Scary, frightening records

Our next theme for <a href=http://www.devonrecordclub.wordpress.com>;Devon Record Club</a> is scary or frightening records, as we'll next be meeting just before Halloween. A search through the archives has turned up no previous threads on this, so let's ave a new one.

What records do you consider to be scary?

Scott Walker's last two albums and Aphex Twin's Come To Daddy to thread.

Always forget to convert to bb code.

'Creepy' ambient music

Halloween mixtapes

TOP THREE ambient records to have in an abandoned galatic space-dock.

Is there any scary music?

Searched ILM for Lustmord.

Often listen to this around Halloween; http://www.discogs.com/Quiet-Village-Fragments-Of-Fear/release/714984 It's mentioned on the Halloween mixtapes thread.

You already said the Scott albums - I love em both, but they're just too frightening to put on most of the time.

As a Brit, I'd never previously heard "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo, but it's gonna be my Halloween jam this year. Not really scary though.

What about "Dead Mantra" by Dead Skeletons?

The first record that I remember as being frightening was "Disturbance" by The Move.

(The end section)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfUI36303J8

Ooh, what about Tom Waits' "Alice" and "The Black Rider"? The former is quite genuinely terrifying while the Black Rider is more flamboyant and theatrical.

haxan cloak
Nurse with wound- Surveillance lounge
Mika Vainio- Life, it eats you up
Anworth Kirk
Kevin Drumm- Sheer Hellish Miasma
sunn- Black one

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RM5_lD2P9Zk/TUSgsPcJr1I/AAAAAAAAAK4/br5ZdXf2_Bo/s1600/URSK_Runhild%255B1%255D.jpg

Runhild Gammelsæter - Amplicon (frightening but oh so good, and ending in a cataclysmic high)

Nurse with Wound - The Surveillance Lounge (seconded)
Coil - Horse Rotorvator
Current 93 - All The Pretty Little Horses
Robert Ashley - Automatic Writing

"The Elements" by 4Hero. I first heard it on the Energy Flash compilation disc, on the headphones, in the dark. Freaked severely.

Also, "22 Going on 23" by the Butthole Surfers, though in that case it was more disturbed than outright scared.

Slayer - Reign In Blood
Darkthrone maybe?

Swans - Children of God (especially the track 'Blind Love' - felt like I was going to have a heart attack the first time I heard that and it still gives me the creeps now)

Public Image Ltd: Flowers Of Romance

The whole album is frightening, but "Under The House" is the spookiest, scariest song I've ever heard.

Peste Noir - I've listened to some of his stuff while cycling at night and had MASSIVE HORRIFYING auditory hallucinations

Oh, and there are a number of great Bob Drake concept albums about haunted houses and shit. Very worthwhile too.

Asmus Tietchens - Die Nacht aus Blei. Love AT, but this is really hard to listen to. Really kind of troubling to me.

TG's "Hamburger Lady"

Current 93, "Maldoror Is Dead"

Early Whitehouse, preferably Right to Kill

#1 pick though would be Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock's Asshole/Snail Dilemma which features the sound of a woman being tortured

I solicited suggestions for an article about scary songs once and the runaway winner was Hamburger Lady, which is so disturbing it makes you want to take a shower afterwards. And what's the song on The Marble Index which sounds like you're being buried alive? Facing the Wind maybe?

Also, Ligeti or anybody influenced by Ligeti.

also you picked my nom which was Rhoda's "The Boiler"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ccyLzFr7E

I guess this is more creepy than downright scary, but it is very creepy.

Ah, I didn't realise you used to contribute to RR. The Boiler was a great choice.

what's the song on The Marble Index which sounds like you're being buried alive?

Dunno but there's a bit on Psychic TV's Dreams Less Sweet which sounds exactly like that. If you listen on headphones the holophonic technology makes it sound like earth is being chucked over you.

still do :) xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR4nMlOQ5xY

Also, the first couple of minutes of this really scared me the first time I heard it, especially considering that it's credited to a cool jazz trumpeter (though it's the producer Ilhan Mimaroglu who's really behind it). I wasn't expecting anything like that! The album was released in 1971, but the intro wouldn't sound out of place on a dark ambient album released today.

The Boiler is unlistenably scary, but not in a Halloween way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ile7lpWo5aU

.. of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5d8N0j5e9w

Diamanda Gala's Plague Trilogy to thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbTAF0e2scc

Britney Spears - Blackout (really!)

And now.

The realms of reality are well and truly breached.

Or something.

"It's something else. It's a new animal, a hybrid. Nobody in our world...has ever done anything like this."

ILX Pre-Covers LULU I

1. Brandenburg Gate -- tylerw
2. The View -- Gypsy Chips
3. Pumping Blood -- Pleasant Plains
4. Mistress Dread -- Ars Lulrich
5. Iced Honey -- charlie h
6. Cheat On Me -- Matthew Mathieu
7. Frustration -- Blue Weather Ghosts
8. Little Dog -- Matt H3lg3son & Chris B3singer feat. Dottie
9. Dragon -- HI DERE
10. Junior Dad -- Virgin Killer

Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?90z3w0ic284sw9i

SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/ilxprecoverslului/sets/ilx-pre-covers-lulu-i

ILX Pre-Covers LULU II

1. Brandenburg Gate -- Le Bateau Ivre
2. The View -- Theoretically Lou Reed and Metallica
3. Pumping Blood -- n/a
4. Mistress Dread -- Fügügüffü
5. Iced Honey -- da croupier
6. Cheat On Me -- AlXTC
7. Frustration -- snoball
8. Little Dog -- Confounded
9. Dragon -- Therapist Sweater/J3ff T.
10. Junior Dad -- Sean Carruthers

Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/?mtn5dp56w5cht7d

SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/ilxprecoversluluii/sets/ilx-pre-covers-lulu-ii

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 14:46 (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

.. obv.

Hair Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INNs26VDFcc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvFuUaCe8eY

Always feel like Suicide's "Frankie Teardrop" fits this bill. Classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5wJQkvSoOQ

Various Wolf Eyes as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm0-ffOYawM

Diamanda, yeah - try The Divine Punishment

Zos Kia - Rape

Jandek - Put Your Dream On This Planet

Husker Du - Diane

kreng - l'autopsie phenomenale de dieu

robert ashley's "in sara, mencken, and christ..." scares my girlfriend.

SPK - "Wars of Islam"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk1yP38WVzk

"My Heart Will Go On" - Celine Dion

/shudder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAdNBly0ON0&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgVQ9ywr_4Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7dQRaEIhic

When I was a kid my brothers used to force me to listen to this. Scared the shit out of me at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNyGNjf4EUs&feature=related

Bob Drake and Wolf Eyes are good suggestions. Some Naked City/John Zorn stuff qualifies. Also maybe some things like Messiaen organ music, Ulver, Merzbow.

Are people actually afraid of "Boris the Spider"????

anything by khanate

Listened to EVOL by Sonic Youth alone at night in my house and it creeped me out so much I had to turn it off halfway through,
Great record, though.

Nine Inch Nails - Broken
I remember Public Image Ltd's Flowers of Romance sorta freaking me out too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm68idS8zqQ

the White Noise and Skinny Puppy tracks sound even better when played at the same time

http://www.nme.com/news/adele/59873

Adele: 'I'd love to collaborate with Mumford And Sons'

Scary!

this is a stunner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f8lbsvFJcU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoXiLFAUgZI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7J2XqkSZeg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqgBHsUqIAc&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL85EF0740783826C2

Comus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_xh6eTPn44&feature=related

There was a relatively widespread rumour around UK schools in the early 80s that if you listened to the b-side to Cars by Gary Numan in the dark, you would certainly have a heart attack and die.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nLoAig6-7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6HUVYQ63GY

^ this used to really terrify me when I was a child

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43YG2bsEQtM

Current 93 - "All the stars are dead now"

"Katy Perry has tied Michael Jackson's record for most #1 singles from the same album."

Oh, wait, updated to be even scarier: "Katy Perry has broken the record for number of #1 singles on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 for songs from her Teenage Dream album."

Sorry for the confusion.

That first Hafler Trio record was pretty unsettling iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70Cb9D0hwBg