Halloween is my personal sweet spot for rock and roll tie-ins. SO MANY of my favorite classic rock songs lend themselves to the Halloween spirit. I have chosen songs that aren't written with Halloween in mind, but they definitely have a Halloween ambiance. While I love those deliberate Halloween rock songs like "Monster Mash," the majority of the best Halloween classic rock songs are accidental.

Having said that, Alice Cooper is the King of Halloween with "Feed My Frankenstein," "Welcome to My Nightmare" and so many more. In my opinion, for Alice, every day is Halloween (no Ministry pun intended).

The only other contender I would put up for the King of Halloween title is Ozzy Osbourne. Much of Ozzy's song content revolves around some sort of horror or magic. (Black Sabbath was named after a 1963 horror movie of the same name.)

The rest of my list has an amazing array of Halloween feels, but none of the songs were written to be "Halloween songs." It just happened... magically. Let me know what you think of my list!  Which songs would you add or remove?  I love the discussion of classic rock. Happy Halloween!

"Superstition" of course, has to be song #13. This song has nothing to do with Halloween and yet it has a ton of Halloween culture wrapped into it. What could be more Halloween than black cats, the number 13, and other superstitions? The history between Jeff Beck and Stevie Wonder behind the song "Superstition" is amazing. Click here to check it out.

"Highway to Hell" was the nickname for the Canning Highway in Australia. It runs from where lead singer, Bon Scott, lived in Fremantle. The highway ends at a bar called The Raffles, which was a big rock 'n roll drinking hole in the '70s. As Canning Highway nears the pub, it dips down into a steep decline. "No stop signs... speed limits... nobody gonna slow me down."

So many people were killed by driving fast over that intersection at the top of the hill on the way for a good night out, that it was called the highway to hell.  When Bon was saying "I'm on the highway to hell" it meant to The Raffles bar to rock and drink with his friends. "Ain't nothing I would rather do. Going down, party time, my friends are gonna be there too."

The lyrics were inspired by The Master and Margarita, a book by Mikhail Bulgakov. Marianne Faithfull was Mick Jagger's girlfriend at the time and she gave him the book. In the book, the devil is a sophisticated socialite, a "man of wealth and taste."  It was a brilliant move for the Stones. They were the bad boys to The Beatles.  This song helped cement that perception.

Sting explained the song's meaning in Lyrics By Sting: "I thought that while political progress is clearly important in resolving conflict around the world, there are spiritual (as opposed to religious) aspects of our recovery that also need to be addressed. I suppose by 'spiritual' I mean the ability to see the bigger picture, to be able to step outside the narrow box of our conditioning and access those higher modes of thinking... Without this, politics is just the rhetoric of failure."  Super deep... no actual Halloween affiliation and yet... It's Halloween rock.  Sorry, Sting.

This was the first song that John Entwistle wrote for The Who. He also sings on this track. Entwistle was afraid of spiders as a kid and decided to write a song about the spider dropping from the ceiling and getting squished.  The song started out a joke. However, it became a fan-favorite at their live shows. It was a nice balance to The Who's more serious songs. In between the spider and the baseline, this is definitely Halloween rock.