ANYONE PLANNING A party this weekend?

If so, you’ll need a playlist to bring the freaky into Freak Out, the terror into your tunes. We’ve compiled a special playlist for you over on our TheJournal.ie Spotify account and it wasn’t too hard to find the scariest sounds – the devil has the best tunes after all.

As a starting point, we looked at the fear-themed classics being covered by a line-up of Irish artists at Turning Vampire Mixtape at Vicar Street next Sunday night, 29 October.

A few of those kick off our playlist:

• Ghosttown – The Specials (to be covered by Paddy Casey)
• Maneater – Hall and Oates (to be covered by Kier of Delorentos and Emily)
• Don’t Fear the Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult (to be covered by Adam Matthews)
• Pyramid Song – Radiohead (to be covered by Lisa Hannigan)
• Thriller – Michael Jackson (to be covered by Niamh Farrell)
• I Put A Spell On You – Screamin’ Jay Hawkins (to be covered by Saint Sister)

And some other monster-baiting music on our list includes:

• Sympathy For The Devil – The Rolling Stones
• Zombie – The Cranberries
• Monster Mash – Bobby Pickett
• Halloween theme – John Carpenter
• Werewolf Bar Mitzvah – Jeff Richmond
• Bat Out of Hell – Meat Loaf
• Monster – The Automatic
• Halloween – Misfits Meet The Nutley Brass
• I Don’t Wanna Go Down To The Basement – Ramones
• Surfin’ Dead – The Cramps
• Red Right Hand – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• Devil Inside – INXS
• (Ghost) Riders in the Sky – Johnny Cash
• Tubular Bells – Mike Oldfield
• Somebody’s Watching Me – Rockwell
• The Devil Went Down to Georgia – The Charlie Daniels Band
• Spanish Train – Chris de Burgh
• Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr