Best horror SONGS
 

Some of you know that I've been known to dabble in music. I was a singer/songwriter before I was an actor of a screenwriter.

Lately I've gotten the itch to do some recording, but I'm not really into the songwriting these days, I want to record an album of covers - horror covers. I'm planning on recording them all as simply as possible - ascoustic guitar and voice - like Springsteen's "Nebraska" or Cash's "American Recordings".

I've already worked up cool versions of:

"Skulls" - The Misfits
"Pet Semetary" - The Ramones
"Shout at the Devil" - Motley Crue (as a rockabilly rave-up!)

I tried "Number of the Beast" but it just doesn't work on acoustic guitar and "Dream Warriors" is just to annoying. I've written a few originals ("Long Pig", "There Coming to get you, Barbara") but they aren't very good.

I need 7-10 more for an album. I need suggestions!

I love punk/metal songs because they're entire texture changes when you go solo-acoustic on them.

Frankenstein-Edgar Winter group I believe?
For some camp "Bop until you drop" from the Monster Squad
The Lambton Worm song from Lair of the White Worm (already danceable English Rockabilly)
Rawhead and Bloody Bones/Scarecrow/Carousel by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Partytime- 45 Grave
We're Coming To Kill Ya- Zachariah and the Lobos Riders (Or whatever they're called. From Dead and Breakfast)

No love for the Monster Mash?

Alice Cooper has some good ones: He's Back, Feed My Frankenstein...maybe Dead Babies, but that one's pretty calm to start with.

I don't know if you have heard "Half Japanese" but they had an album called "Bone Head" it had some great horror themed songs on it. "Zombie eye" and "He walks among us" are two of my faveorites, that album is ripe for picking a horror themed cover. get your hands on it.

Some Roky Erickson tunes would be killer.

Definitley mix it up with some of your own shit because a soly covers album is a little hollow.

I don't know , the Johny Cash covers albums are killer.. Not that Rod is Johny Cash but...:confused:

it'll probably be half and half, but I'm having an extremely difficult time writing songs these days - all THAT creative juice is going into writing screenplays, short stories and comic books

and Roky Erickson is a loon - dig him

He mixed them up with his own stuff they weren't 100% cover tunes.


Yeh he rules. Burn The Flame from the Return Of The Living Dead s/t would sound killer acoustic especially since its such a dark tune.

You might find yourself inspired after learning some more covers.

Can't wait to check it out seeing as I dug the other stuff you had up on Myspace.

killer track - it might make the cut

Well, only because you asked: "Monsters' Holiday" by Buck Owens; "Spooky Movies" by Roy Clark.

I actually wrote two songs tonight... they aren't brilliant, but it's a start

Onwards and upwards dude. I always write stuff then tweak with it a bunch till it rips. I've written some terrible shit over the years :D

Children Of the Damned - Iron Maiden
one of the first songs Bruce ever sang, and it rips.

Off topic but I remember you having a really good song on your myspace, now it's gone. :(

Dead Man's Party
Zombie Dance
Nice Day for a Resurrection
Dig up her Bones

"how soon is now" - the smiths ... always sounded like something from a horror soundtrack to me


"bela lugosi's dead" is a good one .. i guess the people who made The Hunger agreed

"hey man nice shot" - filter - again i wasnt alone thinking this - i've heard it in 2 movies now

more human than human - RZ ... yet again - used in movies already

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i've been thinking about this one - might have to give it a shot

I've written another song - hope to get into the studio soon and start laying the tracks down.

If you're interested, I might have some lyrics lying around.

You should definitely add Iron Maidens "Still life" inspired by a short horror story called "Genius Loci" http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings...78/genius-loci , Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961).

And when you've done reccording it, you should write the script for a movie adaption, coz it could be big. ;)

Entombed - Left Hand Path:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdL-wNwXPCg

Uses samples from the Phantasm score. Integrated really well.
It's death metal, though, so you have to acquire the taste as they say.

That album is fucking amazing!

American Nightmare - The Misfits
The Ocean Doesn't Want Me - Tom Waits

Horror Songs:

-Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath
-River on the Road-Queens of the stone Age

I don't really think that's a horror song. Great song, but not horror...

Ok just a opinion but take a look to the lyrics:

"Fast approaching Monsters, marching in a row
Grab what slips your mind & what your memory won’t hold
Run, darling run.
I'll stall them if I can
You’ll escape & I'll be left rotting on the vine

Run, darling Run.
Ill stall them if I can
Youll escape & I'll be left rotting on the vine
Avert the childrens eyes
Forget left untold
Don’t look back to see
The blood River in the Road

Get revenge with my Blood
River in the Road"