Best Halloween Music Playlist

If you're looking for the daddy of all Halloween songs list, the best Halloween music playlist, you've come to the right place. Here you will find a huge variety of the best Halloween songs for a Halloween music list that will rock any Halloween party, regardless of age or type of Halloween event.

This list of the best Halloween songs ever will not disappoint, I promise. I love Halloween, and I've got pretty much every Halloween themed song covered here with my personal Halloween music playlist. It turns out I didn't have time to add my whole Halloween party song list, so I'll add more to it bit by bit. But it's still a huge varied lot of the best Halloween songs! Feel free to add your own Halloween music suggestions down below in the comments.

Here are the best Halloween songs, in no particular order. They include everything from classic Halloween party songs, to oldies, to modern classic Halloween music, to some songs for Halloween that you may not have heard of, but should really check out before your Halloween party:

Silly Halloween songs (for kids as well as adults- Not all are suitable for kids!)

Nightmare on My Street- DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (spoof of Nightmare on Elm St.- may be a bit too spooky for the youngest)
Purple People Eater - Halloween classic song
Monster Mash - Bobby Boris Pickett (This is probably my favorite Halloween song!)
Love Potion #9 - The Searchers
Monster (in my pants) - Fred Schneider of the B-52s (NOT for kids)
Nature Trail to Hell - Weird Al (Funny, but probably not for kids)
Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell
Little Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs
My Son the Vampire - Alan Sherman (Not for younger kids)
Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare
Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman - The Tubes (funny, but not suitable for kids)
Boris the Spider - The Who

Classic Halloween Music Playlist: These songs will appeal to a wide range of people and truly personify Halloween

Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon
Thriller - Michael Jackson (No Halloween party music playlist would be complete without this song for Halloween!)
Freaks Come Out at Night - Whodini
Devil in Disguise - Elvis Presley
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
Voodoo - Godsmack
People Are Strange - The Doors
Devil Woman - Marty Robbins
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
Grim Grinning Ghosts - Bare Naked Ladies
Haunted House of Rock - Whodini

Classic Rock Halloween Songs List- Halloween songs by classic rock performers

Black Magic Woman - Santana
Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper
Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
Strange Brew - Cream
Witchy Woman - The Eagles
Sympathy for the Devil - Guns 'n Roses
Runnin' With the Devil - Van Halen
Tombstone Shadow - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Pet Sematary - The Ramones
Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf
Prince of Darkness - Alice Cooper
Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult Mix
Hell's Bells - AC/DC
Spooky - Atlanta Rhythm Section
I Put a Spell on You - Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Legend of Wooley Swamp - Charlie Daniels Band

Hard Rock Halloween Music Playlist: Darker than the classic rock Halloween songs

Zombie Stomp - Ozzy Osbourne
Witch Hunt - Rush
The Vampire Song - Bloodletting - by Concrete Blonde
Dragula - Rob Zombie
Fear of the Dark - Iron Maiden
Bark at the Moon - Ozzy Osbourne
Let the Bodies Hit the Floor - Drowning Pool
Dead & Bloated - Stone Temple Pilot

Don't forget those scary movie and television theme songs which just give us involuntary chills by association:

Halloween Movie Theme Song
Dark Shadows Theme Song
The X-Files Theme Song
Phantom of the Opera
Tubular Bells (The Exorcist theme song)
Addams Family Theme Song (Yeah, this doesn't fit perfectly into the scary theme songs category- it's a silly Halloween song suitable for the kids)
The Munsters (Halloween theme song suitable for kid Halloween parties)
Jaws Movie Theme Song
Twin Peaks Television Theme Song and Soundtrack
Interview With the Vampire Born to Darkness
Soundtrack from The Lost Boys
Theme from Psycho
Fantasia Toccata and Fugue (Surprisingly spooky)
Bram Stoker Dracula Soundtrack - Love Remembered by Anton Coppola
Soundtrack from The Craft
Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Ballroom Blitz also from The Rocky Horror Picture Show (silly, yes)
Well, pretty much the entire soundtrack from The Rocky Horry Picture Show
This Is Halloween - The Nightmare Before Christmas (Again, this is a Halloween theme song that is suitable for kids, except maybe the youngest)
Ghostbusters- Yet another fun suitable Halloween party song for kids
Weird Science- Oingo Boingo (Silly song, too)
Dusk Till Dawn Soundtrack
Soundtrack from The Crow

Lesser Known Songs for Halloween:

Creatures of the Night - KISS
Raise the Dead - Bathory
Angie Baby - Helen Reddy
Day of the Dead - Misfits
Halloween - Dropkick Murphys
The Tell - Tale Heart - The Alan Parsons Project
Dark Lady - Cher
Nightmare - Artie Shaw (Creepy instrumental from 1938)
Witchcraft - Frank Sinatra
Ghouls Night Out - The Misfits
Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
Please Mr. Gravedigger - David Bowie (Really weird song for Halloween)
Voodoo Voodoo - LaVern Baker
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
Rammstein

I believe that with such a varied hodgepodge of Halloween songs, anyone can come up with the perfect Halloween music playlist to suit their particular Halloween party song list needs, whether it's a Halloween music list for tween Twilight loving fans, Halloween songs for kids, a Goth Halloween songs playlist, an adult Halloween party, or whatever. Happy Halloween!