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    The annually obligatory Halloween playlist thread

    Halloween is a week away! What's at the top of your playlist for spooky prog?

    To start us off with a possibly unconventional choice, I was just listening to "Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls" by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I had never thought about it before but that plodding middle section is pretty unnerving in a satisfying way to me.

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    The final 3 song suite on Alice Cooper's Love It To Death is always a good All Hallow's Eve spin....

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    Spooky prog? Don't know if this is spooky but it is an unsettling song: My House On Mars by Ayreon.

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    Peter Hammill - A Louse Is Not A Home
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    Art Zoyd is good for Halloween ( not all but a sizeable chunk of their catalog )
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    I like Dead Can Dance this time of year. They might not be traditionally spooky, but there is much that sounds like a great and mysterious pagan exultation, which is my favorite flavor of Halloween.

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    Ad Infinitum--"All Hallow's Eve"

    Not really spooky, but appropriate for the time.

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    https://youtu.be/2ornmR4awug

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    Some stuff I've hit over the past few weeks:

    Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses
    Guapo - Black Oni
    Opeth - various shit
    Free Salamander Exhibit - Undestroyed
    VDGG - Pawn Hearts
    Shostakovich - SQ 8, 11, 13, 15
    Ligeti - SQ 1-2
    UZ - Heresie
    Halloween 2018 OST
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    If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.

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    NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shadow View Post
    Indeed. This song was released when I was in 5th grade. I would go to sleep with my radio playing. I’ll never forget waking up in the middle of the night to that creepy organ in that song.

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    Toccata - ELP
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    Morte Macabre, "Symphonic Holocaust"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Soc Prof View Post
    Ad Infinitum--"All Hallow's Eve"

    Not really spooky, but appropriate for the time.
    Thanks for the screamout!

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Dark Elf View Post
    The final 3 song suite on Alice Cooper's Love It To Death is always a good All Hallow's Eve spin....
    Damn. I haven't listened to that album in years. Forgot how good it was. Gotta get it on CD before they aren't made anymore...
    Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.

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    Here's two. One from the 'Oo:


    And one from Fred Schneider of B52s fame:

    (Come on, someone was going to post that one. And besides, it has some groovy claymation...)
    Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.

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    Something I mixed a long time ago and played in a loop along with a "Spooky" sound effects track:

    Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath*
    Enter Sandman - Metallica*
    Gravity Eyelids - Porcupine Tree*
    Harlequin Forrest - Opeth*
    One More Murder - Better Than Ezra
    Dead City - Discipline*
    Lullaby For the Devil - Dead Soul Tribe
    Joan Crawford - BOC
    Dirt From a Holy Place - O.S.I.
    Mr Crowley - Ozzy
    People Are Strange - Echo and the Bunnymen*
    The Voice - Alan Parsons Project
    Cry Little Sister - Gerald McMann
    Rapture - Blondie
    Intermediate Jesus (w/ excerpts from The Exorcist mixed in)
    Season of the Witch - Donovan
    Don't Fear The Reaper - BOC

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    ^ I have no idea how the asterisks got there

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    Pink Floyd - Echoes from Meddle. Already has scary sound effects built-in!

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    My big favorite Prog track for the Halloween Season:

    https://youtu.be/fPS3VzBxMjs

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    Good time of year for John Carpenter soundtracks too.
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