The cemetery is my home, I’ll read poetry to the stones by @jimhart

Track List

1. Nightcrawler - Graveyard Club
2. Graveyard Girl - M83
3. The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! - Doleful Lions
4. Halloween - The Dream Syndicate

Playlist

Apple Music - The cemetery is my home, I’ll read poetry to the stones

Description

Graveyard Club is a Minneapolis band who early on really leaned into "spooky synth" as a gimmick and I think this one does a good job setting the stage here

That's mostly lead-in for Graveyard Girl. Say what you will about Midnight City or the like, this is the best song M83 has recorded, full stop. It perfectly nails and skewers the aesthetic. I just want to quote it at great length, I'll refrain and just say you cannot ignore the spoken word part.

Doleful Lions is another band with kind of a horror/esoteric/occultic vibe, which can be a bit much. They have a song which is just a monologue from Halloween III with a spooky synth bed. But this just takes the horror movie tropes and builds a love song around them. "But that's okay my sweetheart, 'cause I love you / I wanted to be the one in the end" is a decent enough love song lyric, but then you realize he means the end the end.

This is all just lead in to the absolute killer jam that is The Dream Syndicate's "Halloween", which it totally not just me phoning it in and just googling a song called "Halloween". Keep in mind, this is only the third best song on The Days of Wine and Roses