Halloween Albums of Yore

As per the post below (I suggest you read that post first), here's the All Hallow's Eve Discography. I'll post 2007 as soon as I know what it is.

1995
1 Dead Man's Party (Extended Brass Mix) - Oingo Boingo
2 Helter Skelter - The Beatles
3 Paint it Black - The Rolling Stones
4 Life in the Gladhouse - Modern English
5 Waiting for the Night - Depeche Mode
6 Exit - U2
7 Cry Little Sister (Lost Boys) - Gerard McMann
8 Lost in the Shadows (Lost Boys) - Lou Gramm
9 Golgatha Tenement Blues - Machines of Loving Grace
10 Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
11 Stonehenge - Spinal Tap
12 Adam in Chains - Billy Idol
13 Burn - The Cure
14 Pimpf - Depeche Mode

1997
1 To the Shock of Miss Louise (Lost Boys) - Thomas Newman
2 Dead Man's Party (Original Version) - Oingo Boingo
3 Country Death Song - Violent Femmes
4 Winter Kills - Yaz
5 One Hundred Years - The Cure
6 Break on Through - The Doors
7 Dead Souls - Nine Inch Nails
8 Thriller - Michael Jackson
9 Return of the Dead Man - Oingo Boingo
10 Tainted Spooky - Soft Cell
11 Face to Face - Siouxsie and the Banshees
12 Ghost Rider - Rollins Band
13 Psycho Killer - The Talking Heads
14 People are Strange - The Doors
15 Fascination Street - The Cure

1998
1 Insanity - Boingo
2 Everyday is Halloween - Ministry
3 The Line Between the Devil's Teeth - Peter Murphy
4 The Witch - The Cult
5 Hellhole - Spinal Tap
6 Lullaby - The Cure
7 Asleep - Agnes Poetry
8 No One Lives Forever - Oingo Boingo
9 Nemesis - Shriekback
10 Spiritual High - Xymox
11 Fly on the Windscreen - Depeche Mode
12 Nowhere Girl - The B Movies
13 Eyes Without a Face - Billy Idol
14 Dreamtime - Love and Rockets

1999 (The first year we started mixing in movie quotes to the songs)
1 Murderous - Nitzer Ebb
2 When the Lights Go Out - Oingo Boingo
3 Crazy - Seal
4 The Night Comes - Billy Idol
5 A Night Like This - The Cure
6 Dressed In Black - Depeche Mode
7 Moon Over Bourbon Street - Sting
8 The Long Way Home - Faithless
9 After the Flesh - My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
10 Temptation Waits - Garbage
11 In My House - Dead or Alive
12 Spooky - New Order
13 Cold - The Cure
14 Pseudo Joy - Agnes Poetry
15 Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
16 Somebody (J.R.s Somebody Bloody Somebody Mix) - Depeche Mode

2000 (My personal favorite)
1 Death By Stereo - Lost Boys
2 Mephisto - Depeche Mode
3 This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy
4 Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde
5 Bloodrush - ACT
6 Flaming Telepaths - Blue Oyster Cult
7 Fill the Void - Oingo Boingo
8 A Lullaby For Caine - Sinead O'Conner
9 Dragula - Rob Zombie
10 Feed My Frankenstein - Alice Cooper
11 All You Zombies - The Hooters (Jon and I both thought the other found this song. Spooky)
12 Back From the Dead - Spinal Tap
13 Love Song for A Vampire - Annie Lennox
14 Metal - Nine Inch Nails
15 Purple Haze - The Cure
16 Stigmata Martyr - Bauhaus
17 Haunted - Love and Rockets

2001
1 Waiting for the Sun - The Doors
2 Enter Sandman - Metallica
4 Giant Robot with Bird Head - The Aquabats
5 Dracula From Houston - The Butthole Surfers (Anyone know what this song has to do with Dracula?)
6 Vampires - Pet Shop Boys
7 Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man - Concrete Blonde
8 Sweet Transvestite - Rocky Horror Picture Show
9 Grey Matter - Oingo Boingo
10 Dangerous Places - Alphaville
11 Paranoid - Black Sabbath
12 Certified - ACT
13 Nerves - Possum Dixon
14 Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure
15 Mask - Bauhaus
16 Starve - Peter Whitley
17 I Scare Myself - Thomas Dolby
18 Haunted - Poe

2002
1 Sally's Song - London After Midnight
2 Open - The Cure
3 Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
4 Carousel - Siouxsie and the Banshees
5 No Spill Blood - Oingo Boingo
6 Revenge - Ministry
7 Kaleid - Depeche Mode
8 Sinister Purpose - Zacharle
9 Science Fiction Double Feature - Rocky Horror Picture Show
10 Monster's Wedding - The Aquabats
11 Living Dead Girl - Rob Zombie
12 Nosferatu - Blue Oyster Cult
13 Dark Entries - Bauhaus
14 Black - Sarah MacLachlan
15 Psycho Magnet - London After Midnight
16 Sweet - Switchblade Symphony
17 The Only Thing That Shines - Shriekback

2003
1 Faded Flowers - Shriekback
2 Torture - The Cure
3 Strap Me Down - Leather Strip
4 Dangerous - Depeche Mode
5 Upside Down - Agnes Poetry
6 Kult Konnection - My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
7 Lovesong (Actually it's called Hate) - London After Midnight
8 Ribcage Mambo - Frenchy
9 Into the Woods - Sleepy Hollow
10 Ripple - The Church
11 Sister Madly - Crowded House
12 Myxomatosis - Radiohead
13 Return of the Phantom Stranger - Rob Zombie
14 Scarecrow - Siouxsie and the Banshees
15 Tribute - Tenacious D
16 Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon (He passed away that year)
17 The Mosquito Song - Queens of the Stone Age

2004 (The Sci-fi Album)
1 The Day the Earth Stood Still Instrumental
2 Ascension Day - Alphaville
3 Girl Without a Planet - My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
4 Martian Girl - The Aquabats
5 Haunted - Evanescence
6 They - Jem
7 Dracula's Wedding - Outkast
8 Voodoo - Godsmack
9 Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
10 The Creature Stole My Surfboard - The Dead Elvi
11 Sanity Assasin - Bauhaus
12 Mad Love - LCD
13 Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers
14 This Big Hush - Shriekback
15 Spanish Caravan - The Doors
16 Blood Milk and Sky - White Zombie
17 Dark - Gary Numan
18 Under a Milky Way - The Church
19 Forbidden Planet Instrumental
20 Fear of Ghosts - The Cure

2005
1 A Forest (Damian Lertora Mix) - The Cure
2 Halloween - Rob Zombie
3 Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
4 The Devil's Whip - Man O War
5 This Devil's Workday - Modest Mouse
6 Watch Me Bleed - Tears for Fears
7 Premonition - Ned's Atomic Dustbin
8 Only (Jon Madsen Down In It Mix) - Nine Inch Nails
9 Fashion Zombies - The Aquabats
10 The City Sleeps - MC 900 Foot Jesus
11 Dracula's Castle - New Order
12 Dead or Alive - Oingo Boingo
13 The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
14 Black No. 1 - Type O Negative
15 This Protector - The White Stripes
16 A Forest - The Cure

2006
1 Nothing to Fear - Oingo Boingo
2 The Night is Young - Nosferatu
3 Splintered in Her Head - The Cure
4 Is She Weird? - The Pixies
5 Light Years - 311
6 Boogie Monster - Gnarls Barkley
7 Psychic Voodoo Doll - Deadbolt
8 Iron Head - Rob Zombie
9 Red Right Hand - Nick Cave
10 Tubular Bells - Book of Love
11 Witchcraft - Frank Sinatra
12 Scary Monsters - David Bowie
13 Torture - The Jackson Five
14 Overkill - Men at Work
15 Sell My Soul - Midnight Oil
16 Zee Deveel - Incubus
17 Hellraiser - Ozzie Ozbourne
18 I Will Follow You Into the Dark - Death Cab For Cutie
19 Straight to Hell - The Clash

It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Halloween season is almost upon us and the activities and traditions to be upheld are overwhelming. Or at least whelming. Either way, it's a good thing. Many people think of Halloween as a day but I think that it has a season just as much as Christmas. The season starts October 1st of course. From that day on I listen to nothing but the Halloween CDs in my car. This used to be tedious (listening to 2 or 3 cds for a month is hard to do) but there are so many cds now that I barely manage to get through them before halloween. These are also the only actual cds I listen to. Everything else is on IPOD but a big part of the Halloween cds is the art so I dig em up and throw em in the glove compartment.

For those of you who are wondering what I am talking about, the Halloween cd is a tradition that was started in 1995 when Jon Madsen and I made a tape of great Halloween songs. When we returned from our various missions we just kept going. We call ourselves Jon R. Productions. I think. If you would like a copy of any of the previous cds (or the 2 disc 10 year retrospective) I can get those for you. Just let me know. I'll post the track lists in another blog.

This year's cd is in the works. We are still settling on a theme. I think we are going with creepy girls. Songs about witches, blind dates etc. Spooky by the Classics IV and Witch Queen of New Orleans by Leon Redbone are good examples. We still haven't decided if it will be a full on Ladies of Halloween album (every song going with the theme) or just heavily themed (like the Sci-fi album of a few years ago and last year's Hell album). Also it's been mentioned that the theme could be interpreted as only songs sung by girls. That might make it easier in some ways but I think it would actually be harder to get enough songs. If we could pull it off, a Halloween cd of nothing but female vocalists could be way awesome. Anyway, vote over there on the right on what you think we should do.

This year for Halloween I think I'm going to be the wolfman. Val bought me a black silk shirt that I wore with khakis to church. I later watched Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein and I think I was dressed just like Lawrence Talbot (Lon Cheney Jr.). Last year I was Frankenstein and the year before I was Dracula. I'm trying to pay my respects to the classics.

I'm also really excited for scary movie times! I already put all my Halloweeny movies into their own book so that I can plow through them next month. I'm especially excited about the Frankenstein fest. I have about 6 Frankenstein movies all made by Universal in the 30s and 40s. However, this means I'll be spending a lot of time alone as Valerie won't watch scary movies. She calls Snow White a scary movie. What can you do?

Anyway, I hope you all have a very merry Halloween!