32:57 - AC/DC: "Night Prowler" (6:13)
Scared yet? No? Then forget about Gary Wilson. Now, imagine it's hard-drinking cock-rocker Bon Scott "breaking down your door" and "crawling 'cross your floor." And something tells us this time he's after something a little more sinister than usual... Zach: "This is it, the song where AC/DC's cartoon misogyny actually threatened to get a little scary. These guys mix sexual and violent imagery like horror pros, even allegedly inspiring serial killer Richard Ramirez. No wonder so many 1970's housewives were convinced they'd been sent by Lucifer himself...although Bon's suspiciously Mork and Mindy-esque vocalizations after the finale deflate some of the menace."
(Available on Highway to Hell)

39:10 - The Scars: "I Want to be a Sailor" (4:40)
Zach: "It's a testament to the gothic majesty of locals the Scars that they can take this only marginally dark song of obsessive, submissive love, and with just a few choice elements - menacing fuzz bass, tick-tock muted guitar scrapes, Dara's voice - turn it into something that's not just seductive, but positively otherwordly. These guys could play the proverbial phone book and make it sound creepy. As it is, drowning to death has never sounded quite so sexy."
(Available on the Scars' Website)

43:50 - Edgard Varese: "Poeme Electronique" (excerpt) (1:00)
Dan: "There is a small chance that someone will seek to play this mix tape at a haunted house. Towards that purpose, I close side one with Edgard Varese's 1958 tape-manipulation hit. Remember when this was at the top of the pops?"
(Available on Varese: The Complete Works)

Final Runtime: 44:50

0:05 - Godspeed You! Black Emperor: "The Dead Flag Blues" (excerpt) (6:38)
All right, kids, now it's time to stop screwing around. There's nothing camp about the next few songs, and there sure isn't anything that tastes remotely like candy. This is late October at its absolute bleakest. Dan kicks off the gloom: "Say what you like about the humorless Northern collective, but this is a creepy-ass song. 'I open up my wallet and it's full of blood': never has feel-good Canadian socialism felt so bad."
(Available on f#a#(infinity symbol))

6:44 - The Cure: "Pornography" (6:27)
Jon: "Probably the creepiest song recorded by The Cure. Lo-fi television noise overlapping on itself over flat, repetitive drumming and a menacing synth with little screeches of guitar just to add that extra insanity. Plus, Robert Smith makes a fine madman. He says 'I'll watch you drown in the shower' like he means it."
(Available on Pornography)

13:13 - KISS: "Christine Sixteen" (3:14)
But wait just a second! What's a Halloween mix without a song by these happy hour costume contest mainstays? And it ain't like this song isn't genuinely troubling as it is. Says Zach: "It's tough to decide what in particular makes 'Christine Sixteen' so scary. Is it the fact that 'KISS' was once rumored to be an acronym for 'Knights in Satan's Service?' Is it the disturbing lookalike women in whiteface, kneeling at the feet of the arena rock monsters on the sleeve of parent album Love Gun? Is it because this is, unapologetically, a love-song directed to a sixteen-year-old girl? Actually, it's none of these: this song creeps the shit out of me because of Paul Stanley's lisping, spoken-word monologue. Hands down."
(Available on Love Gun)