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Danse Macabre (first performed in 1875) is the name of opus 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns.

The composition is based upon a poem by Henri Cazalis, on an old French superstition:

    Zig, zig, zig, Death in a cadence,
    Striking with his heel a tomb,
    Death at midnight plays a dance-tune,
    Zig, zig, zig, on his violin.
    The winter wind blows and the night is dark;
    Moans are heard in the linden trees.
    Through the gloom, white skeletons pass,
    Running and leaping in their shrouds.
    Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking,
    The bones of the dancers are heard to crack—
    But hist! of a sudden they quit the round,
    They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed.

According to the ancient superstition, "Death" appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death has the power to call forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (represented by a solo violin with its E-string tuned to an E-flat in an example of scordatura tuning). His skeletons dance for him until the first break of dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.

The piece opens with a harp playing a single note, D, twelve times to signify the clock striking midnight, accompanied by soft chords from the string section. This then leads to the eerie E flat and A chords (also known as a tritone or the "Devil's chord") played by a solo violin, representing death on his fiddle. After which the main theme is heard on a solo flute and is followed by a descending scale on the solo violin. The rest of the orchestra, particularly the lower instruments of the string section, then joins in on the descending scale. The main theme and the scale is then heard throughout the various sections of the orchestra until it breaks to the solo violin and the harp playing the scale. The piece becomes more energetic and climaxes at this point; the full orchestra playing with strong dynamics.Towards the end of the piece, there is another violin solo, now modulating, which is then joined by the rest of the orchestra. The final section, a pianissimo, represents the dawn breaking and the skeletons returning to their graves.

The piece makes particular use of the xylophone in a particular theme to imitate the sounds of rattling bones. Saint-Saëns uses a similar motif in the Fossils part of his Carnival of the Animals.
[from Wikipedia]


Artwork: Remedios Varo "Les Feuilles Mortes".
Played by: National Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Leopold Stokowski

Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre

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Now in HD! Watch the upgraded official music video for the classic Drowning Pool track "Bodies", taken from the album Sinner (2001).

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Off The Bone

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Composer  Lyricist: John Davenport
Composer  Lyricist: Eddie J. Cooley

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Danny Gonzalez

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Enjoy this music video for my Halloween song Spooky Boy. Happy October!

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Boo bitch you just got spooked     
Ay by a certified spooky ass dude
Ay somebody let the monsters loose 
In a graveyard sippin pumpkin juice

Shhhhhh
Do you hear that sound
Every october it’s so profound
All these other dudes act spooky for a month
But a real spooky boys spooky all year round

Plastic fangs on my teeth sleepin in a coffin
Step up to my crib and all these decorations poppin

I might go ooga booga booga boo
I might just spook you and your homies too
I might just cook up some halloween food
I'm just so spooky and greg is my crew, yeah

Ay I’m a spooky boy
Ay with some spooky hands
Ay come up in your house and 
Do a little spooky dance
Ay I’m a spooky boy
Ay with a spooky face
Ay it don’t matter dog 
I’ll spook at any time or place

Chillin with a skeleton bitch 
and a pumpkin on my head
If you try to spook me
You gon end up dead
If you spook me again
You gon end up undead
That’s the life of a spooky boy

Better watch out if you see a full moon bitch
Yeah I been spooky like a mummy in a tomb bitch
I don’t have a car cuz I fly on a broomstick
Pull up to the club skrt skrt vroom vroom witch

Got two girls with me and they hella hella thin
How thin are they? Yo mothafuckin skeletons
that is not a joke about their weight they are skeletons
Halloween music got us jigglin like gelatin

Got a couch covered in cobwebs
Got a whip covered in cobwebs
Got a dog covered in cobwebs
Spent way too much on cobwebs

Fake spooky dudes suck like dracula
I don’t give a damn if you a goblin you can back it up
ghouls get crazy while i blow this cash
if you trynna monster smash

Ay I’m a spooky boy
Ay with some spooky knees
Ay I could teach you how to spook too
For a spooky fee
Ay I’m a spooky boy
Ay with some spooky shoes
Ay and before the night is over
You’ll be spooky too

Chillin with a skeleton bitch 
and a pumpkin on my head
If you try to spook me
You gon end up dead
If you spook me again
You gon end up undead
That’s the life of a spooky boy


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I do not own this, just a big fan.  Was trying to find it on YouTube for Halloween next week and found nobody ever posted it, so I'm doing it! Enjoy!

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Tom Waits

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"Whistlin' Past The Graveyard" by Tom Waits from the album 'Blue Valentine'

Lyrics

well i come in on a night train
with an arm full of box cars
on the wings of a magpie
cross a hooligan night
and i busted up a chifforobe
way out by the cocomo
cooked up a mess a mulligan
and got into a fight
 
whistlin past the graveyard
steppin on a crack
i’m a mean motherhubbard
papa one eyed jack
 
you probably seen me sleepin
out by the railroad tracks
go on and ask the prince of darkness
what about all thet smoke
come from the stack
sometimes i kill myself a jackal
suck out all the blood
steal myself a stationwagon
drivin through the mud
 
whistlin past the graveyard
steppin on a crack
i’m a mean motherhubbard
papa one eyed jack
 
i know you seen my headlights
and the honkin of my horn
i’m callin out my bloodhounds
chase the devil through the corn
last night i chugged the mississippi
now that sucker’s dry as a bone
born in a taxi cab
i’m never comin home
 
whistlin past the graveyard
steppin on a crack
i’m a mean motherhubbard
papa one eyed jack
 
my eyes have seen the glory
of the drain in of the ditch
i only come to baton rouge
to find myself a witch
i’m-ona snatch me up a
couple of em every time it rains
you see a locomotive
probably thinkin it’s a train
 
whistlin past the graveyard
steppin on a crack
i’m a mean motherhubbard
papa nne eyed jack
 
what you think is the sunshine
is just a twinkle in my eye
that ring around my fingers
just the 4th of july
when i get a little bit lonesome
and a tear falls from my cheek
there’s gonna be an ocean in
the middle of the week
 
whistlin past the graveyard
steppin on a crack
i’m a mean motherhubbard
papa one eyed jack
 
i rode into town on a night train
with an arm full of box cars
on the wings of a magpie
cross a hooligan night
i’m-ona tear me off a rainbow
and wear it for a tie
i nevn told the truth
so i can never tell a lie
 
whistlin past the graveyard
steppin on a crack
i’m a mean motherhubbard
papa one eyed jack

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Tom Waits - "Whistlin' Past The Graveyard"

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Lyrics:

I sit alone in my four-cornered room staring at candles
Oh that sh*it is on?
Let me drop some sh*it like this here, real smooth
At night I can't sleep, I toss and turn
Candlesticks in the dark, visions of bodies being burned
Four walls just staring at a n*gga
I'm paranoid, sleeping with my finger on the trigger
My mother's always stressin' I ain't living right
But I ain't goin' out without a fight
See, every time my eyes close
I start sweating and blood starts coming out my nose
It's somebody watching the Ak'
But I don't know who it is so I'm watching my back
I can see him when I'm deep in the covers
When I awake I don't see the motherf*cker
He owns a black hat like I own
A black suit and a cane like my own
Some might say take a chill, B
But f*ck that sh*it, there's a n*gga trying to kill me
I'm popping in the clip when the wind blows
Every twenty seconds got me peeping out my window
Investigating the joint for traps
Checking my telephone for taps
I'm staring at the woman on the corner
It's f*cked up when your mind's playing tricks on ya
I make big money
I drive big cars
Everybody know me
It's like I'm a movie star
But late at night something ain't right
I feel I'm being tailed by the same sucker's headlights
Is it that fool that I ran off the block
Or is it that n*gga last week that I shot
Or is it the one I beat for five thousand dollars
Thought he had caine but it was Gold Medal flour
Reached under my seat, grabbed my popper for the suckers
Ain't no use to me lying
I was scareder than a motherf*cker
Hooked a left into Popeye's and bailed out quick
If it's going down let's get this sh*it over with
Here they come just like I figured
I got my hand on the motherf*cking trigger
What I saw'll make your ass start giggling
Three blind, crippled and crazy senior citizens
I live by the sword
I take my boys everywhere I go because I'm paranoid
I keep looking over my shoulder and peeping around corners
My mind is playing tricks on me
Day by day it's more impossible to cope
I feel like I'm the one that's doing dope
Can't keep a steady hand because I'm nervous
Every Sunday morning I'm in service
Praying for forgiveness
And trying to find an exit out the business
I know the Lord is lookin' at me
But yet and still it's hard for me to feel happy
I often drift when I drive
Having fatal thoughts of suicide
Bang and get it over with
And then I'm worry-free, but that's bullsh*it
I got a little boy to look after
And if I died then my child would be a bastard
I had a woman down with me
But to me it seemed like she was down to get me
She helped me out in this sh*it
But to me she was just another b*tch
Now she's back with her mother
Now I'm realizing that I love her
Now I'm feeling lonely
My mind is playing tricks on me
This year Halloween fell on a weekend
Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treating
Robbing little kids for bags
Till a old man got behind our a*s
So we speeded up the pace
Took a look back and he was right before our face
He'd be in for a squabble no doubt
So I swung and hit the n*gga in his mouth
He was going down we figured
But this wasn't no ordinary n*gga
He stood about six or seven feet
Now that's the n*gga I'd be seeing in my sleep
So we triple-teamed on him
Dropping them motherf*cking B's on him
The more I swung, the more blood flew
Then he disappeared and my boys disappeared too
Then I felt just like a fiend
It wasn't even close to Halloween
It was dark as f*ck on the streets
My hands were all bloody, from punching on the concrete
God damn homey
My mind is playing tricks on me

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Skulls · Misfits

Collection

℗ 1986 Caroline Records Inc

Released on: 1986-01-01

Producer, Studio  Personnel, Remixer, Associated  Performer, Vocals: Glenn Danzig
Associated  Performer, Guitar: Doyle
Associated  Performer, Drums: Arthur Googy
Associated  Performer, Background  Vocalist, Bass ( Vocal): Jerry Only
Associated  Performer, Guitar: Bobby Steele
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Beyond The Grave

Danse Macabre In G Minor, Op. 40 - Camille Saint-saëns

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