Some truly monster-ous mashups for your Halloween.

One of the first mashups to go big was Steely Dan’s “Do It Again” crossed with Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” circa 1983 –

By the 90s, mashups were becoming quite the thing, and during the 2000s (especially with everyone having a computer and YouTube coming online), mashups exploded. Most are crap, but some are really good, such as this Daft Punk/Adele mix –

DJs and home remixers began digging up old classics to mix with more modern songs –

Nirvana is one of the more popular bands for mashups…. consider this mix with Amy Winehouse or this even better mix with No Doubt, both based around Nirvana’s “About A Girl.”

A Korn song was massively improved by combining it with a Cure song –

There was a real video for that song, but it’s gone now. Had a neat Escher ending, not to mention Robert Smith getting slowly eaten by the Spider Man (no, not that Spider-Man).

Disco is a prime fountain of pure unrefined mashup material. Especially when mixed with the most incongruous types of music –

Speaking of incongruities, this takes the cake right out of the rain –

It works so well!

Dance music goes well with more classically-influenced works –

Who knew Enya could spit rhymes like that?

If you feel like your childhood has been violated, your teen years touched inappropriately, your college years…. well, something involving microaggressions and a rape hoax, I’m sure… then this song is dedicated to you.