Halloween is bearing down on us like a werewolf-powered
steamroller, and that means many of you are planning to take the festivities to
the psycho level by tossing your own holiday soiree. You’ve bought your assortment of rums to make the perfect
zombie cocktails and gathered all the bits and pieces for your costume (this
year you are dressing as Fin Fang Foom and planning to marry the first person
who can identify who you’re supposed to be). You’ve hung up all your cardboard
Beistel decorations and patted yourself on the back for your unparalleled
cleverness for deciding to serve ladyfingers. All that’s left is selecting the
right music to set the horrific mood. Now if you could only remember where you
left those scratched up copies of “Monster Mash” and “Purple People Eater”…
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STOP RIGHT THERE!
You are officially on notice for your lack of seasonal imagination (well, aside
from the whole Fin Fang Foom thing. That’s actually pretty original). Don’t
worry, though, because Psychobabble has enough imagination for you and all your
guests, and I have selected 90 party-stoking tunes that may also inspire your
guests to crack open each other’s skulls and feast on the brains inside (which
should also save you from having to serve those ladyfingers). Whether you’ve
invited a bunch of mohawked punks, calculator-toting prog rockers, pot-reeking
hippies, greased up rockers, zoot-suited jazzbos, sharp-as-knives mods, hip
soulsters, ironically inclined alterna-rockers, or the coolest kids eating mud
pies on your local playground, there is sure to be more than a couple of songs
to please your guests in Psychobabble’s
Perfect Horror Rock Box Set Recipe!
As is always the case with these posts, Psychobabble
demands—no… screams in your face while waving a poorly sharpened axe—that you
burn each of the following lists of songs onto actual CDs. You cannot put
imaginary MP3s into a box, and a box set has a box. This box will preferably be
casket-shaped. As you will notice, each disc is divided by theme:
Monsters on
Disc One,
Ghosts &
Devils on
Disc Two,
Psycho Killers on
Disc Three, and
Fear,
Nightmares, & Death on
Disc Four.
No artist has been repeated, which means only one track each from such devoted
horror rockers as The Damned and The Misfits. I also don’t want to hear any
shit from you Alice Cooper fans. I’m not in the mood and I’m still waving that
axe.
So without any further jive, get digging through your bins
and ready to start burning some discs.
INGREDIENTS
This is normally the place where I’d tell you all the albums
you’d need to make the following discs. That does not make much sense in this
case since we’re making a various artists box set. I’ll just leave it up to you
to hunt down all the necessary discs. You’re not actually going to make this
box set anyway.
DIRECTIONS
Disc One: Monsters
