Haunted Halloween: 13 Spooky Fun Party Songs

A Comprehensive Single disc collection from Rocks Sardonic King. It rounds up the 22 most popular tracks from albums released by Asylum, Virgin, Giant/Reprise and Artemis from 1976-2002.

Features such Zevon classics as 'Werewolves Of London,' 'Excitable Boy,' 'Lawyers, Guns and Money,' 'Poor Poor Pitiful Me,' 'I Was In The House When The House Burned Down' and more.

Elektra/Rhino. 2002.

1. Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
2. French Inhaler
3. Carmelita
4. Hasten Down the Wind
5. Werewolves of London
6. Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner
7. Excitable Boy
8. Lawyers, Guns and Money
9. Interlude No.1/Play It All Night Long
10. Certain Girl
11. Looking for the Next Best Thing

12. Detox Mansion
13. Reconsider Me [Single Version]
14. Boom Boom Mancini
15. Splendid Isolation
16. Raspberry Beret [Hindu Love Gods]
17. Searching for a Heart
18. Things to Do in Denver When
You're Dead
19. Mr. Bad Example
20. Mutineer
21. I Was in the House When the
House Burned Down
22. Genius

Formed in 2004 and fronted by Jesika von Rabbit, the band Gram Rabbit has been described as a mix of psych-rock and electropop.

They won the title of best new LA Band in 2005 at the LA Weekly Music Awards and their debut album, Music to Start a Cult To clearly shows that, unlike most bands out today, Gram Rabbit has a unique style all their own.

Warning: If you become a fan, you may find yourself referred to as a member of The Royal Order of Rabbits!

1. Dirty Horse
2. Cowboy-Up
3. Kill A Man
4. Disco #2
5. Witness
6. Land of Jail

7. Lost In Place
8. Devil's Playground
9. I & Susej
10. Cowboys & Aliens
11. New Energy [Explicit]

Screamin' Jay Hawkins is best known for leaping out of a coffin to begin his '50s stage show and for "I Put a Spell on You," an R&B plaint transformed into an excessive masterwork by (it's said) a case of wine that appeared at the session.

This definitive collection of Hawkins's work for the OKeh label includes the unedited version of "Spell" along with other one-of-a-kind effusions such as "Little Demon," "Yellow Coat," and his attacks on the likes of "You Made Me Love You," "Temptation," and "Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle." Truly an artist who stands for something. --Rickey Wright

1. Little Demon
2. You Ain't Foolin' Me
3. I Put A Spell On You
4. You Made Me Love You
(I Didn't Want To Do It)
5. Yellow Coat
6. Hong Kong
7. There's Something
Wrong With You
8. I Love Paris
9. Orange Colored Sky

10. Alligator Wine
11. Darling, Please Forgive Me
12. Take Me Back To My Boots
13. Temptation
14. Frenzy
15. Person To Person
16. Little Demon
17. I Put A Spell On You
18. There's Something
Wrong With You
19. Alligator Wine

The Biggest Album Ever just got bigger. The 25th Anniversary Edition of Thriller celebrates this ground-breaking album with 7 bonus tracks, six of which are previously unreleased.

The new tracks include exclusive remixes from Kanye West, Fergie, will.i.am and Akon along with a previously unreleased track from the Thriller sessions, "For All Time," newly mixed and mastered by Michael Jackson.

Also included is a BONUS DVD with new, digitally restored versions of the three videos from the album as well as the Michael Jackson's groundbreaking performance of "Billie Jean" on the "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever" television special (first broadcast on NBC May 16, 1983).

Also included in all versions of the release is a new personal greeting from Michael Jackson to his fans penned exclusively for this special release.

1. Wanna Be
Startin' Somethin' 6:02
2. Baby Be Mine 4:20
3. The Girl Is Mine
featuring
Paul McCartney 3:42
4. Thriller 5:57
5. Beat It
(Single Version) 4:18
6. Billie Jean
(Single Version) 4:53
7. Human Nature 4:05
8. P.Y.T.
(Pretty Young Thing) 3:58

9. The Lady In My Life 4:58
10. Vincent Price Excerpt From "Thriller"
Voice-Over Session 0:24
11. The Girl Is Mine 2008
(Thriller 25th Anniversary Remix Featuring will.i.am) 3:10
12. P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 2008
(Thriller 25th Anniversary Remix Featuring willi.i.am) 4:21
13. Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' 2008
(Thriller 25th Anniversary Remix Featuring Akon) 4:14
14. Beat It 2008
(Thriller 25th Anniversary Remix Featuring Fergie) 4:11
15. Billie Jean 2008
(Thriller 25th Anniversary Remix Featuring Kanye West) 4:35
16. For All Time
(unreleased from the original Thriller sessions) 4:03

The Cramps got away with their Z-movie, zombie-rock schtick because they were so intense in their conviction that it had more value than middlebrow humanist pop.

Descending on Memphis to cut their debut album with Big Star legend Alex Chilton, the band served up a thirteen-song punkabilly testament to drive-in anti-culture, replete with garage-band guitars and booming voodoo drums.

Versions of "Fever" "Strychnine," and the Johnny Burnette Trio's "Tear It Up" competed with Lux Interior-Poison Ivy originals like "T.V. Set" and "I Was a Teenage Werewolf." Songs the Lord Taught Us was also the first and last Cramps album to feature scary-looking guitarist Bryan Gregory. --Barney Hoskyns

1. TV Set
2. Rock on the Moon
3. Garbage Man
4. I Was a Teenage Werewolf
5. Sunglasses After Dark
6. Mad Daddy

7. Mystery Plane
8. Zombie Dance
9. What's Behind the Mask
10. Strychnine
11. I'm Cramped
12. Tear It Up
13. Fever

'Lipstick Killers' was originally recorded in 1972 and features the original line-up of the New York Dolls, David Johansen, Johnny Thunders, Sylvain Sylvain, Arthur 'Killer' Kane and Billy Murcia.

The band was only 4 and 1/2 months old, and just beginning to build it's legendary reputation. This first session captures them raw, wild, and crude, with no studio trickery to tone them down.

9 tracks including 'Bad Girl', 'Personality Crisis', 'Don't Start Me Talking' and more on this 2000 Roir release.

1. Bad Girl
2. Looking For A Kiss
3. Don't Start Me Talking
4. Don't Mess With Cupid
5. Human Being

6. Personality Crisis
7. Pills
8. Jet Boy
9. Frankenstein

The Specials began a ska revival in Britain, putting ska and rock steady beats together with a level of energy and attitude taken from the punk movement. They also formed a more focused and informed political and social stance than their predecessors and peers.

The band was originally formed in Coventry, in 1977, as the Coventry Automatics and later the Special A.K.A. by Jerry Dammers (songwriter/keyboardist), with Terry Hall (vocals), Lynval Golding (guitar, vocals), Neville Staples (vocals, percussion), Roddy Radiation (guitar), Sir Horace Gentleman (bass), and John Bradbury (drums). Dammers started his own label, '2-Tone' on which the Specials albums and singles were released it was named for it's multiracial outlook and also after the two-tone suits worn by the rude-boys.

This CD/DVD 'Best Of' features all of the hits & videos from their first hit single 'Gangsters', 'Too Much Too Young' (a pro-contraception song which was banned by the BBC but still hit the no. 1 spot), 'Ghost Town' (released amid race-related unemployment riots), to the latter singles of 'Racist Friend' and 'Free Nelson Mandela'.

Disc: 1
1. Gangsters
2. Message to You Rudy
- Rico, The Specials
3. Nite Klub [Album Version]
4. Concrete Jungle
5. Too Much Too Young
[Live]
6. Blank Expression
7. Doesn't Make It Alright
8. Rude Boys Outta Jail
9. Rat Race
10. Man at C & A
11. Do Nothing [Single
Version] - Ice Rink String
Sounds, Rico, The Specials
12. Stereotypes
13. International Jet Set
[Album Version]
14. Friday Night,
Saturday Morning
15. Why?
16. Ghost Town
[Full Version]
17. What I Like Most
About You Is Your
Girlfriend [Album Version]
18. Racist Friend [Single
Version]
19. War Crimes (The
Crime Remains the Same)
[Single Version]
20. Free Nelson Mandela
[Album Version]

Disc: 2
1. Gangsters [DVD]
2. Message to You Rudy
[DVD] - Rico, The Specials
3. Too Much Too Young
[DVD][Live]
4. Rat Race [DVD]
5. Do Nothing [DVD]
6. Enjoy Yourself (It's Later
Than You Think) [DVD][Live]
7. Ghost Town [DVD]
8. Bright Lights [DVD]
9. Lonely Crowd [DVD]
10. Housebound [DVD]
11. Alcohol [DVD]
12. Racist Friend [DVD]
13. War Crimes (The Crime
Remains the Same) [DVD]
14. Free Nelson Mandela [DVD]
15. Break Down the Door [DVD]
16. What I Like Most About You
Is Your Girlfriend [DVD]

From the classic 1984 movie starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, Annie Potts, and Ernie Hudson.

1. Ghostbusters
Ray Parker Jr. 4:04
2. Cleanin' Up The Town
Bus Boys 2:57
3. Savin' The Day
Alessi Brothers 3:22
4. In The Name Of Love
Thompson Twins 3:18
5. I Can Wait Forever
Air Supply 5:09
6. Hot Night
Laura Branigan 3:21

7. Magic
Mick Smiley 4:20
8. Main Title Theme (Ghostbusters)
Elmer Bernstein 3:00
9. Dana's Theme
Elmer Bernstein 3:31
10. Ghostbusters (Instrumental Version)
Ray Parker Junior 4:48
11. Disco Inferno
The Trammps 10:57
12. Ghostbusters
Ray Parker Junior 6:04

In the 1960s, before Alice Cooper, Screaming Lord Sutch, 3rd Earl of Harrow dressed as Jack The Ripper during his horror themed rock performances.

His most popular horror themed single, "Jack The Ripper" has been covered by many bands including the White Stripes.

Despite being produced by Jimmy Page, and having been written and recorded with notable musicians, Jeff Beck, John Bonham, Nicky Hopkins, Jimmy Page and Noel Redding, Lord Sutch's debut album was in a 1998 BBC poll as the worst album of all time.

For his second album, he secretly recorded a concert he performed with artists including Ritchie Blackmore, Matthew Fisher, Carlo Little, Keith Moon, Noel Redding and Nick Simper. The other artists didn't know about the recording until it was released.

Lord Sutch was the guy who shows up "All dressed up just like a Union Jack" in the song, "Get Off of My Cloud" by the Rolling Stones.

1. Jenny Jenny Jenny 7:14
2. Great Balls Of Fire 3:25
3. I'm A Hog For You Baby 3:39
4. Bony Moronie 5:11
5. Jack The Ripper 6:52
6. All Black And Hairy 3:21

7. Murder In The Graveyard 3:40
8. Good Golly Miss Molly 3:59
9. Johnny B Goode 5:54
10. Tutti Frutti 3:04
11. Run For Your Life (by The Undertakers) 4:07

Our first Halloween collection finds us probing the subconscious to confront our most persistent demons on Garage Rock's favorite holiday. We are visited by some of the usual cast of characters one would expect, Dracula, the Wolfman, Ghosts, Zombies, and Witches, but are far more horrified by that which cannot be touched, controlled, bargained with, or avoided. Our own dreams.

During the course of these proceedings you will find yourself dancing with the Devil, laughing in the face of the apocalypse, transported to the mystic forests of your deepest darkest secrets and insatiable lusts, and shocked by the helplessness of your own confessions of the sacred and the profane.

But afterward, if you live, one fact above all will remain clear. Now you will learn why you fear the night! - Little Steven Van Zandt

1. I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) - The Electric Prunes 2:56
2. Restless Nights - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 3:41
3. Running Through My Nightmares - The Chesterfield Kings 3:57
4. I'm The Wolfman - The Fuzztones 3:19
5. Howlin' For My Baby - Howlin' Wolf 2:31
6. Lies of the Living Dead - Minus 5 2:30
7. I Walked With A Zombie - Roky Erickson And The Aliens 2:42
8. Man with the X-Ray Eyes (Silver Surfer) - Jarvis Humby 2:54
9. I Am A Demon And I Love Rock 'N Roll - Sweatmaster 2:40
10. Walking With a Ghost - Tegan And Sara 2:28
11. She's A Monster - The Stems 2:49
12. Put Your Cat Clothes On - Carl Perkins 2:47
13. Dinner With Drac (Part 1) - John Zacherle "The Cool Ghoul" 2:54
14. Walking Through My Dreams - The Pretty Things 3:34
15. Season Of The Witch - Donovan 4:55

Considered the first punk rock band, the Ramones were also a major influence on the punk rock movement in the US and UK, despite having only minor commercial success.

This greatest hits compilation includes "Pet Sematary" from one of their better selling albums, Brain Drain. The song was written for the 1989 movie based on the Stephen King novel of the same name.

1. Blitzkreig Bop 2:12
2. Beat On The Brat 2:32
3. Judy Is A Punk 1:32
4. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend 2:26
5. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
[ABC Single Version] 2:47
6. Pinhead 2:44
7. Commando 1:52
8. Rockaway Beach 2:06
9. We're A Happy Family 2:39
10. Cretin Hop 1:55
11. Teenage Lobotomy 2:01
12. I Wanna Be Sedated 2:29
13. I Just Want To Have
Something To Do 2:41

14. Rock 'N' Roll High School
[Remastered Ed Stasium Mix] 2:19
15. Baby, I Love You
(LP Version ) 3:44
16. Do You Remember
Rock and Roll Radio 3:49
17. The KKK Took My Baby Away
(LP Version ) 2:30
18. Outsider
(LP Version ) 2:10
19. Pet Sematary 3:32
20. Wart Hog
(LP Version ) 1:54

Founded in the 1970's as "Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo" before shortening it, Oingo Boingo had their biggest success with their 1985 release, Dead Man's Party, which garnered them a cult following along with a guest appearance in the Rodney Dangerfield film Back to School and a bit of a hit with the theme song to John Hughes' teen comedy Weird Science.

Subsequent albums didn't do nearly as well, but front man Danny Elfman went on to become one of Hollywood's most in-demand composers, scoring the music for many films and TV shows including Beetlejuice, Big Top Pee Wee, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mars Attacks!, Men in Black, Sleepy Hollow, the remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the main title theme for The Simpsons TV show.

1. Just Another Day 5:12
2. Dead Man's Party 6:22
3. Heard Somebody Cry 4:40
4. No One Lives Forever 4:15
5. Stay 3:37

6. Fool's Paradise 4:35
7. Help Me 3:46
8. Same Man I Was Before 3:24
9. Weird Science 6:09