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Nicholas Coyne
Halloween is upon us, kids dressing up as hooligans and college students acting
the part. Music is always a huge part of Halloween activities, whether providing chilling
music for the nights activities or fueling the parties that will most definitely pollute theAllegany with raucous noise tonight. Whether they are solemn or reverent, some songs
manage to chill your senses cold and tangle their intricacies around your ones, here are
some of my choices!
"he #miths $ "he Night Has %pened My &yes $ a chilling 'ourney through a
night(time escapade, contemplating life. With a smooth guitar riff from )ohnny Marr,
Morrissey croons and seeps into your psyche with lines like *in a river+the color of lead
-eto oys $ Mind /laying "ricks on Me $ one of the more morose hip(hop songs
ever made. #carface and crew lead through a landscape of paranoid thoughts and
hallucinations of violence 0*at night, 1 cant sleep+1 toss and turn+candlesticks in thedark+visions of odies eing urned2
3ampire Weekend $ Hudson $ a serene picture rushed together y &4ra
5oenigs voice. "he imagery of this song rings me ack to summer nights sitting on the
edge of the Hudson 6iver in 1rvington, swaying with the currents. "he storyline hereroots to origins of this iconic river, as well as including a trance(like whirlwind of visions
0*Hudson died in the Hudson ay+the river took its victims name2.
Nick 7rake $ /ink Moon $ such a solemn and reverent song. 7rakes voiceinduces a state of concentration and alignment of emotion.
"alking Heads $ 7rugs $ with a psychotic guitar riff and spooky sentiment, this"alking Heads song eclipses */sycho 5iller in terms of spine(tingling emotion.
"he Moody lues $ 7ear 7iary $ creepy in every sense of the word, this songharkens ack to the days of writing y candlelight and feels like a 'ourneymen, "horeau(
type character trying to capture the curiosities of life 0*7ear diary+what a day its
een+dear diary+its felt 'ust like a dream2.
)ake ugg $ #lide $ a eautiful song with a scary, underlying nature. ugg finds
himself overwhelmed y the weight of love and the natural way that things work around
0*1ve een thinking aout+the way the world turns+and my stomach churns2. 1ts a songthat oth cools the soul and ignites a fire within.
-orilla4 $ "omorrow Comes "oday $ the most perfect walking song made, as faras walking songs go. A smooth sa8 part guides this song through its addicting melody
and has provided me some of the most reverent feelings that music has communicated.
Cold War 5ids $ Hospital ed $ A story steeped in desperation and fright.
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Waking up in a hospital, gathering information aout your location and how you ended
up there. A haunting piano part gives this a 'ourney(es9ue feeling, harrowing and rave,
ut at the same time drowned in an8iety 0Comin and goin+asleep and awake+in ed atthe hospital2.
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