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I remember listening to the album "Boys don't cry" for the first time. I laid on my bed in complete darkness and was listenin to it in my headphones. Had the volumed cranked up and at the end of subway song there is some seconds of silence and just when you think the next track is coming up there is a really scary and loud scream! It scared the hell out of me and I probably lifted a meter from the bed. Now Im scarred for life and always fast forward to the next track before it scares me again.

Any other scary memories?

― Marc, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Well, since we have recently been talking about Husker Du - I've got to say that The Baby Song is pretty damn scary in a swanee whistle kinda way. And the last track on PJ Harvey's latest album (Stories from the city) is frightening because Polly sounds just like Annie Lennox.

― Pete, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

As a teenager i never played "Sgt.Pepper's..." as the last record before lights-out. The reason? 'A Day in the Life' was just a tad to eerie.

― Omar, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The only song that has ever really scared the shit out of me is 'The Fear'. Especially when the line "When you're no longer searching for beauty or love / Just some kind of life with the edges taken off" rears its head.

― Nick, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I remember driving along back when I was in high school late at night from some gathering of some sort and listening to KCSB, the local college station. It was Goth Hour, or The Industrial Hour, or whatever the late night sad music of choice was. There was a girl with a pretty voice singing in French, and it was lovely. And then you begin to hear a beat in the backgroud that began to rise -- innocently enough. Then it got louder and louder and began to overwhelm the girl with the pretty voice and a second voice, this time male, began to build up over the beat and all you heard was screaming:

SUCK MY FUCKING COCK BITCH!!!!! SUCK MY FUCKING COCK!!!!! I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU YOU FUCKING CUNT!!!! TAKE ALL OF IT YOU GODDAMN CUNT!!!!!

And then it faded back out and the girl with the pretty voice kept singing.

THAT fucked me up, man.

Also "Angel of The Morning" is a terrifying song just because of the weakness in Merilee Rush's voice and you KNOW the guy won't be there in the morning. Yuck.

― JM, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I was taking an art exam and was listening to Slayer's Dead Skin Mask, it is pretty creepy! I hadn't noticed the talking bits on it before!

― jel, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

In a former life I was fucking petrified at the "WHO'S RESPONSIBLE? YOU FUCKING ARE!" *animalisation* of James Bradfield's voice at the end of "Of Walking Abortion". I cringe when it's mentioned now.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

On the Damned's first Peel Sessions EP, they play "Feel the Pain" last if I remember correctly. Anyway, at the end, they're kind of dying out and its getting spooky and soft and then right before the album ends and its completely silent, Dave Vanian lets out an *insanely* loud "BAAAAAH" that absolutely scared the living shit out of me the first time I head it. Nearly had a heart attack! It still catches me off guard sometimes.

― Tim Baier, Tuesday, 13 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

FSOL's "Among Myselves", off the Lifeforms album, has a terrible (& terrifying) burst of static in the middle of the track. Scared the %&@# out of me, and I like FSOL... cool Scanners sample though.

― Inukko, Wednesday, 14 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

There's many moments on Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works that scare the bejesus out of me. Especially CD2 track6 - can't listen to it without thinking of snakes and voodoo and nasty things.

― charlie frame, Wednesday, 14 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Why is it those Gothic albums come to mind again?

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 14 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Take any SWANS album and wait. Eventually, something scary will pop up.

― , Thursday, 15 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

on sonic youth's confusion is sex, that damn freezer burn that abruptly cuts into i wanna be your dog...that always makes me jump a mile. i'll be listening to it, saying 'ok i know its coming i won't get scared this time', but it doesn't fucking work...

― matthew omalley, Thursday, 15 March 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm listening to Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works II and it suddenly struck me that track 9/side 2, all floating voices in a very large hall, is the extended sound of hell in Suicide's 'Frankie Teardrop', which will get my vote now for scariest song ever. The part that always gets me is when Frankie kills himself (after his wife and baby) which is already pretty intense, after which he goes to hell. The sound of hell creeps me out, of course it doesn't help that whotshisname starts to yell: "We're all Frankies/We're all living in hell!". Ahhh, Suicide now that's a band. ;)

― Omar, Tuesday, 27 March 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Shirley collins & the albion band's "no roses" (that's a folk album, folks...) has this track called "the murder of maria marten" on it. It's pretty spooky all the way through, actually, but on one of the verses, some male folkie (barry dransfield?) is singing behind shirley. Just thinking about it, the hairs are standing up on the back of my neck.....

shirley collins...wow, what an artist...

x0x0

― norman fay, Thursday, 19 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

three months pass...

FSOL albums use scary noises a lot, but "Among Myselves"... damn, that probably takes the cake. Extremely loud bleep that comes right in the middle of near-silence. Also scary: listening to car honking on Orb's "Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld" while driving. :)

― palpable, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Into the NIght on the twin peaks soundtrack - anyone who has heard that orquestra knows fear.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

still can't listen to "Scatology" by Coil with the lights off.

― flowersdie, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The whole of Tom Waits' "The Black Rider", which I first heard while travelling in an electrical storm between New York and Boston... the plane got hit by lightning, and I've never been able to listen to the album again.

I can still hear those opening words though, and the malicious, spiteful voice from the fairground carnie...

― Jerry, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Honestly if you listen to Wendy Carlos' The Shining SOundtrakshe does thie version of some old March by Bartok I think . It creepy enough alone, but then there are these voices distorted and wailin gin the background....shiver! Tubular Bells is quite scary at times too. Not the part everyone knows, the part that has "Peat Bog Man " on it.

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 31 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

three months pass...

careful with that axe eugene.... AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

― karmik guy, Friday, 23 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

desperate children always creep me out. So:

The little girl crying at the end of "Rawhead and Bloody Bones" by Siouxsie & the Banshees.
And the tail end of a song by Slayer (the title momentarily eludes me) about some kid trapped inside of a refrigerator and you can hear him inside screaming and pounding on the door.

― Lord Custos, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I can still hear those opening words though, and the malicious, spiteful voice from the fairground carnie...

Beautifully fucked up, I agree. How did I miss this thread? Hm, musta been my vacation. My choice...I don't care what anyone thinks, there's a part on the first Gene Loves Jezebel album where everything builds up to a wailing freaked-out shriek. YARGH.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Butthole Surfers' helium voiced "kid" babbling over the top of some guitar deathcrunch on Hairway to Steven always scared the shit out of me. That moment is like a science experiment made of saliva, like hairy toothy 3-D flesh where the computer that keeps it alive is crashing or something, and it can't stop wailing at you.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Actually, speaking of ungodly screams, the one Bob Mould unleashes on "The Tooth Fairy and the Princess" scared me silly, especially following all those tape loops turning in on each other. Don't give up ... don't give in ... give in ... give up ...

― David Raposa, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I can't believe no one has said "Cow Cud is a Twin" by Ricky D. James. I've heard that tune a million times and the door slamming STILL catches me off guard.

Also, "London" by mu-ziq is purty scary. I once played it on a radio show I used to have with a loop of receptionists answering the phone ("Wrigley, Bonjour" "Norampac, Bonjour" "Coca-Cola, Jeannette a l'apareil" etc etc--I live in Mtl) and someone called me to inform me that I was scaring the shit out of them.

― cybele, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

one year passes...

The Drukqs track that sounds like innocent children being chased by a madman.

― man, Thursday, 20 November 2003 20:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

I vividly remember listening to the self-titled GETO BOYS cassette when I was really young and being horrified by some of the lyrics -- that there were people out there who could think to say:
"Had sex with the corpse before I left her / and drew my name on the wall like Helter Skelter"
Not to mention:
"If she got some titties, I'll squeeze 'em and hold 'em / while she suck my dick and lick my scrotum" (rapped, of course, by a DWARF).
As a young sheltered suburban kid, I was TERRIFIED...

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 20 November 2003 23:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Norman fay you are otm about 'no roses'. Top album, good scary murder ballad of the the folk genre excels in.

Big Star's 3rd. You know the tracks i mean.........

― Pete S, Thursday, 20 November 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

the "suck my cock" song referenced above is probably Whitehouse, "I'm Cumming Up Your Ass".

Two scary things from childhood, both from the White Album: the ghostly moan and rattle at the end of "Long Long Long" and all of "Revolution #9." Revolution #9 gets crap, I think, sometimes, but it's a perfect sound collage and when I was a kid I thought it was a soundtrack to a war or apocalypse. Every moment of it freaked me out. Even the most inane bits seemed filled with portentous doom ("take this brother.." "a telegram"...) What the hell did it mean? Lennon's moaning freaked me out even more after he died because it sounded like a man writhing in pain.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 20 November 2003 23:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

When i was a kid 'The Blue Album' was very scary. 'I Am the Walrus ' and 'Strawberry Fields' freaked me out as much as GhostWatch.

― Pete S, Thursday, 20 November 2003 23:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

That second song on the first Neu record....

And "Colours of the Sky" by Pale Saints.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 20 November 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

What do you mean, DB? Why doesn't it

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 November 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

The recording of the Jonestown massacre owns this thread. Freaky, freaky shit, and it goes on for nearly an hour.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Thursday, 20 November 2003 23:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Daniel Johnston - "Never Relaxed"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 20 November 2003 23:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Let me just say I will probably never listen to John Cale's Slow Dazzle in its entirety ever again.

― Schwingung (Damian), Thursday, 20 November 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Revolution 9" owns this thread. Gave me nightmares for years.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

It scared me the first time I heard it too, but nothing beats Jim Jones commanding his followers to shove cyanide down childrens' throats.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

Side 2 of Daniel Johnston's _1990_ begins with a live version of "Don't Play Cards With Satan." It never fails to creep me out...although the live "Careless Love," where he literally starts sobbing while singing about God, comes very close.

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

Also YMG's "Wind In The Rigging." WPRB used to (maybe still does) sign off with that track. There was just something terrifying about hearing that track followed by radio static. If I was in the wrong mood, it felt like the world ending. (Ironically, "Final Day" never had that effect on me, even though it really *is* about the world ending.)

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Third Eye Foundation to thread!

Also, Iused to have total trouble waking up in the morning (like about 10 years ago) until I found that the noise that kicks off In Utero ("click click click WHRENGUENUEHEEHEEeEeEee") did the job every time, provided the volume was high enough. It still makes me wince.

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Friday, 21 November 2003 13:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

3EF, absolutely.

Umm... Sarah, where might someone be able to obtain a recording of the Jonestown massacre? Just out of interest, obv.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 21 November 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Very easily, Mencap. I found my copy (sadly I gave it to my boyfriend at the time) for $5 at Reckless Records here in Chicago. I'm sure it's available at online music stores and on slsk as well. Just don't listen to it by yourself or at night. Eurrghhh.

The CD is 11 tracks long, the first ten of them being chirpy hymns sung by the Peoples Temple Choir.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 21 November 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

A transcript can be found here, but it's much more real to hear it.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 21 November 2003 14:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jim Jones 'Descent Into Jonestown', that the one? Try googling for the fucker with the Brian Jonestown Massacre hampering your efforts at every turn :(

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 21 November 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

There are a lot of different versions out there. Try searching for the Peoples Temple Choir.

― Sarah Pedal (call mr. lee), Friday, 21 November 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ah, that's the one... AK Press have it over here *adds to Christmas list*

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Maybe not scariest - but the first time I heard "A Means to an End" - it was the 'Still' version. And when Ian sings "I put my trust in you" so desperately .. It's a bit too real.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 21 November 2003 15:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

I've never heard the Jonestown recording, but after simply reading the transcript, I want my mommy.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 April 2005 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Okay, didn't scare me really, but it did confuse the hell out of me.

― Telephonething, Saturday, 23 April 2005 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I've always thought the opening dialogue or whatever it is from The Fairy Tale by Biosphere was pretty creepy.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Saturday, 23 April 2005 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link

when i was in high school in '92 i got really into Jane's Addiction. at the time i was pretty sure that i was agonistic but still hadn't completely shaken my christian upbringing.

anyway...there was this totally bombastic, wanking guitar solo by dave navarro on the song "three days" that thought was the most sublime thing in the world, but at the end of it the music turns very dark and Perry Farrell suddenly screams: EROTIC JESUS! LAYS WITH HIS MARYS! LOVES HIS MARYS! BITS OF A PUZZLE, HITTING EACH OTHER!

Not only did that always freak me out...I still thought that there was the off chance that I might burn for turning on to such blasphemy.

Fortunately, after few years of college, I no longer feared the fire and was listening to much better and far more depraved music.

― mono.mono (mono.mono), Saturday, 23 April 2005 05:17 (nineteen years ago) link

HITTING EACH OTHER!

Ummm...it's Fitting each other, by the way.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 April 2005 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.ian-holm.de/_Film/Time_Bandits/Time_Bandits_6.jpg

Zat ees what I like! Leetle things! Hitting each ozzer!

― Telephonething, Saturday, 23 April 2005 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link

that's what i thought too. but i hadn't listened to the song for 10 years so i googled for the lyrics.

i downloaded and am listening to it right now. he clearly says FITTING!

but, sheesh, that guy in photo looks like a guy who would scream EROTIC JESUS like mr. farrell does on the song.

it's still scary, man.

― mono.mono (mono.mono), Saturday, 23 April 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I find that very moment positively transcendent (more because of Navarro's contributions --- which he bizarrely confesses to not remember recording).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 April 2005 05:34 (nineteen years ago) link

That Jonestown death tape is on archive.org (Creative Commons/Public Domain), by the way:

http://www4.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collectionid=ptc1978-11-18.flac16&collection=opensource_audio

― StanM, Saturday, 23 April 2005 10:51 (nineteen years ago) link

heh, x-posting back four, umm, years to nick's comment about "the fear" ... i remember drifting off into a drunken slumber listening to "this is hardcore", the big drone at the end lulling me into fitful sleep.

and then after many, many minutes fucking jarvis popped up saying "goodbye" in a really sinister way, right in my left ear. god almighty, it was horrible.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 23 April 2005 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a track on Blood by This Mortal Coil called "Baby Ray Baby" that I once put on a mix-tape for a friend of mine. The track is sort've a lilting number augmented by a recording of a baby cooing and spouting baby gibberish. I always found it sort've sweet. My friend Lisa thought it was sickening and evil.....and to this day I cannot understand why she thought that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 May 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I fell asleep while listening to Disintegration on headphones REALLY loud, and suddenly woke up in a cold panic during the middle of "Lullaby" -- what a scary fucking song. Makes me feel bad about....something.

― PB, Friday, 6 May 2005 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link

"I Come And Stand At Every Door" on Blood still creeps me the fuck out, no matter how pretty it might be. Yikes.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Friday, 6 May 2005 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Fuck, 23 Skidoo has quite a few of these on Seven Songs. "Mary's Operation" through to the 18 second mark of "IY" is one gigantic creepout, as are the last two tracks ("Porno Base" and "Quiet Pillage"). When augmented by the video for the LP...damn. Industrial settings, lone dancers, rabbits having seizures, surgery, the band in masks, colour changes that could probably cause seizures, and so on. I need the DVD of it that appears every so often on eBay.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has a grenade, that pineapple's not just a toy! (Eastern Mantr, Friday, 6 May 2005 01:18 (nineteen years ago) link

The wall of noise that comes in like a minute or so into "the cockfighter" on Scott Walker's TILT has almost caused like two car accidents for me. TOO FoodKING INTENSE FOR ONE PLANET!

― bizzy bone is my cousin, Friday, 6 May 2005 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a particular Coil track, I think it's "The Sleeper" that has always scared me.. sounds like it's all going in reverse..

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 6 May 2005 02:26 (nineteen years ago) link

There are a number of tracks on those first two COIL albums that are well fuckin' creepy (by design, of course). "At the Heart of it All" sounds like someone slowly strangling a saxophone on a slow-moving elevator down to the bowels of Hades. "Ubu Roir" sounds like ballroom scene in The Shining after you've shoved a fistload of hallucinogens up your rear end and gargled with a hogshead of absynthe. COIL took the innocent sounding "BOP-BOP" hook from Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" and made it sound like an exploding pipe organ. And what can be said about "The Sewage Worker's Birthday Party" that the title doesn't already tell you? EEEEEEEEEEEEKKKK!!!!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 May 2005 02:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I forgot "The Tenderness of Wolves," with those anguished, yelping cries of unspeakable suffering echoing in the background from what sounds like a makeshift basement abbatoir.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 May 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, shit, this dark ambient mix tape I just dug out, that I haven't played for years and has no track list.. apparently ends with "Hamburger Lady."

I actually do not own a copy of Scatology, will have to track it down, uh, maybe once it's the middle of summer and really warm and sunny outside. Yeah.

― daria g (daria g), Friday, 6 May 2005 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I've been on a huge COIL kick in the last couple of weeks (see numerous other threads). Finally picked up both the aptly titled Musick to Play in the Dark 1 and Love's Secret Domain recently (the latter being so different -- pleasantly, tough --- from what I'd been expecting). I must say, I do prefer COIL when they're being scary than when they're merely twiddling with....er....knobs.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 6 May 2005 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I must be crazy: "Hamburger Lady" and "The Sewage Worker's Birthday Party" have never done anything for me. I always thought they were a bore.

― Ian Riese-Moraine has a grenade, that pineapple's not just a toy! (Eastern Mantr, Friday, 6 May 2005 09:30 (nineteen years ago) link

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Scariest moment on an album?

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