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Halloween Playlist: Spook up your Workplace

By Alex Batty, MHI Marketing Communications Coordinator |@mhi_alex

This is my (Insert Clever Halloween Playlist Name Here) playlist. I love it.

I’m running wild. But I love Halloween. And several people here at MHI HQ love Halloween. So think of it as… me sharing part of our company culture with you. We’re bonding.

But we (I) thought I’d take a moment and help you out. It’s one week until Halloween and one of the easiest ways to avoid awkward silences for any parties you’re hosting is to have a kick-butt playlist playing softly in the background. When the inevitable silences come around, everyone starts listening to the tune and you have a new topic of conversation at hand.

You might have forgotten (or just run out of time) to curate a Halloween playlist, so here are some of my favorites. If I missed any of your favorites, let me know! Tweet at me. I have 4000+ songs on my phone, so I’m pretty sure I missed some. (This is a Halloween specific playlist. If we’re talking general party, that’s a whole ‘nother beast. And yes. I have a playlist for that too.)

Please feel free to also use this at work tomorrow. The lyrics are all work-safe (yes I checked. This is a corporate blog after all). Please feel free to blast this at your Halloween party, especially if it’s just a party of one. All the volume.

Random fact: Aqua, the brains behind the magical hit Barbie Girl, has a Halloween song as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRr4TMqawu8

(Here’s a mostly complete Spotify version if you prefer that: https://open.spotify.com/user/ojbg366k1ie82htoub5255nzi/playlist/6wgp3wmBEnnYUNMFDohoaz, but there’s no Spooky Scary Skeletons, so listen to that.)

Spooky Scary Skeletons

Addams Family Theme

Smooth Criminal

Ghostbuster Theme – Walk the Moon

Dry Bones

Requiem mass in D Minor – Lacrimosa (with a twist for parties!)

Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead – Barbra Streisand

Highway to Hell

Michael Myers Theme Song

Devil with a Blue Dress

Witch Doctor

Ghost Chickens in the Sky

Evil Woman – Electric Light Orchestra

I Want to Be Evil – Eartha Kitt

Carmina Burana: O Fortuna

Bad Things – Jace Everett

Spooky – Dusty Springfield

Scary Monsters – David Bowie

Witch Doctor – Chipmunks

Black Betty

Peer Gynt Suite – In the Hall of the Mountain King

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Monster Mash

Psycho Killer

Ghostbusters Theme – Original

This is Halloween

Thriller

Superstition

I Put A Spell On You

Bad Moon Rising

Zombie Song

Ghostbusters – Fall Out Boy

Ghost Riders in the Sky

Purple People Eater

Disturbia

Little Shop of Horrors

Beetlejuice Main Title

Jaws Theme

Frankenstein’s Pipe Organ

Also, there are some classic classical pieces that fit a Halloween mood so well. But I know some people (crazy people) loathe classical, so it gets its own playlist. Feel free to sprinkle them liberally into the regular playlist.

Ride of the Valkyries