31 Days of Halloween Music - Day 11

Continuing my annual tradition - today, marks day 11 of celebrating the fun of horror that comes with Halloween. Today, we - and by "we" - me and the voices in my head, plus the specters that haunt my home offer up a classic, a song almost synonymous with the Halloween season - The Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead." The band was only six weeks old in 1978 when they entered the studio to record a five song EP. This was the single they released from those recordings in 1979 and it remained on the British independent charts for over two years.

\Keeping in line with my added twist, I also offer original songs dressed up by other people, just like our own beings that don costumes for, normally, one night of the year (but we are all far from normal around here). Definitely far from normal is the band Korn, known for their seven-string guitar, sledgehammer attack, they were at the forefront of the short-lived nu metal movement from the late 1990's/early 2000. Depression, angst are the subjects of the majority of their songs typically authored by their lead singer Jonathan Davis; one need only to look at his hair to comprehend that this dude ain't right, but there is also a childlike playfulness to the band and it comes out in their cover of the song "Kidnap the Sandy Klaws" from the movie Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.

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