records that have genuinely FRIGHTENED you

Pink Floyd's "Saucerful of Secrets" used to totally scare me. I can't remember how old I was when I bought the Saucerful of Secrets record - 11 or 12? - but I liked all of it except that title track. You know with the long rumbling, ominous buildup, and then that middle part with the creepy space effects - completely scared me when listened to the record in bed at night with headphones. I'd have to skip over the track. Silly, isn't it?

Music scarey?

"I Am The Walrus" and "A Day In The Life" really scared me when I was a little older. I just assumed bands were playing live (overdubs had yet to occur to me), so where Spike Jones albums were happy lunacy, these Lennon-Beatles songs were creepy and threatening. The end of "A Day In The Life" felt like a balloon getting larger and larger as I feared the eventual POP! "I Am The Walrus" was even worse, because the whole thing, not just the end, sounded so malevolent and freak showy. I would leap to skip the song on my mom's copy of the Blue Greatest Hits album. Of course, now I love them both.

also, the opening moments of in/humanity's "the history behind the mystery/music to kill yourself by". and ayler's "truth is marching in."

i couldn't get past the first song on any of the cds. i just kept telling myself "i listen to scary music. what they hell is wrong with me? where's the pretty music? why do i only own scary cds?"

i think some of the culprits were Steamboat Switzerland, Peter Brotzmann, and Supersilent.

But really, "Frankie Teardrop" by Suicide rules this thread. The first time I heard it, when I reached the first inhuman shriek I jumped out of my skin.

"We're all Frankies! We're all lying in hell!"

But it could scare me even when indoors; it would put me in a "the kid from Kubrick's Shining meeting those twin in the hotel hallway" place. Weird for a bunch of repeating sounds/motifs to manipulate your mental/emotional state in such a specific way (esp. as I have never connected the film,book,music in anyway).

The opening track on Biosphere's album "Patashnik" album does a similar thing, with its looped, echoing phrase uttered by "twins" claiming to have "had a dream last night. We had the same dream".

Even typing it out, just then, gives me the creeps. Possibly cliched responses, but I get scared by them.

and the reason it was the last time i dropped acid

death on two legs - queen
maneater - hall and oates

i was terrified of baldy sinead o'connor as a young lad...

as they say, OTM.

That little flute bit at the tail end of "Strawberry Fields" (featuring the "John Buried Paul"/"Cranberry Sauce" murmur) used to freak my white ass out too.

There were parts of Ummagumma by the Floyd that used to give me a bit of a shiver as well.

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When I was a kid, I'd sit and listen to Alphaville's "Forever Young" album, reading the lyrics along with the music, and be so freaked out... it seemed so sinister and sexual and adult and German.

I think Rhoda's "The Boiler" is the most horrifying record I've ever heard, though.

Keiji Heino when he sings.

Also, the opening title music from "Tales of the Unexpected" really fucking freaked me out when I was a really young.

Music which has scared you (no I was scared by insert name of band you weren't scared by but wish to make lame joke about type answers please)

"Teen Angel" had a similar effect -- that song kept me from ever wanting to buy a high-school ring (something I'm grateful for).

In high school, Psychic TV's "Dreams Less Sweet." Drove around listening to it late one night, out in middle-of-nowhwere rural upstate New York. I had to turn it off and turn on the local top 40 station. That album still kind of scares me, and not just because of the Manson cover.

Listening to it now, it still sounds not quite of this earth, all these funny minimal orchestrations and the weird, echoey sound. I can pretty much tell why it used to scare me so much.

Boards Of Canada once again, take the top spot for me tho. 'The Devil Is In The Details' scares the shit out of me with that sinister muffled reversed 'voice' - and 'Beware The Friendly Stranger' is creepy but beautiful. i think 'Geogaddi' has more genuinely spooky moments than 'MHTRTC' but 'Aquarius' really did give me the willies for ages.

and finally there was an episode of Beavis & Butthead with an incredibly dark goth-metal video which sounds like its about Satan luring angels from the firmament to join his legion of doom - "bow to meeee graciousleeeee" croaked the singer - YARRRGH, STOPPIT NOW

WPRB used to sign off with YMG's "Wind In The Rigging." That song, with a "we are now concluding our broadcasting day" voiceover on top, followed by complete silence, used to scare the hell out of me. It's as if the entire Princeton area was suddenly taken out by a nuclear bomb.

Listened to it a few days ago, though, and not scary at all.

I don't like tests of the emergency broadcast system, either, though I own lots of records that sound like that. Ha!

At the start of Dark Side of the Moon there's all these sound effects going on, and they get louder and louder, and mix that with the crackly-ness of the vinyl - that can shit you up big style at the wrong hour of the night.

VU's Heroin also freaks me out - I really shouldn't get intimidated in this day and age, but "when I put a spike into my vein" still makes me very scared indeed. And then the viola comes in - aaaaaaah!

Buckethead-as-Death Cube K's Dreamatorium...ambient music gone horribly horribly wrong. Soundscapes of nightmares.

Nurse With Wound/Hafler Trio-s/t tape on Staalplaat (ominously threatens to lash out at any time)

Ministry-"Thieves" (well, when I was 12 it scared the hell out of me, at least)

Robert Ashley-"Automatic Writing" (45 minutes of Tourette's-afflicted rambling translated into French quasi Jane Birkin/Brigitte Bardot-style, coming off like a Eurotrash haunted-house domestic with Al Green thumping faintly in the background--they call this opera nowadays??)

Boredoms-"Soul Discharge" (only upon first listen--that is, until I started to laugh my ass off and have been gleefully ever since)

Mike Patton-"Adult Themes For Voice" (if I'm so scared, I wonder how the people in the next room over at the hotel felt!)

Jandek-every album I could find on Audiogalaxy put on random before falling asleep (simultaneously my best dreams and worst nightmares--so this is what hypnogogia is like...)

LOL!

current 93 has always sat funny with me. dog's blood rising.... nothing like lyrics about rape to kinda put a guy in a funny mood.

i think there's a lot of soundtrack stuff out there that is pretty effective... watch "the shining" solely to listen to the music sometime...
m.

also when i was a kid, the Doctor Who theme used to consistently make me freak out completely, then run to my bedroom and cry. it still gives me chills.

Not records, but related to this -- I get seriously ooked out when there's silence on TV, especially when it's of the technical difficulties variety. Silent, white-letter-on-black-background dedications at the end of shows give me the willies, too. "In memoriam: Phil Hartman." That kind of thing. And when I was a kid, certain production company logos at the end of shows would send me under the covers, including, strangely enough, the one for "Bedford Falls Productions" at the end of "Thirtysomething." Go figure.

I'll never laugh at people who are afraid of clowns, because I'm sure being afraid of a few bars of "Buffalo Gal" is much sillier.

But reading people's posts about it on this thread and thinking about it is kind of creeping me out right now.

Like the guy's dying and as his life is ebbing away he's trying to recall what just happened to him and.... ok I'm scared now.

1. When I was about five, my parents bought a Music For Pleasure LP of "Peter and the wolf" and that did me some serious damage for a few years. It was a combination of the music and what I perceived to be a scary cover, which I remembered at the time as being some model trees,a wolf and the story's narrator in a very 70s tank top. This being the 70s at the time I didn't think "Scary tank top", I just thought "Scary music" and had quite a few nightmares about it. A few years ago, during a trawl through a second hand record bin in a charity shop I came across another copy of this album and it didn't look scary at all. Strange how the five year old mind works. But the music still gives me the creeps.

2. Re-iterating someone else's point, radio closedown music scares the hell out of me. Before the advent of 24 hour radio, my local station stopped at midnight and replaced itself with a 440Hz tone so if I fell asleep around, say, 11:30 I'd be woken at 3am with this tone coming through my headphones and that always made me jump.

3. A few weeks back, my wife and I bought some Fisher Price Winnie the Pooh nightlight "Sing me to sleep" toys for our nephews. Being curious, my wife tried one out, and this little Pooh Bear voice sang this sweet song ever so nicely. Then it turned into classical music for about four minutes, with the melody taken up by a chirping bird. And I was going "No, turn that off, that is too creepy...." During the day I've heard it and it's fine, but this was 11:30 at night, most of the lights were off and it just gave me the creeps too much.

And now you think I'm a big wuss. Hmm...

(I wonder - such transformations of pitch/tempo might not raise many goosebumps these days, but in the pre-digital-processing days of 1977 maybe part of what was so disturbing about the climax of that track was the sheer incomprehensible un-naturalness of it. Even to ears which were well-acquainted with analogue synths and mellotrons - it was like: 'oh shit what's HAPPENING ?')

(ha - I haven't listened to it for probably >20 years, and it may well sound so-so-what and de-fanged by today's standards..)

Thought of two more of these, actually. Was spinning Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel the other day, and there are several moments of quiet dread on that record....from the odd menace of "Save the Life of My Child" to the discordant strings of "Old Friends," to say nothing of the creepy voices of the old folks.

Second album that sprang to mind is an old ILM favorite, No New York.

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I mean, everything about this album is just so starkly WRONG (albeit in the most beautiful of ways). The front cover looks like some creepy hospital ward for lost souls. The back cover...those lines of mug shots of scowling, dispossesed weirdo No Wavers staring at the camera with an intensity normally reserved for serial killers. And the music contained therein? What dank, shadowy depths of the human conditions were these sounds wrestled from? From a Punk Rock perpective, these bands made the Sex Pistols and the Ramones sound about as daring as REO Speedwagon. Only James Chance & the Contortions' selections approach anything remotely akin to conventional, and even those sound like the work of dangerously unhinged individuals. I first heard about the record after listening to some beret-wearin' dropout at my college rave about it as if it were the veritable Rosetta Stone of music. I dug out a worn but long-neglected copy of it in the college radio station's record library (a radio station whose normal idea of sonic adventurousness involved a rock block of Hot Tuna) and borrowed it for the weekend (rightly assuming that none of the stoners at the station would miss it). I remember being so utterly disarmed by even my first cursory listen that I ended up having to play it in its entirety several times (much to the considerable, wide-eyed chagrin of my dorm-mates). Wilfully discordant, rudely rudimentary, often aggresive, raw, implausibly arty but genuinely primal, its sheer otherness haunted me.....what sorts of tortured souls could make this music? The shock of its differentness wore off after a while (I now own a copy of it as a Jap import cd....which sits on the shelf and rarely sees the inside of my disc player), but it definetely was a bit of a scare at first listen.

someone mentioned 'peter and the wolf'. i knew someone who was totally freaked out by it...even if you just whistled it. i asked her to explain it and she said something about it being 'nihilistic'

my so-called pals thought it would be funny to try and freak me out with mr. bungle on my first acid trip but i found it more curious than anything else.

it was actually whatever our lady peace album that was out when i was in tenth grade that really set me off that night. idunno why. it's really only scary yuck, not scary yikes otherwise.

I've always been slightly creeped out by Nick Drake. I mean, it's sort've tempered by the inescapable shadow of his death hanging all over his music, but you definetely can get the sense from listening to him that he must've known what was coming for him....or maybe I'm just projecting. But still....."Black Eyed Dog" does give me the shivers every time. It's an odd, odd song. Something's just not quite right about it.

i think "johnny" is the pick. jesus christ.

also spacemen 3 "revolution" on playing with fire, on vinyl loud IT IS MOST CERTAINLY NOT CHEESY, PEOPLE.

those nurse with wound albums are definitely creepy, don't know about scary. for me in order to be scary music has to have some slash and burn energy beyond/behind its dour facade...that is scary.

Alex OTM re: No New York . I had it on my iPod all of 2 days before i took it off. The Mars stuff really got to me for some reason.

otm. that track is among the only ones i miss, since banning his music from my personal space.

The first half of the tape consisted of bits off 'Neu!' and 'Neu! 2'. At the end of the first side I put a couple of the weirder tracks from the second side of 'Neu! 2'. My friend listened to it one night with his girlfriend, and although he fell asleep, the tracks at the end scared her shitless after all the dreamy motorik stuff.

you make this sound like a bad experience! these are the sort of moments in life to cherish.

"At five o'clock in the morning someone kept singing this in my mind and made me write it down. I will admit to being frightened when I finally played it out loud and sang the words."

m.

i first listened to 'the plague mass' (diamonda) on new tannoys powered by a huge dicked denon--when it ended, i had some sort of brain seizure and literally passed out. now--that's a good record.

you'd see this huge puppet monster destroting copenhagen--then, cut to fake americans dancing to

'tivoli nights--it's all right
all copenhagen is dancing!"

then more monster footage

yow

No no, the song in question is "Sonderangerbot"

Also, Stravinsky's "Le Sacre Du Printemps" freaked me out bigtime - largely due to the mild hallucinogen I'd ingested. In fact, under its influence, I found nearly ALL music to be extremely unpleasant. All I could bear was Cecil Taylor's Unit Structures and Conquistador!

And of course, this doesn't really count, but many is the time I've put headphones on at bedtime, only to be jolted out of near-sleep by a sudden loud part. (Happened with Rush, Nine Inch Nails, Eric Dolphy...)

The first time i ever heard it, it seemed so separate from the rest of the music I thought there was someone in the room, like someone had snuck up behind me and said it outside of the headpones, and it really freaked the fuck out of me. I remember not being able to go to sleep for hours after that.

There's also this bit in "Back in the USSR", at the very end it sounds like somebody screaming in the next room, which used to make me feel schizophrenic as well. It still does.

As for me, they've mostly been mentioned: The Boiler, Revolution #9, the crescendo in A Day In The Life, the coda in Strawberry Fields Forever - but also the mid-section of Whole Lotta Love.

I run away and scream when I hear this too....but only `cos it's so fuckin' bad.

Also:
Y Pants: "That's The Way Boys Are" - lullabye-like delivery, lyrics about domestic abuse, with someone screaming horribly in the background.

Half Japanese: Loud. In its entirety.

Suckdog: Drugs Are Nice. Borrowed this from a friend, made the mistake of listening to it when I got home (like 3 am), found it terrifying.

-- AaronHz (aaronh...), May 13th, 2004."

Listened to this last night really loudly (after Faust's 'So Far') while going to sleep, and it's one of the few times I've been able to sleep while listening to music (undrugged). No bad dreams I don't think.

"Former Airlane," "A Touching Display," "Practice Makes Perfect," and especially the 154 close whose name escapes me at the moment. They tapped into some seriously evil shit.

Future Sound Of London "Dead Cities"

gave me nightmares! which reminds me, I've not heard Lifeforms but a friend who has and likes it tells me there is one part that he just cannot listen to, a sample of a girl saying 'they were drowning me' ring any bells?

That was another one that freaked me out on acid.

“Love Rollercoaster” – This freaked me out recently after I watched that “urban myths” online thing where they talk about the girl who you can hear being killed in the background.

“Fitter Happier” – The first time I listened to this while driving to a school function in the dark frightened me considerably.

“Sgt Pepper inner groove” – The first time I heard “A Day In The Life” when I was about 10, the orchestral creshendo didn’t so much freak me out as after I thought the song was over, after the piano chord had completely faded, when this thing just jumped at me out of nowhere which had me promptly pressing the “off” button on my parents’ stereo and running out of the room screaming as fast as I possibly could.

“Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding” – The sound effects of the wind at the beginning scared me when I was like 3.

“I Am The Walrus” paralysed me with fear upon my first listen. Same with the outro of “Strawberry Fields,” both of which I was unable to listen to for a long time afterwards.

Yes to EBS tests. Yes to “No Quarter.” Yes to the end of “School’s Out.”

THE EVIDENCE BEFORE THE COURT IS INCONTROVERTIBLE
THERE'S NO NEED FOR THE JURY TO RETIRE

Lisa Germano's "A Psychopath" on Geek The Girl = the most harrowingly terrifying song ever.

One time I was awakened by "Hardwai" by DAT Politics (from Clicks & Cuts Vol. 2). Another time I was awakened by "Enhanced Amalgamated Computer Experience" by Satan's Tornade (from All Tomorrow's Parties 1.1). Both times, I felt like I'd woken up in hell.

My dad used to torment me as a kid by turning out the lights and playing Black Sabbath's "Iron Man". Listening to it now, I don't know why it wigged me out so much.

first time i heard the swans, i was creeped out. it was probably '(she's a) universal emptiness'.. they still creep me out a bit

otm about the scream in suicide's 'frankie teardrop'....i wasn't ready for it at all upon first listen and i damn near jumped out of my skin

but Diamanda Galas' You Must Be Certain of the Devil freaked my shit out when i was 17. Now, I won't listen to it.

Although others have already mentioned it, the scariest piece of 'music' of all time is easily Nurse With Wound's Homotopy to Marie. Coil and Current 93 are also up there.

mercury rev: that very long track that was a single and which fades out to nothing and then comes back with some bloke talking

coil: unreleased themes for hellraiser (on the walkman in the dark walking around campus)

from the smile section on the beach boys box set - the harpsichord (?) playing the theme from "heroes and villains," which pops up several times throughout. in that context, it just sounds really ominous and sinister.

I so love this thread.

Been on a big Coil/Throbbing Gristle kick of late (inspired by recently picking up the weighty tome, Wreckers of Civilization). It was mentioned upthread by the "The Sewage Worker's Birthday Party" on Coil's Scatalogy is truly dreadful (to say nothing of the narrative that inspired it). The yelping/crying in the background of "Tenderness of Wolves" is quite fucking creepy as well.

My first impulse is to mention The Fall song "Frightened" in response to this thread (from the first Fall album) but that's just knee-jerk association rather than a comment on music that genuinely frightened me.

For that, I'm gonna nominate an early 80's UK band called Five or Six that appeared on the Cherry Red label. I'm thinking particularly of their album "A Thriving and Happy Land" and especially of the song "Exhibit A" which features a repeating noise that sounds like someone is banging on a door with much force as though the person will not answer (you?). This happens over some rather discordant horns and a snakey dancy bass line. There are some vocals, but the insistent forceful repeated bunch of bangings on that door steals the show and yeah...fuck. Do NOT play in the dark, unless you're ready to be spooked heavy.

Oh.. now I get it... ??

I SO have to hear this!

i've also had a bad experience listening to Aphex's SAW II and have yet to hear all of it; parts of Cannibal Ox are also disturbing to my sensitive nature

Body party, conversely, doesn't sound so bad.

haha cross out that xtra s. she used to be my friendster once upon a time

Body Party

It sounds like the name of a mid to late 80's teen flick.

Body Party

It sounds like a 70's horror movie.

Also, Come Together from Abbey Road.

Oh, and nearly anything by Nurse With Wound, but especially 'Homotopy To Marie' and 'To The Quiet Men From A Tiny Girl.'

Oh, and nearly anything by Nurse With Wound, but especially 'Homotopy To Marie' and 'To The Quiet Men From A Tiny Girl.'

-- Telephonething (ryanhup...), April 8th, 2005.

OTM

Also, I heard an audio-only excerpt from that video the Frogs did, the camping trip part with the kid and the drunk old man and the soft piano music in the background. That seriously freaked me right out. (has anyone seen the video by the way? c/d?)

Diamanda Galas, Plague Mass

And another vote for not falling asleep to Japanoise! Not fun. I used to fall asleep to this freeform anarchist radio station in Paris which would, some nights, switch over to sets of Japanese noise + dark ambient at about 2 am, and I had nightmares like you wouldn't believe, though waking up to total darkness and what sounded like a massive sandstorm + people speaking in tongues was worse.

Nothing ever scares / depresses me as much as juvenile, teenage rappers boasting about how ill they are and their violence fantasies. I remember being completely freaked by the first Souls of Mischief album, thinking : "god! these are just kids, can they really tell what's real and what isn't?"

Same with all the homophobic chi-chi-mun stuff in dancehall. Some days I'm like "yeah, it's just a pose. I can bracket that" Other days I'm thinking "fuck, this is the norm for whole cultures. There are people who have to live with this shit in their community every-day."

UKG makes me scared to walk the streets of London. I am so much more likely to get hurt by some wannabe gangsta kid than dark supernatural forces.

Similarly Butthole Surfers' Locust Abortion Technician. A friend put this on while we were stoned and I had to beg him to turn it off. The field recording of the abbatoir is just too much!

Don't think anyone has mentioned Scott Walker's Tilt. Yikes. Beautiful but so dark and evil sounding. "Do I hear, 21, 21?" Yikes!

Frankie Teardrop of course. And also Bruce Springsteen's State Trooper, which clearly references that song with the two chord chug and the Boss's bloodcurdling scream at the end.

There have been too few mentions of old blues songs. Robert Johnson's Hellhound On My Trail and Skip James' Devil Got My Woman. Many more like that. I'm no blues expert though so I'd be keen to see other suggestions.

As for country music look no further than the Louvin Brothers' Knoxville Girl. A pretty tune but some of the most fucked up, chilling lyrics you'll ever wince at.

Goblin's soundtrack to Suspiria - Italian horror prog. Oh yes!

Anything by Anaal Nakrath. Although there's a certain diabolical glee to be had in listening to them.

Current 93 I don't find scary at all, just silly. Sorry, it's that voice! David Tibet seems a lovely bloke all the same. I gave him one of his worst reviews ever, dissing his effete, weedy voice and hammy delivery, and he took it with good grace, even sending me an email basically saying, "oh well each to their own, thanks for being nice about my label". That was very odd, let me tell you.

I find Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid' very hard to deal with. I just imagine these hairy depressive trench-coated underground squatter types on the post sixties comedown, and the misery is just overwhelming. I can't understand how people see it as just a riff-fest. I mean it IS that, but it's just so bleeding raw and emotional.

Company Flow - "Last Bad Touch"

Hahahahaha.....that's such an OTM description.

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...specifically the rant of an insane woman in "Born with Monkey Asses" which sounds like a funkdafied audio sampling of the Tititcut Follies. The samples of creepy evangelical sermonizing ("A Place of Loneliness" and "Greater God") used to sort've bug me as well.

The opening of Charalambides "Market Square" record is an answering machine message of a man threatening to kill himself if someone doesn't "PICK UP THE GODDAMN PHONE RIGHT NOW." on and on until he's whimpering and it fades out/the eerie picked electric guitar drones in.

OTM re: Goblin

Also, there's a Residents song I just found on an old mixtape with the chorus of a bunch of women singing off-key "something's coming... something's coming... something's coming.. but not real soon." I have no idea what record it's from, but it's hella creepy.

The video for Primus' "Mr Krinkle" disturbs the hell out of me. I can't watch it.

I've always found "God's Magic Finger" from their Wormwood one of their creepier moments...it was a fixture on a Winamp playlist I made to bug my high school roommate when he was trying to sleep. That, the Oompa-Loompa song, "Careful With That Axe Eugene," and a whole lot of other songs I've forgotten. I was a sadistic little bastard :)

It's from God in Three Persons

In 1988 I ate too many mushrooms and ended up hearing Perry Farrell's screams from "Up the Beach" emerging from the tailpipe of EVERY SINGLE PASSING CAR. Thanks Perry!

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Have you heard Laibach's cover of the title track?

The last song on Orbital's Snivilisation, some of the suspenseful noisey interludes on SP's Ain't It Dead Yet?, the first time I heard King Diamond (on an AM radio station which made it creepier for some reason) when I was 13 or so, the first track on Monolake's Interstate, the first time I heard Enter the Eternal Fire by Bathory, the intro and outro on Pig Destroyer's Prowler in the Yard, and a lot of stuff involving James Plotkin creeps me out in a good way: Collapse, a few songs on Scorn's Evanescence, and especially his Joy of Disease album, which is one of my favorite albums ever.

Ditto on: Coil (even the song "The Snow" creeps me out), Frankie Teardrop, super old Pink Floyd, the end of I Am The Walrus (for some reason "Fool on the Hill" really gets me feeling creepy), and Lustmord, Brighter Death Now, and Wolf Eyes.

Revive.

Nickalascivious wrote: Kid A had some honestly frightening moments on it, such as that one point in "The National Anthem" when the horns really start to kick in, or the uber-creepy tone of the chord-organ at the beginning of "Motion Picture Soundtrack". Someone who didn't listen to it thorougly due to it's lack of "European classical complex melodic traditions" might have missed this though.

Having recently exhumed Kid A from its dormant state on my shelves after reading goofy Chuck Klosterman's assertion that the music on the album bizarrely mimics the course of events on September 11, 2001, I've been listening to the album more intently. Put it on this evening at work after everyone had cleared out and turned it way up, reading along with Chuck's depiction of events, and I'll be damned if it didn't give me a bit of the creeps (especially, as Nick mentions, the horns on "The National Anthem"). There's just a whole uneasy vibe to this record.

a couple of years ago I was staying at my Grandparents house, I was alone in a room and I woke p at 3:30am.

I was a bit scared from the silence so I turned on the TV so I could go back to sleep.

I put on MTV and they were showing old videos. So I was really tired and then....What do you know....the video for "I Am One" by the Smashing Pumpkins comes on.

I never seen it before (since it came out when I was 4 or something) so I decided to watch it. That was a mistake.

I was shit scared and ever time I closed my eyes, I can see Billy Corgan going into the Blood Bath. I had to get up and get something to eat and that still didn't work.

Here's the thing. I watched it a couple of days ago and I was ok. I guess your mind plays tricks on you at 3:30am

Otherworldy, nightmarish track.

Midges. Midges hovered over the heather..

Neurosis' last album did too, actually. Not because the music was particularly scary in itself, but there was a rhythmic clang in one of the songs that sounded like someone was breaking into the garage right outside here. Not a fun thing to go check at 3AM.

Apparently I became a total wimp after I turned 20.