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.

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.