Boo! As I'm slapping this list together pell mell, I'm thinking to myself-- wouldn't this make an interesting soundtrack to a horror movie?
1. Something's Gonna Happen - Ronnie Spector & lots of other people
Opening credits music. Teenage heroine getting ready to go out to a party, lots of quick cuts to various close ups of teens primping and scenes of them piling into cars (in an era when it was legal for teens to drive with fellow teens as passegers)
2. Skin and Bone - The Kinks
Fun background music for the axe murderers to sharpen their tools, gas up their chainsaws etc.
3. Oop-Pop-a-Da - Babs' Three Bips and a Bop
The jazzy background music played during super slow motions scenes of the first victims being slaughtered in a very Tarantino-esque kind of way.
4. A Heart Like Mine - Dwight Yoakum
Not sure exactly what scene in the horror movie this would figure into, but it's NEW DWIGHT, and it's really rollicking fun, classic Yoakum.
5. Double Dare - Hoyt Axton
Car chase music? yeah... this would be good music for wheels.
6. Monkey Island - J. Geils Band
I used to love this song back in high school (Have it on vinyl). It's a little b-movie monster flick in and of itself.
7. Stiff Little Fingers - The Vibrators
More Tarantino-esque... maybe fight scene music.
8. They're Coming to Take Me Away - Napolean XIV
Another childhood favorite - big sister had the 45. It's pretty twisted.
9. Take Me Away - Ween
Ween's milder version of being "taken away" from lost love. With a hipster beat.
10. Season of the Witch - Julee Cruise vs DJ Dmitry
Julee Cruise (remember the Twin Peaks soundtrack?). Easy & mildy creepy listening cover a Halloween classic from Donovan.
11. Where Is All The Money Going - Cody Chesnutt
Spooky checkbook balancing scene.
12. Yes Way - Tanlines
Brief respite, sunshiny afternoon scene of Horror film teens swimming at the lake.
13. Ringfinger - Nine Inch Nails
From the Nine Inch Nails debut album (still my fave, must admit I don't listen to much NIN after this one). Creeeeepy sacrifice, maybe for scene in a movie where the axe murderer proposes to the victim he's crushining on?
14. Grave Clothes - The Beaten Sea
Axe murderer preparing his new bride for burial background music.
15. Let Yourself Go - Syl Johnson
Song playing on the morning after Horror, Axe Murderer and friends ride off into the sunrise, to find another town in which to wreak havoc next Halloween. Credits roll....
BONUS track. The Gothest Girl I Can - Corb Lund
(the music played during the blooper reel after main credits have rolled)
And there you have it! Have a Happy Halloween!
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Jill's monthly: OCTOBER 2012
