Songs That Creep You The Hell Out

[Smilla]

Since it's the season for spookiness, I thought I'd try a thread on scary or frightening music (that isn't necessarily Halloween-specific).

One of the scarier "songs" I've encountered is the first track on Poe's CD, Haunted. Ugh. I actually, um, can't get through that track because it's too creepy for me.

I've also been scared witless by the Tori Amos cover of Eminem's "'97 Bonnie & Clyde," and by that evil little tune by Sweet, "Ballroom Blitz." I know it sounds corny, but whenever I hear that song on the radio, I know something bad is about to happen in the world. There's just something so...off about it. It's always a harbinger of bad news.

[divasahm]

"Ballroom Blitz" was the most-played (maybe the only-played) song on the cafeteria jukebox at my middle school, so I immediately think of 7th grade when I hear it. Which, I think, is a completely different kind of creepy, sick feeling than you are talking about, Smilla.

The song that gives me nightmares is the Toadies' "Possum Kingdom". It's a song about a murderer and was the most popular song from the most popular band in Dallas at a time when I wanted nothing more in life than to be living anywhere on earth but Dallas. Mr. d dragged me across the park to hear them play at the ACL Festival this year, and I told him if I heard anything even remotely resembling That Song, I'd meet him at the food court after the set, 'cause I was NOT sticking around for that one.

[lilya brik]

"To Make A Ring" by Wovenhand has always scared me. It's the musical equivalent of a backwoods reverend preaching hellfire and damnation and is chilling both musically and lyrically.

[dwanollah]

Make fun of me all you want, but the Bee Gee's "How Can You Mend a Broken Man" and Cat Stevens' "Moonshadows" wigged me out as a kid. So does anything with backwards music, even "A Day in the Life."

[WitchyPoo]

"Hotel California" used to creep me out as a kid, it still does a bit. Sounds like the makings of a horror movie.

[WitchyPoo]

Oct 19, 2009 15:04:08 GMT -4 Smilla said:

One of the scarier "songs" I've encountered is the first track on Poe's CD, Haunted. Ugh. I actually, um, can't get through that track because it's too creepy for me.

One of the lines is about a "house of leaves". Her brother Mark Z. Danielewski wrote a book with that title which is ome of the strangest and most frightening books I've read. I wonder which idea came first or if one inspired the other.

ETA: Oops. Sorry, didn't mean to double post.

[Smilla]

One of the lines is about a "house of leaves". Her brother Mark Z. Danielewski wrote a book with that title which is ome of the strangest and most frightening books I've read.

Oh, by first track, I didn't mean the first song, I meant the little intro to the song. Said intro features a warbled recording of an answering machine message left by a woman for her "Mom," and refers to someone dying. Whole thing sounds like it's coming from someplace underwater. It doesn't help that House of Leaves is one of the scariest books of all time, which is probably why I, er, really can't listen to that intro.

[Lisa Miller]

The beginning of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" used to creep me out when I was a kid.

[Deleted]

While we're on the subject of Pink Floyd, when I was a kid I was dragged along to a laser show set to the The Wall album. It scared the hell out of me. Particularly "Is There Anybody Out There?" It was many years before I'd willingly listen to a Pink Floyd song again, and I'm still somewhat disturbed by The Wall.

[Deleted]

I still remember swimming with my dad and hearing Sting's "Russians" come over the sound system. The song itself is creepy enough - it was even worse to hear it echoing around the indoor pool area. I must have been three or four, and was especially scared of the lines, "How can I save my little boy/from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?" Jesus, Mary and Joseph ...