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Bring Out Your Dead: Music for a Plague
Inspired by Halloween & the events of October 2020
- Ring Around the Rosie [Saivor & Gonzi]
- The 1919 Influenza Blues [Essie Jenkins]
- I Put a Spell On You [Nina Simone]
- Witchcraft [Frank Sinatra]
- The Great Pumpkin Waltz [Vince Guaraldi]
- Blue Turtles [Rich Dworsky]
- Scarecrow [Beck]
- Nebraska [Bruce Springsteen]
- Burn the Witch [Radiohead]
- Sympathy for the Devil [The Rolling Stones]
- St. James Infirmary [Hugh Laurie]
- White Rabbit [Jefferson Airplane]
- Careful, With That Axe, Eugene [Pink Floyd]
- John Wayne Gacy, Jr. [Sufjan Stevens]
- Creepy Feeling [Butch Thompson]
- Knoxville Girl [The Louvin Brothers]
- What’s He Building [Tom Waits]
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy [Delaney Davidson; Marlon Williams]
- Danse Macabre, Op. 40 [Unknown]
- bury a friend [Billie Eilish]
- Superstition [Stevie Wonder]
- Disturbia [Rihanna]
- Haunted [Beyoncé]
- Thriller [Michael Jackson]
- Werewolves of London [Warren Zevon]
- Monster Mash [Bobby “Boris” Pickett]
- Theme from Young Frankenstein [Rhythm Heritage]
- Gods & Monsters [Lana Del Rey]
- Somebody’s Watching Me [Rockwell]
- Murder by Numbers [The Police]
- Psycho Killer [Talking Heads]
- Howlin’ for You [The Black Keys]
- Go to Hell [Alice Cooper]
- The Beautiful People [Marilyn Manson]
- They Are Coming for You [Gonzi]
- Grim Grinning Ghosts [Thurl Ravenscroft; Barenaked Ladies]
Southern Gothic
Blues for the bayou
- Sleeping on the Blacktop [Colter Wall]
- Canary [Joy Williams]
- Bilgewater [Brown Bird]
- Priest [William Crighton]
- Hades Pleads [Parker Millsap]
- Ain’t No Grave [Crooked Still]
- Broken Bones [KALEO]
- Lucette [Bobby Reid; Sturgill Simpson; JD Wilkes]
- Shake Off Your Flesh [The Huntress and Holder of Hands]
- Death Don’t Have No Mercy [Delaney Davidson; Marlon Williams]
- Hammers and Nails [The Bones of J.R. Jones]
- The Railroad [Goodnight, Texas]
- Chains [Rose Cousins]
- Raise Hell [Dorothy]
- The River’s Will [Kendl Winter]
- 99 Problems [HUGO]
- Carry My Body Down [Nick 13]
Back to School Album List
Traditional back-to-school listening since 1983
- Staying Alive [soundtrack]
- Twilight Zone, the Movie [soundtrack]
- Now Voyager [Barry Gibb]
- Valotte [Julian Lennon]
- Make It Big [Wham]
- Dreamland Express [John Denver]
- Requiem [Andrew Lloyd Webber]
- Love, Julie [Julie Andrews]
- Deathtrap [soundtrack]
- Faith [George Michael]
Queen
Inspired by The New Place’s "Elizabeth Rex"
- God Save the Queen [Sex Pistols]
- Staying Power [Queen]
- Who Are You Now [George Fenton; Stage Beauty]
- Macbeth [John Cale]
- Ophelia [The Band]
- Sigh No More [Mumford & Sons]
- In Less Than Three Hours [George Fenton; Stage Beauty]
- I Don’t Care [Shakespeare’s Sister]
- Tudor Disco (Luke Vibert Remix) [Scott & Todd]
- Shakespeare’s Sister [The Smiths]
- Electro Queen [Raw M.T.]
- Dancing Queen (Sondr Remix) [BNB]
- Something Wicked..... [KHD]
- The Milkman of Human Kindness [Billy Bragg]
- Cleopatra [The Lumineers]
- Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet (2010 Remix) [Andre Kostelanetz]
- Good Queen Bess [Johnny Hodges]
Plague Me No More
The antidote to "Bring Out Your Dead"
- Here Comes the Sun [The Beatles]
- Walking on Sunshine [Katrina & The Waves]
- Mr. Blue Sky [Electric Light Orchestra]
- Let’s Have a Party [Wanda Jackson]
- Let the Good Times Roll [JD McPherson]
- Celebration [Kool & The Gang]
- American Saturday Night [Brad Paisley]
- Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go [Wham!]
- Go Boy Go [Sugar Chile Robinson]
- Don’t Stop Me Now [Queen]
- Can’t Stop the Feeling! [Justin Timberlake]
- Footloose [Kenny Loggins]
- Chattahoochee [Alan Jackson]
- Wipe Out [Surfaris]
- Sir Duke [Stevie Wonder]
- Happy [Pharrell Williams]
- Get Lucky [Daft Punk; ft. Pharrell Williams, Nile Rodgers]
- Lovely Day [Bill Withers]
- Tere bin nai lagda [Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan]
- Jazz Suite, Waltz No. 2 [Dmitri Shostakovich]
- Good Times [Chic]
- Good Vibrations [The Beach Boys]
- You Should Be Dancing [Bee Gees]
- December 1963 (Oh What a Night) [Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons]
- That’s the Way (I Like It) [KC and The Sunshine Band]
- Brown Eyed Girl [Van Morrison]
- The Twist [Chubby Checker]
- West Side Story Mambo [Leonard Bernstein]
- Come Alive [Janelle Monáe]
- Hey Boy Hey Girl [The Chemical Brothers]
- William Tell Overture (Finale) [Rossini]
- Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting [Elton John]
- Never Gonna Give You Up [Rick Astley]
- I’m a Believer [The Monkees]
- Take On Me [a-ha]
- Swanee River [Hugh Laurie]
- Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 Sanctus - Osanna in excelsis (I) [J.S. Bach]
- Ode to Joy [The Philadelphia Orchestra]
- Let Me Play With Your Poodle [Marcia Ball]
- The Party’s Still Going On [Marcia Ball]
London, 1987 album list
Ahh... where it all started
- Cats [Original Cast Album - UK]
- Chess [Original Concept Album]
- Lady Day [Dee Dee Bridgewater]
- Les Miserables [Original Cast Album - UK]
- March of the Falsettos [Original Off-Braodway Cast]
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood [London West End]
- Phantom of the Opera [Original Cast Album - UK]
- Time the Musical [London West End]
- Romance [David Cassidy]
- Sold [Boy George]
Hear No Evil
Songs from horror soundtracks
- Midnight The Stars And You [Ray Noble and His Orchestra]
- Bad Things [Jace Everett]
- Bad Moon Rising [Creedence Clearwater Revival]
- Bad To The Bone [George Thorogood]
- Red Right Hand [Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]
- [Don’t Fear] The Reaper [Blue Öyster Cult]
- Time of the Season [The Zombies]
- Hurdy Gurdy Man [Donovan]
- You’re Dead [Norma Tanega]
- Twisted Nerve [Bernard Herrmann]
- Goodbye Horses [Q Lazzarus]
- Bela Lugosi’s Dead [Bauhaus]
- So Cold [Breaking Benjamin]
- Space Junk [Wang Chung]
- Shallow Grave [Leftfield]
- Tiptoe Through the Tulips [Tiny Tim]
- Blue Moon [Bobby Vinton]
- Love Song for a Vampire [Annie Lennox]
- Cat People [David Bowie]
- Cry Little Sister [Gerard McMann]
- Moondance [Van Morrison]
- Sleep Walk [Betsy Brye]
- The Name Game [Shirley Ellis]
- Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) [Marilyn Manson]
- People Are Strange [Echo & the Bunnymen]
- Tear You Apart [She Wants Revenge]
- Ghost Town [The Specials]
- Funtime [Iggy Pop & David Bowie]
- Blue Moon [The Marcels]
- It’s All Right [The Impressions]