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whats the tune that scares you most?

― dbini, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dozing off while the Suicide album is playing and waking up, half- conscious, to "Frankie Teardrop" is not a pleasant experience.

― alex in montreal, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The theme tune to "Z-Cars". It sounds like it's being played by a squadron of demons with recorders.

― Chris Lyons, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Gary Numan's "Cars" is a scary song. Does anyone else?

― Sean, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes. Especially as the big fat sample in Armand Van Helden's "Koochie." The original video for "Cars" is frightening, too.

― felicity, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That track on KristallNacht. "Never Again." Scary and sad at the same time.

― helenfordsdale, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gary was the master of creeped out as fuck Moog lines around that time. Proof = "M.E." Even sampled in Basement Jaxx's "Where's Your Head At" it sounds like it's going to tear heads off. See also "Films."

Hairs raised on back of neck music -- hm...I tend to luxuriate more in dark sounds rather than get creeped out by them. But "Pure II" by Godflesh sounds like a slow motion bomb going off.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Scariest thing ever = reading 'The Plague' by Camus whilst listening to 'Unknown Pleasures' - they match perfectly and are WELL SCARY.

― DG, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

zombies of mora-tau!

― dave k, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

whoops; forgot to mention: it's a jad fair song. he's singing about getting chased by zombies and there's this ultra-scary chirping and droning in the back.

the beginning of "sonny's burning" where nick cave screams "hands up, who wants to die?" scares the shit out of me.

― dave k, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

we already did this thread, DUH! anyway everyone agreed that some FSOL song was the scariest. so i downloaded it and it was totally WANK!

― chaki, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In his Jukebox session with The Wire, Mark E Smith comments on Current 93: "It's OK, yeah. I had a tape like that called Purgatory by this group called Evil and it was the most frightening thing you've ever heard in your life. I think they were American or something. I taped over it because it was doing my head in. It was like that in a way, it was terrifying."

If anyone knows anything about that album, please let me know.

My answer? Probably also something by Current 93, Coil or Nurse With Wound ..

― Dare, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There are several songs on the first My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult album which are just EVIL.

― Dan Perry, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dont EVER fall asleep to V/VM's "Total Ecplise of the Heart." One of the most disturbing songs i've ever heard.

― Brock K, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Scariest record is my very first record ever -- Johannes Kepler's Harmony Of The Worlds. Very cold, subsonic, supersonic tone horror that demands to sound like it's always 15 feet behind you stalking you.

The second track off Neu's first record is quite scary, as I always get startled by the sudden burst near the end of the song, but I can never practice when to expect it.

― Brian MacDonald, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also well worth mentioning... Half Japanese "1/2 Gentlemen Not Beasts".

― Brian MacDonald, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Any of the Jandek accapella albums.

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there was some tape i had that a friend from australia made for me that used processed tapes of feedyards and slaughterhouses... i think it was john murphy, not sure of that. really fucked up, and the crude musique concrete techniques and tape noise didn't help. andrew wilks-krier (before he PARTIED HARD) did a thing called "poltergeist" that was pretty fucked up, sort of layer upon layer of groaning voices, whispering and noise.

and then, there's anything by nitro.

― your null fame, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun. Especially when accidentally playing it at 45rpm, falling asleep, and then waking up again halfway through it.

― Ben Squircle, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

some worthy canidates:

- in/humanity's 2nd lp+7" who's name escapes me right now. very tongue in cheek, but also completely unnerving in places.

- nurse with wound's thunder perfect mind, the closest i've ever come to finding a record which matches the strange auditory hallucinations i had while in the hospital aged 12 and on very serious painkillers. spectres in the distance, the rumble of great machinery, and colder still...

- bits of the the faust tapes come to mind, particularly this one inhuman scream which rises during the middle of the first side/half.

- mars tracks on no new york. its like what scary jungle apes might produce if given instruments and studio time.

- ditto for the early 1/2 jap stuff.

- the version of "deer park" on the fall's a part of america, therein: at the appropriate volume just this huge, rising, scary mass of noise-sound.

- every other men's recovery project song.

― jess, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you're talking about dozing off and suddenly being frightened, for me, it's On Slowdive's Suouvlaki when it suddenly jumps into the second song after fading out, and making me fade out. Also on Bowie's Heroes when "The Secret Life of Arabia" comes on it always wakes me up. (but maybe this is more an issue of song placement on the album/ comparitive mix volume of songs) As for scariest (in a satanic way) I've got to say Diamanda Galas' "Divine Punishment"

― A Nairn, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

bob the builder

― goeff, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The shouty bit at the start of the hidden track on Seafood's "Messenger in the camp" always manages to give me a start every time I hear it.

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the two Panacea tracks from Electric Ladyland Vol. 6 (don't have it in front of me so I'm not sure which). The guttural vocal part freaks me out. It's not from a different language, but a different sort of mouth. One with lots of big teeth dripping green saliva. I love it.

― Mark, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pink Floyd's "Careful With That Axe Eugene"

― Pump Wellington, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The In/Humanity album Jess mentions is _The History Behind the Mystery: Music To Kill Yourself By_, and yeah, it's pretty terrifying. "There's no motive. There's no... Clive is dead. Clive is dead."

On the other hand, the same album also has "We're Sick Of Music And We Hate Each Other," which is the funniest band-breakup song ever.

― Douglas, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'To The Quiet Men From A Tiny Girl' by Nurse With Wound.

― Andrew L, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sean hit the right note on the synth immediately

gary = scary + cute

cars = creepy (that intro!)

― erik, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"dont EVER fall asleep to V/VM's "Total Ecplise of the Heart." One of the most disturbing songs i've ever heard."

Funny you should mention that, my sister LOVES that song and keeps pestering me to play it. You can download it from V/Vm's offical site. (Hope I got the link right..)

I forgot about this one: Sonic Youth's "Freezer Burn / I Wanna Be Your Dog". After about a couple of minutes of ominous humming, without warning it bursts into this fierce roar and is guaranteed to scare the shit out of you.

― Chris Lyons, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Where the Wild Roses Grow Nick Cave (& Kylie), from Murder Ballads. Nick just sounds like pure evil. That's the one song on the CD that I can't listen to.

― Dave225, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I bought Pierre Henry's Messe Pour Le Temps Present - really catchy stuff...anyway, there's an additional musique concrete piece, based around a squeaky door & someone breathing. Everyone I've played it to has told me to turn it off, as it's so unnerving.

― Jez, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lustm0rd's Heresy album is scary in a good way. We used to play it very loud while we were playing Doom and it scared the poop out of us.

Haven't heard it in a while, but one of Non's albums, Blood and Flame I think, used to scare me in a bad way. I listened to it and just felt completely uneasy, like voices in my head were about to try to convince me to go out and kill...okay, maybe overstating it a bit, but it just made me feel wrong.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i find Laurent Garnier's Sound of the Big Babou to be scary and oppressive in some way. I love it, but it sounds menacing, like the Monster from the Id is on the march and about to attack.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

got to be georg harrison sweet lord rerelerelease. even if for charity its sick putting this out with the lyrics like pete said on popeye.

woman on talk sport news said that it was the first time two consecutive number ones were sung by dead people. typical sensitivity from talk sport there.

― XStatic Peace, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

surely consecutive number ones sung by DIFFERENT dead people. didn't Lennon get two consecutive #1s after he died, or were they separated by St Winnifred's School Choir. (Guin book singles is at home)

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well: that opened a can o worms didn't it, even if we've already done this thread before....

i'll always remember being 16 and cowering in the corner the first time i heard throwing muses' delicate cutters.

these days its the devil and the deep blue sea between big black's jordan minnesota and lard's bozo skeleton. (albini because it makes me scared about the state of the world, and jello because it makes me scared about the state of jello.)

― dbini, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

DMX's "What's My Name", because it makes me start *goosestepping*, for fuck's sake.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Ned Raggett pi

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 6 June 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul Haig "World Raw" B-side of "Heaven Help You Now" eeeeeek

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 6 June 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

Cold, cold, cold
As the cold wind blows
Cold, cold, cold
As the cold wind blows
Out on Highway 5 there's a field
Where sometimes at night people disappear
That's the only road that takes me home
Across the open prairie and the drifting snow
Cold, cold, cold
As the cold wind blows
I was halfway there one frozen dawn
When she appeared at the side of the road
A woman weeping in the frozen snow
Her black hair flying across the empty road
Cold, cold, cold
As the cold wind blows
Cold, cold, cold
As the cold wind blows
I pulled to the shoulder and she fell to the snow
But when I stepped from my car in the cold wind's blow
She drifted away in the swirling cold
Down through the fields and their frozen rows
Cold, cold, cold
As the cold wind blows
But I heard her howl, I heard her moan
And she called my name in the the sworling snow
When I turned to run back to my car
There was nothing waiting but her frozen arms

Cold, cold, cold
As the cold wind blows
Cold, cold, cold
As the cold wind blows
Cold, cold, cold
As the cold wind blows

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 27 May 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)

"Is That Me (Finding Someone At The Door Again)" by Cabaret Voltaire.
Adrenalin rush of fear with that one. Don't relish hearing it again.

― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 27 May 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

songs by "godflesh"

― maria timony, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Halber Mensch" Einstürzende Neubauten.

Choral stuff is a great way to be scary. It's more a performance than a song, but The Ramayana Monkey Chant from the old Nonesuch Explorer Series is a classic freakout record:

http://www.ubu.com/ethno/soundings/ketjack.html

― bendy (bendy), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

that ligeti stuff from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the bit with the apes

― dr x o'skeleton, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Dave Marsh called Richard & Linda Thompson's "Wall Of Death" "one of the scariest pieces of music anyone in the rock era has produced." I can't say I disagree. I'd also go with Tim Buckley's "Starsailor" and Cecil Taylor's version of "This Nearly Was Mine."

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Up until a few weeks ago I would have said "Revolution 9." But after downloading the Jonestown Death Tape* via WFMU's Beware of The Blog, I'm inclined to go with that instead. It's the creepiest thing I've ever heard, and I've heard some creepy sounds in my life.

* qualifies as a "record" since Psychic TV once released it

― mike a, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of shit by aphex twin and "london" by mu-ziq. Mike Paradinas was less scary post-baby.

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

"Wall of Death" doesn't qualify - it's tempered by all the amusement park references and its singalong melody.

― mike a, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Brainticket - Part 1 and Part 1 (Conclusion). Sometimes just joyously demented, sometimes incredibly freaky.

― emil.y (emil.y), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

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