Saturday 30 October 2021

The Lucy Museum of Musicians Halloween Songs

The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musicians came to me this week to ask which Halloween songs they should be ready to receive and after giving it some thought, i decided the only specific Halloween type songs i can think of, Michael Jackson's 'Thriller', Bobby Pickett's 'The Monster Mash' and 'This is Halloween' from the Nightmare before Christmas film.
Because that would look really poor in the Halloween section, i decided to pad it out with the excellent 'Bad Moon Rising' by Creedence Clearwater Revival, Rolling Stones little ditty to Satan himself 'Sympathy for the Devil', Ray Parker Jnr's 'Ghostbusters' although Huey Lewis may have a say in that following the court case which found Mr Jnr directly lifted the tune from his song 'I Want a New Drug'.
ACDC's 'Highway to Hell', 'Howl at the moon' by Ozzy Osbourne, 'Ghost Town' by the Specials although that's a strecth as its about Coventry and not a town full of the undead although anyone who has been to Coventry might argue, we can have 'The Phantom of the Opera' from Andrew Lloyd Webber's play and 'Zombie' by The Cranberries which again isn't so much about brain eating reanimated corpses and more about the troubles in Northern Ireland but i'm struggling here.  
Van Halen's 'Runnin' with the Devil' and Guns N Roses 'Right Next Door to Hell' make the 13 which seems a good enough number for Halloween so i told them to put it out the back somewhere and prepare for the December Christmas songs list of the 12 best commercial ones which everyone hears every single year and 12 which the don't get much or any radio play, believe me you haven't heard Feliz Navidad until you hear it through a punk/rock fuzz guitar filter.

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