Music: It's a Halloween hootenany!

Have a hell of a Halloween, y'all. See you tomorrow.

The Cramps: "Garbage Man"



The Mummies: "You Must Fight to Live on the Planet Apes." Not only is this great tune about the famed Chuckie Heston sci-fi flick, it contains the vocab boosting word "chagrin." How many more rock songs are you going to here today that will contain the word chagrin? None more! That's how many more!



Composed for a 1977 modern dance company in Holland, here's "Soul Dracula."



Mountain Goats: "How to Embrace a Swamp Creature" (Live)



Black Sabbath: "Paranoid."



Danger Doom featuring Ghostface Killah: "Masks."



Nekromantix: "Horny in a Hearse."

Music: A song of ol' eldritch Brooklyn.

The California-based Mountain Goats, formed around frontman/guitarist/chief instigator John Darnielle (who thought of the band's name while he was working as a nurse at mental hospital), do a nifty tune about H. P. Lovecraft and his unhappy days in my own beloved Brooklyn. Here's "Lovecraft in Brooklyn" live.



Lovecraft isn't the only the pulp writer to get a shout-out from the boys of Mountain Goat. The man behind Fu Manchu – the evil genius and embodiment of the "Yellow Peril" – also gets a song. Here's the video for the Mountain Goat's "Sax Rohmer #1."