October has come again, my children of the night. The sun sinks low in the northern sky, and . . . something else rises from the earth once more to walk among you. It can only be the latest in Popdose’s notorious Halloween mixtape series — a seamless 78-minute collage of continuous music and sound, free as always for your streaming and downloading pleasure.
And in case you are unfamiliar with our whole devilish deal, know ye that this year’s headphone horrorshow is just one in a collection, now seventeen installments strong and showing no signs of slowing, of irreproducible audio experiences. We’ve got a total of twenty-one-plus hours of seasonal favorites, obscure apocrypha, haunted blues, boneyard bops, spoken poetry and campfire tales.
You’re not going to find anything like this on any commercial streaming service; many (if not most) of the hundreds of source tracks are out of print or otherwise unavailable — not to mention the monstrous mash-ups and montages created exclusively for this series — and all of it is stitched together with mad love by the unhallowed hands of your old fiend Jack Fear for your festive needs: soundtracking long car trips, whiling away the afternoons at the office, and scaring the dickens out of the neighborhood kids.
If you like what you hear, we encourage you to support the individual artists to whatever extent you can.
Enjoy, and until next time, be good to each other. After all — it’s a scary world out there.
Visit the archives for all previous Halloween mixtapes.
Halloween Mix 17 (Lady, That’s My Skull) (1:18:17)
intro: excerpt from M.R. James’ “A Warning to the Curious”
The Gremlin Rag – Jerry Goldsmith (Gremlins OST)
Halloween – Japan
Sinistereo – The Edge and Bono (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark OST)
House of Horrors (edit) – Merv Griffin
The Night – Lene Lovich
Souling Song – The Watersons
(montage: Ghost Voices – Mannheim Steamroller)
Haunted House – Lee Oskar
(montage: Skeleton Makes Good – Don van Vliet a.k.a. Captain Beefheart)
Freak – Strangelove
The Cat – Ruth White
Go Insane – Lindsey Buckingham
The Black Cat – Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
Wait ‘til Martin Comes – George Irving (from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark)
(montage: We Cannot Escape the Past – The Caretaker)
Such a Scream – Tom Waits
Song of the Black Swan – Pink Martini
The Devil is a Woman – Ada Moore
Sinister Purpose (homebrew mash-up) – John Fogerty vs. Southern Culture on the Skids
Sleeper – Tribe
Fire – The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Trick or Treat – The Four Flops
1000 Corpses Walk the Earth – Die Monster Die
Mr. Ghost Goes to Town – Louis Prima and His Orchestra
Welcome to the Black Parade – My Chemical Romance
In the Room Where You Sleep – Dead Man’s Bones
(montage: William Conrad reads Robert Herrick’s “The Hag”)
Quentin’s Theme – Dark Shadows OST
Illustration by Shaun Feerick. Special thanks, as always, to Dan Augustine, Andrew Weiss, Chris Healey, Dylan Todd, and all Night People everywhere.
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