Best creepy music for a Halloween party or haunted house
1. The Residents: Intermission
The residents are a delightfully weird artists group. They make what can be very ugly sounds. This entire EP is very weird and should be played very loud.
2. Diamanda Galas Wild Women with Steak Knives
One of the most intense vocal performers of all time:
3. Ilhan Mimoroglu On the Wings of a Delerious Demon
Electronic music from 1969:
4. Virgil Fox playing Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor
5. Iannis Xenakis: Metastaseis (1953-54) For 60 Musicians
Pick something from his catalog: large textures of sound and glissandos. It sounds like horror movie music.
6. Theme from Halloween
The haunting and simple piano motif: classic.
7. The locked groove at the end of "A Day In The Life" from Sgt. Peppers
"A Day in the Life" ends with a massive piano chord. If you had an automatic record return on your stereo you might not have heard what comes next: in the "Inner groove" or locking groove there is a sound collage of laughter. It sounds like John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
Most of the digital versions of this album include about 30 seconds of this.
There are lots of albums that have this feature and most of the looping sounds are pretty weird:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of_gramophone_records#Sound_recorded_in_locked_grooves
8. 'Monster Mash' by Bobby 'Boris' Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers
The family-friendly Halloween dance classic!
9. “I put a spell on you “ Screaming Jay Hawkins
Bonus: here is Diamanda Galas' version:
10. “Thriller” Michael Jackson
Include the Vincent Price introduction and start a dance party!
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