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You know and I know there’s a million playlists for you to choose for your Halloween shenanigans.

But if you need one focused on witches … well, there’s probably a million of those too, but I just happen to have one right here that’s fresh from the cauldron.







NOTE 1: If your favorite witch song isn’t here, that’s likely because I curated this from a pool of 284 songs that adds up to over 15 hours of music. And that’s not counting the hundreds of black/death metal songs about witches. So you’re lucky I whittled this down to three (3) hours, is what I’m saying.


NOTE 2: I’d planned to keep it at two hours, but, well, see Note 1.


NOTE 3: Feel free to add your own witch songs in the comments.


NOTE 4: Why witches? Why not?


Bewitched,


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Halloween is coming up. You need a playlist. There are thousands to choose from. Here’s the one you’d get if I was DJing your Halloween party this year.




NOTE: For Song 24, that should be Goddo, not Gobbo. It’s correct in the band profile, so ask Spotify, not me.

Eyes without a face,

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Yes, I know, Halloween playlists are a dime a dozen. On the other hand, there’s no shortage of material – this playlist was 3.5 hours long at one point.

(Which of course means that if you think I overlooked some obvious candidates, (1) it was probably intentional on my part, and (2) the songs you’re thinking of may have been on the list before I started editing. Maybe they’ll make next year’s list.

Anyway, if you need something to entertain the trick-or-treaters in your community for two hours, this playlist just might be what you’re looking for.




Keepin’ Halloween alive,

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It’s always tempting to give all the traditional Halloween monsters equal representation in a Halloween playlist.

If that’s not an option, of course, you can always go for a one-stop-shop song that puts all of the monsters in one place. Usually at a party. And usually in the late 1950s.

And thanks to Bert Convy, you don’t have to always rely on Bobby “Boris” Pickett for that.



Then again, it’s probably Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s fault this song (and a few dozen more cash-ins like it) even exists.

Monsters ball,

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A couple of songs back, we heard about the dangers of dating Dracula’s daughter.

Presumably, of course, dating any female vampire is potentially dangerous – but very hard to avoid once she sets her sights on you. As The Dickies will now demonstrate.



See what they did there?

The daughter of the devil and the mother of pearl,

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Just like you can't have a Halloween without vampires or Dracula, you can't have a Halloween playlist without Screaming Lord Sutch.



PRODUCTION NOTE: Not to be confused with the recent Redd Kross song of the same name.




She gave me a peck that left me a wreck, 

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Cars are also scary. 

Just ask Keith Gordon.

Or James Brolin.



I don’t wanna go to the Devil,

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It’s an unwritten rule that if yr going to do a song about Vampira, you should do it rockabilly style.



Ooo buddy what she do to me,

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Indeed you do.



We’re counting down to Halloween, by the way.

That voodoo you do,

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Meanwhile, outside of Times Square in Causeway Bay, there is this:



 



Larger than life,

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