1. Lightnin' Hopkins "Shine on Moon" (scary because it sounds like he's trapped at the bottom of a well...and the personification of the moon scared the bejesus outta me)2. Grifters "Piddlebach"3. CSNY "The Lee Shore" (don't ask why...maybe it was the thought of David Crosby)4. Dirty Three "Sue's Last Ride"5. Supertramp "School"6. Smoke "Curtains"7. Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition: Catacombs" or Griegs "In the Hall of the Mountain King"8. Tom Waits "The Black Rider"
that's plenty, although there are more. anyone else?
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Monday, 2 October 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Monday, 2 October 2006 17:45 (eighteen years ago)
Entrance - Silence on a Crowded Train
― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Monday, 2 October 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Monday, 2 October 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago)
― sonofstan (sonofstan), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago)
― cosmo vitelli (cosmo vitelli), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago)
My older brothers used to trap me in a room and force me to listen to it.
― Jim M (jmcgaw), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:08 (eighteen years ago)
i can relate..to a point.
good call on the Pere Ubu upthread, and the Eno.
I just thought of Hood "Further Woodland" (after the Eno suggestion) and it is on my list..
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Monday, 2 October 2006 18:12 (eighteen years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago)
― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago)
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:17 (eighteen years ago)
― bendy (bendy), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:20 (eighteen years ago)
― Godfrzej Ljang (godfrzej), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago)
― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Monday, 2 October 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago)
― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Monday, 2 October 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago)
i forgot to mention the whole "huffalumps and woozles" piece from Winnie the Poo...but then again, I guess i didn't title this thread "Songs that immediately elicit the pant-shitting-out-of-fear reflex"
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago)
...comes to mind. It's all in the twisted ambient music and especially the children's voices. Oh man, those voices. The child screaming 'DEAD' at the end keeps scaring me, no matter how often I have listened to it.
― Gerard (Gerard), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago)
― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago)
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Monday, 2 October 2006 19:56 (eighteen years ago)
Particularly in the context of The Glow pt. II it just sounds like being lost in the forest as night closes in and there's something out there. The two instrumentals after it compound the eerieness.
― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T29Lqpi2RQ
― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to contain two ingredients. Tea and bags. (chap), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago)
she detunes her low E string down to C or B and the last two minutes are just her guitar frantically alternating between the clanging bass note and ringing harmonics, with wolf howls in the back. add lyrics about 'the darkness in men's minds' and the odd clang, and you have a truly unnerving song.
― derrick (derrick), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago)
― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:18 (eighteen years ago)
― Illya (illya23b), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago)
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago)
― vartman (novaheat), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago)
― vartman (novaheat), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago)
― David A. (Davant), Monday, 2 October 2006 23:26 (eighteen years ago)
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)
creepiness in rock?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 00:29 (eighteen years ago)
― shake (shake), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 00:34 (eighteen years ago)
i didn't want to be redundant, just generate some fresh responses.
also, just thought i'd add Bowie's "Some Are" from Low
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 00:45 (eighteen years ago)
― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 00:46 (eighteen years ago)
― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 00:55 (eighteen years ago)
― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 01:07 (eighteen years ago)
― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 01:21 (eighteen years ago)
Also, "Quentin's Theme" from "Dark Shadows."
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 01:48 (eighteen years ago)
Very unsettling drones and multiple processed vocals narrating a nightmare of being unable to move as men rape his wife in the bed next to him.
― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 01:59 (eighteen years ago)
― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 02:09 (eighteen years ago)
and "under your thumb" by godley and creme. trains, ghosts, more spoken-word bits, the world's scariest "ba-BARP" synth noise ... and no drums. god, i love that song. scared me shitless as a kid.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 09:42 (eighteen years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 10:09 (eighteen years ago)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:06 (eighteen years ago)
― Thomas Mehlt (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 06:08 (eighteen years ago)
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 07:40 (eighteen years ago)
― Jez (Jez), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:51 (eighteen years ago)
― kwhitehead (stephen schmidt), Thursday, 5 October 2006 02:17 (eighteen years ago)
― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt (hyloolnuspstt), Thursday, 5 October 2006 02:48 (eighteen years ago)
United States of America -- the one with the "in her eyes, in her eyes, in her eyes..." refrain.
I'm pretty sure one of these songs is named after a Bosch painting, but I'm too lazy to research it.
― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Thursday, 5 October 2006 04:14 (eighteen years ago)
― schanden (ritual), Thursday, 5 October 2006 04:59 (eighteen years ago)
I know I'm going to get shredded for this, but the song John Wayne Gacy Jr (by sufjan s) makes me freak out and shiver. Serial killer rapist clowns...
― Andi Headphones (Andi Headphones), Friday, 6 October 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago)
― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Friday, 6 October 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago)
― hank (hank s), Friday, 6 October 2006 21:43 (eighteen years ago)
― matt the queeg (veal), Friday, 6 October 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago)
Tool's '(-)Ions' is also pretty terrifying.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 6 October 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago)
Mark Lanegan can be pretty frightening, especially when he sings in a near-monotone on tracks like "Ugly Sunday" and "Kingdoms of Rain."
― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Saturday, 7 October 2006 00:15 (eighteen years ago)
OTM...most of those depression-era gospel or blue's recordings (or earlier recordings) do the same...
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Saturday, 7 October 2006 01:41 (eighteen years ago)
― hank (hank s), Saturday, 7 October 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago)
― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago)
According to Wikipedia, "The cover features Walker's hand, photographed and manipulated by David Scheinmann."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_%28album%29
― Stephen Bush (Stephen B.), Saturday, 7 October 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago)
The DKs were actually really creepy around the time of Plastic Surgery Disasters and Frankenchrist. PSD opens and closes with some truly scary spoken word/audio verite snippets that made me sell the album back when I was 14.
― mike a (mike a), Sunday, 8 October 2006 02:46 (eighteen years ago)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Sunday, 8 October 2006 03:27 (eighteen years ago)
― cws (cws), Sunday, 8 October 2006 03:52 (eighteen years ago)
cool thread
― og (admrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 00:00 (thirteen years ago)
Kind of obvious I guess but listening to Frankie Teardrop is never fun for me
― og (admrl), Thursday, 5 April 2012 00:02 (thirteen years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH1RLz5q-vk
headphones on, lights off, i dare ya!
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 April 2012 00:11 (thirteen years ago)