We move on from the Doors to another of my favorite bands, Genesis, who have a few potential candidates for Halloween music.
The only time that I have actually been scared listening to music is the first time that I heard Phil Collins laugh in “Mama”.
And “Home by the Sea/Second Home by the Sea” is the story of a burglar who breaks into a house, only to be taken capture and held forever by the ghosts who live there, yet the music itself isn’t really all that scary (though it is some of their greatest instrumental work).
Ultimately my pick for the best Genesis Halloween song would be “Entangled”. It starts out merely a little bit eerie, but the ending, featuring a quavering synthesizer solo underlain by a sinister Mellotron choir, moves into decidedly ominous and unsettling territory:
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