top 100 albums to play really loud and scare the shit out of yourself with in the dark

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100. Nico - Marble Index
99. Jim O'Rourke - Happy Days
98. Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
97. Acid Mother's Temple - Electric Heavyland
96. Anthology of American Folk Music

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

95. butthole surfers - locust abortion technician
94. gravediggaz - 6ft deep

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

93. Suicide - Suicide [first album]

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

92. Bauhaus - Mask
91. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol.2
90. Bathory - Bathory

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

89. Loop - Fade Out

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, good choice spencer. thats so obvious. thats what frankie teardrop was MADE for.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

88. plague mass by diamana galas

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

89. Nic Endo - Cold Metal Perfection

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

86. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

87. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

gary numan - pleasure principle

― el toreiro, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

86. Fushitsusha s/t

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"87. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger"

Good choice! That's one of the few albums that actually makes me feel a palpable sense of dread while listening to it.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Brian Eno - "On Land"
Iannis Xenakis - "Legend d'Er"
Jandek "Put My Dream on This Planet"

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

80. Brighter Death Now -- May All Be Dead
79. Flying Saucer Attack -- P.A. Blues
78. Techno Animal -- Re-Entry

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

77. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
76. Julee Cruise - Floating Into The Night
75. Kristin Hersh - The Grotto
74. His Name Is Alive - Stars on ESP(because of the huge industrial noise that explodes suddenly in 'the world is not my home')

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

73. Anything by Merzbow

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

this is a really good thread, just in case some people haven't seen it: records that have genuinely FRIGHTENED you

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Lots of Merzbow I don't find scary. Listening to it in the dark is prob'ly the best way.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Scott Walker - Tilt

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

72. Violent Femmes- Hallowed Ground

― naturalaw-dp, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

71. Arthur Brown - The Crazy world of..

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

70. Throbbing Gristle: Third and Final Report
69. Coldplay: Parachutes

― ddb, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

68. Coil - Musik to play in the dark 1

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

67.Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock - Psycho-Physical Tests and Trainings

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

66. spacemen 3 - playing with fire. all good until you fall asleep 1/3 of the way through.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just waiting for poor Coldplay to appear.

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

..and I was waiting for Coil.

so how about:

65. Nurse with Wound - She and Me Fall Together in Free Death
64. Kevin Drumm - Land of the Lurches
63. Boris vs. Merzbow - Megatone

All of which will be played simultaneously at my wedding.

― jubal harshaw (jube), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so there, whether or not I'm invited.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:58 (twenty-one years ago)

invited? you're my fiance!

― jubal harshaw (jube), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

62. Future Sound of London - Dead Cities

― Josh Rothman (mrjosh), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"76. Julee Cruise - Floating Into The Night"

damn good selection, julee cruise is the only artist that never fails to change my mood when i am listening to her. its creepy, beautiful etc.

61. current 93- dogs blood rising

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

60. Divine Styler Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light esp. "Mystic Sheep Drink Electric Tea" and "Heaven Doesn't Want Me and Hell's Afraid I'll Take Over"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

id forgotten as well
59. Igor Wakhevitch - Docteur Faust

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

58. 'Neu!', As donut bitch mentioned on the 'Frightened' thread.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

57. Cristoph De Babalon - If you're into it, I'm out of it

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

56. Prurient "Troubled Sleep"
57. Deathpile "GR"
56. Pedestrian Deposit "Volatile"
55. Wolf Eyes "Dread"

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I used Julee Cruise through my first two years of university for writing papers past 3 am. It fit the manic-drowsiness-despite-dizzying-caffeine perfectly, and always kept on edge, esp. the orchestral stabs.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

54. angus maclise "brain damage in oklahoma"
53. cromagnon "orgasm"
52. eraserhead soundtrack

― msp, Thursday, 13 May 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

51. comus "first utterance"

― paul poop, Thursday, 13 May 2004 05:31 (twenty-one years ago)

50. Fripp, Gates of Paradise

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

49. Khanate - Things Viral

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

48. Anything by lightning bolt.

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Tilt seconded. It's about the only record that's ever genuinely terrified me.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

While not strictly music, more spoken word of sorts.

Various - The Ghost Orchid
Various - The Conet Project

Both gave me the fear like I've never had since I was a kid and listening to the creepy bit epilogue of Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds..

― mzui, Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

P.S. Whadya mean you've never heard of a bit epilogue?

― mzui, Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

45. Closer - Joy Division

― holojames (holojames), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

44. Death Cube K - Dreamatorium

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The Plague Mass seconded, the thought of it made me shiver a little.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

43. captain beefheart - trout mask replica
42. joe meek & the blue men - i hear a new world
41. pink floyd - the piper at the gates of dawn
40. the silver apples - the silver apples
39. the red crayola - god bless the red crayola and all who sail with it
38. white noise - an electric storm
37. the sunburned hand of the man - headdress
36. aphex twin - come to daddy ep
35. ryoji ikeda - 0°C
34. steve reich - music for 18 musicians

― Toon (Skelter), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

33. Neurosis - "Enemy of the Sun"

― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

32.Coil-Time Machines
31.Coil-The Angelic Conversation
30.Nurse With Wound-Soliloquies for Lillith
29.Alec Empire & Merzbow-Live @ CBGBs

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

28. jandek - put my dream on this planet
27. dead machines - the night people

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

26.Laurie Anderson-the ugly one with the jewels (it's more of a get-under-the-makeshift-tent-with-your-best-friend--and-a-flashlight-when-you're-7 scary)

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

25. Gyorgy Ligeti - Lux Aeterna

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

24. Fantomas - Delirium Cordia

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

29.Alec Empire & Merzbow-Live @ CBGBs

OTM!!!!!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

23. Earth-Earth 2

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

22. Whitehouse - Erector
21. Thrones - White Rabbit, White Rabbit

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

20. Throbbing Gristle "Journey Through A Body"

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

'metal machine music' scary? i play it all the time in the dark to soothe & make me go to bed!!

it gives you grebt dreams also

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

geeta: i read that as "to soothe & make out in bed" and i fell in love until I realized i just can't read properly.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

haha! well, it's a great make-out album, too! i've tried it!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, I can't think of more than 2 or 3 records that really scared me

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Seconding toon's listing of White Noise - An Electric Storm In Hell. I was just going to say that.

― briania, Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Christian Death "Dogs": a nasty sounding track that used to make me think a guy with a Halloween mask and a meat cleaver was in my closet.

Thrill Kill Kult "Confessions of a Knife": listened to this the first time I did acid and actually saw the individual mentioned above, also tried to attack someone I didn't like at a party two hours later with a kitchen knife, but was subdued by several friends, not sure if the record had anything to do with it (drugs are bad).

― js, Thursday, 13 May 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

19. Struggle, "Pain"

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The only thing I was mildly scared by was some of haino's vocals on PSF 15/16- but it was more scared for him than by him.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

peter kowald - when the sun is out you don't see the stars, it is a bit stupid too though.

― see ar (see ar), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

17. Psychic TV -- Dreams Less Sweet (also mentioned several times on that other thread)

― spittle (spittle), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

16. Ignore the White Culture by Missing Foundation

http://www.missingfoundation.com/images/ignore_the_white_culture.jpg..

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

15. Matmos - A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure

After gaining the trust and cooperation of surgeons and patients, the band was allowed to record in operating rooms and clinics. Back in the studio, Matmos performed surgery of their own upon the sounds they had gathered, building rhythms from the clanks, rasps and snips of the scalpel, kick drums from the sound of bones being broken, and rich drones from the buzz of human skin conducting electricity through acupuncture points.

― jubal harshaw (jube), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

anything by Sunn0))

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Sunn 0))) for me is more soothing than scary.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Khanate is scarier than Sunn, if only for the wretched vokillz.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah I gots to get my ass off the couch and hear me some of that shit.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

14. the best of Bernard Herrman

― Flotsam of the Fishfolk (Flotsam of the Fishfolk), Friday, 14 May 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

13. Stockhausen - Stimmung

And whoever said Current 93 'Dog Blood Rising' is heartily seconded.

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

12. Extreme Music From Japan - Various Artists

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

11. ONO-machines that kill people

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

this is totally the 'best make-out albums' thread!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

YO GEETA DO YOU WANT TO SMOOCH? WE CAN LISTEN TO ALL OF THESE CDS ON RANDOM IN MY 37948739843 DISC CHANGER.

― WUB WUB WUB (orion), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

bit blah now but the first alanis morrisette album gives you a good 15 mins to fall asleep before the hidden track starts whailing

― tessa court, Friday, 14 May 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

10. Skullflower-Third Gatekeeper

― ddb, Friday, 14 May 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Leichenschei-SPK

― Richard Gunderson, Friday, 14 May 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

William Hung - She Bangs

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 14 May 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

disc 2 of the "OHM" comp

― m. (mitchlnw), Friday, 14 May 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Wet Wet Wet "Popped In, Souled Out"

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 14 May 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

5. burning star core - tell me something

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 14 May 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

4. Public Image Ltd., Second Edition

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 14 May 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

3. Gavin Bryers - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 14 May 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

2. Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold and Manipulate

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 May 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

1. Peter Gabriel - Passion

What? Don't look at me like that.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"4. Public Image Ltd., Second Edition"

But isn't that more "shake your ass in the dark" rather than "scare the shit out of yourself"? Well, no matter. It could be both I guess.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 May 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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