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Weekly survey: What are the greatest Halloween songs of all time?

Halloween is once again upon us, so everyone is in the mood for spooky music. Therefore, the weekly survey question is simple: what are the best Halloween-themed and/or horror songs of all time? What songs are guaranteed to cause terror (or at least a little anxiety) when you hear them?

Here are a few favourites. What can you add to this list?

1. The Theme from The Exorcist (a.k.a. Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells)

3. Halloween Theme (aka Michael Myers theme)

3. Everyday is Halloween, Ministry

4. Bauhaus, Bela Lugosi’s Dead

5. Japan, Halloween

Alan Cross

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4 thoughts on “Weekly survey: What are the greatest Halloween songs of all time?

  • Have to include Halloween by the misfits, and the monster mash

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  • Siouxsie And The Banshees – Halloween
    David Bowie – Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
    Depeche Mode – Ghost
    Peter Gabriel – Intruder
    Kate Bush – The Dreaming
    Shriekback – Nemesis
    The Damned – Grimly Fiendish

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  • Flock Of Seagulls- Nightmares

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