Halloween!

It's Thursday and Halloween! Halloween, as celebrated in the USA, is my favorite holiday for several reasons: 1. pumpkins and haunted houses 2. costumes and decorations 3. parties and/or trick or treat and candy! 4. It's often a great time of the year, season-wise, not too cold, not hot, colorful...

Yep, Halloween!

Everything above still makes the day wonderful in my old age, and more, since there's one more reason I love Halloween: 5. It's my birthday! That made it hard when I was a kid because few would come to a birthday party on Halloween. But then I realized that every Halloween party I attended was also my birthday party and people decorated, dressed up for it, and gave everyone candy! Awesome! I think being born on that day helped make me somewhat strange and very into black. Or maybe I was destined to be a Goth/Punk type anyway. I dunno

A few years ago I started a list of my favorite Halloween-listening type songs. I can't remember why I started it, but I've continued it, and I'm going to share some of the songs here. So get ready to do some dancing!

The Damned: Shadow of Love (1985) The bass beat on this song sounds like riding a horse. I love it. And David Vanian, the lead singer? Damn, I wanted hair like that. I'm kinda glad now that I have a gray streak or two in my hair

Oingo Boingo: Dead Man's Party (1985) Sounds like going to a Halloween Party to me! Danny Elfman, the lead singer, has had an amazing career in music. And this was one of his first songs!

The Pogues: Fiesta (1988) Pogues - Celtic Punk, right? But this is... Hispanic? Party until you fall down!

Fiddler's Green - Down! (2016) For a change of tempo, kinda. Celtic Punk! Or maybe Folk Punk! With the devil, and the last verse is in Latin. Latin. *swoon* This song is very Goth in a way. And danceable! Fiddler's Green is a German band. I've been a fan for 30 years or so.

And some more Damned - Grimly Fiendish (1985) - Yes, two Damned songs, but how can they not be on the list? They are punk, Goth, and British!

My list is about 25 songs long, at least, so we'll stop here... Enjoy the first five and let us know what your favorite Halloween songs are because I know there are a bunch of good songs out there that I missed. And after a bit of rocking, goth-ing, punk-ing, whatever, have some fun on Halloween because it's a fun day, with parties, costumes and candy!

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