Tips on making a Halloween iMix from your current iTunes library:

1. Search for words like: death, dead, dark, blood, evil, bone, wicked, hell or pretty much any word that conjures up scary thoughts.
2. Think of spooky sounding songs that you typically skip in your playlist, like Tom Waits’ “What’s He Building in There?”
3. Search current Halloween iMixes, and pick out songs that you already have.

Halloween iTunes Mix: Best Spooky Alterna-Rock Songs


The Specials – Ghost Town
The Beatles – Long, Long, Long
Tim Armstrong – Among The Dead
Air – Cemetery Party
Bob Dylan – Ballad Of A Thin Man
Gorillaz – Dracula
Pixies – Dead
George Harrison – Dark Horse
The White Stripes – Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
R.E.M. – Gardening At Night
Radiohead – Bones
The Ramones – Pet Sematary
Air – Dead Bodies
Tom Waits – What’s He Building?
Sparklehorse – Heart of Darkness
OutKast – Dracula’s Wedding
They Might Be Giants – Whistling in the Dark
Grateful Dead – Friend Of The Devil
Pixies – Bone Machine
Modest Mouse – The Devil’s Workday
The Clash – Death is a Star
Stone Temple Pilots – Wicked Garden
Beck – Deadweight
Edvard Grieg – Peer Gynt – In the Hall of the Mountain King
Led Zeppelin – No Quarter
Beck – Already Dead
R.E.M. – Burning Hell
Ween – Voodoo Lady
Modest Mouse – Satin In A Coffin
The Toadies – Hell Below Stars Above
The White Stripes – In The Cold Cold Night
Ween – Drifter In The Dark
The Flaming Lips – Halloween On The Barbary Coast
Air – Ghost Song
Beck – Steal My Body Home
The Doors – Who Scared You
Tom Waits – Clap Hands
Beck – Dark and Lovely (Dust Brothers remix)
Pink Floyd – Lucifer Sam
U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
The Doors – Riders On The Storm
The Ramones – Psycho Therapy
Tom Waits – Another Man’s Vine
Moby – A Season in Hell
Primus – Devil Went Down To Georgia
Beck – Satan Gave Me A Taco
Pink Floyd – Echoes

How spooktastic, ok, the creepy Halloween jokes end now.

#93 of 101 Things in 1001 Days: Set up at least 10 useful playlists for my iPod, is now 10% done.

• Use It?
• Love It?
• Need It?

AAAAND, bonus points: I made sure every album in my iTunes actually has an album image associated with it.

Speaking of iTunes, last weeks’

Single of the Week was a free Manu Chao song. It’s not available anymore, but the good news is this weeks’ single is pretty good too: The Last Goodnight – Pictures of You.