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Five Dark Songs for Your Halloween Playlist

October 18, 2024

Five Dark Songs for Your Halloween Playlist

There are many levels of creepiness.

This list, hopefully, hits several of them.

When you’re over hearing “The Monster Mash,” and add these five dark tunes to the Halloween playlist we helped you start last year.

The embarrassment of riches that was new music in 1991 is legendary but the list goes well beyond Nevermind, Badmotorfinger, Bandwagonesque, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Actung Baby, Trompe Le Monde, Gish, The Black Album, Use Your Illusion, Pretty on the Inside, Green Mind, Temple of the Dog, Girlfriend, Steady Diet of Nothing, Luck of the Draw, Emotions, Death Certificate, Niggaz4Life, and 2pacalypse Now.

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A Banger Was Released Every Day In November

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November gets plenty of credit for turkey, football and the annual rush to buy a slightly larger television. The record stores deserve a little attention, too. From Nirvana unplugging to Wu-Tang kicking the door in, this month has delivered an impressive pile of albums and plenty of ways to drown out Thanksgiving arguments. Here’s one for every day.

Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York album coverNovember 1: Nirvana, MTV Unplugged in New York (1994, DGC Records). MTV once put musicians on television and let them play entire songs. Imagine. Nirvana used the opportunity to sidestep the obvious hits and lean on David Bowie, Lead Belly and the Meat Puppets. Kurt Cobain’s final howl in “Where Did You Sleep Last Night” makes the usual unplugged-session chatter about intimacy seem rather inadequate. Also: Megadeth, Youthanasia (1994); The Cure, Songs of a Lost World (2024).

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