Music for kids halloween party

any suggestions...

[elgumbo]

OK

I have been give the task of sorting out the music for a kids halloween party and apart from "Monster Mash" I'm completely stumpded.

At the moment every thing I come up isn't really suitable and will probably terrify the little uns - I mean can you imagine playing Pass The Parcel to the theme from John Carpenter's Halloween!

Anybody got any suggestions of some spooky kids favourites?

[bcolflesh]

I mean can you imagine playing Pass The Parcel to the theme from John Carpenter's Halloween!

Bob for apples to Brighter Death Now - Innerwar.

[Nick_W]

M*rder Ballads by Nick Cave?

hehe ;)

Nick

[werty]

Here is what people posted on this topic on a board I run:

- "pine box" beat happening
- "halloween" misfits
- "halloween pt. 2" samhain
- "the killing moon" echo & the bunnymen
- "ooooOOOOhhhh!" Halloween Sights & Sounds Haunted House Scare Pack

another member writes:
halloween
skulls
night of the living dead
return of the fly
all danzig-written

And lastly:
1. Venom "Witching Hour"
2.Dead Boys "Son of Sam"
3.Misfits "Queen Wasp"
4.Septic Death "Gore Story"
5.United Mutation "Lice,Fleas, and Vermin"

[graywolf]

Soundtrack to Nightmare Before Christmas

[lorax]

How old are these kids?

[Fruit and Veg]

Thriller - MJ, obviously!

Black Sabbath?

[bcolflesh]

"In the fields the stomachs churning,
As the holiday profit machine keeps turning.
Sweets and sours to mankind,
poisoning their sugar-addled minds..."

[MonkeeSage]

"Werewolves in London", Warren Zevon

Jordan

[Brad]

Yoko Ono screaming. :)

[elgumbo]

lorax, the kids are all about 2-5 years old - an impressionable age - so I don't think too many of the suggestions so far will go down too well with the kidlets (or their parents!).

graywolf, thanks, I'll take a look at that - it's a while since I saw the movie but there should be something suitable.

Fruit_and_Veg, doh! I really should have got thriller!

[EBear]

All those moon songs from "An American Werewolf in London" - Bad Moon Rising, Moondance, Blue Moon.

Midnight Hour by Wilson Pickett.

Ghostbusters

Themes from Scooby Doo, Casper, The Addams Family.

Thriller

(Don't Fear) The Reaper

I Put a Spell on You (Nina Simone or others)

Time Warp

Love Potion #9

Most of these are quite poppy and should work for kids.

Me, I'd have John Otway's "Beware of the Flowers (because I think they're out to get you)" ;)

[elgumbo]

Thanks for the suggestions EBear some great tunes there (and Ghostbusters!)