Horror Monster Smash Hits I

A little over a year ago The Vault of Horror & Day of the Woman posted their Horror's Greatest Hits

Inspired by them, I started to mix, match, cut and snap a CD collection. After some witchcraft I ended with a 4 volumes anthology...

This is the track list and some notes on CD 1:

Horror Monster Smash Hits I

01 - Bobby Pickett - Monster Mash
This is the song that every Halloween party must play, and it has been around films and TV shows, in original and cover versions

02 - The Marcels - Blue Moon
From An American Werewolf in London, a nice touch of irony for the broken heart characters

03 - Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me (Marcy's Song)
From The Woods, Lucky McKee may have orchestrated this amazing and haunting mash up of one of the characters and the 60's pop sensation (I edited it right out of the DVD)

04 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird (Edit)
From The Devil's Rejects, the fade out to edit this one gives a nice touch to the images it brings to your memory while listening...

05 - Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster
From Urban Legends & Final Destination 3, I was torn by the version I wanted to use, but at the end I picked the original, I still can mix Ashley & Ashlyn in the scene even if they prefer the RHCP version

06 - Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
From Shaun Of The Dead... killing zombies with acetates right out of the jukebox, classic!

07 - Johnny Cash - When The Man Comes Around
From Dawn Of The Dead (2004)... check No. 13

08 - Dramarama - Anything, Anything
From A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, Rick and Alice kicking ass with martial arts!

09 - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
From Scream, Woodsboro: be afraid, be very afraid... of novelty Halloween costumes

10 - Love Spit Love - How Soon Is Now
From The Craft... check No. 13

11 - Annie Lennox - Love Song for a Vampire
From Bram Stoker's Dracula, if Winona Ryder as Mina Harker had a voice, this would be her lament

12 - Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
From House on Haunted Hill... check next entry

13 - Nine Inch Nails - Closer
From Se7en, I know is not the precursor remix, but the film and the video are two creatures that can be mixed and spawn such a glorious and horrifying child in my mind. It's all about those songs that always remind you about the film where they were used at the opening titles sequence, like the aforementioned tracks

14 - Rasputina - Transylvanian Concubine (The Manson Mix)
Well the collection is Horror Monter Smash Hits, so I decided to include anything great and horrific enough to create some nice images in your head and set the right mood, this must be played on Halloween night!

15 - Squirrel Nut Zippers - Put A Lid On It
From Fido, it also reminds me those vintage cartoons of dancing skeletons

16 - Garbage - As Heaven Is Wide
Beyond horror cinema, but this amazing track about the lost of faith can be mixed with some images of sinning Angels turning to the dark side (Prophecy anyone)

17 - Fangoria - Jason y Tu
This may or may not break the rules, an amazing adaptation of Alice Cooper's The Man Behind The Mask, it even uses some of the Spanish dubbing of Friday the 13th

18 - Panic At The Disco - This Is Halloween
From The Nightmare Before Christmas OK, I don't like over-dramatic emo bands, but it works for the track way better than Danny Elfman's cliche soundtracks

19 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show - The Time Warp
From... you really need to ask? At the same place of The Monster Mash, but with the amazing Broadway musical-Cult Film edge... let's do the time warp again!

Tomorrow, the sequel

Stay tuned!