This is the finale for the Halloween Indie Rock Songs playlist mix series (back to regular programming on Monday with a lot of great new music). Unlike the other mixes, Vol. 13 is not limited to 13 songs because there are just too many left over to share with all of you. What better way to start off the last mix than with the newest track from Radiohead, “These Are My Twisted Words.”
Following Radiohead is a track from Of Montreal (photo, above), plus a song from the now-defunct indie supergroup called the North American Halloween Prevention Initiative. The song, “Do They Know It’s Halloween?” was co-written by Islands, and ex-Unicorns, member Nicholas Diamonds along with an ensemble that included members of bands like Arcade Fire, Rilo Kiley, Wolf Parade, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beck, Sonic Youth, Les Savy Fav, Buck 65 and Peaches.
“These Are My Twisted Words” – Radiohead
“Chrissy and the Corpse” – Of Montreal
“Do They Know It’s Halloween” – North American Halloween Initiative
“Bleed” – Animal Collective
“Heads Roll Off” – Frightened Rabbit
“Sacred Trickster” – Sonic Youth
“Monsters” – Band of Horses
“Skeleton” – Evangelicals
“Halloween Song” – Evangelicals
“Hangman“ – Goh Nakamura
“Voodoo Taxi” – Low Water
“For Halloween” – No Kids
“Blood Gets Thin” – Pete and the Pirates
“Halloween” – Coconut & The Duke
“Wicked Blood” – Sea Wolf
“In Our Talons” – The Bower Birds
“Holy Agent” – Donovan Quinn
“The Hangmen” – Dirtblonde
“The Cannibal Queen” – Miniature Tigers
“Zombies” – King Kahn and the Shrines
“Stacey You Are A Monster” (Nerd Ponies Remix) – Pepepe
“Halloween Mary” – P.F. Sloan
“Snakes and Lions” – Melpo Mene
“Alive Until Saturday Night” – Hexes and Ohs
“Sky Ghosts” – The Depreciation Guild
“It Came from the Ground” – Badly Drawn Boy
“In The Dark” – The Whigs
“Rip My Heart Out” – Devil’s Eyes
“Rad Boo Horror & The Glory Preview” – Clues
“Vicious” – Lou Reed
“Dead” – Graystar
Great Halloween-Theme Songs Exclusively from 2009
“Heads” is the first UK radio single from the Herm‘s 2009 album, Monsters. The song’s bopping sound cleverly disguises its otherwise ghoulishly odd lyrics that suggest cannibalism of the author himself, who strangely seems to find solace in his own demise: Step one/rub me down with grease/step two/cook me in the fire/Step three/cut me into pieces/eat me when I’m done.
“Heads” – Herm from Monsters (2009)
“Land of Freak” – King Khan and The Shrines from From What Is?! (2009)
“Remember Severed Heads” – Clues from s/t debut (2009)
“Young Blood” – Black Whales from Origins EP (2009)
“Tricky Tricky” – Royksopp from Junior (2009)
“Hell” – Tegan & Sara from Sainthood (2009)
“All My Exorcisms” – Beaujolais from Admiration (2009)
“Locked in the Basement” – Fredrik from Trilogi (2009)
“Pink Sabbath” – Dananananaykroyd from Pink Sabbath (2009)
“Cry Wolf” – Stuart Newman from Single But Defective (2009)
“Hi Fi Goon” – Throw Me The Statue from Creaturesque (2009)
“Give Em Something To Die For” – Klum from We Carelessly Turned Amazingly Into Nothing (2009)
“This Blackest Purse” – Why? from Eskimo Snow (2009)
“Cave Mouth” – Clues from s/t debut (2009)
“Perro Loco” – Forro in the Dark from Light A Candle (2009)
“Arsonist’s Blues” – Good Night, States from Impossible Tension EP (2009)
“Sufferer” – Devon Williams from Sufferer (2009)
“Don’t Think It’s A Sin” – Blindfold from Faking Dreams (2009)
“Priestest” – Imaad Wasif from The Voidist (2009)
“Smoke in Your Disguise” – New Roman Times from On The Sleeve (2009)
“Mrs. Cold” – Kings of Convenience from Declaration of Dependence (2009)
“Silver Trembling Hands” – The Flaming Lips from Embryonic (2009)
“Slow Doomsday” – Elvis Perkins in Dearland from The Doomsday EP (2009)
“Hoods Up” – Rollercoaster Project from Revenge (2009)
“A Sunny Day in Hell” – Argyle Johansen from s/t debut (2009)
“Blackbird 3” – Low Low Low La La La Love Love Love from from Feels, Feathers, Bog and Bees (2009)