune, Florence Welch sings about slicing out another girl’s eye after she made the singer cry. ShutterstockĦ) “Girl W ith One Eye” by Florence and the Machine These are perfect tunes to play at an undead dinner party. It’s a song designed to score the chase scene of some trippy, futuristic horror film. The singer’s auto-tuned voice repeats the same phrase over and over - “oh my gosh” - notched down a few octaves beneath a normal tone. Jamie xx’s ultra-bassy “Gosh” has an almost overwhelming sense of urgency. (If you want to get even darker, try Marilyn Manson’s version.) But on Halloween, running away from a tainted love feels a little more like fleeing a zombie than a bad girlfriend. Soft Cell’s cover of the 1960 Gloria Jones song ramps up the insidious nature of “Tainted Love.” At its heart, this song tells the story of a scorned lover. When you layer that knowledge on top of this track’s creepy opening “oh oh oh oh oh ohh”s, you’ve got a 2000 jam that slides right into a Halloween playlist.
Nina Simone and She & Him, among others, have covered it over the years, but the bass-heavy Hawkins version is tops for creep value.Īll the members of “virtual band,” have fictional backstories, with Del the Funky Homosapien embodying "Del the Ghost Rapper," who was said to be a spirit hiding from death within the band’s drummer. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins wrote it as a love song in 1956, but when he put it to tape it came out as something a little more sinister. When it comes to “I Put a Spell on You,” there’s nothing like the original. The music video is hard to forget: As the band plays, a werewolf performs Michael Jackson–style moves in front of a crowd before gruesomely murdering them in an explosion of confetti.Ģ) “I Put a Spell on You” by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Lead vocalist Karen O sings about dancing into the afterlife in this synth-pop Yeah Yeah Yeahs song. Trick-or-treaters beware.ġ) “Heads Will Roll” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs So don your witch’s hat or pop in your vampire fangs and queue up the 14 songs below. You don’t have to be stuck with these overplayed picks - there are spookier songs out there that are just as thematic for October 31. But wait: “Thriller,” “Monster Mash,” “Ghostbusters?” Yawn. Time to turn on some tunes to set the mood. You’re getting ready to throw a party, or maybe hand out candy on your front porch.
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