Halloween Playlist 2k16

Not your average monster mash...

The Christmas songs on repeat from October joke is now becoming a Halloween reality. Not only are we listening to Michael Bublé before the Day of the Dead has been and gone, which is criminal, we're stuck in the same ghoulish songs rut. This year we wanted to shake it up a little bit with some new creepy jangles mixed in with some classics.

Marilyn Manson - This is Halloween

King of the crypt, Marilyn Manson, is an absolute Halloween must. It's almost too easy to pick a Halloween track from the singer's repertoire but This is Halloween is almost too perfect. Originally composed by Danny Elfman, the song introduces Tim Burton's classic Nightmare Before Christmas.

Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked

While it isn't necessarily spooky, it has a certain dark arts vibes, which Halloween is all about. We're not the only ones who think this song has potential for being ominous and supernatural. In the pilot episode for FOX's Lucifer, the song is in both the opening and closing scenes of the episode.

Little Mix - Black Magic

Okay, we are no strangers to the fact Halloween is basically just an excuse to have messy night out, Mean Girls style. If you're heading out to a fake-blood soaked night at the club, there is a 9/10 chance of Black Magic. You saw it here first.

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

All the virtual band members have melancholic and somewhat tragic backstories. Del - "Del the Ghost Rapper," is said to be a spirit hiding from death within the band’s drummer. When you layer that knowledge on top of this track’s creepy “oh oh oh oh oh ohh”s opening that, you’ve got a 2000 throwback classic that fits right into a Halloween playlist.

Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon

Rumours (not the album) have followed Fleetwood Mac singer Stevie Nicks throughout the years, alleging that she is a witch and is heavily involved in Wicca. Nicks' witchy-woman rep starts here with Rhiannon, and it remains her most supernaturally spiked song. It may not have helped her cause when she appeared in American Horror Story as a fictitious version of herself in season 3, Coven.

Queens of the Stone Age - Burn the Witch

Their video takes inspiration from Arthur Miller's The Crucible in creating a witch trial. Appropriately titled Burn the Witch, the video shows a small town accusing a woman of witchcraft, much like in the play, except in this video, she actually is a witch (unlike most of the women in Salem). She uses an army of skeletons to take down the town and even burn someone else at the stake. Spooky eh?