Nine Inch Nails
Dead Souls (1994)
It’s pretty hard to cover Joy Division and not embarrass yourself, so Trent Reznor gets full kudos just for having the balls to go there, and for the soundtrack to a superhero movie (The Crow), no less.

Joy Division
Disorder (1979)
This midnight-black number from Unknown Pleasures is guaranteed to fill your Halloween-party dance floor. It’ll be full of people dancing alone, but that’s how Ian Curtis would have wanted it.

The Shoes
Time to Dance (2012)
The song itself is a ludicrously upbeat call to shake that ass, but once you’ve seen Jake Gyllenhaal murdering the fuck out of some hipsters in the video, that’s all you’ll be able to think of whenever you hear it.

Throbbing Gristle
Hamburger Lady (1978)
Want to turn your hair whiter than Andy Warhol’s? Turn out the lights, pull down the blinds, lock yourself in the closet, and then crank this disturbingly creepy exercise in otherworldly, whispering-ghosts fuckery.

Dead Can Dance
The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (1993)
We’ve got an idea for a short film, set in a deserted graveyard where, instead of zombies and grave robbers, it’s going to be all dead leaves and tombstone-grey skies. Guess what the soundtrack is going to be?

The Damned
Grimly Fiendish (1985)
No, it’s not the Rosie O’Donnell biography, but instead proof that the Damned could do atmospheric goth pop just as effectively as spit-and-spikes punk rock.

Rammstein
Du Hast (1997)
If you think about it, few things on this earth are more scary than Germans, especially when they are moaning guttural sweet nothings over a sonic backdrop that sounds like a fleet of Panzers.

The Cure
A Forest (1980)
There’s nothing more calming than a stroll into the woods, and nothing more absolutely fucking terrifying than not being able to find your way out again, especially once it starts to get dark.

Bauhaus
The Passion of Lovers (1981)
What, you thought we’d pick "Bela Lugosi’s Dead"? Too obvious. In fact, there’s nothing at all obvious about this goth-rock stormer, including whatever it is in the name of Bram Stoker that frontman Peter Murphy is on about.

Nina Hagen
Smack Jack (1982)
There’s a long-held theory that the woman of a thousand voices known as Nina Hagen was let out of the insane asylum on a day pass sometime back in 1982. She headed right to the studio and recorded "Smack Jack".

Bat for Lashes
What’s a Girl to Do? (2007)
"When your dreams are on a train to Train-Wreck Town" is the best woe-is-me lyric ever, and it doesn’t hurt that the song sounds like the kind of thing Wednesday Addams listens to when she wants to get her mope on.