This week your top 5 Halloween playlist has a little edge to it. Enjoy this spooky set list. 

1. The Devil Went Down To Georgia By Charlie Daniels

The Devil Went Down To Georgia won the 1979 Grammy for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. A Halloween favorite. In this song, Satan himself pays a visit to Georgia and challenges a boy named Johnny to a fiddle duel: If Johnny can play the fiddle better than the devil, he gets a golden fiddle, but if he loses, the devil gets his soul. After a sinister performance by the devil, complete with histrionics like fire and demon backup singers, Johnny plays as if he was possessed, nailing a performance inspired by his roots in the Deep South and winning the golden fiddle when the devil concedes defeat.

2. Superstition by Stevie Wonder

Wonder wrote this about the dangers of believing in superstitions. Some of the bad luck superstitions he alludes to include walking under a ladder, breaking a mirror (said to bring 7 years of bad luck), and the number 13.

3. People Are Strange by The Doors

Jim Morrison was depressed. He went to Robby Krieger's house; they went to a canyon to watch a sunset, at which time Jim realized he was depressed because "if you're strange, people are strange." He then wrote the rest of the lyrics, which are about feeling alienated.

4. (Don't Fear) The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult

This was rumored to be about suicide, but it deals with the inevitability of death and the belief that we should not fear it. When Dharma wrote it, he was thinking about what would happen if he died at a young age and if he would be reunited with loved ones in the afterlife. Dharma explained in a 1995 interview with College Music Journal: "I felt that I had just achieved some kind of resonance with the psychology of people when I came up with that, I was actually kind of appalled when I first realized that some people were seeing it as an advertisement for suicide or something that was not my intention at all. It is, like, not to be afraid of it (as opposed to actively bring it about). It's basically a love song where the love transcends the actual physical existence of the partners."

5. Hells Bells by AC/DC

AC/DC recorded this a few months after lead singer Bon Scott died of acute alcohol poisoning after a night of heavy drinking. The album is a tribute to him and features his replacement, Brian Johnson, on vocals.

[Music information from Songfacts.com]