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Listen: World Cafe's Hip-For-Halloween Playlist

Let David Bowie's "Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)" be the soundtrack to your Halloween.
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Let David Bowie's "Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)" be the soundtrack to your Halloween.

If you're in the habit of leaving your house at all during the month of October, you've probably already consumed enough "Monster Mash," "Time Warp" and "Thriller"* to make you sicker than a candy-corn overdose. So we collected the hippest and least overplayed Halloween jams we could find, for all your costume-partying and candy-handing-out needs. Because if something's going to make you nauseated this Halloween, let it be too many peanut chews or your neighbor's all-too-convincing costume as Glenn from the Walking Dead season premiere. Don't let it be the tunes.

*Sorry, MJ. Still love you. Not your fault.

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Talia Schlanger hosts World Cafe, which is distributed by NPR and produced by WXPN, the public radio service of the University of Pennsylvania. She got her start in broadcasting at the CBC, Canada's national public broadcaster. She hosted CBC Radio 2 Weekend Mornings on radio and was the on-camera host for two seasons of the television series CBC Music: Backstage, as well as several prime-time music TV specials for CBC, including the Quietest Concert Ever: On Fundy's Ocean Floor. Schlanger also guest hosted various flagship shows on CBC Radio One, including As It Happens, Day 6 and Because News. Schlanger also won a Canadian Screen Award as a producer for CBC Music Presents: The Beetle Roadtrip Sessions, a cross-country rock 'n' roll road trip.