It’s officially Fall.  The leaves are turning, the air is getting cold, and your probably breaking out your hoodie while waving goodbye to your biking shorts till next year (you homo).   Even if the good times of summer have drawn to a close, there’s always one thing to look forward to in the Fall days: Halloween!  It’s my favorite holiday by far, and what better way to celebrate it than to watch some good old horror flicks and listen to some spooky music.  For the past three years, I’ve been making Halloween CD’s that help me get into the spirit and this year is no different.  So to celebrate this October, Miscellaneous Garbage brings to you Volume 1 of 3 horrifyingly rocking mixes to get your spooky groove on!  Read on for more information:

The songs on this mix range from psychobilly, horror punk, surf rock, and hard rock.  I wanted to get a wide variety of musical genres, but still have an overall Halloween-ish theme for the album.  In addition to songs about the Halloween and other spooky things, I added skits between each track.  The content of each skit is to reflect the upcoming song that follows it.  They consist of samples from various Halloween soundtracks that were on vinyl from the 1960’s and 1970’s.  So to name this mix I had to come up with something cheesy, yet festive enough to match the album’s vibe.  So I named this little abomination: A Spooky, Rockin’, Surfin’, Halloween Extravaganza!  Can’t get much more campy than that, and I think it fits the mood remarkably well.  Here is the tracklist for volume 1 (keep in mind this idea was still in its infancy when I made volume 1, so this album isn’t edited quite as well as volumes 2 and 3):

1.  Gein and the Graverobbers – Season of the Dead
2. Astrovamps – Everyday Is Halloween (with Alfred Hitchcock intro)
3. Evil Laugh
4. Rob Zombie – Halloween (She Gets So Mean) with The Ghastly Ones
5. Premature Burial
6. Ghoultown – Return of the Living Dead
7. Witch Laugh
8. Fletch Cadillac – Boogeyman Said
9. The Swamp Creature
10. The Dead Elvi – The Creature Stole My Surfboard
11. Falling Scream
12. Marilyn Manson – This is Halloween
13. Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark
14. Vampire Beach Babes – Gothmobile
15. The Moon Is a Circle of Ghosts
16. Swingin’ Neckbreakers – No Costume, No Candy
17. The Phantom of the Cathedral
18. The Bomboras – A Fistful of Terror
19. Banging Shutter
20. Dead Kennedy’s – Halloween
21. This Recording
22. The Dead Elvi – 21st Century Frankenstein
23. Frankenstein’s Laboratory
24. Horror of 59 – Frankenstein Returns
25. Moans and Groans
26. Green Monster – Zombie Party Rock
27. The Jack O’ Lantern Laughs
28. Type O Negative – Black No. 1
29. Halloween Outro

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