XHM #761 - "Krampus starts early" (2025 October 27)

Our annual Hallowe'en Horror Month concludes this week with a film that confuses holidays but has become a seasonal fave: 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas. Themes collide as we figure out what night to dress for. 01. Neko Case: Baby, I'm Not [A Werewolf] (Neon Grey Midnight Green, 2025) Anti- 02. Clarice Jensen: In Holiday Clothing, Out of the Great Darkness Pt. I (In Holiday Clothing, Out of the Great Darkness, 2025) 130701/Fatcat 03. Water from Your Eyes: Playing Classics (It's a Beautiful Place, 2025) Matador 04. Desire: Behind the Mask (Lost River OST, 2015) Italians Do It Better 05. Laurel Halo: Atlas (Atlas, 2023) Awe 06. Lil Baby & Gunna: Drip Too Hard (Drip Harder, 2018) YSL/Quality Control/Motown/Capitol 07. DJ Roderick & DJ Jose Gonzalez: Bailalo Rocky [w.Ariadne Arana] (2025) self-released 08. Keith Mansfield: World Series (BBC Sporting Themes, 1979) BBC 09. Rondellus: Rotæ Confusionis [Wheels of Confusion] (Sabbatum: A Mediæval Tribute to Black Sabbath, 2003) The Music Cartel 10. Soft Cell: ...So (Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret [super deluxe edition], 2023) Some Bizarre/Mercury/Universal 11. Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball: Imagining October I (Imagining October OST, 2022) DUM/Cold Spring 12. Skeletal Family: Hands on the Clock (Futile Combat, 1985) Red Rhino/Anagram/Restless Empire 13. Joanne Robertson: Ghost (Blurrr, 2025) AD93 14. Autumn Fair: Hallowe'en in the Garden (Autumn Fair, 2022) Recital 15. The Hausplants: October (Into Equilibrium EP, 2025) self-released 16. Ribbon Skirt: Look What You Did (Bite Down, 2025) Mint 17. Mark Korven: The Rope (Cube OST, 2008) self-released 18. Avi C Engel: Ogre's Banquet (Mote, 2025) Fenny Compton 19. Francesca Remigi: Liberation I (WITCHESS, 2025) Hora 20. Carlo Savina: Drammatico Tensivo #6 [from Contronatura] (Scream! Italian Horror Soundtrack Music, 2025) Decca 21. Coach Longlegs: Funeral Home (2015) self-released 22. [unknown] The Doll Room (The Hallowe'en Special, 2023) Stench ov Death Prod 23. Drew Mulholland: Spirit Invades Tape (A Portmanteau of Horrors, 2025) Subexotic 24. Oscar "Papa" Celestin & the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band: Marie Le Veau (Papa Celestin's Golden Wedding, 1955) Southland/Regal 25. Broken Deer: Hello Stranger (Songs for Imbolc, 2025) Scotch Tapes 26. Perry Botkin: Silent Night Deadly Night (Silent Night Deadly Night OST, 2014) Death Waltz 27. Men I Trust: Frost Bite (Equus Asinus, 2025) self-released 28. Fred Spek's Camp Combo: Tricky Dispatch (Treat or Trick! 2025) self-released 29. Fred Spek's Camp Combo: Treat or Trick (Treat or Trick! 2025) self-released 30. Carl Zittrer: Finding the Bodies/It's Me Billy (Black Christmas OST, 1974) Waxwork 31. Giftshop: Spooky Hallowe'en Christmas Too (2023) self-released 32. Encyclopedia Brown: A Nightmare Before Christmas (Christmas Rap, 2018) Machine Wash 33. Danny Elfman: Jack & Sally Suite (Music for a Darkened Theatre: Volume 2, 1996) MCA 34. Danny Elfman & the Citizens of Hallowe'en Town: This is Hallowe'en (The Nightmare Before Christmas OST, 1993) Walt Disney 35. Catherine O'Hara: Sally's Song (The Nightmare Before Christmas OST, 1993) Walt Disney 36. The And So On Trio: The Great Pumpkin Waltz (The Music of Vince Guaraldi, 2025) The Audiophile Society 37. Ministry: Everyday is Hallowe'en (The Squirrely Years Revisited, 2025) Cleopatra radiofreegak@gmail.com www.citr.ca/exploding-head-movies https://mas.to/@100aire