Hasil Adkins - "No More Hot Dogs"

A friend sent over this Halloween beauty, "No More Hot Dogs," from Appalachian psychobilly pioneer Hasil Adkins a few weeks ago and it's full of wonderfully devious cackles and the quintessential evil-doer maniacal laugh. Adkins, who performed as a one-man band, constructed his first guitar at age 10 and recorded the majority of his material in a shack with a home tape recorder. Talk about bad ass. Said track, "No More Hot Dogs," was originally released back in 1955 via Norton Records on the LP Out To Hunch. Here's a choice lyrical selection: "Now honey, don't you be afraid / Because I'm going to cut your head off about a half past 8. / Just like I said, I'm gonna cut your head off / And you can eat no more hot dogs." Happy Halloween.

Hasil Adkins - "No More Hot Dogs"

Misfits - "Astro Zombies"

It's easy to pick out my favorite Halloween song, because it's also one of my favorite all-time tracks: The Misfits' "Astro Zombies." It's a great sing-along number with Glen Danzig at his operatic best belting out those epic room-filling "whoas." Word is the track gets its name from the 1968 cult horror flick Astro-Zombies (on your left). The song, initially released on the 1982 album Walk Among Us, was also later unofficially released on 7" vinyl as an EP. I mention this latter release because of its fantastic artwork, which features an angry Hulk-like Franken-zombie in the lab of a mad scientist. Absolutely classic.

The Misfits - "Astro Zombies" (from Astro Zombies 7")

Happy Halloween: Picked Out Your Costume Yet?

Harry Belafonte - "Zombie Jamboree"

David Bowie - "Dance Magic"

Benji Hughes - "The Mummy"

She & Him - "I Put A Spell On You"

The King Khan and BBQ Show - "Invisible Girl"

Dead Man's Bones - "My Body's A Zombie For You"

Ghostland Observatory - "Midnight Voyage"

Rockwell - "Somebody's Watching Me"

The Misfits - "Astro Zombies"

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - "Red Right Hand"

And my personal Halloween favorite from Ghostbusters II:

Bobby Brown - "On Our Own"