Halloween special with your ‘sounds like Halloween’ anthems | In The Groove
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For today’s (early) Halloween edition of In the Groove, we asked you to submit songs that “sound like Halloween” on the groove hotline — and man, they absolutely ripped!
Thank you so much for sharing all of these! The playlist features everything from Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” and Siouxsie & The Banshees’ “Spellbound” to Roky Erickson’s “I Walked with a Zombie” and Tom Waits’ “The Earth Died Screaming.”
Other highlights include The Cramps, The Misfits, Suicide, The Specials and Black Sabbath, proving that there’s more than one way to capture the spirit of Halloween.
Check the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the player above.
In The Groove with Ryan Patrick Hooper playlist for October 30, 2026
- “Cough / Cool” — The Misfits
- “Ghost Rider (2017 Remaster)” — Suicide
- “Spellbound (12″ Mix)” — Siouxsie & The Banshees
- “Pet Sematary (Single Version)” — Ramones
- “Lucretia My Reflection (2018 Remastered Version)” — The Sisters of Mercy
- “Bela Lugosi’s Dead (Official Version)” — Bauhaus
- “Vampire” — Peter Tosh
- “Ghost Town (Extended Version)” — The Specials
- “When I Get My Hands On You” — The New Basement Tapes
- “My Old School” — Steely Dan
- “I Walked with a Zombie” — Roky Erickson
- “Edge of the World” — Faith No More
- “Run From Me” — Timber Timbre
- “The Libertine” — Patrick Wolf
- “Eulogy for You and Me” — Tanya Davis
- “The Order of Death” — Public Image Ltd.
- “Smokestack Lightnin'” — Howlin’ Wolf
- “Human Fly” — The Cramps
- “Strange Times In Casablanca” — John Cale
- “The Earth Died Screaming (2023 Remaster)” — Tom Waits
- “The Ghost Who Walks” — Karen Elson
- “Red Right Hand” — Arctic Monkeys
- “September Song (Short Version)” — Ian McCulloch
- “Witchcraft” — Frank Sinatra
- “Season of the Witch” — Donovan
- “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand” — Primitive Radio Gods
- “6 Underground” — Sneaker Pimps
- “Tuff Ghost” — The Unicorns
- “Bad Hombre” — Pablo R. Ruiz
- “Dissolve” — Switchblade Symphony
- “Tear You Apart” — She Wants Revenge
- “Everything Turns Grey” — Agent Orange
- “Black Sabbath” — Black Sabbath
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