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Halloween 2012 Playlist

Rock N' Roll Halloween Massacre!!!

1. Laika & The Cosmonauts- Psycko 
2. The Misfits- Ghouls Night Out
3. The Cramps- I Was A Teenage Werewolf
4. Nick Cave & The Cavemen- I Put A Spell On You
5. Siouxsie & The Banshees- Halloween
6. The Gruesomes- Jack The Ripper
7. The Meteors- My Daddy Was A Vampire
8. Round Robin- I'm The Wolfman
9. Kip Tyler- She's My Witch
10. X- The Hungry Wolf
11. Dead Moon- Walking On My Grave
12. Minuteman- Voodoo Slaves
13. Beasts Of Bourbon- Psycho
14. Jackie Morningstar- Rockin' in the Graveyard
15. Roy Buchanan- Haunted House
16. Jonathan Richman- Vampire Girl
17. New York Dolls- Frankenstein
18. The King Khan & BBQ Show- Zombies
19. The Fleshtones- I Was A Teenage Zombie
20. The Stems- She's A Monster
21. The Fuzztones- She's Wicked
22. Ramones- Pet Sematary
23. Dead Kennedys- Halloween
24. The Damned- Dead Beat Dance
25. The Birthday Party- Release The Bats
26. Bauhaus- Bela Lugosi's Dead
27. 45 Grave- Evil
28. Samhain- To Walk The Night
29. X Men- Do The Ghost
30. Violent Femmes- Werewolf
31. Concrete Blonde- Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
32. Dream Syndicate- Halloween
33. Roky Erickson & The Aliens- I Walked With A Zombie

a rebooted version of the Halloween mix i posted last year plus/minus some songs. 

get it.

"I am your main man if you're looking for trouble"

i got woken up to my neighbor listening to Thin Lizzy this morning at 8am...normally it would piss me off, but it's Thin Lizzy so i'm in a stellar mood.

Here's "the Rocker" one of my top 5 Lizzy jams. Sadly this video omits the mindmelting 2 minute guitar solo, so you'll just have to go buy a Lizzy record if you want your brains turned to goo...its so worth it.

The Modern Age: The Best Rock Albums Of the 21st Century...so far

MY top 50 from 2000-2008

1. The Strokes- Is This It?
2. Radiohead- Kid A
3. Wilco- Yankee Foxtrot Hotel
4. White Stripes- Elephant
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever To Tell
6. TV On The Radio- Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
7. Spoon- Kill The Moonlight
8. Interpol- Turn On The Bright Lights
9. At the Drive In- Relationship Of Command
10. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists- The Tyranny Of Distance
11. Arcade Fire- Funeral
12. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead- Source Tags & Codes
13. The Shins- Oh, Inverted World
14. Broken Social Scene- You Forgot It In People
15. White Stripes- White Blood Cells
16. Fugazi- The Argument
17. The Walkmen- Bows & Arrows
18. The Icarus Line- Penance Soiree
19. Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
20. The Faint- Danse Macabre
21. Q and Not U- No Kill No Beep Beep
22. Hot Snakes- Suicide Invoice
23. The Rapture- Echoes
24. The Libertines- Up The Bracket
25. Franz Ferdinand- Franz Ferdinand
26. LCD Soundsystem- Sound Of Silver
27. Radiohead- In Rainbows
28. No Age- Nouns
29. Liars- They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
30. PJ Harvey- Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
31. The Hives- Veni Vidi Vicious
32. Radio 4- Gotham
33. Death From Above 1978- You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
34. The Strokes- Room On Fire
35. Spoon- Gimme Fiction
36. The Unicorns- Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
37. The Black Lips- Let It Bloom
38. The Warlocks- Phoenix
39. M83- Saturdays = Youth
40. The Lilys- Precollection
41. Albert Hammond Jr.- Yours To Keep
42. The Stills- Logic Will Break Your Heart
43. Jimmy Eat World- Bleed American
44. Out Hud- S.T.R.E.E.T. DAD
45. Whiskeytown- Pneumonia
46. The Kills- Midnight Boom
47. Dead Meadow- Dead Meadow
48. Grinderman- Grinderman
49. Primal Scream- XTRMNTR
50. Yo La Tengo- And then nothing turned itself inside out

we're almost done with the first decade of the 21st century. once it's 2010 i'll probably go back and do this list all over again and make it 100 albums. my opinions change all the time but the top 10 has been pretty solid for a couple of years now.