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Day #9 of the 30 Days of Halloween Challenge

The prompt is A horror television show soundtrack or theme song

Carry On My Wayward Son - Supernatural

This theme song fits the show perfectly. I downloaded the song because of the series. It is over the front credits or the preview section.

Oh youtube suddenly stopped letting me copy and embed videos in my journal and on FB. I have no idea why.

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From:

cjlasky7

"Carry On" is a great song (it warms my rock dinosaur heart) and it's a perfect fit for the Winchesters.

My selection: Night Gallery; main theme by Gil Melle

Night Gallery may have suffered in comparison to Rod Serling's previous anthology series, but its main theme, at least, measures up just fine. Gil Melle's all-electronics slow burn, combined with those ghoulish pictures coming at you out of the darkness, did a great job creeping me out every week. (Why they ditched it for an inferior theme for s3, I'll never understand.)

https://youtu.be/jBY2d2qa4Mk

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Melle also did the score for The Andromeda Strain (1971), and I highly recommend it. My favorite score of his, though, is 1973's A Cold Night's Death, a TV movie starring Rob Culp and Eli Wallach as Arctic researchers threatened and manipulated by an unseen presence. (Unfortunately, AFAIK, the soundtrack has never been available commercially...)

Edited Date: 2020-10-09 10:33 pm (UTC)

From:

petzipellepingo

Boris Karloff's Thriller , it turns out that each episode had it's own music. So here is Pigeons From Hell , one of my favorite episodes .

From:

atpo_onm

This version is hard to explain unless you've seen and remember that... okay, it's still hard to explain, but I assure you it does make sense in the totality of things in the Supernatural universe.

The short explanation(?) is that the Winchester brothers are in a girls school, and there is a big fascination among many of the students there with the Winchester's story, which they know about from reading books about it. So the students put on a play about them.

From the 200th episode, "Fan Fiction"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqaPYoUcQBs

It's the same song, but... emotive in a very different way.

Peak moment in a very clever, innovative ep.

From:

atpo_onm

For my own pick, this mini-classic from my youngen days:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3CH0tN515M

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From:

shadowkat

That's a good one. I was waiting for someone to pick it.

From:

shadowkat

Oh, I watched the episode (it's a musical episode - there's no way I'd skip that, even it if was cringe-inducingly bad at times) - it basically was referencing the female fan community of Supernatural. And not the first episode to do so. The writers of that series really loved referencing their fandom. There's whole episodes of that show that are devoted to the fandom or their acknowledgment of it. They even write the fandom into the series, and have a writer writing books about the Winchesters - which are prophetic of what they are doing - who turns out to be God. (ie. The Writer as God.)

I've seen a lot of the series, mainly because so many online friends loved it and I got curious.

Edited Date: 2020-10-10 01:58 pm (UTC)

From:

jesuswasbatman

I'm sure everyone can guess what this is going to be.

https://youtu.be/2f-0tCFJX9o

Nothing can top the original version. Apparently some people in the 1960s were scared by the music itself, because hardly anybody other than avant-garde music enthusiasts had heard anything like it before.

My second favourite version is this one, from the mid 2010s.

https://youtu.be/sWuAt0swt7k