Spin This on Your Ouija

Since there's obviously no Halloween without Halloween carols (and since I have three more days before this FTP client starts asking me for money), it's time for spooky sounds on G.p.

Including all or part of the Arcade Fire, Beck, R.E.M., Rilo Kiley, David Cross, Devendra Banhart, Elvira (!), Sonic Youth, Sparks, Les Savy Fav, Peaches, That Dog, Postal Service, Karen O, Wolf Parade, and a mess of others, the North American Halloween Prevention Initiative is a supergroup who are standing up and saying no! to razor blades in candy apples, no! to LCD candy wrappers, no! to childhood obesity (I'm inferring), and no! to Sugar Daddies. (On principle. Those things are disgusting.) NAHPI has a treat for you, and it's a message of hope:

North American Halloween Prevention Initiative, "Do They Know It's Halloween?"

Hat tip to Tom. That's pretty clever, but I'm not sure it's, you know, sufficiently accursed to speak to the spirit of Halloween.

That distinction goes to "I Put a Spell on You," but whose version? Nick Cave and his haunted harmonica? Howlin' Wolf, whose name is already pretty Halloween? CCR? I'm going to have to go with

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, "I Put a Spell on You"

I really ought to warn you that what you hear next might shock you. We're plumbing depths so satanic, so abominable—the meek and noncostumed should turn back now.

Cradle of Filth, "Castlevania"

Do you know where you are, Bartolome? You are about to enter hell.

Posted by Kriston at October 28, 2005 3:07 AM