Thread: Great Old-School Goth Music for Halloween

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These are some of my favourite old goth songs that always put me in a Halloween mood:

Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Bauhaus - Hollow Hills
The Birthday Party - Release The Bats
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes
The Cure - A Forest
The Cure - The Funeral Party
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Fear Condition - Vampire
Fear Condition - Halloween
Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
Love & Rockets - Haunted When The Minutes Drag
Screaming Dead - Creatures Of The Night
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Halloween
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Rawhead And Bloodybones
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Rhapsody
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Spellbound
The Creatures - Don't Go To Sleep Without Me
The Sisters Of Mercy - Black Planet
Ministry - Everyday Is Halloween
Tones On Tail - Movement Of Fear
Twisted Nerve - Gargoyle
13th Chime - Coffin Maker
Alien Sex Fiend - Dead And Buried
Mephisto Walz - Mephisto Waltz
Nosferatu - The Haunting
The Wake - Side Show
The Misfits - Halloween
The Misfits - Ghouls' Night Out
***** Flytrap - Cemetery Girl
Ramones - Pet Cemetery

The last few songs are more punk than goth, but still some fun stuff.

Excellent list

Thanks! I'm such a goth snob. I rarely listen to anything past 1989!

LOL I listen to it all sadly

No Fields of the Nephilim...?

Ok never heard of that one sorry

These are excellent! I have been searching for more music like this for our Halloween party and this is EXACTLY the kind of thing I was looking for. Thanks so much!

Not goth (back in "the day" no term for it we were just called people who wore black and looked like vampires LOL) but what's wrong with B52's Rock Lobster?

Originally Posted by Terminal_Margaret

These are excellent! I have been searching for more music like this for our Halloween party and this is EXACTLY the kind of thing I was looking for. Thanks so much!

Cool! Glad you like it. I really love the old 80s stuff.

Crap! I knew I forgot something. I should definitely have some Fields Of The Nephilim on that list.

Yeah, back in high school in the mid 80s I don't think any of us used the term "goth". I don't don't know when I first heard the term, probably early 90s. Which is funny, because by that time all the stuff I liked was over! Back in the 80s, if you liked bands like The Cure, Siouxsie, Love & Rockets, etc., you were just called "alternative". And the newer stuff that's called "goth" today isn't goth at all to me!

Haha, I'm such a cranky old man!

Well if you are an old man than I am an old lady as I was in high school back in the 80's and yes it was alternative or new age or somethng like that LOL