Vote For Your Favourite Halloween Tunes!
What do you play to get the party ghouls going at Halloween? Do you have a favourite song to scare those pesky little trick or treaters? Go on, vote now in our ALL NEW, & EXTENDED online poll!
Cold sweat is running down my back… and that’s just from having to decide who gets on the list. Californian neo-rockabillies and twisted b-movie fiends The Cramps have to be on it. But which song, ‘I Was A Teenage Werewolf’ or ‘Zombie Dance’? It has to be ‘Zombie Dance’, you can’t beat a bit of black humour.
Here’s how our readers voted so far. If you’d like to make your opinion count, click on the ‘Vote’ button underneath the results.
If you encounter any issues when voting from this post, please go directly to the poll in the bottom right hand corner of the site. Thank you very much.
You have a maximum of three votes - Listen to the songs on the Halloween Jukebox below the results and choose wisely.
What's Your Favourite Halloween Tune?
- 'Ghost Town' by The Specials (29%, 6 Votes)
- 'Zombie Dance' by The Cramps (24%, 5 Votes)
- 'I Put A Spell On You' by Screaming Jay Hawkins (19%, 4 Votes)
- 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' by Bauhaus (19%, 4 Votes)
- 'Thriller' by Michael Jackson (14%, 3 Votes)
- 'Bad Moon Rising' by Creedence Clearwater Revival Band (14%, 3 Votes)
- 'Rumble' by Link Wray & The Raymen (10%, 2 Votes)
- 'Monster Mash' by Bobby 'Boris' Pickett (10%, 2 Votes)
- 'Werewolves Of London' by Warren Zevon (10%, 2 Votes)
- 'Haunted House Of Rock' by Whodini (5%, 1 Votes)
- 'Halloween' by The Misfits (5%, 1 Votes)
- 'I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement' by The Ramones (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 21
You can listen to the songs on our Extended Halloween Jukebox below!
We could have easily had a list twice as long. It seems horror themes were big in the 50’s and the 80’s. Must have something to do with venting that creepy Cold War fear that was going around at the time.
Talking about the 80’s, Does anyone remember the Fields Of The Nephilim? This UK Goth band had quite a funny stage show where they basically re-enacted this cheap 80’s horror flick, The Fog, emerging out of dense dry ice fog with hidden faces and glow in the dark eyes. Their ‘Preacher Man’ almost made it onto the list, but then, it isn’t really in the same league, is it?
Other ‘nearly made it’ tunes are the rather daft ‘Rocking In The Graveyard’ by 80’s Psychobilly combo The Guana Batz, 30’s bluesman Robert Johnson’s strangely eerie ‘Me And The Devil Blues’ and 70’s experimental band White Noise’s creepy ‘The Visitations’.
Did we omit your favourite Halloween tune? Post a comment below and let us know!
We’ll publish the final results of the poll together with some spine-chilling videos and blood-curdling music in a Halloween Special on the 27th of October.

(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
Comment by ForestHillsRocks on 17 October 2008:
You forgot the Ramones! ‘I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement’ from their debut album!
Comment by Beatfinder Records on 17 October 2008:
It’s gotta be ‘The Monster Mash’ by Bobby “Boris” Pickett & The Crypt kickers.
or ‘Thriller’ Michael Jackson
or Ghost Toen by The Specials
or
‘Bad Moon Rising’ by Creedance
or
‘Werewolves of london’ by Warren Zevon
or
‘Ghost In My House by R. Dean Taylor.
Comment by malignant mussel on 17 October 2008:
“Thriller” by Michael Jackson
Comment by admin on 20 October 2008:
Thanks for all your suggestions! We’ll expand the poll in the next couple of days to include the additional songs.
Comment by admin on 20 October 2008:
Six suggestions added, which brings our Halloween selection up to a round dozen. Listen to the new songs on the freshly extended MP3 Jukebox and cast your vote!
Comment by Kenny Campbell on 14 November 2008:
Well I personally vote for the Monster Mash - it just has to be up there at number one. However, my partner is younger than me and she reckons Thriller is the top halloween tune. So, I reckon it all depends on your age…